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@TheDavidLiou 9 лет назад

The problem is lands outside the city is cheaper. Those who are not rich have to live outside the city, but travel to the city to work.

@victormn47 9 лет назад

Liou David The reason they have to live outside the city, is because the supply for urban dwellings doesn't meet the demand. People haven't realised that people want an urban life, so the prices go up and gentrification happens. They need to make more urban dwellings in suburban areas.

@RexGalilae 9 лет назад

Nothing more ironic than somone named ***** calling another guy a faget =D

@Leotique 8 лет назад

+Liou David here in my country (switzerland) the country side/ lands outside are more expensive. In the cities, houses are also expensive but most of us are living in a smaller tiny house or apartment. the rich people can build a big house out side on the land where they have enough space to build there big houses. sorry for my english.

@eyeees3923 8 лет назад

+Official Leotique. where i live (u.s.) prime exampe of this video resides. microsoft main campus is here so native people who lived in the cities are getting pushed further and further into surrounding town and suburbs because city grows bigger, fancier and just more expensive. though i wish i lived somewhere more swiss like

@taoliu3949 8 лет назад

+Victor Nielsen That's not necessarily true. Prior to the suburban booms in the 50s and 60s most of U.S. population lived in cities. The suburban booms flipped the status quo and now most people live in the suburbs whilst inner cities deteriorated and many cities still suffer from underpopulation. Buffalo, New York's second largest city has lost half of its population since the 60s. Suburban flight was not made possible due to cheap land, but the ease of transportation and living due to subsidised highways and services.

@sosa2mars 9 лет назад

The main problem is that they have 2 godzillas living in their city

@aaliyahfrancis7205 8 лет назад

+kenneth sosa haha

@Stone_624 8 лет назад

(The Godzillas represent Suburban demolishment of the efficiency of the dense urban city cores)

@sethbishop269 8 лет назад

I know their is two Godzilla's in the city and their is only so post to be one Godzilla why is their is their two Godzilla's it makes no sense.

@MusicLover-jq3bz 6 лет назад

And how we are gonna get 2 Godzilla

@lpsamberly360 6 лет назад

Alpha Raptorhunter there are actually three and a mom that killed her children

@EnergyKnife 8 лет назад

The big question is: why did godzilla get a diploma? What was it in? How did he have the time to go to classes (and pay for them) when he was destroying Japan? Many questions, no answers

@iwasntsmartenoughtothinkof7579 8 лет назад

They have a godzilla secret society, they get educated to destroy cities. I don't know how much of these leaders have trained new godzillas, but they can strike anytime.

@flyingspacebrainedidiot 5 лет назад

No, he got a diploma for the subject of destroying Japan. It was free, because it didn't exist.

@radiantsquare007jrdeluxe9 5 лет назад

Godzilla had the time because he had good time management skills! duhhhhhhh lol

@xX_wiLLiam_Xx 5 лет назад

69 likes Nice

@hassanyousef3657 5 лет назад

actully someone was paying him to do this

@eloujtimereaver4504 9 лет назад

Ideal human settlement: big dense city, with wilderness within 5 miles. I have been to a city like that before, it was amazing. It completely negated the stress issues you hear people complaining about.

@MonstrotousM666 9 лет назад

What was the name of the city?

@eloujtimereaver4504 9 лет назад

Taipei.

@Mr-DNA_ Год назад

You can have the same thing with gardens in the suburbs and with parks in middle to high density areas.

@eloujtimereaver4504 Год назад

@@Mr-DNA_ Suburbs are inherently isolating, it is not just access to a small segment of green stuff people need, but access to both untamed nature, and access to the amenities of a dense urban environment.

@Mr-DNA_ Год назад

@@eloujtimereaver4504 That's simply a false assumption. If you look at new-urbanism communities in places like Florida, you'll see that they are designed to be combining the best of suburbs and high-density areas. In the middle you have a mixed-use middle-density core with focus on pedestrians with plazas and parks, while there's single family houses around the core within walking distance.

@ShadowDrakken 10 лет назад

Yeah, how about talk about the negative aspects of big city living. Increased stress and stress related illness, increased violence, increased mental and social health issues. This video is so one-sidedly broken and wrong.

@rohanmicklethwaite7173 10 лет назад

He was talking from a economic standpoint, not a socioeconomic or social standpoint.

@ShadowDrakken 10 лет назад

It's not a better city if it's worse for the people, sorry.

@Novenae_CCG 10 лет назад

Do you have any reseach to back that up? I imagine the increased violence is simply a result of there being more people. Suburbs wouldn't then be _less_ violent - it would just be more spread apart. I don't actually know, though. I don't have the research. And where does the stress come from? If it's about a busy job, then it doesn't matter where you live. If it's the amount of people surrounding you, then you might be antisocial, or something? If it's the consistent sounds, then I can imagine that sucks for some people, but others don't care either way. I'm sure one group could help the other. Mental and social health issues? Now I don't even know where you might be coming from. _Physical_ health I'd understand, because there's more tightly packed infrastructure. However, some of the real big cities are aiming towards a cleaner future. Anyway, I'm not trying to debunk what oyu just said, but I have to remain skeptical.

@ShadowDrakken 10 лет назад

Powerpuff God Dnews (I think it was them, I watch several Rev3 and other science channels) did an episode on it. Urban suffer from stress and mental illness, rural suffer from a (comparative) lack of accessible medical care

@MyChevySonic 10 лет назад

He speaks like there's no stress related to living in the burbs. Must be a nice bubble to live in. My experience with living in a small town near Princeton is usually filled with stress.There's the stress of commute (because there ain't shit for work in small towns), and higher cost of living (extreme stress).

@meghandenny6922 8 лет назад

Cities are also chock full of Pokestops

@bouchandre 8 лет назад

that's important

@markjosephcueto2883 8 лет назад

Don't forget gyms and rare Pokemon nests.

@paulmag91 7 лет назад

And that's why cities are better. :)

@azelfdaboi5265 7 лет назад

Sean Denny hahahaha lol

@therapistbeau8427 7 лет назад

Sean Denny yes definitely

@akpsyche1299 7 лет назад

I'm content living in the suburbs except for one major problem: lawns. I don't know why my parents have to have a lawn, and why I have to mow it. It's a waste of gasoline for the lawnmower and a waste of space that could be used for something else. You could easily replace it with a vegetable garden, or even with native plants.

@moriadine2517 7 лет назад

Psycho Wolf It's a status symbol originating from the ancient past, when you were seen as rich if you could afford to not turn every inch of your land into farming so you don't starve come winter. Might as well as why sports cars, jewelry or designer apparels are so expensive. But yes, I agree, I like edible plants better.

@brendalugaresi5410 3 года назад

Lawns, trees, and other plants help regulate water (ie helps prevent flooding by absorbing rainfall) and regulate heat (they create a cooling effect as opposed to cement and asphalt which absorb and then radiate the heat from the sun.) Having soil cultivated by plants also adds oxygen to the air and filters out other pollutants, and helps keep wildlife diverse which is also highly beneficial for the environment.

@Ginger198 3 года назад

@@brendalugaresi5410 however it's not always suitable for certain climate which is often ignored in urban cities, therefore using unnecessary amount of water and energy to maintain

@sunakujira 9 лет назад

Just my opinion, but the mixture of nature and dense buildings (dirty and clean) that are in Hong Kong are amazing. I bet most of you will disagree with me, especially the ones who haven't tried looking for nature in Hong Kong, but there are literally several hiking trails that you can go for a hike within an hour of public transit from city cores.

@briandublidi4708 Год назад

aren't household prices expensive? I've heard many vids on how small the apparentments can be and how expensive, but I'd love to hear from someone who has actually lived there (assuming you have)

@max.lw. 8 лет назад

I live in a apartment with plants on the balcony and friendly neighbours.

@hidirbi 3 года назад

nice

@sajeucettefoistunevaspasme 3 года назад

Neighbours

@Oversail 3 года назад

@@sajeucettefoistunevaspasme umm that’s what he said and it’s not edited

@sajeucettefoistunevaspasme 3 года назад

@@Oversail yeah I was stupid

@mienzillaz 3 года назад

Who keeps their neighbors on balcony????

@rafalpotasz 8 лет назад

The correct name for this video would be 'How to make an efficient' city. Which is great and all.

@rodneyboehner3007 3 года назад

Very naive. The reason most professionals move away from the big cities into suburbs is because urban centers are completely unliveable with riots, social unrest, crime, homelessness, third-world infectious diseases we haven't seen since medieval times, human filth, rampant drug use, violent crime, gangs, etc. thanks to Democucks who can't govern and run these cities into the ground. The terms "efficient" and "urban center" are completely opposite of one another.

@Zander10102 3 года назад

Yeah man I'd hate to live in an urban core

@jameskohls1168 10 лет назад

The thing is, Not everyone wants to live in skyscrapers, some people like their own houses and space without their upstairs neighbors throwing a party

@KaosFireMaker 10 лет назад

So having nextdoor neighbors throwing a party is fine?

