Loved this video style, don’t be ashamed of the white board technique, because it works flawlessly in my opinion. However, I would suggest having some real life examples through maybe Google Maps or Google Earth to show what you’re talking about throughout the video or at the end.
Some would be a long video like LA. A lot of variety within the city itself. Even the Denver, SLC or PHX metro areas Others not as much. Only difference in Houston is you get more water in the ground closer you get to the Gulf. Don’t build huge cities on wetlands is all you can get. Not much difference in cities like Chicago. Most Western cities would make up this video.
Great video presentation! If you haven't looked at Buffalo's physical history, check it out sometime. The layout was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted with large parks and tree lined boulevards. Downtown radiated like spokes. Over time and three expressways later, people have realized what a great design it was, and they are trying to return some areas to its old design.
I was thinking the same thing, and the anomalous cities could be the most interesting. I live midway between Boston, MA, and Providence, RI. my town is an exurb of both, but Providence could be considered a suburb of Boston. Some of the wooded areas around Boston are "new growth" because the area was intensely farmed and very populous at the time of the revolution. Walking through the woods you can literally stumble into a remnant of stone wall or into a pit that was the cellar of a house or barn. My little town, despite nice tree lined roads and forested areas, has a population of almost 1,000 people per sq. mi. and would be a small city in some places.
I like the academic style as a a change of pace. Like another commenter said, this could be a good template for presenting individual cities. As a parallel series to your geographical profiles of states, you could do urban structural profiles of US cities. ( I don’t see how anything you said was even slightly controversial, btw.)
You are right on the mark with this video. I grew up in the Providence/Boston area, my career was spent in the Washington DC/Baltimore area, I retired in San Antonio where we have two beltways, and we live five miles outside the second one. I actually lived and experienced your video and illustrations. I have never seen anyone illustrate the US urban structure the way you did, and you simplified and detailed it accurately. I love your videos.
Excellent analysis Kyle. What was known as "urban renewal" in the late 60s and early 70s may be an idea for a future video. It began with the best of intentions but in many (and to my mind most) cases did more harm than good. It wasn't done only in large cities but many small towns as well.
I think that's exactly it- good intentions with terrible execution. I think the urban renewal movement then was 1 step forward, 2 steps back in a lot of ways. But I feel that even though today's gentrification is by no means perfect, I think it tends to be 2 steps forward, 1 step back for the most part.
As a geography major that worked in a planning department for a while, I find this absolutely fascinating. Dealing with suburban and exurban folks and their lack of understanding about how cities develop and grow can be very frustrating. City planning was not for me for that very reason - dealing with people that want nothing to ever change. Kudos for teaching people "real" geography. Even with two geography majors in the family, my sister (the fourth grade teacher) still doesn't understand geography as anything more than place names. So incredibly frustrating!
You reminded me of my days teaching Geography, you learn a lot when you teach. When you talked about the districts in the inner city with their own character I was thinking about the borders between them, sometimes there is a transition zone between richer and poorer areas or there is what I call an urban scar, that really divides parts of the city, like a railroad or a really wide highway
Absolutely. Growing up I'd hear the phrase "wrong side of the tracks". I've seen so many places where it is literally the railroad tracks that divide the city.
prior to the Great Migration, many of the poorer neighborhoods close in to the central business district were predominately white working class, possibly housing first-generation immigrants. They lived there because the industrial districts around the CBD needed workers. During the great migration, many of these poorer areas split into two parts, one housing the poor blacks and the other the poor whites who could not afford to flee to the suburbs (i.e. white flight). This split was exacerbated by formal policies of discrimination by local, state and the federal government with policies such as red-lining neighborhoods (where lending institutions were discouraged from extending housing loans into certain, mainly black neighborhoods), "urban renewal" and slum-clearance, and interstate construction which literally split the poor neighbor in two. The plight of poor, inner-city neighborhoods was made even worse because during the 40s and 50s, as the highway system became more convenient and it became easier to move goods by truck, many of the industries which formerly provided employment to the inner city left for areas further out, leading to high unemployment.
Too often in history do poor people decide on an enemy based on race. Not just the urban US, not just the US! It’s sad to see. Look at the Irish who massacred blacks in New York. Two poor, disenfranchised groups who fail to see the larger enemy and kill each other. It’s tragic
I liked it too but it was definitely the hardest unit for me. I felt like it should've been split into 2 parts At least I got to study it more cause it was the last unit, we had most of may for review
I was born in DC, and have always lived in its suburbs. I love National history and politics because of it. You have reawakened in me a need to learn more about DC’s roots and communities. Thank you.
