If there is a game to fix cities, Fortnite is not it. City Skylines should have considered this since town and city planner professionals also play it.
@@OzyTheLast You can still build very functional walkable cities in CS:II (bikes are still yet to be implemented). Biggest issue for reproducing real cities now is the squary tile for buildings, impossible to do a good triangle block without lots of manual work.
Not feasible. Cities Skylines II has effectively killed off the franchise and its reputation is irreparable at this point. Fortnite is still very much alive and respected lol.
You need broad recognition of an idea/problem to get the public talking about it. This is what Fortnite does. It obviously does not fix anything in real life but it brings ideas/problems to the mind of the average person
@@potts995it hasn’t killed the franchise, it just released too early. Give it a year or two and CS2 will be the golden standard for city building games.
Not quite 2000 years old yet. Still another 19 years to go. :) Pretty crazy though, isn't it? Still, nothing on places like Athens - ~7000 years old, or Damascus - ~11000 years old!!! :O :O :O
I'm quite disappointed how this has been spun in to "fixed london". It hasn't done anything to fix london, there's 1000's of issues that need to be seriously addressed. What has been achieved is a London building sandbox in Fortnite, where people can create their ideal little buildings all around. How does that accomplish anything, if not oversimplify what goes into building a city? The focus should have been to bring awareness to younger generations, showing the significance of public spaces and architecture.
You're missing the point entirely, this literally is reaching the next generation. To fix london or anything we need new ideas and interest, and reaching kids with an architecture based game and teaching principles like mixed land use will undoubtedly do that. It plants seeds in kids minds that maybe this is something they care about and want to think about doing as a job when they grow up. Evidently nobody in this generation gives a shit or we wouldnt be here. Car brained 1950 is what inspired the kids who are now adults in power today. Maybe in 2060 we will have fortnite architects calling the shots.
@@unfortunatelyrob2635 How about we call it "How Fortnite is Shaping the Future of London's Architecture" at the very least. The current title doesn't make much sense.
@@dj71162 Why do people always say this shit? It's meaningless.
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Another promotional content. Summary: rich architects/developers want to build more luxury, soulless and inefficient glass facade high rise buildings which will be bought up by billionaires around the world to use it as a bank account. Let’s hope they won’t be able to succeed.
The buildings these architects have made look absolutely horrific... Who the hell wants to work or live in an architect's wet dream. They have no idea what environments are actually attractive to live in.
3 questions: 1- Why Fortnite of all games? 2- what are they even expecting to accomplish when the City is 50% Archeological sites they can't tear down to rebuild the city anyway 3-When are you all going to accept that Housing Crises are caused by bad legislation allowing Basic Rights to be treated as Speculation Markets and not because "we aren't making enough Modernist buildings"?
Literally. New York is a grid, but it also has horrible congestion. The only solution is more space efficient forms of transport. They already have a great subway. If they had better bike lanes, there'd be a lot fewer cars on their roads and therefore less congestion.
@@richardellingson7056 Exactly. They need to make them safe and separate whilst there are still cars around so that parents feel safe to let their kids ride, and so that more vulnerable riders feel safe too.
@@richardellingson7056 You probably don't want to bike during a NY winter, though... Winters I get in my city along the western coast of Scandinavia are fairly cold and not many people choose to bike thanks to treacherous road conditions that may include everything from thick freshly fallen snow, slippery hardpacked snow, or wet, soap-slippery caked ice, but this is nothing compared to NY, thanks to the warming ocean currents from the gulf of Mexico we get here. East coast of the U.S. gets the opposite, cold water coming down from the arctic region and frequently, epic snowstorms rolling in from the great lakes. So bikes would be helpful only partway through the year. Also, even as densely populated as it is, NYC is pretty big. Biking is OK for a few kilometers of travel distance, but as distance increases most people will prefer other modes of transport to not come in to work all hot and sweaty. Ultimately I think driverless (IE automated) electric buses will have to do a lot of the heavy lifting. Driver-related costs are a big roadblock to building out bus lines at the moment - and also, bus driver hiring difficulties should not be ignored. If we could solve these issues, lines could be expanded significiantly.
So far this video is very low quality compared to most stuff on this channel. No a video game design didnt fix london. They got to build with no restrictions and even if the design magically became reality it would still run into a lot of the same issues and some new ones.