@jameskohls1168 9 лет назад

well its better that the downstairs neighbors throwing a party

@SirGeorge8600 9 лет назад

KaosFireMaker Not if you live in a shitty suburb. My neighbor is at least 150 feet away from me, I barely hear him when he's mowing his lawn.

@MonstrotousM666 9 лет назад

James Kohls 2 walls with insulation seperated by 40 -100 feet > 1 crappy wall with little insulation. Lrn2think bruh

@swunt10 9 лет назад

in what european city do people live in skyscrapers? if you don't want to live in a city. move to the country side and stay out of the city. but suburbia is "city". even though it doesn't look like it.

@chaincat33 8 лет назад

we're looking at the big picture without investigating the details. Not everyone wants to live in a cluttered urban area, some people enjoy having a disconneted area where they don't have to worry about noise from neighbors and passing cars quite as much, and can be a bit louder without disturbing their neighbors.

@acenz1366 8 лет назад

Don't work in a cluttered urban area then?

@chaincat33 8 лет назад

+Ace NZ the video is saying cluttered cities are better.

@banban8481 8 лет назад

+Dritto1010 but more efficient and effective.

@chaincat33 8 лет назад

***** The problem is, your happiness and feelings are directly proportional to your efficiency as a worker and as a human being. Also, cluttered urban regions are pretty infamous for poor quality of life and really polluted air.

@diegosanchez894 8 лет назад

+chaincat33 in the world we live in, not everyone can live in a house with two levels and a garden. The air pollution can be countered by banning cars and using public transportation. Also, "poor quality of life" is quite a stretch, I have no idea what people have against living in a building, they're great! Poor quality of life is living in the slums, not in an apartment with water, electricity, Internet, and sometime even common areas like a pool or a gym. I lived in NYC for 2 years, uptown east. My building had a pool, a gym, and a balcony/sundeck. I went to school by subway. If that is poor quality of life I do not know how you live!

@BadMadChicken 10 лет назад

But how does the crowded, living crampt and so on effect the mind?

@BadMadChicken 10 лет назад

i ment constantly walking in over crowded streets, hearing your neighbors and trafic, the exaust fumes from cars and what not. i would not mind living in one of those porteble room sized houses. just constantly having to grind asses and shulders with smelly people and so on so forth.

@BadMadChicken 10 лет назад

***** To me, the bigger the city, the more assholes the population becomes, i think its called big city syndrome. the general stress of comuting and so on.

@sokolov22 10 лет назад

BadMadChicken I was born in Hong Kong and now live in the US. I very much miss the hustle and bustle of the city. It's super convenient to go places due to the abundance of public transportation and close proximity to nearly all required services. So everyone walks a lot more, and has more time to be neighborly, because you aren't spending a good chunk of your day sitting in your car travelling. That said, most cities in the US I have been to don't meet this expectation for me, mostly because they aren't as well designed for pedestrian travel and public spaces with many "cities" being largely dense business urban cores surrounded by suburbs, rather than a mix of residential and business (as the video discusses).

@MountainBlade100 10 лет назад

Well you start caring less for people when someone is injured , you don't have that much empathy , just because someone is hurt every day on the streets you walk by . Even thought you are surrounded by people you loose social interaction . The pollution and everything else that could give a health issue to you . The lack of nature , and the overpopulation of shades of gray . Right people ?????????

@iMovingTarget3 10 лет назад

"cheap gas"? Where are you living MinuteEarth?

@renewu3250 10 лет назад

Taiwan's gas is pretty cheap. About 1/4 of the price of Americas.

@SuperExodian 10 лет назад

***** i laughed harder than i probually should've from that comment. you sir, made my day

@behemothokun 10 лет назад

he probably lives in north america where gas prices are cheap.

@HIRVIism 10 лет назад

Gas in the USA is really fucking cheap.

@guiltyguildleader 10 лет назад

HIRVIism Comparison: Current Average gas price in €/L for Super Unleaded: US: 0,7 Germany: 1,6 Jup, its quite cheap. Edit: Fixed price, i shouldnt type before my first coffee.

@kateapples1411 8 лет назад

Is it more effort to build a large building downwards, into the ground, than to build it high into the sky? It'd be interesting to see an inverted city where the surface was reserved for roads and residential housing, if anything.

@jakehix8132 8 лет назад

+Kate Clementine I like this... til I move into a place with a 24hr nightclub below me :

@JonasHamill 8 лет назад

+Kate Clementine and never have any sunlight? that would be quite literally depressing due to the vitamin d deficiency you'd acquire. You'd also use up more energy permanently lighting up the place.

@bzsgzs 8 лет назад

+Jonas Hamill yeah good point. Both Kate and Jonas. I remember checking an underground rental place without windows and it was horrible. The moist air from bath, toilet, and clothes drying areas permeated the entire floor. That's the moment when I realized how important ventilation is.

@tylermcguire2652 8 лет назад

+Jonas Hamill we have pills for that, and most places have their lights on all of the time anyways. we could just build more conservative lighting

@roshanpaul1184 8 лет назад

+Kate Clementine There're already doing that in japan. But I also think that besides being super difficult,nderground construction can weaken the soil. They've gotta fix that before they move on to the future.

@marsbolcan9311 7 лет назад

I wouldn't want to live in a city. I like having my space, less noise, nature, lower crime and disease rates, along with the things I can do around my home, that I can't in a city.

@undead890 7 лет назад

On average, suburban and country cities/towns have more crime per capita than major cities.

@marsbolcan9311 7 лет назад

Well that's not the case where I live. Crime rates are higher in urban areas here

@marsbolcan9311 7 лет назад

undead890 I actually decided to research it myself after you said that, and I only looked at North America, so maybe it's a different story on other continents but Crime Rates are higher in cities. There are actually studies that try to come up with an answer to why this is the case. Rural and Suburbs have lower rime rates in reality, especially when it comes to violent crime. Also Coincidentally I've had an armed robbery experience, and it was in the city, so from facts, to my own experience cities just aren't as safe

@undead890 7 лет назад

RedMrex It's times like this I wish I would remember to bookmark certain news articles. I remember an article I saw in the Sacramento Bee, a major newspaper in Sacramento and the surrounding areas where I live, that they mentioned a couple studies that showed that living in a city was technically safer, in general, than smaller town. They then did a comparison to the really small country towns in the Sierra Nevada mountains to the unofficial (but everyone knows it pretty much is) murder capital of California at the time, Stockton. They figured that the murder rate of Stockton was in the vicinity of .015% of the city population, whereas when they brought the statistics for a few really small towns in the mountains and all of them had murder rates that were like .2%-.5%, up to 30x higher than Stockton, mainly because one murder in a town of like 100-200 is much more significant that the 50 murders in a city of over 300,000 people, which was the official recorded count for Stockton (Note, other major cities had more actual murders than Stockton, but they had much higher populations as well to balance it out). The same trends for murder were then extrapolated for things like burglary, armed robbery, etc.

@marsbolcan9311 7 лет назад

again, as I said. From everything I've seen, the crime rates in cities, especially violent crime are generally higher. There's a reason parents qre more likely to let they're children wander around in rural towns vs urban cities

@TheLazyKey 9 лет назад

This sounds good on the surface. However, I know that for me at least, if I don't get at least an hour a week of complete silence and solitude, my stress levels rise siginificantly. This usually leads to anxiety issues, resulting in a loss of sleep, grumpy moods, and mental breakdowns. Again, that's just me. But, I'm willing to bet that there's plenty more introverts out there like me who'd share a similar perspective.

@ADdamM93 10 лет назад

I'm an architect and you've just summarised my entire design philosophy/outlook on cities in two minutes!

@JeffManseau 8 лет назад

Fact of the matter is cities develop this way because many people can't stand to live tightly packed in a city so while it is mathematically true that it would be more efficient, I can't see it being humanly true or even feasable. Personnally I would rather DIE than live in an appartment downtown.

@Silkendrum 8 лет назад

+francesseven Especially if the apartment is on the 25th floor, and the elevators keep breaking, or the power goes out - ever.

@Cloudruler_ 8 лет назад

Uncontrolled suburban sprawl is horribly wasteful when it comes to usage efficiency. We can maintain suburban style housing without the nastiness of sardine living if we worked on our infrastructure/transport

@lobaxx 6 лет назад

Fact is that will likely die sooner because of it, commuting long distances is one of the most unhealthy things you can do. It increases levels of stress, adds to a sedentary lifestyle and hours of your day are just wasted getting from point A to point B which decreases life satisfaction.

@avarixe1932 6 лет назад

Who the fuck wants houses?

@onlycorner5565 5 лет назад

America suck their culture with their mothers milk.unimaginable to live like Frenchman in paris

@MissyMona 8 лет назад

Right, when the people next door have screaming children, the apartments have bedbugs and the jobs go quicker then you can apply you might think twice about living in a dense city. Just because cities have some benefits doesn't mean it has a lot.