And DC is one of those metro areas that DOESN'T follow the patterns typical of US metro areas. I was just there for a couple days. Because of the height restrictions in DC proper and the spaced out government institutions, you actual have suburban skylines that look more like a typical concept of a city from a distance than anything in DC! (Arlington, Rosslyn, Tysons, etc.) In that way DC metro is almost a little more like some European cities like . . Paris? In Paris you have palaces with palace grounds like around the Louvre, but then you have clusters of office high rises in La Defense in the outlying districts.
Uh I think DC is literally the most perfect example of what he said in every way. We have a CBD with tourist pulls (national mall and surrounding areas), have our rough part in the SE (anacostia), our wealthy historic area right next to the CBD (georgetown), gentrifying industrial areas (Navy yard), a beltway connecting the far flung suburbs of MD and VA, plenty of mix in suburb wealth (working class in Prince George's vs the very wealth Fairfax and Loudon counties), development around universities (UMD / AU / loads of others lol), exurbs that go out all the way to West Virginia, and we form a CSMA with Baltimore. Tbh is there a single thing he said that DC doesn't *perfectly* embody. I mean hell he even mentioned DC a number of times in the video lol
@@treyshaffer When considering DC for this exercise, I am not sure how to meld the federal districts with the communities where its citizens live and play. Is the city center really the White House and the mall? Or could it be the Penn Quarter area, with the Capital One arena, restaurants and theaters. Perhaps both are CBDs. Certainly unique, but as you say, in every other way DC follows the urban structure Geography King outlined. Now if we could just get that second, outer Beltway.
Another good one Geography king! I live near Asheville NC and I can picture places that follow the pattern just as you describe. When I was a kid, west Asheville was a run down, working class, auto shops, machine shops side of town and now it’s a hip, happening area with numerous bars and home prices that boggle the mind. Of course they sliced interstate 240 right through an old black neighborhood years ago too. Pretty amazing how the places like Asheville and Charleston are changing at such a rapid pace. I liked that you mentioned Columbia, I grew up in Forest Acres
Dear GK, what I like about your urban geo videos is that while you may talk about history or concepts (City Beautiful channel is excellent at that), you do a great job of talking about what different cities _feel_ like, not surprising as you seem to travel alot 👏🏾
I read some time back that throughout history, regardless of the mode of transportation, the optimal commute time from one's residence to one's job has been, and remains somewhere between 20 and 30 minutes. This mean that when walking was the only option, towns/cities tended to remain small with the industrial/commercial areas close to residential areas. Then, as other modes of transportation became available (streetcars, subways, buses, cars, etc.) the radius of the city expanded while retaining that same optimal commute time.
And Cities would generally expand along they branches of the transit systems. You could have two branches of development that are a few miles wide, with farm land between them. This leads to areas where some old development branches out of the city center, with newer development in between.
I really love how you deal with race as it relates to geography on this channel. It's a facet of society that determines some things, and it can perhaps influence geographical data, but you always break it down in a way that properly explains your point without focusing or ascribing significance to it. Love this channel
Talk about an exerb commute. I lived in Beacon , NY which has a Metro North station with thousands of parking spaces for commuters. Its was 60 mi to Grand Central-1:20 minute ride. But, you had to first drive to the station, park, hike across parking lot to then wait for the train to arrive. When you finally arrived at GC on 42nd/Madison, you then had to hike to you office building or transfer to a subway (a hike) and get downtown or wherever, and then hike again to your work place. Then after 8-10 in you cubicle you get to do it all over again. And that was just Monday🥴
As Englishman who lives in Australia, I can say that the trends you have outlined in this video apply to the majority of cities in both England and Australia as well
Pretty good though I think you underplayed the effect water has on a city since most cities will be near a water feature that will have a big affect on it.
I just found this channel last week.. I never knew I was so interested in geography. Also, as a homeschooling mama, I use these videos as teaching aids to go along with my lessons for my kids. Thank you, My new fav geography nerd!
This is another of your very interesting and informative videos. Each one that I've seen so far has been packed full of valuable information for those of us who like travel, maps, and geography. Thank you for posting them.
How mentioning how San Antonio, Austin, and Waco are beginning to merge with the Dallas Fort Worth Denton CMSA along the I35 corridor to become one super CMSA.
This is why he's king. Grand Rapids' east side is a high bluff overlooking the river. It's our historical area, Heritage Hill. So our east side isn't the poor side, it's the old rich side. And that's due to topography. Today, however, those huge rich mansions are parceled into apartments, mostly occupied by students. It's still a nice part of town, but the gentrified industrial and gentrified CBD areas are for richer people, generally.
Milwaukee is wierd in their poorer areas are in northwest. Also the whiteboard adds a lot of charm. Also, I think suburbs in general need to become more compact and walkable so people aren't so spread out that their job is a 40 mile commute away.
I thought that too, MKE bucks the trend of everywhere else I've lived, instead of the west side, east side is the place to be. I assume that's the influence of UWM and proximity to the lake
Most cities already have pretty compact suburbs up to at least 20-30 miles away. It's simply not possible to make the suburbs walkable. Most U.S. cities could use more extended public transportation out to the suburbs, though.