1:25 - That's a weird way to present a statistic to make it seem worse than it is. 149 hours over a year isn't all that bad. That's slightly more than 30 minutes per day, or 15 minutes each way. I often experience worse traffic than that in Denver, especially if any kind of weather happens. To say that "costs the city" some random amount of money is assuming the people stuck in traffic would do something more productive with their time if they weren't in traffic. Most would not.
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A very interesting concept! I really love the idea of using technology to inspire people who would have otherwise never been exposed to this kind of planning. If this proves a success I would be intrigued to see how this can be scaled up with other similar games, such as Cities Skylines. Working on the industry has shown me how technology has interwoven with construction, through the use of Lidar to virtually scan rooms, and modeling tools to plan out whole buildings. These games are another tool in the belt to help engineers accomplish their goals, and helps excite the public about the work they’re doing
I fail to see how this fixes or solves anything. Architects and designers have always had grand visions for cities, but cities are generally developed piecemeal, and run up against constraints like money, time, and community pushback. Only dictatorships or single-party governments have the unilateral power to create entire planned cities from wholecloth.
The best way to reduce traffic is to provide with alternatives and do the best not to incentivize car usage for those who are fully capable of taking the alternative. And often times that involves taking space away from cars to speed up public transportation and light modes that are way more space efficient
Grid cities are still ugly :) luckily it's only one reason. It's still funny to listen to people who obviously never played computer games. Interesting that they used the Fortnite Engine for that.
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It reminds me idea to erase Paris and build giant towers by Le Carbuser. I mean who needs history when you can build city with square grid that is filled with traffic jams. Or you can build huge highways like in modern Dubai. Stop hating on medieval streets. Instead of turning your city in car infested loud hell hole, follow japanese. You won't be needing convenient streets for your car if you have good public transport. And medieval grid can actually persuade people to not infest cities with cars.
Fascinating! In a sense, it's like getting people to do an interactive survey of what they'd like to see. Beats those boring old (and leading) phone calls from the city planning department...
Love that this is getting the new generations exposed to urban design and city planning in a really fun way. It's teaching kids that it is THEIR CITY and THEY have the power and ability to make a difference and change it to fit them. A city is not just a static thing that's dealt with by traffic engineers and developers. Helping people learn that they have communal ownership and responsibility and agency over their city is so important for making cities that are built for all of us. Thank you so much for all the work you do B1M!!
I think people here really have communal ownership over an advertising campaign. The game gives all the blocks of an outdoor shopping mall. I thinks that it only offers liberty and imagination in this framework, which is very limited and normalizing.
All sounds good. Will the gamers get rewarded for their time coming up with a solution to a major problem, or do those architectures rake in all the rewards for themselves? Seems a bit unfair if that's the case. You need to incentivise people if you use their ideas and creation.
Not a controversial opinion really I'd say... And I say that as an actual fan of her style. (RIP...) That said, too much of anything isn't a good thing. It's best to mix things up a bit, within reason. :)
Great video! Love the history and explanations behind this project. Something similar was done with city skyline but this seems better as its first person 😊
One problem - The way London has developed 'is London'. Density may be ideal, but it likely isn't nor should be used in London. Perhaps on the outskirts. But 3 storey walk ups next to 200m high towers (existing ones) IS LONDON. If you want a bigger more dense city - then perhaps choose another city.
The word "dollar" ackshually derives from the older coinages daler and taler, which ultimately got their names from the German word "tal" which means valley. This referring to Joachimstal, where silver was mined and used to make said coins.
We don.t need grid streets in Europe and certainly not more car efficiency. I actually love how organic radial cities can be and I like when my sense of direction gets confused and I get to discover a new place. This is clearly an advertising campaign for a big building project that is supposedly designed 'by the people', but is another top-down layout of a tasteless, plastic work-consume-sleep all-in-one outdoor shopping mall. It even has all the necessary building blocks!!!
One of the myriad of possible solutions to fix London is to probably mass upzone large sections of it to allow multi-unit dwellings on Single family plots in most areas... Even just soft density like ADU's, granny or basement suites can really make a difference... That and Vancouver-style skyscraper clusters around mass-transit stations... Glad to see London embrace tall towers after decades of hesitancy... When done right they give areas character and landmarks that are easily identifiable.. At their worst? Overpriced glassy slums in the sky...