@paulmahoney7619 8 лет назад

Soundproofing.

@3ly3lawy 8 лет назад

money

@adamweishaupt3733 7 лет назад

Resources are limited, that's the main problem. The pros of city life are mainly useful for propaganda.

@CadetGriffin 7 лет назад

What is smg4?

@lunavarion 9 лет назад

I personally like this idea. Now let's see if you can come up with a city like this blended with abundant nature and nature-meshing technology--a perfect blend of city and nature.

@ACoroa 7 лет назад

The social problems associated with living in an inner city are an issue. Also, living downtown is much more expensive than in the suburbs. Driving a bit longer is a small price to pay (at an individual level) for peace of mind when it comes to finances and safety.

@Aiasmor 3 года назад

@Sean Bennington sounds like communism to me

@gatyissafeaswellblep9608 2 года назад

Seeing more greenery is also quite nice

@chriscain2468 Год назад

Why not create a path where the city and the suburbs can run parallel with each other.

@S4R1N 8 лет назад

If we could have affordable inner city housing with small living spaces and thick sound-proofed walls and windows, I would be incredibly happy to live in one of those places. But the reality is, they're prohibitively expensive for even the most shitty, hollow walled, noisy neighbored apartment.

@C4Fuu 8 лет назад

To be honest, it also depends on the public service too For example, my city (Jakarta) is highly dense with people and they are rarely any suburban areas around the cities Traffic jam is all time high even though my country is already include in the top 3 places expensive to buy a car and gasoline (according to Jalopnik, and it's true, $40,000 for a single mini van? damn. Even Japan is not that expensive) A lot of people usually make houses near a river (making the water dirty and forced us to buy bottled water rather tap water) and other dangerous places that can either kill them or other people too, This is because they are less place to be build houses and the a lot of the people also couldn't afford apartments since their prices are too high Poverty is all time high since there's a lot of corrupted government using people's money for their own advantage Lack of public service maintenance making public transportation, parks, other place less desirable to take a ride or go to More places to be build mall and expensive apartments rather homes, cheap apartments, or maybe places for work That reminds me, Work place is scarce, people have more chance to be poor and homeless, rather having a house and have meals at their houses TL;DR Basically Jakarta is like New York, you think the place is great to change your life to the better, but the fact is that it only worsen you To have a better city, you not only need to build buildings upward, but also the care for public service and organizing the people for a better life P.S. If you want to go the big city, think first. What can you do in a big city? and what job can you get from that city? If you don't qualify to do anything in the city, then might as well live in your hometown and be happy rather than in a city but feels miserable The city life is tough, there is no such thing as an easy life

@ananasupreme 8 лет назад

The problem with this is that we have to consider the following factors: Bedrock quality, soil quality, weather patterns and other factors. For instance, in the state of Florida most homes are not allowed to be built with a basement because the soil is not soil, it's sand. As lush as the place looks, Florida is a terraformed chunk of sand. Areas like the Tornado alley are always going to be facing disaster and there is no point in attempting to build massive structures because it will cost more to repair than to build. And then we have areas where the bedrock isn't ideal and there has to be a height limit to avoid it to crack. Even though some have been very idiotic to build where disaster will occur [Such as Tokyo and New Orleans] it doesn't mean we should do it too. We would have to find somewhere that the conditions are somewhat ideal as to reduce the cost of maintenance in the case of disaster and keep everyone safe.

@heart0fthedrag0n 10 лет назад

I actually like living in the suburbs and I never thought about it, that I could be using more resources then if I lived in a cramped apartment(and believe me, I am very self-conscious about that my environmental footprint). I can't say that I will move in an apartment in the city center, but I do try to use public transport/bike almost exclusively and I try to minimize the power that I use in my house (like, for example, using solar panels for water heating and not heating up the whole house when I don't need to). I think living in the suburbs has some positive effects too. Being close to nature allows you to appreciate it more, and by that, try to be more friendly to the environment. Living in a quiet and greener area also greatly reduces stress in people in general (speaking from personal experience) . Although I do think that suburbs have to be very carefully planned, in order to be more resource efficient and environmentally friendly, I think that they could be a good and healthy alternative to living in big metropolises.

@LivvieLynn 7 лет назад

Love the city. Hate living in the city. Life is stressful enough as it is. :(

@FranciscoSilva84 10 лет назад

I agree that cities are not well organized but this is not a solution. without going too far firefighters from all countries agree that any building that has over 7 floors, it is very difficult to save people or extinguish the fire, and raise the price of fuel, several countries in Europe have tried or even as payment systems to enter some areas with private transport. to enhance the public transport and pollute less, eg London, but studies show that people still pay more or than public transport pollute equally or more because of the increase in users

@FranciscoSilva84 10 лет назад

iamihop sorry I am European and for my work I have been several times in varis countries in Europe, and I agree that the price of gasoline is higher than in USA, but europe do not buy small cars because they save gasoline is more like an extra, cars are bought small because cities do not have enough parking and are very narrow, You have to keep in mind most cars in Europe are diesel giving over 500 miles per tank this has been so for several decades is no new.and cities like London, Madrid and Rome having proximity meter and even high-speed trains connect cities and towns That That has come to be three hours away by car in just 45 minutes and the pollution of These cities is huge, So still do not agree with this solution, you have to go first to live in such cities the only one that comes close is New york start thinking there o.k.

@FranciscoSilva84 10 лет назад

iamihop you are very happy it is under a 100 And also 200 is normal Has you live in Europe or visit?

@DoodieSmoothie 10 лет назад

Francisco Silva 200 is normal? That was a little too much. My mother drives 2 km to get to work, and my step-dad needs to drive about 50 km to get to work.

@FranciscoSilva84 10 лет назад

***** in what city do you live becose in London, Rome Madrid Barcelona Milan Munich Berlin Paris most of the person thas and that is my point the big citys

@DoodieSmoothie 10 лет назад

I live in Norway, Steinkjer.

@a-bird-lover 7 лет назад

My dream is to live in a high up, small apartment with lots of birds and a small balcony instead of an expensive house where I don't use anything except the coffee maker and the bed.

@SCIFIguy64 7 лет назад

Until you have kids and suddenly need 3 or 4 bedrooms, a kitchen, personal laundry machines, and room to breathe without getting on each other's nerves.

@a-bird-lover 7 лет назад

Joseph Stassup I hate children. My babies will be my birdies.

@SCIFIguy64 7 лет назад

A Bird Lover So a depressing apartment block seems perfect for you then.

@a-bird-lover 7 лет назад

Joseph Stassup It may be depressing to you, but you aren't me. So to me, it doesn't seem depressing at all.

@SCIFIguy64 7 лет назад

A Bird Lover It's subjective, then.

@sinephase 10 лет назад

Sprawl could also be explained by the fact you can have a house and yard at the same cost of having basically an apartment in the city.

@NTclaymore 3 года назад

MinuteEarth: Live closer to other people! Me who survived the horror that was 2020: Nooo!

@04phanthanhbinhjake9 Год назад

To be honest no matter where you live its gonna be the smae due to how far this damn thing spread

@darthmaul216 2 месяца назад

The spread of Covid was lower in cities bud

@sumaiyazaman8126 8 лет назад

When the ad at the beginning is longer than the actual video.

@isgdre 10 лет назад

sprawl or tall is a false dichotomy.

@Ancor3 10 лет назад

*Minute* Earth, don't expect a elaborate explanation.

@lollertoaster 10 лет назад

What are the other options? making new cities is the same as sprawl and going underground is damn expensive.

@isgdre 10 лет назад

***** Well, Lots. But if you think underground is not an option because when it's only a money problem. Then good luck changing peoples base personalities in order to make tall the best option for eveyone.

@lollertoaster 10 лет назад

isgdre Yeah, but to make tall you need legislations, not money. And what are those lots, I'm genuinely curious?

@isgdre 10 лет назад

***** Ok, Well, Sprawl and Tall don't even measure the same thing. What would you call a city with only tall building that are far apart from each other? What he was getting at is normally measured in population density. Which is not a you have it or you don't. It's more of a sliding scale. In the video he also heavy implies that tall is better. It is of course is only better from a resource per capita point of view an is therefor almost useless. Agreed that it's not totally useless, but almost. On the other hand higher densities are better at spreading diseases and death and that will address the root problem. i.e. Population control. But I don't think that's what he was referring too.

@Mefous2 10 лет назад

Are you saying high gas prices are a good thing?

@rohanmicklethwaite7173 10 лет назад

Reduced pollution, less overall tax, public transport more effectively used. Sounds pretty good to me!

@doubeld.7536 10 лет назад

Maybe not for your wallet but certainly for the environment.

@dshcfh 10 лет назад

No. People could just as easily be forced to get a second job and have to drive around more. :[ Nobody know what the effects would be, I hate it when people back things up that could easily backfire. Raising gas prices to get people to take the bus seems as stupid as slapping them all on the wrist as they drive into the gas station.