@@Compucles it is possibly actually, although NIMBYs(not in my backyard) are a problem. Densify areas, get rid of parking minimums and zoning, build shops next to houses, build protected bikes lanes, build more and wider sidewalks, build more narrow streets, add shade trees, etc
super interesting video, Kyle! thanks a lot. its very intruiging for me as an European to see these different structures and developments. can't wait for a follow up video!
Grand rapids: The old; Heritage Hill Industry; South West side Low income; Roosevelt Park Lots of suburbs Definitely a ring road Love our exurbs Lowell/ada area is great
This is one of your most interesting videos, especially as I live halfway between Boston and Providence. Since high school I've been interested in maps and the patterns and dynamics introduced here. My favorite pastime has remained Transportation Tycoon! I've been able to produce some of the patterns mentioned here in game for this area, and in other countries. I hope this video marks the start of a series of urban geography and transportation videos.
I've always been fascinated by CSA's since I was a child. How 2 separate cities and their metros bleed into each other to form a mega bloc is super interesting to me.
And btw, Columbia is a suburb of Baltimore. The confusion usually happens with suburbs like Crofton, Gambrills, and even Laurel. These are suburbs that are literally halfway in between DC and Baltimore.
The east side vs west side distinction is really interesting. You're going off of cities on the east coast, and I grew up in (what used to be) a small town on Oregon and we had the same pattern. East of the river was for the working class, west was for fancypantses
@@ReverendMeat51 Yeah, I mean the money is more spread out these days. There are more rich people on the east side than there used to be. Hawthorne District, Irvington etc. Edit: I was going to mention Happy Valley too, but that’s technically a different city now
You are fine with a White Board because of your Clear Concise Information packed communication skills! You are the Katie Porter of Geographical stuff. So the first neighborhood is Richistan! Second neighborhood is Yuppieville, neighborhood three is The Ghetto. Neighborhoods 4 and 5 Archie Bunkerville!
Thank you for this informative video Kyle. I recently saw an interesting map on the emerging megaregions in the US, which I thought fit nicely with your lecture.
I’m from Columbia Maryland and my head literally shot up when you mentioned us 😂 it’s a rare double suburb for sure. Equidistant within an hour to two major metro areas. I’d also argue that Columbia also has a viable CBD with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, and Merriweather Post Pavilion. Along with a surprising amount of healthcare jobs. Most people work for a company in either DC or Baltimore (posssibly Annapolis) but a fair but not only work for columbia based companies but moved here for that purpose even.
Houston has roughly 4 belts. The first is 610, which loops around I-10, and is not very large. The 2nd is much further out and is Beltway 8, a fantastic toll road that is 90 miles in circumference. Then there are a couple partial belts that wrap around maybe a bit more than half the city. The third is FM1960/Highway6 that mostly wraps around the North, West, and South sides. Finally, there is the Grand Parkway/99, which is being expanded but for now wraps from Northeast to Southwest.
You've got some good timing... just about to start my Urban GIS class on Monday. You left out Dallas Fort Worth. Another perfect example of two urban cities merging together. Dallas has three rings, the first is now more like regular city streets (Northwest Highway/Hwy 12), I-635 is the congested freeway, and they're still building out Bush Turnpike as the expensive toll road alternative. Dallas Love Field was the first airport set right next to Hwy 12, but now DFW is the primary airport that lays right in the middle of the two.
Topography is very significant. In addition to ocean front and rivers, rising elevation and prevailing wind direction caused many of the upper class to move in that direction to avoid air and water pollution.
Absolutely love these types of videos. I do find it interesting though you mentioned Pittsburgh being an outlier for not expanding outward and I did think it was interesting that I caught some things that didn’t apply as much to Pittsburgh as they do to other cities. One thing was the airport here is very different than some of the other ones I’ve seen in other cities. The area surrounding the airport has some fairly suburbs and even some wealthier areas which is odd for a city. Pittsburgh’s geography is some of the weirdest of any city I’ve ever seen, but I love it and love living here so glad to call Pittsburgh my home because it’s unique I guess.
Another great vid! I would love an in depth vid of Washington state. As you know, we have all geographics imaginable; rainforest, volcanos, desert, mountains, ocean/puget sound coast, plains, valleys, old growth forests.. Just dont make the vid so good that even more people move up here hehe
I live in Madrid (Spain) which has 3 beltways! Easy to remember as they are designated M30, M40 and M50 respectively. The M40 and 50 aren't 360 degrees but cover a fair bit. Many locals consider the "city" to be what's inside the m30 ring. Another fun fact is that all of Spain's major interstate highways begin at a point in the center of Madrid and so if you travel all the way around the M30 you access every single one and conveniently they are numbered from A1-A6 with A1 going north and starting more.or leaa at 12 o'clock and the others going clockwise from there A2..A3..A4 etc.. Final fun fact is that since they all originate at a "km 0" in madrid center, when you're on any of.those highways whatever km sign you're on is exactly how far you are from madrid.