London has two financial districts. The City of London and Canary Wharf. And now a third financial district is being planned for London. The Royal Albert Dock in London's East End will be transformed into London's third business and financial district. All these developments are good but why can’t developers have the same motivation about solving Britains housing crisis. Only then, will London have the best of all worlds if new developments cater for the poorest communities as much as it caters for the rich, especially all those wealthy foreign investors who buy up all our real estate in London. Sadly, in reality the poorest, indigenous Londoners and Brits are being treated as third class citizens in their homeland and your not allowed to say that without being called a racist.
I think this is cool for allowing access to an wider audience to city planning, building design etc for people that would otherwise not know about it. It would be interesting to see if this inspires some future engineers!
My opinion on the topic before watching the topic. I think we are on the cusp or even already able to build without the need of any humans, if we wanted to spend the money and time to establish such a system on large. The future of building, construction and reconstruction lies in digital design, tho every little detail needs to be digital. We will only program and write what should be build and how to rebuild. This channel brings forth some of the techniques and achievements that will bring us there. I'm sure of it. Although the idea seems sci-fi, it seems only logic to me, that a lack of construction workers will establish automation and integrated robotics. The elevator company in the last video is one such step. What meta thought off with their digital universe will just a playground for real world projects and maybe fortnite actually got ahead of them 🤔 ... Idea after watching the video, how about Google maps and fortnite team up to establish a digital world we can play with. I actually thought of animal crossing but I really like this idea. A Mashup of Pokémon go, and all the other things mentioned.
The original T&CP Act was not wrong, it still operates to prevent incompatible uses. Obviously, mixed use is more acceptable now than in 1948 because far more commercial uses are compatible with dwellings. The decline of traditional noisy, polluting industries needing a constant flow of vehicles delivering raw materials and taking away finished products has meant that residents can be totally unaffected, even unaware, of a business operating in a neighbouring property.
This project is an absolute farce. Hardly any Fortnite players overlap with urbanists. Planning a city in an environment where chugjug is a legit concept solves no problems in the real world. Should have made a collab with Cities:Skylines instead.
London revamp is going to be blueprinted by a 13 year old Fortnite kid , about to have a strip club in every residential neighborhood according to the scoring system.
Ultimately, I think the idea isn't a total loss. I do question the motive to spend the developer hours/money to make this thing. What is this firm getting out of it? This isn't a public outreach project. When something is "free" on the internet, _you're_ the product. In this case, they're testing their urban planning theory and trying to find players who "solve" for the best dense architecture plan that's also reasonably aesthetic. They'll eventually use the most successful constructs in some real project. Either way, it's still not much more than a glorified computer model.
Talking about Paris boulevards in the 17th century is a whopper of an anachronism. Looks like they've created something even worse than the City Beautiful concept of cities. I love Hadid's buildings AS SCULPTURE but if you ask people about ideal urban experiences they will reference Amsterdam or Barcelona or Tokyo or even Sienna. Egocentric architecture does not make a city better. Only a strong city can even tolerate egocentric monuments.
Well, if a video game in the hands of regular people solved Londons biggest problem, where has all these esteemed multi trillion dollar design firms thinking been??
You all live in a chateau in the middle of a field in France somewhere, WE have to actually live, work, sub exists, wear a smile and dress and bathe and look like royalty for you in apartments smaller than your bathrooms in this sh*t....
You people live in a chateau in the middle of a field in France somewhere. WE have to live, work, sub exists where a smile and bathe and dress like royalty for you in apartments smaller than your bathrooms living in this garbage. Oh and did I mentione raising kids, caring for family members.... oh and still having to cook too....
I hate modern gaming you pay $700 for a system and it’s digital only so you have to pay for high-speed Internet also and then they can just randomly take away the ability to play your game and he have to download a new version and pay for it all over again
London has wasted the opportunity of much of its river frontage redevelopment, accepting the second and third rate. Watching the Olympics opening ceremony, despite the rain, one was reminded of the sheer beauty of much of the Paris river frontage. Sure, there are bad bits but by comparison? The record over the last forty years in London, when the 'real money' began to come back in the 80s, and look what we chose to put up. I'm talking about the knock-off high rise 'housing' here, not so much the commercial stuff, surprisingly. There are some wonderful bits, mostly refurbs, but as for the rest… I am a fan of the National Theatre and Festival Hall, and Tate, now all clean and shiny again. Despite the shops and restaurants cluttering them up, they are great places to be on a summer evening. But so much of the rest, ouch! Don't even get me started on what they did to our former city hall, the old LCC/GLC building. At least you can walk along most of the river frontage now, and the river always looks great. So this looks like a lot of fun.
