I might just have to move to Durham NC
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Durham, North Carolina: declining blue collar tobacco town or vibrant oversized college town with big ambitions? Here's where I'd usually say "both"...but it's really door number two. Let's explore!
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@@crizioclips Lol. It's not 1990 anymore, grandpa.
@@KembaWalkerGOAT tf does that even mean, child
minor correction: the regional "GoTriangle" buses have started charging fares again, probably since you recorded the video (the change was july 1st). local "GoDurham" buses are still fare-free though
City nerd is the biggest fake on youtube.
The famous 11'8" underpass!
11'8"+8" now!
We love our can opener!
That one might be one just a couple blocks away! But I immediately thought of that!
Yeah that's the Erwin Road bridge. The Can Opener bridge is about a mile away on Gregson Street near the train station.
I was gonna say...is that THE 11 foot 8 bridge? It's world famous. haha
Thank you for not bringing up the fact that Duke killed a light rail line that Durham had already spent $130 million on.
Shhhh, people might find out Duke killed a proposed (and widely popular) light rail line after the city already spent $130 million on the project.
Minnesota Public Radio wanted to kill a light rail line in St. Paul, MN. These organizations are terrible
Here in Arizona, both Tucson and Tempe invested in streetcars for their university populations, and they’ve both been massively successful. Not sure what Duke was thinking there.
@@Westlander857 I must remind you the koch brothers own everything from tires to seatbelts to oil/auto companies, it is against their best interest for there to be any kind of transportation competition that isn't cars. Competition is lame! (also I love using the az lightrail/streetcar, they are great esp since the lightrail connects not only to ASU but also the international airport with one of the coolest names you could give an airport.
it was briefly mentioned at 15:58
The Streets at Southpoint has plans to redevelop a large chunk of its parking into a couple thousand apartments.
Really? Niiiice
wait really? oh that's awesome
@@Legority Yep, I tried sharing the link but I think those get blocked.
Just Google "Streets of Southpoint redevelopment", Durham council has approved a plan that includes 1300 apartments, plus offices, hotel, more retail.
@@Legority Yep, city council approved plans for 1.3k apartments, hotel, offices, more retail.
For further context, the management company that owns the mall pushed for the redevelopment to ensure the mall's viability, as at least two malls in the Triangle, including the older mall north of downtown Durham, have permanently closed in recent years.
Durham resident here...the social district thing is relatively new in the last few years but yes, was passed on a statewide basis with control by local jurisdictions. Glad you enjoyed Durham!
yep, raleigh has a big one too
Downtown Cary also
Even small towns are adopting social districts, like Franklinton!
Wow NC rules on alcohol have evolved. When I lived in Durham 15 years ago, we had to time our Brunches on Sunday because we couldn't order Mimosas before noon!
@@terriellis3697 They changed that a few years ago! But you still have to go through the ABC Stores to get your liquor, and those stores are still closed on Sundays ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I really appreciate how this series shows off all the cool urbanist stuff that's going on all over the country. It's a really strong anti-dooming pill about urbanism and shows there are plenty of genuinely nice places to live outside of major cities. This has definitely put a few cities on my map
I appreciate that! Don't get too comfortable, though, Phoenix is coming in a couple weeks
I can see why the ultimate doomer hates CityNerd. I consider it an honour to be on NJB's shit list. It means we speak the truth unlike the doomer crowd.
Agreed! As a resident of Dallas-Fort Worth where the only two “solutions” to urban problems considered by governments are 1) buy a lifted truck or SUV and 2) build another overpass it’s pretty easy to be a doomer over here.
Yup Durham is awesome, much better than Raleigh. I highly recommend Durham as someone who lived there for 8 years. The state politics are frustrating though
Hey, I get that durham is located within the Research triangle, but saying research triangle refers to the whole urban triangle made by Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and Durham. These other cities, and the ones inbetween (Cary, Apex etc.), are a fascinating case study of urbanism vs suburbanism, all connected by the fantastic greenway trails you rode on. I think you should come back and make a video on the triangle as a whole, I’d love to hear your thoughts on it!