@ShawnRavenfire 10 лет назад

I've been saying this for years. These zoning laws in the suburbs put industrial parks way far away from residential areas. I remember several years ago, when I was living in the sticks and car broke down. Everyone online kept telling me to walk to work or take public transportation, and I had to explain that it would be physically impossible to get to work without a car, because 1) the roads go along the mountains where I'd have to be standing in the path of traffic, and in several places, crossing dangerous intersections with "no pedestrian" signs, 2) even at a full run, the trip would have taken me over twenty-four hours, which meant that I'd need two extra days between work shifts, and 3) there is NO public transportation in areas like these, except for taxi services, which would cost more than a day's wages to get to work each day anyway.

@oafkad 10 лет назад

I hope this doesn't become the case in my lifetime. I'd rather we become more efficient with our power, transport, and resource usage rather than get shoveled into LA. I work here but I'd never ever want to live here. Santa Clarita is a nice quiet place where I can relax. LA never stops being noisy. Very unpleasant if you aren't an outgoing social person.

@oafkad 10 лет назад

iamihop To put it in the words of someone else who works here. "I love how it is so smelly and dirty here. Everyone is packed in tightly and it feels really claustrophobic! It reminds me a lot of home!" Her home being somewhere in India. Just what she finds lovely I find rather not. To each their own I suppose. Khris D. Inconveniencing yourself (or demanding others do so) because of personal laziness is not really a virtue. It's also a short term fix that really only benefits the people who are profiting off of that laziness. They get to keep monopolizing dirty energy systems, selling fairly crappy cars, and the likes. There is nothing inherently destructive about the system. Only the current itineration of it. I think people should do their part to improve efficiency, not because it is easy, but because it is hard. I think someone said that about something else a while back. [For instance I'll be leaving the gas powered car industry by the end of this year. Sure the power for now is coming from dirty sources but it doesn't NEED to. However a gas car, by contrast, will always be dirty. Sure you could ask people to drive less, or live closer, etc. But they'd still be polluting, changing it so that they aren't polluting regardless of lifestyle is the proper and most future conscious solution. The mass transit that is running around here has started switching to electric as well apparently. Saw one a few days back.]

@fullerstudent 10 лет назад

I think you touched on something very important that needs to be added to this discussion, the psychology of population density. We have all sorts of research on Zoo animals and what captivity and over-density does to psychologically. I struggle with anxiety and one of the best things I've done for my emotional health was to move from the OC to rural WA on the Canadian border. I mean, look at the crime in cities, particularly organized crime whether mafia or street gangs. Density is packed with problems.

@CLeach13 10 лет назад

iamihop the noise, the traffic, the cramped conditions, the insanely high rent, the smog in the air, the trash lined streets, after living there a month I never wanted to go back.

@oafkad 10 лет назад

Khris D. "Well, if only more people moved to the city, prices wouldn't have to be so high to break even" So all you need to do is convince thousands of people to all move at once and convince renters to lower the prices at the same time. Seems simple! :D I feel silly for just thinking we could improve standards and make it not a problem. This is why I also suggest everyone turn off everything in their home instead of demanding better sources of energy from their governments. I mean...why improve when you can just inconvenience yourself? So much easier and you don't need to write anyone or lobby anything :3. I like this plan, lets do this!

@oafkad 10 лет назад

Khris D. If it weren't immediate you could get the same results just by improving power sources (which creates jobs as well) and other efficiency systems. In human history we could have always said "Let's just not expand because that would require work." but in the end that expansion is why you have the internet to be concerned about expansion. Humans are destroying the environment because they want the quick easy solution. I'm suggesting that's not the correct solution. There is no reason our power consumption and travel should be polluting the planet. There is certainly no reason cars should still be running on fossil fuels after a century (outside of it being quick, easy, and profitable). Moving away from factory farms to either eating insects or some kind of lab grown flesh (which does sound weird but I'm open to new things if they work). Stuff like that. Our problems are in many ways a matter of business and that it runs very dirty when left to its own devices.

@deXXXXter2 9 лет назад

As an urbanist II'm shocked by the stupidity of some of the comments here. This video is very smart, I expected some bullshit like solar panels and other stuff, but the absolute biggest problem of todays cities is urban sprawl. Takes a lot of space and uses huuuge amount of enegry. Even if building is efficient, you still got to get to work using your car. Your administraction still got to provide inefficient media. Compact cities have efficient, ecological public transportation, do not waste space, which means leaving it for nature, and are full of life. 'If you love nature, stay away from it': www.lifeedited.com/if-you-love-nature-stay-away-from-it-agree/ And dispite what some people here say you can build friendly, compact city. Look at Europe. Even America can - cities like Portland or Boston are reasonably compact and friendly.

@deXXXXter2 9 лет назад

***** Asia (southeast Asia mostly) is greatly overpopulated. If you'd like to be as extensive in suburbanisation as american cities you wouldn't have any forests or crops... Just sain'...

@sk8erboi66ericko 9 лет назад

deXter2 "...some bullshit like solar panels and other stuff"... wow, just wow...

@deXXXXter2 9 лет назад

sk8erboi66ericko Stop wowing if you don't know shit about solar panels. In future they may be sustainable, but for now this has to be considered as one of the developing technoligies. Their importance is minimal. And in any case, they may make things even worse for the cities with problems like congestion and space (upside is better air quality).

@sk8erboi66ericko 9 лет назад

deXter2 Well, I do know "shit" 'cause I'm an engineer, and I'm actually working in the Research and Development Department of a very important company here in México. I agree with you, maybe there are "more important" problems right now, but it's not a stupid technology.

@deXXXXter2 9 лет назад

sk8erboi66ericko Good for you. As a technology they are a great idea that still needs to be developed, but people telling solar panels will elliminate all cities problems are like people saying drinking vodka will make you resistant to freezing. It's just not a remedy for everything.

@brianific 10 лет назад

Well, would your commute really use less gas or was traffic not factored into this? Traffic jams are gas guzzlers with all that starting and stopping.

@ChocolateTeapot93 10 лет назад

Heino Sass There's this thing called weather. It tends to stop most people commuting by bike.

@ChocolateTeapot93 10 лет назад

Heino Sass I was just explaining why most people don't use bikes.

@brianific 10 лет назад

iamihop Heino Sass I've mostly heard a mixture of "I don't think its professional to arrive all sweaty" or "The sidewalks are crowded and isn't very safe to ride in the road". I don't think either of them are that unreasonable.

@ChocolateTeapot93 10 лет назад

iamihop I live in Scotland. The fact that its bloody cold here and you'd show up to work wet or generally windswept and dishevelled makes a big difference.

@ChocolateTeapot93 10 лет назад

iamihop I'm near Aberdeen. It doesn't get as cold here as it does in some places but its fairly cold all year round. Especially since we're on the coast and its usually windy here. A heat wave for us is 23C in summer and in the middle of winter its probably only about -2/-3C at the coldest point. You might get more rain in total in PA but I wouldn't be surprised if in Scotland it rains on more days. We tend to get lots of showers rather than massive downpours. We don't have many thunderstorms even though this summer it was between 80 and 100% humidity every day.

@at27850 4 года назад

I feel that this video is a great source of information for children and adults who are looking to rediscover the main principles of a city both urban and suburban. Thank You ! I support your cause MinuteEarth

@peacefrog630 10 лет назад

I was so excited to see Henry do a video on suburban sprawl! He does an excellent job at hitting the major points in only two and a half minutes!

@christinehancock5995 8 лет назад

Pretty one sided video. There are reasons so many people prefer the suburbs. I thought this video would have at least touched on how to improve city life (parks, green space, schools, lower crime rates) not just increasing population density. Everyone wants to shrink their environmental impact, but high rise city life needs to be enticing, especially to young families; and lets face it, crowded cities are not very appealing right for raising children.

@moekitsune 8 лет назад

+christine hancock Do you want MinuteEarth or HourEarth?

@paulmahoney7619 8 лет назад

Green space just outside the city, which the density makes close to the center.

@CadetGriffin 7 лет назад

The video seems as one-sided as Wikipedia's article on day camps. That article is unreliable because of its bias.

@wspolczynnik_poissona 10 лет назад

Not everyone want to live in big city

@MrMaxBoivin 10 лет назад

Those commies/liberals/agenda 21 supporters don't care about what you want. They gonna force you to live like they want you to live (while living in a different way). That's what the government is for. When you're idea are not good enough to persuade people, you can just use the guns of the government.

@bballercheetahfan3 10 лет назад

Lay off the fox news dude. Cities have nothing to do with being liberal. In fact, conservatives like cities because it means better buissnesses and more money.