The denser the cities, the more walk and bike friendly they are for the average person that can get to the grocery store in less then 5 minutes. What the hell is even wrong with that?, absolutely nothing. Its very cool to use games like Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox to simulate the real world into new ideas.. Perhaps this could be a new step for architectural development to have more people come up with better ideas instead of arrogant pretentious architects deciding what´s good for us..
@@StolasXBThats because you have been socially conditioned to think that way. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be that way. There are plenty of ways you can organize a 15-30 minute city that would allow more freedom of movement. Not everyone wants to be bumper to bumper listening to people yell and honking day in and day out trying to get to and out of work or other local businesses
The only thing I don't like is the lack of respect for historical city styles that firms like this have. All curves and glass that will stick out like a sore thumb
So it’s a new version of Sims and I’m almost positive. The creators of this game did not make $1 million apiece. This was just to make a better London.
Ok, let's pretend you've spent enormous amout of the taxpayers' money from all the country and fixed London. You've made it even more convenient and commercially attractive.... thus even more luxurious and expensive. What next?
If there is a game to fix cities, Fortnite is not it. City Skylines should have considered this since town and city planner professionals also play it.
City skylines iirc does have a bias to american city planning though (highways over train lines and the like)
@@OzyTheLast You can still build very functional walkable cities in CS:II (bikes are still yet to be implemented). Biggest issue for reproducing real cities now is the squary tile for buildings, impossible to do a good triangle block without lots of manual work.
Not feasible. Cities Skylines II has effectively killed off the franchise and its reputation is irreparable at this point. Fortnite is still very much alive and respected lol.
You need broad recognition of an idea/problem to get the public talking about it. This is what Fortnite does. It obviously does not fix anything in real life but it brings ideas/problems to the mind of the average person
@@potts995it hasn’t killed the franchise, it just released too early. Give it a year or two and CS2 will be the golden standard for city building games.
Fixing a 2000+ year old city = plopping modernist buildings in a computer game.
2000- *
Not quite 2000 years old yet. Still another 19 years to go. :) Pretty crazy though, isn't it? Still, nothing on places like Athens - ~7000 years old, or Damascus - ~11000 years old!!! :O :O :O
And it should not be the answer
No way 💀💀💀 we got london fortnite collab before gta 6
No way we got another one of these sad people before Gta6 hahahaha
GTA6 is released
@@Kylejeepadventures bro are you from the future?
@@Bjoern_1897bros in 2026
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Well, that new Fallout Mod for London seems fairly popular, so I would not rule that out, haha.
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I'm quite disappointed how this has been spun in to "fixed london". It hasn't done anything to fix london, there's 1000's of issues that need to be seriously addressed.
What has been achieved is a London building sandbox in Fortnite, where people can create their ideal little buildings all around. How does that accomplish anything, if not oversimplify what goes into building a city?
The focus should have been to bring awareness to younger generations, showing the significance of public spaces and architecture.
Pointless shite
You're missing the point entirely, this literally is reaching the next generation. To fix london or anything we need new ideas and interest, and reaching kids with an architecture based game and teaching principles like mixed land use will undoubtedly do that. It plants seeds in kids minds that maybe this is something they care about and want to think about doing as a job when they grow up.
Evidently nobody in this generation gives a shit or we wouldnt be here. Car brained 1950 is what inspired the kids who are now adults in power today. Maybe in 2060 we will have fortnite architects calling the shots.
@@unfortunatelyrob2635 How about we call it "How Fortnite is Shaping the Future of London's Architecture" at the very least. The current title doesn't make much sense.
When you elect someone like Khan as mayor, you get what you deserve.
@@dj71162 Why do people always say this shit? It's meaningless.
Another promotional content. Summary: rich architects/developers want to build more luxury, soulless and inefficient glass facade high rise buildings which will be bought up by billionaires around the world to use it as a bank account. Let’s hope they won’t be able to succeed.
The buildings these architects have made look absolutely horrific... Who the hell wants to work or live in an architect's wet dream. They have no idea what environments are actually attractive to live in.
Neom, but London.
@@auto_revolt Watching them replace historical buildings full of character with generic modernist curvy glass slabs is so depressing.
3 questions:
1- Why Fortnite of all games?