Raleigh, please exit the chat. ;)
"Tarheel GOAT... Raymond Felton." Well played, sir
As a Heels fan that joke made me actually lol
Yeah, was surprisingly inside baseball for an out of towner
As a Trailblazers fan I lived through the pain
14:40 Yes, the state of North Carolina does have enabling legislation for Social Districts. There are rules involved, which could be seen as classist, to reduce public drinking by those not paying, including requiring your drink be in a cup from one of the establishments in the district, etc.
Similar things in central Ohio, e.g. New Albany, Gahanna, Bexley, Westerville..
Yep Raleigh piloted one that has been pretty successful.
Same in Cincinnati and a few surrounding suburbs as well. They’re called “DORA districts.”
And Toledo.
It's a step in the right direction. Coming back home to NC I'm always surprised at the ban on happy hours, bars that don't open until 5 (or later), and even the low number of gay bars (even in Charlotte and Raleigh).
I went to high school at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham - it was a very fun place to live car-free at the boarding school, with the 9th Street business district just down the road. Going back as an adult in 2019, 5 years after graduation, it was amazing to see how much had changed in such a short period of time.
Isn't it unreal?
I adore 9th street
It's amazing to me to see how many hundreds of millions of dollars have been allocated, spent, and then disappeared without any sign of an actual light rail train. In the Denver -Boulder area of Colorado, rail lines were voted on, planned for, funded and land was purchased. New light rail lines were built throughout the Denver-Metro area, but no light rail lines were built in the Boulder area. The land is purchased, so they can build the lines, but the money to complete the project pretty much disappeared. It was much needed and anticipated infrastructure too.
Omg the cat at the end 🥹
As an NC resident, Durham city worker, and local government nerd, it's super cool to have a whole video about our city!!
To answer your question, yes the state legislature passed an act enabling cities to create "social districts" a couple of years ago. I think most major cities have one, including Durham, Raleigh, and Greensboro.
that Raymond Felton fakeout made me spit out my drink
I scrolled down for this: best moment of the video!
Did Jordan dirty 😂😂
Lived in Winston all my life and am going to NC state in Raleigh in the fall. I would love nothing more in this world than a decent rail line between the triad and triangle because the drive between the two sucks. Learning that it was once a possibility makes me so indescribably upset. There are no words to describe my fury
Catch the Piedmont service in Greensboro. It goes straight to NC State campus.
My undergrad film professor was the assistant to the director on Bull Durham. He would host a screening every year and share stories from the making of the film. It's good to see that ballpark full and the city still embracing the team.
I’m glad to see the old park is still there too! We were extras in the stands for some of the filming, and lived close enough to hear the crowd when there was a home run. Good memories.
North Carolina and Durham native here. I grew up in the Bull City and have since returned from an extended period out of the state. This is my third year back and I am glad to see the city center being revitalized. I live a fairly easy bike ride from The Streets at Southpoint. I say this since most of the roads behind the mall do not have bike lanes. When I bike on these roads, I have to keep watch for cars. Most drivers will see you and wait their opportunity to pass.
My childhood home is an easy ride to the Tobacco Trail. The Woodcroft, Woodlake, Parkwood, Grandale, and other area neighborhoods have a good network of footpaths and multi-use paths snaking around them. Granted, I do have a car and wished I took my bicycle out more than the car. Where I live now, I can still ride to the Tobacco Trail, but it's easier to bring my bike on the car since the main road has no shoulder and a high speed limit. Fun fact: the "stroad" that is Fayetteville Street from Barbee past MLK Boulevard towards downtown was once a simple two-lane. I'd always get stuck trying to turn left at Barbee because everyone else was. The Tobacco Trail crosses that intersection at one signal, now it's two. Though most try to cut across to reduce crossing time.
The Tobacco Trail runs all the way through Cary and terminates west of Apex, linking to the greenway systems of those suburban metros.
