You're very good at making these videos. They're interesting, use fitting music, and you clearly express your knowledge. Being a planning student, I'd love to see you make more. Perhaps we should also tackle how bad our architecture has become. I don't mean that only old design is good but it's harder to find pleasant, harmonious, and quality contemporary buildings that have the same appeal as traditional styles. However, there are good examples and we need to use them to make our world more attractive.
What happened these last few years that the urbanist sphere is growing so fast? Urbanist RUclipsrs are coming in by the boat loads. It used to be CityBeautiful and not much else.
@@HannahKosoff I'm from Florida too. Grew up on the Southwest coast, Punta Gorda, and went to the University of Florida. So I understand this weird uneasy feeling of being stranded no matter where you go. There are so many houses yet it feels as empty as being in the middle of the pacific. I have my degree in a land use relevant field and worked in land development. If you need resources I can assist. My email should be on my page.
this has been a problem brewing in the usa since the 1970's and during most of that time the american driving public was very much in favor with it's love affair with autocentric development. ffs we had a drive until you can buy housing crisis followed by a bail out of the big three
Each human NEEDS 100% tax free 100% ownership land with no restrictions! Every human on Earth NEEDS to have equal amount of fertile land so this forces everyone to build within a designated area and not be power hungry! All humans will have a cap on say $100,000 in building materials and construction materials will be a fixed cost in definitely!
This is such a terrible idea for so many reasons. For starters, this would spread everyone and everything out equally across the planet's arable land, so no more cities or even villages where your necessities are a walk, a bus ride, or even a short drive away. Installing utilities like water, electricity, fibre-optics, etc is going to cost a fortune because you'd have to build them absolutely everywhere there is somewhat arable land. Public transport becomes an absolute nightmare and would probably end altogether because a single stop will only serve a few people due to the distance between everyone, and you'd need to at least double the amount of roads to connect everyone. Compared to a world where everyone has their similar-sized plot of land on which they build their home, American-style suburbs are a model of restraint and efficiency. You've managed to crawl under an already very low bar. Congratulations. Housing prices aren't about being power hungry, they're about supply and demand, they're about trade-offs. You can buy lots of land cheaply in the middle of nowhere and build your home yourself, but you'll struggle to get it hooked up to modern amenities like google fibre or even drinking water. Forget ever taking a bus let alone a train, and you need to drive for two hours to get groceries or to have a drink with other human beings. You also better have a remote job, or be a farmer because it's going to be tough to make a living otherwise You can also buy a very small apartment in the centre of a bustling city, for significantly more money, but now everything you need is just a short walk or bus-ride away. Reliable and plenty-ful public transport combined with density mean that you have access to thousands of job opportunities within even relatively niche fields, and you can probably find people interested in the same very weird hobbies you are within the same city. You'll also pay a lot less for transportation. Even if you work in a (non-American city), you have choices. Do you live in a small studio in the centre of the city, a slightly larger apartment just outside of the core, a duplex or small rowhouse near a public transport stop even further out or a detached/semi-detached house in the suburbs. Do you prefer a large house or a short commute? Would you rather live in a high-rise tower or a small 3-storey apartment building? Do you mind living right next to a busy highway/railway line if it brings you closer to your job for the same budget? The problems with housing availability become much worse once you take options away. If you want your own home on your own plot of land in Europe, you can get a small rowhouse, a larger fancier rowhouse, a newly built rowhouse, a semi-detached house, or a detached house of various sizes. (roughly ascending in price if they are in the same location). In the US, if you want your own home, it's probably going to be a small detached home or nothing, so the floor for getting into home ownership is artificially raised, even before you consider that the lack of other options further pushes up the price for detached homes because everyone else also has no other options, and then you add the relative lack of density (outside of skyscrapers) in places where a lot of people want to live meaning that the amount of houses that are located in good locations is going to be smaller, further pushing up the prices in the areas where you'd actually want to live.
Um actually in europe you get a house when you get hired with a job. Or you can just go live at the healthcare office. there r better ways of getting a home but americans shouldnt got to this extreme cuz it would make us lazy. So glad we won the Evolutionary war
@@reggiewalker4512 That's BS. I live in 'Europe', and no one just 'gets a house' here. If you don't make a lot of money, you might get reduced rent in social housing, or get to buy government-built housing at a discount fi you stay on the waiting list long enough, but it's never free... just because you have a job. If that were true we would have no homeless people, except for illegal immigrants, but we do. A few countries have programmes where they 'give' homeless people a small apartment for them to get back on their feet, but you really have to have no real income to live rentfree in such housing. As soon as you start making money, you start paying. You also can't just live in the healthcare office. Your hospital stay will be free, or paid for beyond a deductible depending on the country, but you will only get to stay in the hospital if the doctor deems it necessary for medical reasons. Even in the Soviet Union housing wasn't free... though it was ridiculously cheap, you do get what you pay for though.