@solank7620 3 года назад

@@MrMaxBoivin Yes, and the selfish bastards will demand that you be exploited to subsidize then. Then act like it's "free", while also saying nonsense like "we are all in it together" and talking of "empathy" and "kindness" while hatemongering against you and mocking you, and calling you selfish for not wanting to subsidize the idiots who hate you and look down on you so much. Even though they are extremely ignorant and emotional simpletons who don't understand the basics of anything, basically. They will always accuse you of what applies much more to them. I mean there was massive, massive issues with essentially everything this guy said in the video. The biggest of which is probably this guy talking about other areas being "resource hungry". It's like...dude. Cities are parasitic. Cities have a humongous territorial resource extraction footprint. Cities don't grow food, they don't mine metals, they don't provide lumber. They aren't even necessary. Other areas are actually necessary, cities are basically optional, outside of defensive/trade route/important strategic location type stuff. You actually need people living where resources are, you don't for cities. in the modern era cities are getting increasingly parasitic, they used to have factories and were important for shipping, but inreasingly they are just decadent and bourgeoisie mooch areas basically. Propped up by the massive, unbelievably bloated Machine we have that extracts by force from other areas and redistributes resources to them. It's always cognitive dissonance with these people, they are so wrong about everything it would make their heads explode. They talk about resource scarcity then advocate policies that will blow resources like mad. Just like they complain about wealth inequality and low wages and advocate policies that will skyrocket wealth inequality and depress wages. They have zero understanding of reality or causality at all. And they just keep getting zanier and zanier, and it's a vicious cycle/feedback loop.

@Stone_624 8 лет назад

I think the main thing that most people who complain miss in this, and what is probably the main and most important overall message of this entire video, is the 2nd to last sentence: "When people live densely, they use resources less intensely". Cities are efficient, meaning it takes less time, effort, energy, money, and so forth to distribute goods and services, and that means cities minimise loss. Low density, large spread out areas spend, and waste, much more resources than compact, high density, small areas to do the same things.

@h0riz0n45 8 лет назад

Here in Fresno California, if we went taller, then city bonuses would be gone for we have 110+ heat and 40 and below cold. Wide good. Tall bad!

@moekitsune 8 лет назад

+shannon robinson I doubt that.

@william97able2 8 лет назад

leaving in a dense city is a good idea, u say?? haha.. nope.. Look at cities in Asia like Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bangkok and Tokyo and Shanghai for example.. If you ever visit any of these cities, you wouldn't think of living there..

@saltyman7888 8 лет назад

+william97able KL, JK, and BK not so much, SG, SH, Tokyo are great, along with HK, SZ, Seoul

@danielmorales1824 7 лет назад

That's because the majority of the cities you listed are either overcrowded because of lack of space or stricken with poverty

@Owlettehoo 10 лет назад

Not everyone is going to be a city person. For those that are, great. Have at it. But people like me, that have seen both rural and urban living AND prefer rural, that's not so great. I don't want to bump elbows with everyone I walk past. I like having a yard, I like living in a quiet neighborhood, I like having a house instead of an apartment. Yes, there are down sides like having to drive farther to get places and not as much stuff to do, but I'm willing to give that up for something a little more quiet. (I probably feel this way because I life a couple minutes from the interstate and can get to the closest big city in 25 to 30 minutes.)

@Utmoon 10 лет назад

You missed the point of the video. We are running out of everything at a faster and faster pace. By 'better city', he means better for the planet, not just people that want a yard and some elbow room.

@Utmoon 10 лет назад

Mattias Jonsson By "the planet", I meant everything not human. You know, all those other living things we are driving to extinction by sucking up more and more of their living space.

@Owlettehoo 9 лет назад

Oh hello. So this was a thing that I forgot about. So the original argument was we were running out of resources, which unless you're thinking of oil, natural gas, and other things of the sort, we're not. There's plenty of space, plenty of food, plenty of essentials for life and that efficiency just keeps getting better and better as our technology gets better. The only thing in that category that we need improvement on is our water supply and this is mainly about getting cleaner, cheaper water to more third world countries. Then the argument turned to the betterment of the environment, which most of the pollution comes from cities. Take Hong Kong and Beijing, for example. So I'm not against building a better, more efficient city. It's necessary if we don't want to kill off all living things on this planet in the next thousand years or so because cities won't go away. In my original comment, I was saying that I didn't want to live in the city. The reason for saying that was because the video implied that everyone _needed_ to live in the city. From my recollection anyway. I didn't go back and rewatch the video so it's been a few months.

@Trucker_Josh 10 лет назад

Sprawl! No way am I living in an urban setting! Lol I'm country and I'm staying that way. I live an hour from the nearest "suburb" around the city. My home insurance deems my home "remote" now THAT'S what I'm talking about! :D love it! It's like being at a cottage everyday

@MegaMementoMori 10 лет назад

It's the first time I minused MinuteSomething. Suburbs with large yards are awesome, my parents have a house in one, while my grandma lives in a city block. Guess which place I prefer to visit? Plus my dad is obsessed about planting fruit trees, which fruits we turn into completely organic food. And we make our own wine from grapes from our yard. We can have bonfires, make roasted sausages, and so on an so forth. We can make parties without worrying about neighbours and police. Living in suburbs can be both more cost-efficient (all of the $ saved on wine and fruit nearly makes up for the increased property taxes and bills) and nature friendly (as I said, my dad is obsessed about planting fruit trees... we have over 100 of them on a place where there was nothing but grass and weeds previously). Overall, suburbs rule!

@SaitamaIRL 10 лет назад

What about crime...?

@therealcellar1969 10 лет назад

what about the environment?

@Phroshy 10 лет назад

Yes, what about crime? There is no natural, direct correlation between crime rate and population density. The higher crimerate in North-American cities is due to further poor policy-making which has the poor aggregate in cities and the rich flee to their own, segregated suburbia. In countries with a better social mixture in large cities there is no evident correlation between density and crime, violent or otherwise.

@therealcellar1969 10 лет назад

JaffeCakeINC and what about godzilla?

@therealcellar1969 10 лет назад

JaffeCakeINC What about the children?

@dviator86 10 лет назад

Crime is eco-friendly and progressive! :)

@irite6177 8 лет назад

I choose to sprawl, and I sprawl proudly!

@tulden1818 10 лет назад

As a person with interests only related to this topic (city, urban sprawl, development, architecture) this was probably the most interesting video I've ever watched compared to what other people find enjoyable

@nicolasmauser 7 лет назад

I dont wanna live in a future like the dystopian novel "Brave New World" ,thank you.

@tiagoaguiar9534 10 лет назад

But I dont want to live in an overcrowded city where I don't even see the stars at night because of so much lighting that there is. I want to be able to look at my phone at the street without worrying that someone will run into me because of so much people that there are in the side walk... But most important: I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN A FLAT! (apartment) Great vid anyways, it was very well done :D

@MrLloydparker 10 лет назад

I've never disliked a ME video before. I feel strange, but, I don't agree with your message.

@Tairneanach 10 лет назад

What do you not agree with? I mean, I don't want to live in a densely packed city - I much prefer rural areas, myself - but it's pretty much a fact that density and efficiency go hand in hand.

@Tairneanach 10 лет назад

RedPaintedTable Well, but as the video states, you'd have to invest in (electric, likely) public transport while discouraging the use of cars. I'm guessing that industrial zones would still be kept separated from the rest as to reduce that problem too.

@VitalVampyr 10 лет назад

Which message don't you agree with? Is it the part where he said that urban areas use resources more efficiently than suburban or rural areas? The part where he said that cities tend to develop suburbs around them? The part where he said it's possible to draft zoning laws that encourage urban development rather than suburban? I don't really see any part of this video where it is possible to disagree with and not be objectively wrong.

@MrLloydparker 10 лет назад

The video lacks one, pretty big consideration: humans and humanity. Unfortunately, our culture won't allow such development to happen. Case in point; how many vehicles do you actually see legally using the commute lane? FAR less than the other traffic lanes. We like our space. We appreciate being able to stretch our legs out and not feel the breath of the person behind us on our necks. Too many people in any sized space is still too many.

@Tairneanach 10 лет назад

lloyd parker I would argue that that is more a cultural thing than a generally human problem. Sure, there'll be people who like space in every culture, but I'd argue that, say, many Asian people have less of a problem living bunched up. I think this is something that can be changed over time - and it probably will have to change, because I don't think we're going to stop growing in the foreseeable future.

@thomasr5302 8 лет назад

In Britain outside cities and big towns we have the "green belt", which is just countryside that you're not allowed to build on. 20 miles out from the centre of London and you're in the fabulous countryside but 20 minutes out from the centre of, say, New York, you're still in New York and nowhere near the countryside yet.

@Mr-DNA_ Год назад

The city described in the video is focused on efficiency, which certainly is a factor that should play a role when building a city, but it's not the primary one. The primary factor in how we design cities should be the livability and human well-being. So an ideal city would have a high density core, middle density areas and low-density suburbs around it, while having both cars and roads, as well as transit, bike lanes and walkability.