A light rail system connecting Raleigh, Durham, Cary, RDU Airport, and nearby Chapel Hill is a no-brainer. I'm sad it got torpedoed. I wouldn't have to drive into downtown and park; just leave my car at the nearest park-n-ride and maybe bring my bike. It would also facilitate getting to RTP, Raleigh, and Cary for events. GO Durham once trialed a bus route near the entrance to my neighborhood, though the area is car-centric. The fact no buses run through here anymore testifies to that. Though, I love the network of footpaths that make walking, running, or biking a breeze.
11 foot 8 bridge 😮
Love your irony and dry sense of humor about Duke killing the light rail line.
Durham is a great town stuffed with amazing things. Its sister city, Chapel Hill is worth seeing too.
Moved to North Durham from Boston 3 years ago. Great place to live, especially some of the quieter areas like up around Latta Rd area. Never any real traffic, and I see horses and cows en route to grocery store. Downtown has great food, a few perfect outdoor eating/ drinking options! They just need a supermarket or 7-11 down there
I just moved to Raleigh a couple weeks ago and so what an exciting and well timed set of videos for me!!
Welcome!
As a south Durhamite, I'm very glad to see you include locations to the south! So many things about Durham seem to think that the city ends just south of the downtown! I do, however, kind of wish you had mentioned Bean Trader's coffee shop, just to the north of the I-40 bridge, which is a great place to park and run on bike on the trail and then afterward have a coffee or tea. Anyway, thanks for the great video about Durham!
bean traders is literally in a strip mall, not too interesting on an urbanism channel. like, you admitted you drive to it in your own comment
Just moved from Durham and can’t wait to be back! Happy this amazing city is getting a moment in the sun. Glad you had a good trip!
I enjoyed five years in Durham, post-doc’ing at you know where, in the 90’s. Last two years I lived in a passive solar apartment, one of multiple units built by a couple who also built solar homes until the market changed. It was a lovely wooded neighborhood, 15 minute bike ride from work, with Ethiopian take-out nearby. At the time, downtown was still a scary place but redevelopment of the tobacco warehouses was starting. Thanks for the memories.
I live in Winston-Salem but visit Durham frequently because of DPAC, the Durham Performing Arts Center. Even though Greensboro recently built a performing arts center of their own, DPAC remains one of the best performance spaces in the state of North Carolina. It's also located within walking distance of the American Tobacco Campus
As a Duke Alum that spent a few years in Durham after graduation in the bullpen area, you were spot on with this assessment of Durham.
A video about how access to National Parks largely requires a private vehicle could be interesting. Maybe the best worst ones on that metric.
I love Durham so much it is a hidden gem in the south
Hey Ray, if you ever come to Indianapolis, I'll show you around. Plus Carmel, which is worthy of an urbanism video of its own.
Rope in John Green. I'd love to see a Ray D & John G collab tour of Indianapolis!
Aaron Freeman is pure evil.
He said once he wants to cover the cultural trial at some point. Also red line station design is really nice.
Welcome to the Triangle. Durham is cool and oftentimes gets overshadowed by Raleigh. They've got some good stuff going on in the Bull City.
I like Durham a lot more than Raleigh. It's a much more fun city imo. Just more going on
Durham > Raleigh
I’ve been a resident of both and I can say definitely Durham is better in every way imo
I always find it funny when I see West Coasters "discovering" North Carolina for the first time. The inevitable shattering of the various negative stereotypes about the state (and the wider South) is predicable when people realize the vibrancy and positive energy of the state. Somehow West Coasters in particular still manage to be pretentious about it, though. Glad City Nerd can at least admit his blind spots.
It’s still a red state that will no doubt vote GOP again in the autumn,liberal pockets notwithstanding. No thanks!
Look, I'm from the south. The reputation is not unearned. Have you seen the GOP frontrunner in NC gubernatorial elections?
I'm happy that most of the good people in N.C. have no negative stereotypes about the PNW.
Then they move to NC and constantly complain how its not like home
NC does have a huge craft brew industry. Maybe it's tradition stemming from the shiners back in the day! Raleigh hosts NC largest craft beer fest every year called Brewgaloo, put on by Shop Local Raleigh.