The White Board was good enough. I kept thinking of my city and CSA of Raleigh-Durham it relates to a lot and some it doesn’t. The airport is surprisingly here in a really good area. I thought of Houston a lot. I’m happy I’m actually early to one of his videos love this channel.
Great video. Nicely broken down for all to understand. We live in Southside of kenosha, I work in Milwaukee and my wife works Northside of Chicago....we have good schools and live in a nice condo downtown kenosha...best of all worlds minus the 40 min commute we both experience but it's worth for us to enjoy our jobs and still live together lol. Thanks for another video!
Probably one of my favorite videos you’ve ever done Kyle! I’d really like to see the decentralization of the CBD. Spread the offices around the metro and across other smaller cities. The need to be close has dwindled with the rise of the internet.
Your channel is absolutely great and this video is the best I have viewed so far. However, I totally think you have a shouting opportunity to improve this video 20fold: illustrate with examples. Plenty of case studies. A series depicting the urban layout of multiple cities/MSA/CMSA across USA and Canada. Geography classes always necessarily come with examples, wether they deal with erosion, formation of mountains, climate or urban geography.
Clicked on this so fast :) as I always found the structures of cities fascinating. My city totally fits this layout, assuming the belt means a highway. We have a highway that divides the close suburbs from the newer suburbs that leads downtown. Though it takes my mom longer to get to the highway from where she lives than downtown once on the highway. Due to the suburban traffic.
Loved this video style, don’t be ashamed of the white board technique, because it works flawlessly in my opinion. However, I would suggest having some real life examples through maybe Google Maps or Google Earth to show what you’re talking about throughout the video or at the end.
Lol yeah just look at Atlanta. It’s actually drawn to a tee of a 5 miles radius of downtown ATL
I was playing on Google earth on my laptop while I was watching this video on my phone to see what he was talking about
You should do a series where you dive into the local geography of different us cities
Was gonna comment this
Yes!!!
Some would be a long video like LA. A lot of variety within the city itself. Even the Denver, SLC or PHX metro areas
Others not as much. Only difference in Houston is you get more water in the ground closer you get to the Gulf. Don’t build huge cities on wetlands is all you can get.
Not much difference in cities like Chicago.
Most Western cities would make up this video.
Great video presentation!
If you haven't looked at Buffalo's physical history, check it out sometime. The layout was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted with large parks and tree lined boulevards. Downtown radiated like spokes. Over time and three expressways later, people have realized what a great design it was, and they are trying to return some areas to its old design.
I was thinking the same thing, and the anomalous cities could be the most interesting. I live midway between Boston, MA, and Providence, RI. my town is an exurb of both, but Providence could be considered a suburb of Boston. Some of the wooded areas around Boston are "new growth" because the area was intensely farmed and very populous at the time of the revolution. Walking through the woods you can literally stumble into a remnant of stone wall or into a pit that was the cellar of a house or barn. My little town, despite nice tree lined roads and forested areas, has a population of almost 1,000 people per sq. mi. and would be a small city in some places.
It may be the lowest budget channel on RUclips, Kyle, but it’s the best ! Always great content, well presented and understandable.
I like the academic style as a a change of pace. Like another commenter said, this could be a good template for presenting individual cities. As a parallel series to your geographical profiles of states, you could do urban structural profiles of US cities.
( I don’t see how anything you said was even slightly controversial, btw.)
This is the kind of stuff I think about before I fall asleep at night, Kyle. Another royal vid from the KING
I'm admittedly late to the party but I'm absolutely loving Kyle's channel. The content is "A #1."
The most underrated channel on RUclips!
You are right on the mark with this video. I grew up in the Providence/Boston area, my career was spent in the Washington DC/Baltimore area, I retired in San Antonio where we have two beltways, and we live five miles outside the second one. I actually lived and experienced your video and illustrations. I have never seen anyone illustrate the US urban structure the way you did, and you simplified and detailed it accurately. I love your videos.
Thank you!
Excellent analysis Kyle. What was known as "urban renewal" in the late 60s and early 70s may be an idea for a future video. It began with the best of intentions but in many (and to my mind most) cases did more harm than good. It wasn't done only in large cities but many small towns as well.
I think that's exactly it- good intentions with terrible execution. I think the urban renewal movement then was 1 step forward, 2 steps back in a lot of ways. But I feel that even though today's gentrification is by no means perfect, I think it tends to be 2 steps forward, 1 step back for the most part.