2- what are they even expecting to accomplish when the City is 50% Archeological sites they can't tear down to rebuild the city anyway
3-When are you all going to accept that Housing Crises are caused by bad legislation allowing Basic Rights to be treated as Speculation Markets and not because "we aren't making enough Modernist buildings"?
Fortnight is basically a game engine and it's popular.
Cars are the congestion.
Literally. New York is a grid, but it also has horrible congestion. The only solution is more space efficient forms of transport. They already have a great subway. If they had better bike lanes, there'd be a lot fewer cars on their roads and therefore less congestion.
@@richardellingson7056 Exactly. They need to make them safe and separate whilst there are still cars around so that parents feel safe to let their kids ride, and so that more vulnerable riders feel safe too.
@@richardellingson7056 You probably don't want to bike during a NY winter, though... Winters I get in my city along the western coast of Scandinavia are fairly cold and not many people choose to bike thanks to treacherous road conditions that may include everything from thick freshly fallen snow, slippery hardpacked snow, or wet, soap-slippery caked ice, but this is nothing compared to NY, thanks to the warming ocean currents from the gulf of Mexico we get here. East coast of the U.S. gets the opposite, cold water coming down from the arctic region and frequently, epic snowstorms rolling in from the great lakes.
So bikes would be helpful only partway through the year. Also, even as densely populated as it is, NYC is pretty big. Biking is OK for a few kilometers of travel distance, but as distance increases most people will prefer other modes of transport to not come in to work all hot and sweaty.
Ultimately I think driverless (IE automated) electric buses will have to do a lot of the heavy lifting. Driver-related costs are a big roadblock to building out bus lines at the moment - and also, bus driver hiring difficulties should not be ignored. If we could solve these issues, lines could be expanded significiantly.
So far this video is very low quality compared to most stuff on this channel. No a video game design didnt fix london. They got to build with no restrictions and even if the design magically became reality it would still run into a lot of the same issues and some new ones.
Yeah, looks like a boring overhyped bullshit that's only made with the goal of advertising.
@@Kiwi2703 I wouldnt be suprised if this video was just a sponsor
This channel has been promoting the worst of construction for ages. Death by CGI.
You sound so fun at parties.
It's basically an advertisement video for Forntite they do pay the big bucks
1:25 - That's a weird way to present a statistic to make it seem worse than it is. 149 hours over a year isn't all that bad. That's slightly more than 30 minutes per day, or 15 minutes each way. I often experience worse traffic than that in Denver, especially if any kind of weather happens. To say that "costs the city" some random amount of money is assuming the people stuck in traffic would do something more productive with their time if they weren't in traffic. Most would not.
12 min advertisment for a game, no thanks
Why are you subscribed to an advertisement channel?
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This is genuinely impressive but also a great way to show that games can actually teach you so much
Now I wasn’t expecting this …
Surprise!
I’d love to see this become a series focusing in different cities. Washington DC and New York would be great video ideas
Agreed
A very interesting concept! I really love the idea of using technology to inspire people who would have otherwise never been exposed to this kind of planning.
If this proves a success I would be intrigued to see how this can be scaled up with other similar games, such as Cities Skylines.
Working on the industry has shown me how technology has interwoven with construction, through the use of Lidar to virtually scan rooms, and modeling tools to plan out whole buildings.
These games are another tool in the belt to help engineers accomplish their goals, and helps excite the public about the work they’re doing
I fail to see how this fixes or solves anything. Architects and designers have always had grand visions for cities, but cities are generally developed piecemeal, and run up against constraints like money, time, and community pushback. Only dictatorships or single-party governments have the unilateral power to create entire planned cities from wholecloth.
The best way to reduce traffic is to provide with alternatives and do the best not to incentivize car usage for those who are fully capable of taking the alternative. And often times that involves taking space away from cars to speed up public transportation and light modes that are way more space efficient
Zaha Hadid x Epic Games x The B1M? Weird ahh timeline. I'm here for it. Love it!
Huge honour for us!
London: I didn't ask to be fixed. Lol 😂
Square/rectangular block cities aren't real cities... They're boring, horrible hellscapes.
London and the like have personality, and life.
Grid cities are still ugly :) luckily it's only one reason. It's still funny to listen to people who obviously never played computer games. Interesting that they used the Fortnite Engine for that.
Cities with a grid layout can be beautiful if done right. I usually like a mix of both organic and grid layout. Not too messy but not too boring
When I moved to London as a student, I used The Getaway (and its sequel) to help get the layout of central into my head!
Nice.