The Sierra Nevada brewery near Ashville is insane. Willy Wonka's beer factory.
It was a while ago, but a company I worked for bought a company that was from NC.
They couldn't get a single person to reloc to OR, even though they ultimately shut down that site.
I used to work at that sports bar with the murals (Tobacco Road Sports Cafe). You can literally watch the game from the patio for free as it overhangs the park. Anyway, thanks for the Durham video. It's a cool place.
Same!!
The social districts are not just an NC thing. Maybe they are a southern thing bc we have them in GA also, in cities large and small. I think many emerged late-covid / post lockdown after enabling legislation at the state level as a means of reinvigorating down towns and encouraging people to come back out and patronize bars and restaurants
Grew up in a small town right outside of Durham. Living in Alaska now, but Durham is a special little place! Love it!
The Duke Lemer Center is on my bucket list. While I served in Peace Corps Madagascar, I never saw a lemur in the wild. They are doing a lot of good work and should be checked out.
Ugh the Fayetteville Barbie intersection.. they just finished that about 2021… our street Belgreen is the “5th” point of that intersection, requires a u turn navigating two disorienting on coming right turn lanes and the tobacco trail. Agree with all you had to say and glad you had an awesome time in the triangle and triad. As healthcare professionals we find Durham county a really great balance between work, life and travel.
Yeah, I was also going to say it was recently worked on and as bad as it is, it could be worse. At the very least, when the crosswalk says to walk, all other directions have a red light and a "no turn on right" sign turns on so that there *shouldn't* be any problems with getting hit by a turning car.
The open container zones are also a thing in Louisiana, famously in the French Quarter in New Orleans, but more recently another was opened in Bossier City and more have been proposed statewide.
Next time you have to go to nearby college town Chapel Hill, which is one of my favorite cities in the US. It has very artsy vibes. I haven't been there in a while, so I hope it has held up.
Live there, can confirm. The Franklin/Rosemary street area is very nice and walkable as well as Carrmill mall (That's in Carrboro but they're basically the same place)
Chapel Hill and Carrboro are great! highly recommend, not only because they're both my hometown
Chapel Hill is a lovely place, though many concede the urban energy is in Durham now though.
Franklin St is great!! I love chapel hill -a duke student
Chapel Hill and Carrboro are both very walkable and bike friendly. Highly recommended. I can easily walk to three grocery stores from my house, all under 1 mile.
The algorithm showed me this video quite randomly. When the Streets at Southpoint was pretty new, I was a homeless woman in my 20s living out of my car. I hung out at that place all day, I even had two different jobs there. As long as I didn't have all my homeless bag lady bags with me, nobody knew. It's interesting to see the same place from a completelly different perpsective of person and time.
This is the best day ever. I’m about to move to Durham and have been waiting for this video to drop ever since the piedmont triangle one
You know a city has kept its soul when it still has residential windows close enough to the ball park to get shattered during a good home run.
Watched for the infrastructure, liked for the cat chats. Please post more clips with it. If that requires stealing, you know what must be done.
You didn’t go to chapel hill 😢the free bus network there turned me into an urbanist
Thank you for your great video. I hope that you will come back for one more video. Maybe cover Raleigh and Chapel Hill. By the way, Raleigh has a "Sip n' Stroll Downtown" social district for sometime now. The North Carolina General Assembly enacted a legislation in 2021, which allows municipalities to create such "social districts" where alcohol can be purchased from a business and taken outdoors.
If you come to Raleigh, be sure to link up with Oaks and Spokes! They're the local bike advocacy group!
I agree with you about the mascot dancing.
Ah, Ninth St brought up so many memories as someone who went to boarding school nearby. Technically we weren’t supposed to leave campus alone but I just walked off like I knew what I was going and never got into trouble.
As a daily bike commuter and also a recreational rail trail enthusiast, I'm actually curious if recreational bike trails increase mode share or if they reinforce drivers' attitudes that bikes belong places other than roads?