@balls9420 11 месяцев назад

Ideally not many cars. Since they really destroy livability and human well-being with sound pollution.

@Mr-DNA_ 11 месяцев назад

You do realize that electric vehicles, combined with low speed limits and quiet tires can also achieve a massive reduction in sound pollution?@@balls9420

@AzKam84 10 лет назад

So, you're basically saying cram more people into smaller areas? My city is busy enough as it is, especially in rush hour! And I like having a yard thank you very much! It's probably the only natural thing I see all day, I don't want to loose that too! And as for your advocating of rising gas prices to encourage people to live closer together... seriously dude? If those super wealthy BP CEO's aren't already paying you for this, then they ought to be.

@LeftClickShift 10 лет назад

If regulation begins affecting how cities are developed, part of that should be that insuring necessary infrastructure to support larger crowds. Plus that, denser commuting and high gasoline prices, fundamentally incentivise people to ditch their cars and take public transportation like buses, trains and subways which will expend less gasoline than separate car drivers. So, city planning can be done poorly, which means more traffic, higher living costs, and inefficient transportation alternatives. But, just because a job can be done poorly doesn't mean it isn't a job worth doing.

@HIRVIism 10 лет назад

Higher gas prices does not equal more profit for oil companies.

@jonathanwong8960 10 лет назад

All the money from the gas prices don't have to go to the company. We could raise gas prices by making gas taxes, like Canada, who have high gas prices not because of more profit from companies, but for tax revenue. This could actually help the US by actually making a working universal healthcare system.

@acp778 10 лет назад

The point of raising gas prices is to reduce the demand for gas, making other alternatives more sought after - not to the fill the pockets of oil executives.

@jkhdfkjashdfk 10 лет назад

Jonathan Wong Let's just the tax the hell out of everything! How about you just limit the government's involvement in my life as much as possible and reduce taxes to the bare minimum needed to maintain roads, police force, the court system, and nothing else.

@alexanderyoung8628 10 лет назад

Reading through the comments section is why I sometimes wish we had an environmentally aware, socially just, globally understanding, humanitarian, forward thinking, benevolent dictatorship.

@poopeyinmymouth 10 лет назад

Benevolent dictatorship? Seriously? Maybe in ancient Rome but our society doesn't have 1/1000th the solidarity for that to work.

@alexanderyoung8628 10 лет назад

I know it would never work, but sometimes I really do think that a system like that is, in theory at least, better in many ways than democracy. But if you gave the the choice of living today in either a dictatorship or a democracy, I would undoubtedly choose democracy.

@poopeyinmymouth 10 лет назад

Something like that would be cool in the past when information was less instantaneous, but it is largely unnecessary today because there is really no point. Anything like it would end in corruption if it ever ended at all.

@Colonel1954Dz 10 лет назад

Find me that and I'll die fighting for it xD

@ArtistryofDebauchery 10 лет назад

Alexander Young I've thought about this as well and think it's at least theoretically appealing. Plato wrote explicitly that an ideal state ought to be governed by an aristocracy whose souls are committed to the "Good"-not popularity. "Dictatorship" is a very stigmatized concept to begin with. However, given the level of rationality our populous demonstrates in its own governance, I personally would be quite alright with letting a philosopher king be president. On the other hand, whether US government can be truly called "democratic" is is another story altogether.

@ThePureLegend95 10 лет назад

"And when people live densely, they use resources less intensely." I love that line! :D

@kanduyog1182 8 лет назад

technically not all dense cities are as good as you say they are, because look at manila it's a very dense city with insanely high amount of population not only from those who live there but from people from provinces going there to work and as with you said people from provinces use cars to get there causing massive traffic congestions, and there are a lot more cities that are way more polluted than suburbs.

@rin_etoware_2989 6 лет назад

Yes, let's build a tall city then watch it get toppled by the next earthquake.

@sarahd2623 8 лет назад

I'm just thinking .. who wants to live in an apartment really? I mean, everyone would rather have a nice roomy house. I think shoving people into a too compact space will create more of a depressing environment.

@Tetramir1 7 лет назад

But still MANY people think otherwise. This video misses the point of why people accept to move furher away.

@rdormer 7 лет назад

Then you haven't seen enough apartments yet. Trust me, there are some *very* cozy apartments in this world, and some that would take your breath away.

@mksabourinable 7 лет назад

If it's just one person I don't see why you would want or need the space. A 2bdrm is _a lot_ of space for one person. Hell I'm happy in a bachelor/studio!!

@JJ-te2pi 7 лет назад

Its okay for a time, but you soon feel isolated so high up, with no garden and no greenery to look at.

@moriadine2517 7 лет назад

Kate Speaks You are not the universe. What, are you going to shame claustrophobes for spending their legally earned money on what they, quite frankly, need? My mother has frequent bouts of depression and the sight of our own yard and house is what boosts her mood and poor health. And you want to take that away from her?

@blueberrypi4196 2 года назад

As a kid i was always confused on the idea of a 'sub-urban' area, it sounded fun but now that im a teen... eh... I watched a lot of Oggy and the Cockroaches growing up and the idea of little houses occupying lot of precious space fo no reason and a big city at the centre was kinda mind bogguling

@sonny19931 10 лет назад

Interesting video, I definetly didn't thought of it like that before. The main factor that's missing though, and it's one that's quite difficult to measure, is quality of life. I live in a relatively small but densely populated city, and I eny immensely people who can have a lawn, offer a decent life to a dog, not breathe smog every day, see some color other than grey... all that pleasant stuff.

@alexnguyen8913 9 лет назад

I honestly thought that this was going to help me with Sims City...

@thetruegoldenknight 10 лет назад

I understand what you're thinking and what you're saying, but the reason suburbs grow outwards is because residential areas - and residents themselves - feel that suburb homes with yards and some extent of privacy are great points for comfort. That's the key word: comfort. Living packed together densely may be more efficient from the scientific point of view, but from the social point of view, many humans cherish ideas such as privacy, space, and the greater sense of ownership that comes from having a single-residency house with a small plot of land as opposed to an apartment that's only a couple rooms large with no yard and no way to get away from the neighbors. Plus, residencies are already to an extent packed inside cities with row-homes and the like, so if population keeps growing but there is little more we can do to compact further, this could be a symptom of overpopulation. And finally, I imagine cities may like some level of organization: like, this area is designated for industry, while that other area is designated for research, and so forth. It gets increasingly harder to maintain such organization the more condensed cities become. Thus, it is my opinion that we should not altogether abolish sprawling suburbs. If the widening and spreading is truly growing out of hand, there might be a way to compromise (Suburban public transit might be a first step?), but if you ask me, this trend with developing cities exists for a reason.

@MarioMjoed 2 года назад

that's the whole point. we will need to sacrifice comfort - that's just the reality, there is absolutely no way around it. we can live in 50 degree heat with half the population of the world having to migrate somewhere else to not just outright die and nature crumbling down around us.... or, you know, live in a nice apartment in the city instead of a house in a suburb, not have a car, use less power and buy less useless shit.

@ivoryy62006 4 года назад

so you mean we should not destory the barrier limte that wont use alot on earth land am i right?

@davidalford3081 10 лет назад

Hi mate. Will you do a video on LID technologies? If we want to build a better city we will design it from the ground up. Green roofs, biorentention areas, water harvesting, permeable parking, etc. All those things would make a huge impact in how we utilize the resources around us. Thanks so much for everything

@UltroGmr 4 года назад

0:14 “ *Jobs,* art, *jobs* “

@Soapmore 10 лет назад

When I was 13 I thought like this video. But I know big cities are much more dangerous than rural areas and staying safe trumps everything else

@RyanGatts 10 лет назад

iamihop Thank you for actually citing something :D I saw the OP's comment and when to go find the same statistics, but you beat me to it!

@Dgfrmxon 10 лет назад

iamihop It's possible to interpret statistics the wrong way even if the numbers themselves are correct. The examples you're using of rural deaths sound largely voluntary. In this case, it DOES seem to matter what type of danger it is. Your evidence likely shows that rural people have a greater risk tolerance, not that they're living in a more dangerous location. This is not an argument in favor of living in an urban area.

@joshanniedsilva6921 6 лет назад

This video totally changed my idea of rural areas!

@yokeimon 10 лет назад

If in the future: flying-cars would be harder to maneuver in tight and compact urban areas, than the sprawling atmosphere of the suburbs. People prefer to always have personal space than to be space efficient. It is always aesthetically pleasing and more serene to have more space than to be compressed with anything else and everyone else.

@spudbot69 10 лет назад

Wow wow wow, gas prices are high enough ha ha. No but really not everyone can't afford to live in the big city. Especially when the jobs are in the suburbs not the city and its cheaper to live outside the city

@icannotchoose 10 лет назад

We'll just get solar roadways and drive electric cars.