@@GeographyKing Can you even call it good intentions? Slum clearance seems like more of a euphemism to me...
As a geography major that worked in a planning department for a while, I find this absolutely fascinating. Dealing with suburban and exurban folks and their lack of understanding about how cities develop and grow can be very frustrating. City planning was not for me for that very reason - dealing with people that want nothing to ever change.
Kudos for teaching people "real" geography. Even with two geography majors in the family, my sister (the fourth grade teacher) still doesn't understand geography as anything more than place names. So incredibly frustrating!
You reminded me of my days teaching Geography, you learn a lot when you teach. When you talked about the districts in the inner city with their own character I was thinking about the borders between them, sometimes there is a transition zone between richer and poorer areas or there is what I call an urban scar, that really divides parts of the city, like a railroad or a really wide highway
"To teach is to learn twice." -old French proverb
Absolutely. Growing up I'd hear the phrase "wrong side of the tracks". I've seen so many places where it is literally the railroad tracks that divide the city.
those low-income neighborhoods often got “urban renewal”, or that’s where the freeways often run through (cheaper real estate)
Which famously ruined cities, cause noise pollution, smog, traffic and overly cater to suburbanites.
true
*urban removal
Good example is Greenwood in Tusla. Highway built right through in the 50's covering up the damage from 30 years before.
prior to the Great Migration, many of the poorer neighborhoods close in to the central business district were predominately white working class, possibly housing first-generation immigrants. They lived there because the industrial districts around the CBD needed workers. During the great migration, many of these poorer areas split into two parts, one housing the poor blacks and the other the poor whites who could not afford to flee to the suburbs (i.e. white flight). This split was exacerbated by formal policies of discrimination by local, state and the federal government with policies such as red-lining neighborhoods (where lending institutions were discouraged from extending housing loans into certain, mainly black neighborhoods), "urban renewal" and slum-clearance, and interstate construction which literally split the poor neighbor in two. The plight of poor, inner-city neighborhoods was made even worse because during the 40s and 50s, as the highway system became more convenient and it became easier to move goods by truck, many of the industries which formerly provided employment to the inner city left for areas further out, leading to high unemployment.
You just described Philadelphia, PA. I used to work downtown there in the 1970's.
Redlining, covenants, the GI bill!
Too often in history do poor people decide on an enemy based on race. Not just the urban US, not just the US! It’s sad to see. Look at the Irish who massacred blacks in New York. Two poor, disenfranchised groups who fail to see the larger enemy and kill each other. It’s tragic
I took AP Human Geography this past school year and I really enjoyed this part of the class. Well done video!
I liked it too but it was definitely the hardest unit for me. I felt like it should've been split into 2 parts
At least I got to study it more cause it was the last unit, we had most of may for review
That was my favorite class in all of high school.
I loved this class. Everyone complained about how difficult it was, but for me it was my easiest class. This section was really fun.
@@FlowMichael lol my brain read your name in Napoleon's voice
I was born in DC, and have always lived in its suburbs. I love National history and politics because of it. You have reawakened in me a need to learn more about DC’s roots and communities. Thank you.
And DC is one of those metro areas that DOESN'T follow the patterns typical of US metro areas. I was just there for a couple days. Because of the height restrictions in DC proper and the spaced out government institutions, you actual have suburban skylines that look more like a typical concept of a city from a distance than anything in DC! (Arlington, Rosslyn, Tysons, etc.)
In that way DC metro is almost a little more like some European cities like . . Paris? In Paris you have palaces with palace grounds like around the Louvre, but then you have clusters of office high rises in La Defense in the outlying districts.
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Bethesda, Silver Spring too
Uh I think DC is literally the most perfect example of what he said in every way. We have a CBD with tourist pulls (national mall and surrounding areas), have our rough part in the SE (anacostia), our wealthy historic area right next to the CBD (georgetown), gentrifying industrial areas (Navy yard), a beltway connecting the far flung suburbs of MD and VA, plenty of mix in suburb wealth (working class in Prince George's vs the very wealth Fairfax and Loudon counties), development around universities (UMD / AU / loads of others lol), exurbs that go out all the way to West Virginia, and we form a CSMA with Baltimore. Tbh is there a single thing he said that DC doesn't *perfectly* embody. I mean hell he even mentioned DC a number of times in the video lol
@@bhg123ful Although you're right that DC looks different because of the density, the height limits, and a workable public transit system.
@@treyshaffer When considering DC for this exercise, I am not sure how to meld the federal districts with the communities where its citizens live and play. Is the city center really the White House and the mall? Or could it be the Penn Quarter area, with the Capital One arena, restaurants and theaters. Perhaps both are CBDs. Certainly unique, but as you say, in every other way DC follows the urban structure Geography King outlined. Now if we could just get that second, outer Beltway.