But I have no idea what sort of data you'd want to look at to try and answer that. If anyone does it would make a very interesting video.
Cars are noisy. I'll share roads with cars if necessary, but I always prefer to bike on recreational trails.
Yeah, I like them, too, but as he hinted at it is kind of a shame that a right of way that could be used for mass transit has been converted into a token bit of bike infrastructure that more often than not doesn't really serve a functional purpose beyond recreation. I'm not from the area myself but why not build a tram along the American Tobacco Trail and put dense housing at The Streets at South Point? There's already a fair amount of housing density along the parallel Fayetteville Rd. Looking at, for example, NotJustBikes videos that show transit oriented development bringing massive tax revenue to cities make it clear that this is a good path forward.
If CityNerd doesn’t ever come to Richmond, VA I think my head might explode
I was wondering about Richmond too
@@KendallKD Yeah, not to be biased. But RVA has way more urbanism to talk about than the research triangle. Downtown, the fan, church hill, the museum district, manchester, bike lanes, GRTC, Capital/Fall line trails, amtrak. City Nerd has only mentioned RVA in passing (Amtrak expansion and BRT are recent videos that come to mind)
Durham. Home of the legendary Can opener bridge. 11’ 8.”
I'm one of those cyclist who loves rapid elevation changes, haha! Though, I agree, not when I'm riding for transportation.
@Citynerd Video topic suggestion. I love bicycling for exercise and transportation. I often wonder... which cities and communities are truly committed to the future of bicycling infrastructure? I wonder if there's a way to determine the top cities who are adding the most miles and investing in future quality infrastructure because those cities may have the right head on their shoulders... in regards to my interest at least, lol
Some commenters have suggested covering nearby Chapel Hill. It's an attractive place, but it's totally car-centric and without high-density residential buildings. Try Carrboro instead (next to Chapel Hill).
"Trail isn't completely grade seperated" - literally shows my neighborhood and the crossing I need to use for my jogs. lol. Love to see it (and it's usually not so bad during off hours at least - you know, when the heat isn't so bad either).
That mascot you didn't like was from the visiting team.
In Ohio we call outdoor adult beverage areas DORAs (designated outdoor refreshment areas) and they popped up around mid 2020 but stuck around in areas with lots of nightlife
I live in Columbus and they just expanded their DORA. I decided to Google DORAs in Ohio and came up with this: A Designated Outdoor Refreshment Area, or DORA, is a specified area of land that a local legislative authority (city council or township trustees) has designated as exempt from certain open container provisions as laid out in Ohio Revised Code Section 4301.82.
Excellent. Wish #27 for a featured episode on ATL.
“The Natural” is the best baseball movie ever DOOD
We need a Raleigh video!
Went to college in Raleigh, during the mid '80s and I wish you had gone to the NC Central campus area instead of the that of Duke, which has done all it can to separate itself from the actual city of Durham ...
That cat's last meow should be your version of the MGM lion, either opening or closing your videos
Raleigh next. it has alot of potential
This is such perfect time as im moving to the RTP area soon and trying to find the best neighborhood to move to
Check out Carrboro for sure!
Could you please post your bike riding B-roll footage in another post?
Something cathartic about watching your footage on those right-of-way trails.
I think the first priority of discussion should be adopting that cat.
I've seen the same open alcohol district thing in Grand Rapids, MI. Not sure if anyone other than college students really take advantage of them though because it's so ingrained. Wouldn't wanna end up on the wrong side of the line and get a stupid ticket.
I will say though, the Raleigh-Durham metro area is as sprawly as any in the US, in my opinion. Durham always felt different though.
Watching this from Duke campus >.>
Sent your way by Casey Johnston (She's A Beast) and excited to see NC videos, hope you went to Raleigh too which also has a perimeter for alcohol consumption. Which I did experience at Disney Springs nee Downtown Disney
as someone from chapel hill, i love using the tobacco trail and my girlfriend lives in durham and we pretty much live on ninth street, durham is a great city
Michigan has social districts. Started during Covid, but we kept them.