Toyota Previa😃
That map is the BEST. So creative!
You are not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.
Excited to see this collaboration, from my favorite channel to my favorite architecture to my favorite game!
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This game has gone from a horde shooter, to a battle royale, and now is a minecraft builder?
Fortnite has everything basically, LEGO. Rocket racing, Play a song from your favorite artist in festival and concert's , fall guys, also Disney.
not minecraft builder, they added the ability to make your own games and host them in fortnite, this happens to be one of them
It reminds me idea to erase Paris and build giant towers by Le Carbuser. I mean who needs history when you can build city with square grid that is filled with traffic jams. Or you can build huge highways like in modern Dubai.
Stop hating on medieval streets. Instead of turning your city in car infested loud hell hole, follow japanese. You won't be needing convenient streets for your car if you have good public transport. And medieval grid can actually persuade people to not infest cities with cars.
Next video: How PacMan solved London's conjestion problem.
Fascinating! In a sense, it's like getting people to do an interactive survey of what they'd like to see. Beats those boring old (and leading) phone calls from the city planning department...
"You get a better score and make happier NPCs by creating areas that are walkable, have a mix of residential and commercial spaces [...]"
Love that this is getting the new generations exposed to urban design and city planning in a really fun way. It's teaching kids that it is THEIR CITY and THEY have the power and ability to make a difference and change it to fit them. A city is not just a static thing that's dealt with by traffic engineers and developers. Helping people learn that they have communal ownership and responsibility and agency over their city is so important for making cities that are built for all of us. Thank you so much for all the work you do B1M!!
I think people here really have communal ownership over an advertising campaign. The game gives all the blocks of an outdoor shopping mall. I thinks that it only offers liberty and imagination in this framework, which is very limited and normalizing.
All sounds good. Will the gamers get rewarded for their time coming up with a solution to a major problem, or do those architectures rake in all the rewards for themselves? Seems a bit unfair if that's the case. You need to incentivise people if you use their ideas and creation.
Controversial oppinion, but I can't stand the Zaha Hadid style. Personally I think it would be a disaster if they redeveloped large segments of London
Not a controversial opinion really I'd say... And I say that as an actual fan of her style. (RIP...) That said, too much of anything isn't a good thing. It's best to mix things up a bit, within reason. :)
The crossover I never expected!
Theses architects finally realized that they neeed to design for people not just for their egos
they realized that they need to supposedly design 'for people' in order to feed their egoes
Great video! Love the history and explanations behind this project. Something similar was done with city skyline but this seems better as its first person 😊
One problem - The way London has developed 'is London'. Density may be ideal, but it likely isn't nor should be used in London.
Perhaps on the outskirts. But 3 storey walk ups next to 200m high towers (existing ones) IS LONDON.
If you want a bigger more dense city - then perhaps choose another city.
First we had child labor in Roblox, and now we have child labor in Fortnite.
0:17 hearing a british person say dollars is so cursed
The word "dollar" ackshually derives from the older coinages daler and taler, which ultimately got their names from the German word "tal" which means valley. This referring to Joachimstal, where silver was mined and used to make said coins.
It would be neat if it was on Oculus so you could walk about it in 3D.
We don.t need grid streets in Europe and certainly not more car efficiency. I actually love how organic radial cities can be and I like when my sense of direction gets confused and I get to discover a new place. This is clearly an advertising campaign for a big building project that is supposedly designed 'by the people', but is another top-down layout of a tasteless, plastic work-consume-sleep all-in-one outdoor shopping mall. It even has all the necessary building blocks!!!
One of the myriad of possible solutions to fix London is to probably mass upzone large sections of it to allow multi-unit dwellings on Single family plots in most areas... Even just soft density like ADU's, granny or basement suites can really make a difference... That and Vancouver-style skyscraper clusters around mass-transit stations... Glad to see London embrace tall towers after decades of hesitancy... When done right they give areas character and landmarks that are easily identifiable.. At their worst? Overpriced glassy slums in the sky...
London has two financial districts. The City of London and Canary Wharf. And now a third financial district is being planned for London. The Royal Albert Dock in London's East End will be transformed into London's third business and financial district. All these developments are good but why can’t developers have the same motivation about solving Britains housing crisis. Only then, will London have the best of all worlds if new developments cater for the poorest communities as much as it caters for the rich, especially all those wealthy foreign investors who buy up all our real estate in London. Sadly, in reality the poorest, indigenous Londoners and Brits are being treated as third class citizens in their homeland and your not allowed to say that without being called a racist.