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Another good one Geography king! I live near Asheville NC and I can picture places that follow the pattern just as you describe. When I was a kid, west Asheville was a run down, working class, auto shops, machine shops side of town and now it’s a hip, happening area with numerous bars and home prices that boggle the mind. Of course they sliced interstate 240 right through an old black neighborhood years ago too. Pretty amazing how the places like Asheville and Charleston are changing at such a rapid pace. I liked that you mentioned Columbia, I grew up in Forest Acres
Similarly for Truckee, CA. It was a lower class railroad town on the transcontinental railroad Now it is fully gentrified.
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More or less how my geography teacher taught it. Your passion shows and passion is what matters!
That fact that you did a 20 minute video on this topic, I’m in heaven. Love this channel
Dear GK, what I like about your urban geo videos is that while you may talk about history or concepts (City Beautiful channel is excellent at that), you do a great job of talking about what different cities _feel_ like, not surprising as you seem to travel alot 👏🏾
It's so refreshing to hear people say that they don't care about what others say. Thank you. The world is a less dumber place for your words.
I read some time back that throughout history, regardless of the mode of transportation, the optimal commute time from one's residence to one's job has been, and remains somewhere between 20 and 30 minutes. This mean that when walking was the only option, towns/cities tended to remain small with the industrial/commercial areas close to residential areas. Then, as other modes of transportation became available (streetcars, subways, buses, cars, etc.) the radius of the city expanded while retaining that same optimal commute time.
And Cities would generally expand along they branches of the transit systems. You could have two branches of development that are a few miles wide, with farm land between them.
This leads to areas where some old development branches out of the city center, with newer development in between.
I really love how you deal with race as it relates to geography on this channel. It's a facet of society that determines some things, and it can perhaps influence geographical data, but you always break it down in a way that properly explains your point without focusing or ascribing significance to it. Love this channel
Really liked this video! I keep learning so much new stuff about the US from your videos!
I study geo and I learned more from your videos than during all of my boring classes. Thank you Kyle
This was my favorite video of yours, it was different. It felt like I was really in geography class or something. It was fun to watch
Thank you!
As someone who's been teaching middle school and high school English for fifteen years, I *love* that you used a whiteboard. Keep up the great work!
Talk about an exerb commute. I lived in Beacon , NY which has a Metro North station with thousands of parking spaces for commuters. Its was 60 mi to Grand Central-1:20 minute ride. But, you had to first drive to the station, park, hike across parking lot to then wait for the train to arrive. When you finally arrived at GC on 42nd/Madison, you then had to hike to you office building or transfer to a subway (a hike) and get downtown or wherever, and then hike again to your work place. Then after 8-10 in you cubicle you get to do it all over again. And that was just Monday🥴
Dude I LOVE this channel. Thank you for your hard work and dedication to it.
Loved this. The whiteboard was a nice unique touch.
As Englishman who lives in Australia, I can say that the trends you have outlined in this video apply to the majority of cities in both England and Australia as well
Pretty good though I think you underplayed the effect water has on a city since most cities will be near a water feature that will have a big affect on it.
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Very well made video. Extremely informative and I hope for more stuff like his in the future!
While this wasn't your most entertaining video, it was VERY informative and I appreciate that. Great work, thank you.
I just found this channel last week.. I never knew I was so interested in geography. Also, as a homeschooling mama, I use these videos as teaching aids to go along with my lessons for my kids. Thank you, My new fav geography nerd!
As an urban studies & planning major I can't get enough of your videos. Keep it up!!
Thank you!
This is another of your very interesting and informative videos. Each one that I've seen so far has been packed full of valuable information for those of us who like travel, maps, and geography. Thank you for posting them.
I had forgotten a lot of this stuff since I first learned about it in sociology classes in college. This was a great way to brush up on it!
always love your passion for the subject, it really shines on this channel, regardless of animations or lack thereof
Great video! Its almost like you're describing my city (Dallas), right up to the CMSA (consolidating with Ft. Worth)!
Hey I’m from Arlington! I don’t even know what we are a suburb of, or if we are even a suburb at all 😂
@@harlanseago4876 Yeah, you guys even have the area's Major League Baseball team in Arlington.
@@Compucles yes, and the Cowboys, who are the world’s most valuable sports franchise as well
How mentioning how San Antonio, Austin, and Waco are beginning to merge with the Dallas Fort Worth Denton CMSA along the I35 corridor to become one super CMSA.
This video made me feel like I was back in my old classrooms from University. Love it
Great video Kyle as always. Love all your videos and understanding the world around us.
This is why he's king.
Grand Rapids' east side is a high bluff overlooking the river. It's our historical area, Heritage Hill. So our east side isn't the poor side, it's the old rich side. And that's due to topography.
Today, however, those huge rich mansions are parceled into apartments, mostly occupied by students. It's still a nice part of town, but the gentrified industrial and gentrified CBD areas are for richer people, generally.