You're very good at making these videos. They're interesting, use fitting music, and you clearly express your knowledge. Being a planning student, I'd love to see you make more. Perhaps we should also tackle how bad our architecture has become. I don't mean that only old design is good but it's harder to find pleasant, harmonious, and quality contemporary buildings that have the same appeal as traditional styles. However, there are good examples and we need to use them to make our world more attractive.
This is why I love cities like Paris, SF and London.
Same loll
While we’ve mostly been screwed over for 70 years due to car centric planning, city councils like in Raleigh give me hope
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What happened these last few years that the urbanist sphere is growing so fast? Urbanist RUclipsrs are coming in by the boat loads. It used to be CityBeautiful and not much else.
citybeautiful and notjust bikes inspired me, plus i live in a place with lots of urban sprawl so I'm making this video out of spite haha
@@HannahKosoff I'm from Florida too. Grew up on the Southwest coast, Punta Gorda, and went to the University of Florida. So I understand this weird uneasy feeling of being stranded no matter where you go. There are so many houses yet it feels as empty as being in the middle of the pacific. I have my degree in a land use relevant field and worked in land development. If you need resources I can assist. My email should be on my page.
this has been a problem brewing in the usa since the 1970's and during most of that time the american driving public was very much in favor with it's love affair with autocentric development. ffs we had a drive until you can buy housing crisis followed by a bail out of the big three
Each human NEEDS 100% tax free 100% ownership land with no restrictions! Every human on Earth NEEDS to have equal amount of fertile land so this forces everyone to build within a designated area and not be power hungry! All humans will have a cap on say $100,000 in building materials and construction materials will be a fixed cost in definitely!
This is such a terrible idea for so many reasons. For starters, this would spread everyone and everything out equally across the planet's arable land, so no more cities or even villages where your necessities are a walk, a bus ride, or even a short drive away. Installing utilities like water, electricity, fibre-optics, etc is going to cost a fortune because you'd have to build them absolutely everywhere there is somewhat arable land. Public transport becomes an absolute nightmare and would probably end altogether because a single stop will only serve a few people due to the distance between everyone, and you'd need to at least double the amount of roads to connect everyone. Compared to a world where everyone has their similar-sized plot of land on which they build their home, American-style suburbs are a model of restraint and efficiency. You've managed to crawl under an already very low bar. Congratulations.
Housing prices aren't about being power hungry, they're about supply and demand, they're about trade-offs.
You can buy lots of land cheaply in the middle of nowhere and build your home yourself, but you'll struggle to get it hooked up to modern amenities like google fibre or even drinking water. Forget ever taking a bus let alone a train, and you need to drive for two hours to get groceries or to have a drink with other human beings. You also better have a remote job, or be a farmer because it's going to be tough to make a living otherwise
You can also buy a very small apartment in the centre of a bustling city, for significantly more money, but now everything you need is just a short walk or bus-ride away. Reliable and plenty-ful public transport combined with density mean that you have access to thousands of job opportunities within even relatively niche fields, and you can probably find people interested in the same very weird hobbies you are within the same city. You'll also pay a lot less for transportation.
Even if you work in a (non-American city), you have choices. Do you live in a small studio in the centre of the city, a slightly larger apartment just outside of the core, a duplex or small rowhouse near a public transport stop even further out or a detached/semi-detached house in the suburbs. Do you prefer a large house or a short commute? Would you rather live in a high-rise tower or a small 3-storey apartment building? Do you mind living right next to a busy highway/railway line if it brings you closer to your job for the same budget?
The problems with housing availability become much worse once you take options away. If you want your own home on your own plot of land in Europe, you can get a small rowhouse, a larger fancier rowhouse, a newly built rowhouse, a semi-detached house, or a detached house of various sizes. (roughly ascending in price if they are in the same location). In the US, if you want your own home, it's probably going to be a small detached home or nothing, so the floor for getting into home ownership is artificially raised, even before you consider that the lack of other options further pushes up the price for detached homes because everyone else also has no other options, and then you add the relative lack of density (outside of skyscrapers) in places where a lot of people want to live meaning that the amount of houses that are located in good locations is going to be smaller, further pushing up the prices in the areas where you'd actually want to live.
Um actually in europe you get a house when you get hired with a job. Or you can just go live at the healthcare office. there r better ways of getting a home but americans shouldnt got to this extreme cuz it would make us lazy. So glad we won the Evolutionary war
@@reggiewalker4512 That's BS. I live in 'Europe', and no one just 'gets a house' here. If you don't make a lot of money, you might get reduced rent in social housing, or get to buy government-built housing at a discount fi you stay on the waiting list long enough, but it's never free... just because you have a job. If that were true we would have no homeless people, except for illegal immigrants, but we do. A few countries have programmes where they 'give' homeless people a small apartment for them to get back on their feet, but you really have to have no real income to live rentfree in such housing. As soon as you start making money, you start paying.
You also can't just live in the healthcare office. Your hospital stay will be free, or paid for beyond a deductible depending on the country, but you will only get to stay in the hospital if the doctor deems it necessary for medical reasons.
Even in the Soviet Union housing wasn't free... though it was ridiculously cheap, you do get what you pay for though.