The blocks are called Vauxhalls? Plopping them in central London is going to confuse the hell out of commuters.
“Voxels”, the 3-dimensional equivalent of pixels.
Do we really need a sight line of St Paul’s cathedral, it just seems like it’s limiting the city
Ikr, even from the officially designated vantage points, you can scarcely see it well: it I tiny from so far away!
I think this is cool for allowing access to an wider audience to city planning, building design etc for people that would otherwise not know about it. It would be interesting to see if this inspires some future engineers!
What this video really did was educate me that London 2000th Birthday is coming up in 2 decades and Im going to try to be there for it.
Very cool. Will definitely spend a lot of time walking around
Would be great if it had more selection of architecture types.
My opinion on the topic before watching the topic.
I think we are on the cusp or even already able to build without the need of any humans, if we wanted to spend the money and time to establish such a system on large.
The future of building, construction and reconstruction lies in digital design, tho every little detail needs to be digital. We will only program and write what should be build and how to rebuild.
This channel brings forth some of the techniques and achievements that will bring us there. I'm sure of it.
Although the idea seems sci-fi, it seems only logic to me, that a lack of construction workers will establish automation and integrated robotics. The elevator company in the last video is one such step.
What meta thought off with their digital universe will just a playground for real world projects and maybe fortnite actually got ahead of them 🤔
... Idea after watching the video, how about Google maps and fortnite team up to establish a digital world we can play with.
I actually thought of animal crossing but I really like this idea.
A Mashup of Pokémon go, and all the other things mentioned.
Don't even think about making pedways a thing again, or parks on top of expectedly private buildings.
Ranked London is crazy
Next video: How Cars/Shops in London get stolen via a special community before GTA 6.
The original T&CP Act was not wrong, it still operates to prevent incompatible uses. Obviously, mixed use is more acceptable now than in 1948 because far more commercial uses are compatible with dwellings. The decline of traditional noisy, polluting industries needing a constant flow of vehicles delivering raw materials and taking away finished products has meant that residents can be totally unaffected, even unaware, of a business operating in a neighbouring property.
This project is an absolute farce. Hardly any Fortnite players overlap with urbanists. Planning a city in an environment where chugjug is a legit concept solves no problems in the real world. Should have made a collab with Cities:Skylines instead.
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Interesting. I think City Skylines 2 would be a better option to see what can be done with London but i think this is fascinating as well.
London revamp is going to be blueprinted by a 13 year old Fortnite kid , about to have a strip club in every residential neighborhood according to the scoring system.
I mean this video is a nice way to introduce the channel to younger audience.
The getaway did this to london a long time ago
Ultimately, I think the idea isn't a total loss. I do question the motive to spend the developer hours/money to make this thing. What is this firm getting out of it? This isn't a public outreach project. When something is "free" on the internet, _you're_ the product. In this case, they're testing their urban planning theory and trying to find players who "solve" for the best dense architecture plan that's also reasonably aesthetic. They'll eventually use the most successful constructs in some real project. Either way, it's still not much more than a glorified computer model.
As soon as you mentioned Fortnite I switched off.
it’s basically a close-up sim city game.
I wasn't expecting this combination of subjects.
I expected a lot…but not this
The miniature of this video looks like the Heroes of Might and Magic 3 castle mod gone wrong
Talking about Paris boulevards in the 17th century is a whopper of an anachronism.
Looks like they've created something even worse than the City Beautiful concept of cities. I love Hadid's buildings AS SCULPTURE but if you ask people about ideal urban experiences they will reference Amsterdam or Barcelona or Tokyo or even Sienna. Egocentric architecture does not make a city better. Only a strong city can even tolerate egocentric monuments.
Well, if a video game in the hands of regular people solved Londons biggest problem, where has all these esteemed multi trillion dollar design firms thinking been??
Likely never where normal people's thinking is.....
Same everywhere else for the past century or so
....and nowhere near concerning themselves with what regular people think
You all live in a chateau in the middle of a field in France somewhere, WE have to actually live, work, sub exists, wear a smile and dress and bathe and look like royalty for you in apartments smaller than your bathrooms in this sh*t....
You people live in a chateau in the middle of a field in France somewhere. WE have to live, work, sub exists where a smile and bathe and dress like royalty for you in apartments smaller than your bathrooms living in this garbage. Oh and did I mentione raising kids, caring for family members.... oh and still having to cook too....
