A car free neighborhood in car-centric Berlin: Möckernkiez 

Why is it so hard to convince Americans that these types of communities should be allowed to exist? I'm not saying everybody should live this way, but allow people the option to live this way.

The Netherlands needs this, seriously!.. Not the bikes, but the car free neighborhood designs. This is amazing!.

“Look how little space that cyclists and pedestrians have to share.” Me, an American: “Man, I would kill for that much space. At least there is a sidewalk with enough room to cycle on.”

These people probably have the best quality of life in the whole city. Cars are a scourge.

Really enjoyed this video! Never knew that Berlin is considered a car-centric city though--as an American, Berlin has always been my idea of a perfect city in regards to transit options!

This place is amazing. How are so many places so awful when they could be this good? What went so horribly wrong almost everywhere else?

This is such a cool story! I've never seen Berlin look this nice and it's incredible to see what people can do when they work together like this.

That looks like a great place to live.

Where this settlement now stands was previously a dilapidated commercial area with little public, what was there on this section with the narrow pedestrian and cycle path were almost cyclists passing through. Normally, even in other sections of this street, the footpaths are wider.

Great! I really like it, I remember when this was all being planned- so cool how it turned out to be.

I am still wondering where the people who do own a car park it. Some commercial garage elsewhere? Is there an underground parking? (I saw the ground floor of the courtyard is a bit higher than the street) Do they just park on the public parking spaces in the area? I love the cooperative financial structure. I know one familiy in Aachen which lives in a similar (thought much much smaller) community, and the athmosphere is wonderfull whenever I visit.

Bro I just was at this place when they filmed

Looooooove it! Thanks

I want to live in a cooperative.

as an american, i live in the bay area so our cities here do have sidewalks and walkable areas unlike most american cities, but even then they are still car-centric, so you still have to be able to drive to be considered a functioning member of society. yes there are pedestrians and people playing on the street here but they aren't very common and you'll mostly see kids and teenagers doing that. i wish we could *at least* have a completely car-free neighborhood like berlin does. i'd love to hang out with more teens my age more often. the only good place to do that in my city is the downtown part so you'll see a lot of people walking and hanging out at night which is nice, but there isn't enough space for tons of people to set up gatherings and be able to socialize with other folk. i consider myself lucky for that, though i wish the whole city were more walkable. oh well

When will we have carfree towns in the Philadelhia, DC metro areas in Philly we dont even have car free blocks yet.....when is my question???

Eli, ich grüße dich und deine Kiez-Nachbar:innen -- freue mich auf meinen nächsten Berlin-Besuch!

I'm glad I found your channel and this video. It was very insightful!

crying in american after finding out berlin is considered car centric

I loved your channel, remembers me of not just bikes, city nerd and City beautiful. I hope it grows a lot

That’s awesome, would be great to get this in the USA. Wonder if they were inspired by Vauban

Forgive me for making such connections, but this type of co-op situation feels vaguely similar to HOAs in the US. The biggest difference, of course, being that everyone in an HOA owns their own private property and only the public spaces are shared. Do co-op comminities set rules on the look and feel of each house, and how do they deal with the types of conflicts that can occur between management and the people living there?

Wow this is such an informative video about such an interesting place thank you so much for making it, its like the comprehensive and slightly exhaustive videos of eco gecko and the stellar presentation of not just bikes combined. Keep it up.

the amount of basedness in this neighborhood is insane

Cool~

bUt cOmMUnIsM

Me who live in Texas seeing Berlin being called "car centric".

Wow nice! Where does anyone have the rest of the story of that project?

This is nice. I have a single family home and across the street there are some very loud neighbors that are just awful. When I see living units like this I wonder if you can hear everything that the neighbors are doing? Are they asked to not be loud or do they have loud parties? If they did this in Miami, I am afraid it would be awful. I am sure that many people would sneak in cars and there would be loud music and maybe drugs everywhere.

Cool

So it’s pretty much an apartment complex without cars

I wish they’d keep it no more than 3 stories high designed for mix use

Hi Craig, sehr schöner Beitrag! Ich habe versucht, Dich (wegen einer anderen Sache) per E-Mail und per Facebook zu erreichen, aber die Mails an PP kamen als unzustellbar zurück und FB benutzt Du ja (wie ich auch) kaum noch. Kann ich Dich irgendwie erreichen?

That road is only 4 lanes and has. wide sidewalks, it's not that bad. It could be 5 lanes and have no sidewalks.

cool Klimaliste Berlin Election Posters

car-centric berlin? i dont even have a drivers license...

Nice idea, but sadly bland and ugly architecture.

Nice, though one thing a lot of people don't realise is that Car infrastructure doesn't have to be run down and ugly like at the start of the video, large, high-capacity roads with wide and good-quality walking and cycling paths are a thing. Demonising one form of transport over another isn't the solution - we need a balance of options: walking, cycling, driving and public transport, making people spread out across options rather than forcing them to use one or the other

Street-facing shops aren't a "strip mall" lol.

Germans are so intense.

Now do winter.

Without cars you will be timetable dependant and restricted to public transport's departure and arrival locations

the new puritans,!