I would love to see you visit Columbus, OH in your future travels. The urbanism of our downtown/short north is pretty convenient to get around. Our MLS soccer stadium, minor league baseball stadium, and hockey arena all sit next to each other with a district and high density housing surrounding it. Accessible by the Olentangy bike trail and the Crew provides bike valet parking on match days! Also becomes an open container DORA district where you can walk around with a drink purchased at a designated bar. Unfortunately lacking a light rail system despite a lot of push here to create one. Hopeful to at least get Amtrak in the future.
Other fine examples of legal outdoor open carry of alcohol are Galveston TX’s Strand historic district and the entire city of New Orleans
I'm not sure what legislation exists here in NC that is encouraging these drinking districts in downtown areas, but I live in Monroe, which is a half hour east of Charlotte and has a population of 38,000ish. Monroe created a social district for its downtown area a few years ago after several new bars, eating establishments and a regular calendar of social events made it more of a draw. The limits are on sidewalks... And, I know that there are a number of other smaller towns in NC that have done similar. Whatever legislation exists here, it must be an easy task to create them!
Fun fact, ninth Street is the only numbered street in all of the triangle. By which I mean, the three core cities.
Hey hey! My former home city of 11 years. This video almost makes me 😢
no one lives in "Downtown Durham" unless you can afford one of the new $1million apartments, everyone has to drive and park to "walk" around the three blocks, its a massive traffic jam whenever DPAC or Durham Bulls have a game, not to mention its 1000º and 100% humidity 6-7 months of the year. Its grown a lot over the last 30 years, crime and homeless are still major problems. The Mexican food is great, there's also a Micro Brewery for every person here if you're into that sort of thing. Overall its not worth the price or heat unless your attending college or working and commuting on to RTP on our favorite rush hour parking lot i-40 :(
Finally someone mentions the cons.
You gotta come to Kansas City next
Would love to hear your recap of all the smaller/not nyc/bay area urban areas you've visited and found nice walkability and bikeability in. Kind of a pros cons, top ten deal
You're not stealing the cat. The cat has chosen you.
Thoroughly enjoyed this video of Durham. What a great place.
Oh yeah. NC does have enabling legislation, and more and more cities are creating social districts.
And as the soon to be Transportation Planner for Carrboro, you should come check us and Chapel Hill out the next time you’re in the area.
Not sure if anyone else has already talked about the Tobacco Trail, but the crossing at Fayetteville road is the worst part of the trail. If you bike south from Southpoint the trail is much nicer IMO. There’s less crossing and it’s more wooded. It also becomes unpaved at some point, and is very well connected to the greenway systems of Cary and new suburban developments. Umstead State Park and connection between it, the NC Art Museum, and some greenways heading into Raleigh are also nice for biking wnd walking.
Come to Denver and take a history bike ride! We also have some alcohol open cary districts like the bullpen district you mentioned in the video.
I like hearing a left coaster's impression of the middle East coast. I live in CA for 5 yrs. but never went North of San Francisco/Russian RIver. REGARDING Durham's LRT PROPOSAL... they got funding first, and then tried to locate a line to Chapel Hill to scrounge up even a nominal amount of riders. It meandered with 17 stops, and it would have taken 1.5 hours from end to end. You can drive to and from each city in 15-20 minutes any time of the day.----For any rail project's consideration (given the $ billions to build) , you must have 2 destinations that see thousands of riders going back and forth daily. Durham/CH couldn't ever sustain that when driving is so easy. ----But I love rail transit and support it when it will be favorable to driving. Even in Atlanta on MARTA, you can drive to many destinations as easily as the train. 2 million residents in 2 counties pay an extra 1.5% sales tax (8.9% total) to supplement MARTA's operational costs. That's $500+ a year from everyone not counting the $3 fare. It is needed for future mobility though.----Remember 50% or more of traffic on highways is freight, goods, food, clothing, amazon packages, etc. Road capacity must grow with populations to maintain our consumer-driven economy in the US. Roads and rail transit both are good.