Milwaukee is wierd in their poorer areas are in northwest. Also the whiteboard adds a lot of charm. Also, I think suburbs in general need to become more compact and walkable so people aren't so spread out that their job is a 40 mile commute away.
I thought that too, MKE bucks the trend of everywhere else I've lived, instead of the west side, east side is the place to be. I assume that's the influence of UWM and proximity to the lake
Most cities already have pretty compact suburbs up to at least 20-30 miles away. It's simply not possible to make the suburbs walkable.
Most U.S. cities could use more extended public transportation out to the suburbs, though.
@@Compucles it is possibly actually, although NIMBYs(not in my backyard) are a problem. Densify areas, get rid of parking minimums and zoning, build shops next to houses, build protected bikes lanes, build more and wider sidewalks, build more narrow streets, add shade trees, etc
This is so cool, eye opening and true for my city!
super interesting video, Kyle! thanks a lot.
its very intruiging for me as an European to see these different structures and developments.
can't wait for a follow up video!
Man I love your channel so much, keep up the good videos
Could you do a talk on rivers ? Water being so important. You do us all a great service, thanks.
This video was incredible thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Grand rapids:
The old; Heritage Hill
Industry; South West side
Low income; Roosevelt Park
Lots of suburbs
Definitely a ring road
Love our exurbs Lowell/ada area is great
Kyle, people who write with their left hand is in their RIGHT MIND!
That is correct.
This is one of your most interesting videos, especially as I live halfway between Boston and Providence. Since high school I've been interested in maps and the patterns and dynamics introduced here. My favorite pastime has remained Transportation Tycoon! I've been able to produce some of the patterns mentioned here in game for this area, and in other countries. I hope this video marks the start of a series of urban geography and transportation videos.
As someone studying Urban Planning next year at university in New Zealand, please do more videos about urban layouts!
simple but to the point!!! great channel
Another A+ video. You're a really good teacher.
Yes, so happy to hear you dive into urban planning!
I've always been fascinated by CSA's since I was a child. How 2 separate cities and their metros bleed into each other to form a mega bloc is super interesting to me.
Love this. Reminds me of one of my favorite history courses in college in the long ago.
And btw, Columbia is a suburb of Baltimore. The confusion usually happens with suburbs like Crofton, Gambrills, and even Laurel. These are suburbs that are literally halfway in between DC and Baltimore.
Laurel is nice. Like its main street.
I didn’t realize you were a sinister geographer. Great video - I really enjoy your contemporaneous style to show what you know.
This is very interesting to me. Thank you Kyle I'd like to see another one
The east side vs west side distinction is really interesting. You're going off of cities on the east coast, and I grew up in (what used to be) a small town on Oregon and we had the same pattern. East of the river was for the working class, west was for fancypantses
Portland used to be like that. Most of the “old money” families still live in the West Hills
@@gregbors8364 "used to be"?
@@ReverendMeat51 Yeah, I mean the money is more spread out these days. There are more rich people on the east side than there used to be. Hawthorne District, Irvington etc.
Edit: I was going to mention Happy Valley too, but that’s technically a different city now
@@gregbors8364 "east side" has been pushed out past 205 now. I saw the gentrification in process. My op was referring to Bend btw
@@ReverendMeat51 Yeah out in the “numbers” on the east side is where the “ghetto” is now, I had to live there briefly, glad I was able to move
You are fine with a White Board because of your Clear Concise Information packed communication skills! You are the Katie Porter of Geographical stuff. So the first neighborhood is Richistan! Second neighborhood is Yuppieville, neighborhood three is The Ghetto. Neighborhoods 4 and 5 Archie Bunkerville!
Thank you for this informative video Kyle. I recently saw an interesting map on the emerging megaregions in the US, which I thought fit nicely with your lecture.
Outstanding succinct description. Loved it
Ready for the Maine video.
Me too!
Love your videos! I don't know how you're not at several million subscribers.
Very interesting video, you're a great teacher. Thank you!
Great, objective video on this subject. Love to see things from a geographer's perspective!
Wow that was really interesting. The part about the south / east sides of a city being low income is right on the money!
I’m from Columbia Maryland and my head literally shot up when you mentioned us 😂 it’s a rare double suburb for sure. Equidistant within an hour to two major metro areas. I’d also argue that Columbia also has a viable CBD with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, and Merriweather Post Pavilion. Along with a surprising amount of healthcare jobs. Most people work for a company in either DC or Baltimore (posssibly Annapolis) but a fair but not only work for columbia based companies but moved here for that purpose even.
Thank you for the very informative video!
