The Life-Sized City is the first global #documentary series about urbanism, hosted by urban designer and author, Mikael Colville-Andersen. It is broadcast in over 25 countries. All three seasons are available here: www.tvo.org/programs/the-life-sized-city Use your #vpn and place yourself in Canada to watch them. Season 4 is out in 2023.
Mikael Colville-Andersen is an urban designer, author and TV host. He has worked in over 100 cities around the world - designing bicycle-infrastructure and working in many other aspects of urban design. He gives keynotes at conferences about #urbanism , #design , #designthinking , #architecture , #lifesizedcity , #sustainability - you name it.
The YT channel is a fun addendum to the actual series where Mikael uploads a plethora of urbanism-related content. He freestyles the content about #cities , urbanism, #cityplanning - all in order to inspire urban change.
Three years later, I'm here to report that they remodeled that intersection, got rid of the underpasses, made the cyclelanes, but kept the parking lane and did not do BUS lanes although it's the busiest street of the city for buses.
Everything in Japan have a reason for being, when I was there I saw things that didn't make sense TO ME but once I asked why? They always had a logical explanation that I had never thought of. We have the habit of judging without first knowing and asking. This is Japan, a country that on the outside doesn't make much sense but on the inside it works and has always a purpose.
But saying "Tokyo has a population of 38 million" together with a map of Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolis) is really misleading if not misinforming. 38 million is the population of Greater Tokyo Area, which includes six more prefectures in addition to Tokyo. Tokyo itself, the area shown in the map, has no more than 12.5 million people living in it.
Yes but they are all one big connected urban mass. The somewhat arbitrary line of where the prefecture of Tokyo begins and ends ignores the gargantuan scale of the metro area as a whole
4th generation Torontonian and it is a great city. I believe our identity is a great multi-cultural city. We call them streetcars not trams. My mother used to call the subway the streetcar as it is and was such a part of our city.
His neighborhood formed naturally, by the people who moved there. It happened gradually. The 15- minute city as conceived by the globalists is a bunch of bureaucrats sitting in their little cubicles PLANNING how we will live our lives from the time we open our eyes in the morning until we go to sleep. I lived in the most "diverse" neighborhood in L.A. It happened naturally. But the bureaucrat-planned "affordable housing" projects would be filled by people of various ethnic groups in a way so as to conform to "their" ideas of "diversity".
This video was filmed in 2019 today Tel Aviv is much more modern with dozens of new skycrapers and all the streets are innovated and light rail is running from Petach Tikva,Bnei Brak,Ramat Gan,Tel Aviv,Bat yam..🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
Tel Aviv never was only problems 😆 I've been living here since 2010.. Like.. they show this parking lot , yeah it's awful, but it's also right across the street from one of the biggest green areas in TLV (Charles Clore).. So IDK what did I just watch 😄
First few times in Japan I could not stand Tokyo, could never get a handle on it. Then I was advised by a few of my Japanese relatives to only consider Tokyo to be just what is with in the Yamanote, and what you could comfortably walk to from the Yamanote stations... everything else is just other cities that happen to border on Tokyo - and administrative wise this is not far from the truth even though that "personal map" of Tokyo doesn't line up with the official borders. Since working on that theory I learnt to love the city
If that's what you want...have at it. The problem is, the supporters of this always want to foist this on the rest of us. As for me I prefer to live 30 miles outside of a major Northeastern city....in my smallish, single family home on my half acre, in my low density historic town. Enjoy your conformity.
The Life-Sized Genocide, huh? "Cultural divide" lmao. You should do a video from Rafah, to see how the Israelis are working "to create a better city". I'm sure you believe that you're against apartheid, but releasing this video is really just pro-settler colonialism propaganda. Great stuff!
"Shops and restaurants are usually open 24 hours a day." Uh, no they're not. Most restaurants and shops keep normal business hours--heck, the department stores don't even open until 11 a.m. in many cases. A few chain restaurants (beef bowl places, the so-called "family restaurant" coffee shops) are open around the clock. More surprisingly, the massive network of subways and trains mostly stop running by midnight--ostensibly one reason those networks run so well and are kept so clean.
Wow!!! I was born in Toronto, but have lived in South Fl for 30 years. This is so inspiring and I can’t wait to visit and hopefully witness some of these initiatives this summer! Thank you!!🙌
You don't want to come back here. Tons of shootings, crimes like carjackings and brazen daylight shootings and car thefts, random street attacks, homelessness, it's a very expensive city and a little too diverse for my liking.....wink....wink.. Do I live here? Yes. Do I love this city? Naw. Imma movin outa here.
I wonder if the 'smooth cobbles' are actually original cobblestones that have simply lifted, had a new surface cut and then re-laid insitu. That is the process the Council I used to work for used (when we could afford it because it was bloody expensive), but we generally only had the bluestone pavers in the gutters and on the road edge, not across the entire road surface.