@spudbot69 10 лет назад

Thats funny too because their are decent electric cars out there. Even if you want performance there are cars with good performance and electric. But why their are not more electrics I bet you know. But this video seems to assume every one works in the city. I might be wrong but yeah we have a long way to go

@CalebdGM 10 лет назад

Drama_Llama_5000 Solar roadways would be pretty great, but like changing to fluorescent bulbs they have the downside of making us feel like we've done enough. Also, James, you make a good point, I feel like the idea of this video is that if our leaders build cities like this then it will be easier to afford to live in the city and there would be more jobs there.

@spudbot69 10 лет назад

Yeah see that was what I was thinking of also it was a what if video. I have heard of testing on high tech roads and other stuff. But without the money behind it it will not flourish. But you also have to think of the dangers of living in a heavily populated area.

@Ancor3 10 лет назад

Drama_Llama_5000 You're joking...right?

@HenriZwols 10 лет назад

So a high, dense city is a 'better' city... Well, better for the environment maybe, not for the people living there. Why do you think suburbs exists in the first place?

@SmilingJack100 10 лет назад

racism, to a large extent.

@adnanilyas6368 10 лет назад

Suburbs exist because land was cheap in the US and the interstate highway system made it very easy to get around. If you look at other parts of the world, suburbs constitute a much smaller part of the city.

@RyanGatts 10 лет назад

I moved from the safest suburbs in the nation to a city. Cities are objectively better in every measure possible. Actually, on that note frankjohnson123 , is parroting an unsubstantiated fallacy. Here's some data about where it's safe to live and where it isn't: www.virginia.edu/topnews/releases2002/lucy-april-30-2002.html and another: www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/263826.php Suburbs aren't safer than cities, they are a way of distancing yourself from people and surrounding you and your family with an image of safe pastoral living... an image largely divorced from reality.

@frankjohnson123 10 лет назад

Ryan Gatts Didn't mention safety, I was talking about crime. "Cities are objectively better in every measure possible." Suburbs are infinity+1.

@henrischiltz 10 лет назад

VERY intersting video ! I mean it. It's my field of expertise and i'm usualy upset by the shortcup people uses but you made just the right ones keeping the video simple and clear to understand. But... I'm a bit in a shock reading the comments here ! I expected your viewers to be a bit more aware of the environment.

@buttercupkat 7 лет назад

WE CAN BE BETTER BY BEING NICE AND KIND AND SAVING THIS PLACE WE LIVE ON

@gopesizdopes 8 лет назад

it's not that simple... owning houses allows you to own your own land, which is not the case for cities... although mixed zoning sounds like a great idea

@coolcitydude123 8 лет назад

What's so important about owning your own land ?

@gopesizdopes 8 лет назад

+Brandon Persaud when you pay for a house, you're paying for land and house construction... over time when your house's value goes up, it's because of the land. land's value appreciates a lot in a relatively short time, as such it's important mostly because of financial benefit... condos don't have that benefit and the value usually depriciates as building gets older or increases slowly (if in big cities because it's already expensive)..... other benefits include having freedom to do things on your own property (with restrictions of course).. even if its for a short time, buying and then selling a house is way cheaper then buying a condo and definitely better than renting

@pabrodi 8 лет назад

+Go K It seems you never owned a condo.

@gopesizdopes 8 лет назад

+pabrodi are you referring to buying a new condo development in a remote location, wait for the city to develop around it which will definitely increase it's value? ... I think this conversation is more about living in a condo in an already fully developed city

@pabrodi 8 лет назад

My family owns two houses and two condos. All of them in a huge city. The houses didn't get half of value increase of condos.

@Xidnaf 10 лет назад

Glad to see someone has the balls to say that gas prices should be higher.

@hasanmuhammad6651 3 года назад

6 years later...

@DarthVaizard 10 лет назад

I have one single tip. Design cities with cars in mind. The city I live in has 2 way streets that would barely allow a single motorcycle to get through without smashing into something...

@ShhmichaelW 10 лет назад

Thank you for showing me tab for a cause. I love it

@MoonLiteNite 8 лет назад

in the end, zoning laws screw us. Houston has it right!

@MTobias 8 лет назад

+Christopher Banacka ...you are kidding, right? Right!!!???

@Bobelponge123 6 лет назад

Of all the cities... Houston???

@FACTOTUM_55 10 лет назад

Sorry bud. But once a large portion of cars become electric raising gas prices don't do much. The prices of living quarters in the city is so high that the average person simply can't afford a place to live. For the rental fee of a apartment in Toronto you can pay a mortgage in the suburbs

@rohanmicklethwaite7173 10 лет назад

It's from efficiency not wether everyone could afford it, if they could dense areas are better

@IamSamys 10 лет назад

"... so, policies allow us to influence the shape of our cities." This, of course is due to another policy.

@acp778 10 лет назад

Typically city jobs scale to cover the costs of living in cities; but of course this is where policy comes into place

@frankjohnson123 10 лет назад

***** Clearly the argument presented in the video is too simplistic, then.

@IamSamys 10 лет назад

frankjohnson123 You mean the example. The argument was to change policies with a specific goal.

@ArborealOreo 10 лет назад

ALso, if all the buildings had green roofs (hypothetically), then we wouldn't lose greenery of the earth and forests at all because we'd still have them. They wouldn't be the carbon-storing living forests/grasslands that once were there, but they would still have a lot of use as spaces to walk on and perhaps places to personally garden.

@dalemation 10 лет назад

Never thought of it that way. Thanks for a new perspective.

@harveylopezt 9 лет назад

I think that from a psychological and emotional perspective, taller cities are the ones with the unhappiest persons. I encourage you to watch the contra-perspective of this in the video of better cities from "The School of Life" (a youtube channel). Is an interesting view (and is all the contrary of this video). Have every body an awesome day!

@chengyanboon 8 лет назад

+Nebula Actually the video was a little bit disingenuous by showing a bunch of skyscrapers as an efficient city. Skyscrapers are just as inefficient as suburban homes because building them taller exposes them more to the elements so you have to pay for all sorts of inefficiencies in heating, elevators, etc. You don't necessarily need skyscrapers to have adequate density, townhomes and fitting more people into homes via rental suites, laneway housing, duplexes etc. is more than enough to make things viable.

@bristoled93 8 лет назад

+Chengyan Boon In the cities we have there is simply no space for townhouses we have to build up.

@chengyanboon 8 лет назад

bristoled93 I'd argue it depends from city to city. In New York, London, Shanghai, sure it's probably not worth looking into options besides skyscrapers. But there's plenty of areas in, say, Toronto and Vancouver and similar sized cities where you can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people by increasing density via low-rises. Once you get to the density point where transit with decent headways becomes possible, you're most of the way there already.

@bristoled93 8 лет назад

Chengyan Boon Not just London but any where in the United Kingdom, there is not the space to not build up.

@chengyanboon 8 лет назад

What about somewhere like Bristol?

@LadyUnicornEJG 10 лет назад

The densly populated cities promoted as "better" have their downsides too. Disease and some pests spread faster when people are packed more closely together. Additionally, noise and light pollution (not to mention what is normally thought of as pollution) tend to be more dramatic and problematic with denser populations. Not to mention crime, which seems more common in more densly packed areas (though this might correlate more with something else - like income or opportunity - or even be more visible rather than a higher actual rate). Plus cities and suburbs can be improved in other ways and resource use could be reduced by continuing to make vehicles and appliances more efficient and by improving or finding new types or sources of power - preferrably less detrimental ones. It could also be improved by reducing the distance some items need to travel to reach the consumer. Community (food) gardens, promoting gardening, solar panels and/or lights, and much more could improve cities without having to push suburb or rural residents into what some might view as a sardine can.

@CoffeeSnep Год назад

Right, im tired of people saying that suburbs should be outright demolished to rebuild urban areas in their place--as if all that demolition and construction won't be horrendous for the environment

@EmporioZuagroast 10 лет назад

one problem nobody ever mentions is that every year, more and more people are getting licences and driving cars. rush hours are bound to get worse each year if people keep having to go to work, go on breaks and drive home all around the same time every day. they all even have their free days at the same time and go to rush and jam all the places that people tend to go to on weekends. people need more flexible work and free times so all the traffic jams and people rushing to places gets evened out better.

@MZZenyl 10 лет назад

The browser plugin seems nice, it's just too bad it entirely loads from a webpage, instead of a local file (and just sends click-data to a server), which results in the new tab page loading far slower than the usual ones, since they're stored locally. Despite that (which honestly is quite a big annoyance), it looks quite good. :)

@girafmad 10 лет назад

Sorry but I would die if I where in a city, the noice is unbearable, I like living in the middle of nowhere.

@KaosFireMaker 10 лет назад

What he is saying is suburbia should be gone, not rural (as i assume is where you live because you said middle of nowhere)

@girafmad 10 лет назад

KaosFireMaker Ohh yeah My mistake.

@Boborbot 10 лет назад

if the noise is a problem, install soundproof windows.

@girafmad 10 лет назад

Nitay A. How would I hear the birds?