Houston has roughly 4 belts. The first is 610, which loops around I-10, and is not very large. The 2nd is much further out and is Beltway 8, a fantastic toll road that is 90 miles in circumference. Then there are a couple partial belts that wrap around maybe a bit more than half the city. The third is FM1960/Highway6 that mostly wraps around the North, West, and South sides. Finally, there is the Grand Parkway/99, which is being expanded but for now wraps from Northeast to Southwest.
When we visited the Lowell, MA Boott Museum to see the running textile mill, most of the mills have been converted into condos.
Rick Beato is pushing 3 million subs and still uses the white board. It's the quality of the content that matters. Rock on, Geography King.
Perfect! Just sat down with a nice plate of 'tatoes. Gonna enjoy both this video and my food! Thanks!
You've got some good timing... just about to start my Urban GIS class on Monday.
You left out Dallas Fort Worth. Another perfect example of two urban cities merging together. Dallas has three rings, the first is now more like regular city streets (Northwest Highway/Hwy 12), I-635 is the congested freeway, and they're still building out Bush Turnpike as the expensive toll road alternative. Dallas Love Field was the first airport set right next to Hwy 12, but now DFW is the primary airport that lays right in the middle of the two.
This was fascinating, love ur channel Kyle 👍
Fascinating! Makes total sense.
I would enjoy hearing about the Music related to Geography type segment!
Topography is very significant. In addition to ocean front and rivers, rising elevation and prevailing wind direction caused many of the upper class to move in that direction to avoid air and water pollution.
Excellent. Thank you for this.
Absolutely love these types of videos. I do find it interesting though you mentioned Pittsburgh being an outlier for not expanding outward and I did think it was interesting that I caught some things that didn’t apply as much to Pittsburgh as they do to other cities. One thing was the airport here is very different than some of the other ones I’ve seen in other cities. The area surrounding the airport has some fairly suburbs and even some wealthier areas which is odd for a city. Pittsburgh’s geography is some of the weirdest of any city I’ve ever seen, but I love it and love living here so glad to call Pittsburgh my home because it’s unique I guess.
GR8 show, your whiteboard skill flashed me back 2 university, :)
Another great vid!
I would love an in depth vid of Washington state.
As you know, we have all geographics imaginable; rainforest, volcanos, desert, mountains, ocean/puget sound coast, plains, valleys, old growth forests..
Just dont make the vid so good that even more people move up here hehe
I live in Madrid (Spain) which has 3 beltways! Easy to remember as they are designated M30, M40 and M50 respectively. The M40 and 50 aren't 360 degrees but cover a fair bit. Many locals consider the "city" to be what's inside the m30 ring. Another fun fact is that all of Spain's major interstate highways begin at a point in the center of Madrid and so if you travel all the way around the M30 you access every single one and conveniently they are numbered from A1-A6 with A1 going north and starting more.or leaa at 12 o'clock and the others going clockwise from there A2..A3..A4 etc.. Final fun fact is that since they all originate at a "km 0" in madrid center, when you're on any of.those highways whatever km sign you're on is exactly how far you are from madrid.
The White Board was good enough. I kept thinking of my city and CSA of Raleigh-Durham it relates to a lot and some it doesn’t. The airport is surprisingly here in a really good area. I thought of Houston a lot. I’m happy I’m actually early to one of his videos love this channel.
I’m loving the whiteboard style
My favorite youtuber!
Great video. Nicely broken down for all to understand. We live in Southside of kenosha, I work in Milwaukee and my wife works Northside of Chicago....we have good schools and live in a nice condo downtown kenosha...best of all worlds minus the 40 min commute we both experience but it's worth for us to enjoy our jobs and still live together lol. Thanks for another video!
Sounds like a nice setup. That's one of the best metro situations to do that in the US.
Very fascinating. Felt like I was back in college again.
Probably one of my favorite videos you’ve ever done Kyle! I’d really like to see the decentralization of the CBD. Spread the offices around the metro and across other smaller cities. The need to be close has dwindled with the rise of the internet.
Excellent! Love the whiteboard.
It took me a moment to recover from the whiteboard and CBD announcements, lol. Thanks for the info and the presentation style :)
Your channel is absolutely great and this video is the best I have viewed so far. However, I totally think you have a shouting opportunity to improve this video 20fold: illustrate with examples. Plenty of case studies. A series depicting the urban layout of multiple cities/MSA/CMSA across USA and Canada. Geography classes always necessarily come with examples, wether they deal with erosion, formation of mountains, climate or urban geography.
Great content. The controversial stuff wasn't that much controversial at all, just informative. Love your videos. Twiltkainstabook!! Lol!!
Clicked on this so fast :) as I always found the structures of cities fascinating. My city totally fits this layout, assuming the belt means a highway. We have a highway that divides the close suburbs from the newer suburbs that leads downtown. Though it takes my mom longer to get to the highway from where she lives than downtown once on the highway. Due to the suburban traffic.
Killer video Kyle, you’ve done it again!