Why not your ideas in Mumbai ?
Or in Berlin ?
Don't touch to London charm!
Stormworks Build and Rescue lol! :D
Get on a bike, get on a train to stop traffic
This smells very suspicious.
Right on. Thanks for sharing.
Yay, destroying old cities with modern crap.
People want traditional architecture, not modernist things that will look dated in a decade or two.
If we ain’t gonna get those Gothic architecture, then that game is not worth it.
these guy never heard of city skylines clearly, fortnight gets some free maps made in the process
Do one on city skylines, that's much more relevant and realistic
I hate modern gaming you pay $700 for a system and it’s digital only so you have to pay for high-speed Internet also and then they can just randomly take away the ability to play your game and he have to download a new version and pay for it all over again
They made this on a computer
London has wasted the opportunity of much of its river frontage redevelopment, accepting the second and third rate. Watching the Olympics opening ceremony, despite the rain, one was reminded of the sheer beauty of much of the Paris river frontage. Sure, there are bad bits but by comparison?
The record over the last forty years in London, when the 'real money' began to come back in the 80s, and look what we chose to put up. I'm talking about the knock-off high rise 'housing' here, not so much the commercial stuff, surprisingly. There are some wonderful bits, mostly refurbs, but as for the rest… I am a fan of the National Theatre and Festival Hall, and Tate, now all clean and shiny again. Despite the shops and restaurants cluttering them up, they are great places to be on a summer evening. But so much of the rest, ouch! Don't even get me started on what they did to our former city hall, the old LCC/GLC building.
At least you can walk along most of the river frontage now, and the river always looks great.
So this looks like a lot of fun.
River is brown mate
I live on the river it looks great from afar and with the right lighting
Instead of "fixing" London, we build a New London version 1.0
Oh, I thought that you were playing City Skylines.
Shoulda done it in Minecraft instead
The denser the cities, the more walk and bike friendly they are for the average person that can get to the grocery store in less then 5 minutes.
What the hell is even wrong with that?, absolutely nothing.
Its very cool to use games like Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox to simulate the real world into new ideas..
Perhaps this could be a new step for architectural development to have more people come up with better ideas instead of arrogant pretentious architects deciding what´s good for us..
I find the idea of a city where you cant drive or get around anywhere outside of a small area to be dystopian.
@@StolasXBThats because you have been socially conditioned to think that way. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be that way. There are plenty of ways you can organize a 15-30 minute city that would allow more freedom of movement. Not everyone wants to be bumper to bumper listening to people yell and honking day in and day out trying to get to and out of work or other local businesses
@@Power_to_the_people567 Socially conditioned? the way yall talk about 5 minute cities makes you sound like cultists.
@@StolasXB Just say you dont know what words means at this point. What a silly response that is
@@Power_to_the_people567 Dipping to insulting huh? Now I know your argument is weak.
The only thing I don't like is the lack of respect for historical city styles that firms like this have. All curves and glass that will stick out like a sore thumb
Wow we got this before GTA 6
Grow up 🙂🙏
You might even lose your virginity before we GTA6... But probably not.
Dude completely deconstructed the meaning of the word photorealistic.
I have not heard of Forthnight before but I will check it out next time I'm in longdon
London imported forever problems. There is no fixing of London.
So it’s a new version of Sims and I’m almost positive. The creators of this game did not make $1 million apiece. This was just to make a better London.
Why is there a shortage of homes?
Such big cities are hellish.
Problem like in London have a lot of old European cities, old narrow streets , were not made for heavy traffic
B1M using London as excuses to play fortnite in their company powerful PC 💀
Ok, let's pretend you've spent enormous amout of the taxpayers' money from all the country and fixed London. You've made it even more convenient and commercially attractive.... thus even more luxurious and expensive. What next?
*1/4* , 3,000,000 people live in poverty in London ?!! 🤯 That's wild.
The guilded age all over again.
So they are farming out creativity to others without paying them for their time. Nice spin on unethical capitalism.
Being in the uk? That problem? How did a game solve that?
Now, we just need Fortnite to not be the biggest download, ever. Seriously, Epic should break it up into separate titles.
Low density is the beauty of London. Population of people = population of trees Don't fix what isn't broken!
You can’t experiment if you’ve already established the rules LOL
"could fix London" what are they gonna do, tear it down and start over?