We have Social Districts here in Michigan. They became popular during the pandemic to stimulate businesses and it has remained. Royal Oak (a suburb of Detroit) and others have them.
Thank you so much for this video. I always enjoy what you have to say about cities. I wonder if you can do a video about how to debate the merits of urbanism and more efficient transportation. I recently had an argument with someone who was singing the praises of how efficient American style transportation is. He has spent sometime in Europe and says the American system is better. I have not been to Europe, so I have no personal experience. I believe that our car centric structure is extremely dangerous, and energy inefficient. I feel as though it is important to be able to articulate our points to the people who disagree with us.
I just moved to durham. I love the bike culture so far. The streets have bike lanes and it seems people know how to drive with bikers. When i moved here everyone told me it was unsafe but i havent felt unsafe yet. The adaptive reuse gives the city a real feel and preserves culture without making the city feel like a shell. I wish i couldve made it to your talk. The social districts are a thing. One cool point i dont think charlotte has one yet but amall kannapolis and even concord got one before there. Real funny for cities that were dry when my parents moved here
Hello Ray. I wonder if you have visited Mesa Del Sol south of the Albuquerque airport? I rode my bike there today and it seems like it might the kind of modern urbanism that we are looking for. I wonder what your take on it is? Thank you for all of your videos.
NC is underrated
Speed limit 19MPH? Absolute chaos.
Ha! I now learned where the 11' 8" bridge is! It has it's own channel! haha. Oh man does that bridge have a hell of a history, just not the kind people think of. Well done on the honoring of Cupcake Felton by the way!
The opening bar scene from the movie your referencing bull Durham was actually filmed in Mitch‘s Tavern in Raleigh, North Carolina. You really really need to go check out Raleigh because they’re doing some great things over there when it comes to urbanism. Hillsborough Street is a proper college Main Street, and there are even pedestrian malls. Well, for a fact, I know that Glenwood Avenue gets closed on weekend nights because there are so many people going to the bars there. I have video of me walking and I actually mentioned in the video telling you to go there. Just don’t go without me.
Fort Wayne, Indiana (of all places) recently enacted a similar policy to Durham regarding allowing drinking throughout much of its downtown. The only stipulation is that you can only use specific cups from specific bars. If you ever want to see some of the worst urban design imaginable with the occasional pocket of good urbanism, come to Fort Wayne!
I feel that is applicable to many rust belt cities. I live in toledo and I would say both statements are accurate.
Yeah it's the same in North Carolina. You need specific plastic cups.
You know, Omaha, Nebraska has a good minor league scene, the Storm Chasers have one of the longest associations with a Major League team in the whole of the MLB, and Alliance sports, who also operates the minor league teams in Richmond and Montgomery. Also, we have a very good "minor league" soccer team, which we are building a whole ass stadium for downtown.
I run camera for all these people. I love my job, they're really fun to watch!
However, we are hampered by our current leadership; our mayor is known for leaving the city for 4 months at a time to go to Italy or St. Louis, (which, given the current consequences of Mean Jean's actions, what with the streetcar that seems to be perpetually 5 years away since 2014, I understand wanting to leave) and her mysteriously disappearing husband who died of a self inflicted gunshot wound, is more than a little frustrating. I both love it and hate it here, so please do a video on us.
Also, the West Papio Trail is awesome. We just need to actually connect it to the existing traffic infrastructure, Jean.
5:48 you should come to a Somerset patriots game in bridgewater NJ sometime. The park is right on the njtransit raritan valley line; train basically every hour 7 day / week
How does a city spend 20 years and go nowhere. Like how much regulations did they have to comply with to get to 20 years
There are now many states that have DORA (Designated Outdoor Refreshment Area) laws. Here in Ohio there are many of these districts all over, from big city neighborhoods to small town downtowns.
Another great video. Thank you! This was very interesting and educational. In terms of baseball movies, the absolute best and favorite of mine is The Natural which starred an incredible star studded cast.