@Boborbot 10 лет назад

girafmad ***** this video is not about how *current* cities are better then subbers. the idea of this video is about how cities in general are better for the environment. its about that if we want to save the planet, save on resources and slow down pollution and the planet's warming we should all move into cities. dont forget that in the close future all cars will be electric, so the only noise you will find in cities will be human beings. we will start using other ways of making electricity, mainly atomic power plants, so the air would be much cleaner then the air in todays big cities. public and personal transportation will become faster and cheaper, so factories wouldn't need to be so close to cities, because it will be simple for workers to get to them. and if you care about the planet, and i hope you do, you probably hate those companies that dont give a shit about the environment, just about the monthly check.you are just like them. arrogant. selfish. dont look at the grand picture.

@davec1615 8 лет назад

The anti-suburb folks are thinking too much about finances and the environment instead of livability. Ill keep my 4 bedroom single family home with a big yard and lawn, thank you

@jasonbikeracer1 8 лет назад

Also he neglected to mention that it builds no equity spending your life paying into massive rental companies, instead of paying off a home.

@camnew1602 8 лет назад

Not all suburb houses are rented. Almost all the houses in my neighborhood are owned.

@kallistiX1 8 лет назад

The burbs are outdated and outmoded. That big lawn and yard is wasteful and that house is an energy sponge. *_IF_* you weren't surrounded by *_DOZENS AND DOZENS_* of other people doing the exact same thing, this wouldn't be a problem. But, you are. And, people like you are the reason folks think we need less people because that is the only way you can sustain your wasteful lifestyle; you want to control the birth rates in other countries because you're afraid you wont get to water your begonias while you run your Jacuzzi.

@JovialDescent 8 лет назад

well the channel is called minute earth not minute you after all

@Vitorruy1 8 лет назад

Best argument against the human population myth i ever heard.

@angelcollina 10 лет назад

Those are some good points. I never thought about the efficiency of cities before. It would be nice to have public transportation or to live closer to things. I am not enamored of having to drive everywhere.

@wormsblink2887 10 лет назад

Hi Henry I really enjoyed the video, although I did come up with some counter-arguments along the way and would like the RU-vid audience to evaluate them if possible. Ok here goes. It is economically better to cluster commercial and industrial areas together due to economies of scale. By integrating workplaces and homes together, there is less efficient resource management (eg supply trucks travel to many locations instead of a commercial hub). Building taller might solve the problem of Rapidly expanding cities, but then you have to consider the energy required to ferry that mass of people and goods up against gravity, the extra resources to be invested in support structures and the risks due to natural disasters etc.

@cechk01 8 лет назад

more like no privacy and twice as expensive in a city

@PlasmaHH 8 лет назад

Yeah because we all want to live in half the space, surrounded by loud idiots, paying twice as much and reading about trees in (e)books only

@fabianfeilcke7220 8 лет назад

+Dennis Lubert You can buils modern spacious apartments in cities as well. Our apartment is soundproove to the point where we cant even hear the fire department next door. If the density of cities were bigger, the cities would be much smaller and the forest or park would only be a few subway-stops away. With the giant suburbs we have now you have to travel several dozen km to reach the closest forest...

@PlasmaHH 8 лет назад

***** you might live in a lucky place on this planet, but virtually everywhere else I looked for places to live the same space inside a city costs two or three times as much as in the suburbs. And you rarely get a nice garden there for the same price. Also no way to go for a 20 minute walk in the woods when you have to drive 20 minutes to the woods. And what about childrens playgrounds outdoors? Non crowded streets to learn riding a bike? Going for a quick walk with your dog? Looking up and seeing more than four stars? Sleeping with open windows ? Surely you can create artificial 90% replacements for such things that cost extra money and extra resources, but at least when I have to chose, I chose the real thing. I can open the windows and hear birds, see squirrels and can leave the window open without becoming deaf....

@fabianfeilcke7220 8 лет назад

I was talking about a hypothetical perfect city. The neat houses and their gardens are the reason why you have to travel >20 minutes to reach the closest Park or forest. Letzt take this scenario: 1 Million People live in houses with a 500m² garden around them. This will consume 500km² of space, which equals to a circle of 12km. If you add 20% commercial and 20% roads, the radius increases to 15km. Therefore someone living at the center of the circle who has no garden, would have to travel at least 15km to reach the closest green area. Now assume you stack all the houses to stacks of 50 each. Now you have skyscrapers with small common gardens around them, providing the same living space. Now you only need 10km² for residential (and you can integrate a lot of the commerce in the skyscrapers as well). This will give you a circle of 1,7km. As everything is within walking distance now, you can skip most of the roads and parking as well. Now the Edge of the city (And therefore green land) is only a 15min walk or 2-3 min by subway. As most people won’t need cars anymore they could spend more money on their apartment. A house with garden is nice for the individual, but it makes everything worse for the rest of the population. The apartments in cities are mainly expensive because there are not enough to cover the demand. This is something easily fixed by a more liberal handling of new buildings. Munich for example is a horrible example. The population density is very low, so everything is far away. To cover the distance everyone is going by car, which in turn need more roads (consuming even more space). The main reason for this dilemma is a restriction of height for buildings in Munich and a lot of very old buildings, that are under monument protection.

@DRsideburns 8 лет назад

You can't have a city without suburbs just like you can't have a tree without roots

@fabianfeilcke7220 8 лет назад

DRsideburns Can't is a strong word. In China there actually are planned cities (or city-quarters) without subburbs. I lived in one of them for about a year close to Gungzhou.

@BENDER3461 10 лет назад

Yeah, this works if the city is financially afloat, there's a lot of negatives about compact cities like increased crime, stress and sometimes even death rates. But ik what you're getting at, we need to find an okay balance of both compact yet spacey, we want to help the enviroment but help ourselves too.

@X49MRE 6 лет назад

My oh my in terms of sound quality your channel has come a very long way.

@unaliveeveryonenow 9 лет назад

a defensive and insecure comment

@sutfolsemaj 9 лет назад

An equally insecure reply about original comment being offensive.

@september1717 5 лет назад

A comment to try to stop the wildfire that is coming.

@islandprincess714 5 лет назад

A reply saying bad things about the previous reply

@fardtist 5 лет назад

a comment which has been created due to other random guys saying the exact same thing.

@Pining_for_the_fjords 8 лет назад

This video is extremely biased. Why exactly is it better to live on a highrise apartment building surrounded by other highrise buildings, than in houses with gardens, parks and space around? I'd gladly rather have a slightly longer commute to work than live in a concrete jungle.

@AnarchistMetalhead 8 лет назад

because that video is just about how to manipulate people into following an environmentalist agenda through government force, not about how to create good living conditions for anyone

@abirneji 8 лет назад

no the videos just about how to make living more cost efficient and take up less space

@paulmahoney7619 8 лет назад

+AnarchistMetalhead with our current tech, you can either have super low or super high density sustainable living setups.

@abirneji 8 лет назад

Paul Mahoney yeah but you need everyone or nearly everyone to play along if you want results

@samuelsmith2707 6 лет назад

Have a tightly packed city with low crime, cheap effective transport, lots of services, cheap housing, lots of varied jobs, excellent education. Then to make it so people with families can live there, make lots of parks, turn the rooftops of every building into a green space and also surround the whole city in easily accessible green land that can't be built on. This could be very reasonable, however places like this have been built before from scratch in china and they are mostly empty. So we need to be more like some germanic cities, where the cities just end and you have the empty green spaces to enjoy surrounding the city.

@RealationGames 10 лет назад

Well how about this; I don't want to live like a freaking rat in a huge nest. I want a 200m² house with 500-1000m² of free space around me. I lived my childhood in a field of 5000m² of space, and I'd never trade that for a Chinese cubicle. I want to boast music at full volume without disturbing neighbours, I want to barbecue in my backyard. I want to fix my vehicles in my own garage. I want to sunbathe in the backyard, and throw few cartwheels to celebrate life. I don't want to sit in a cubicle worrying if I bound my elbow to my neighbour when I turn around. I don't care even if it costs society for me to live like this, but I will. I've earned it through years of work that I have done, and continue to do for society. You will never ever in my entire life force me to a such cubicle.

@TheStellaruniversexm 10 лет назад

Your problem is solved! Our innovative 21st century technology will allow us to expand your "cubicle's" area up to 200 m² and huge balconies with 1000 m² of space!

@swunt10 9 лет назад

than you should live in the fucking countryside and not in the city.

@TheStellaruniversexm 9 лет назад

***** See Agenda 21.

@Hraptor 9 лет назад

***** You just said the most stupid thing ever! How can something be better for the human race but not for individual happiness, if the human race is made of individuals who are supposed to be happy? You are the dumbest commenter on this page, and trust me, the bar is low.

@paulmahoney7619 8 лет назад

as in, it allows the majority to be mostly happy, instead of only some being quite happy. Needs of the many.