The Amazing Urbanism of Prague 

Originally, these cities were designed for pedestrians and animal-drawn carts. Then bicycles became a thing. Then public transportation was added. Then cars took over the streets. Then, apparently, a murderous psychopath took over Prague and thought "what if I make them all crash into one another?"

Makes sense for Prague to have Kafka-esque urban planning.

This is one of the urban plans of all time

Prague in pictures: Very pedestrian friendly and lively teeming with pedestrians Prague in real life:

Me expecting a 20 minute interesting video on real issues at play with Prauges' urban planning Adam: ...

Those damn cyclists and pedestrians, taking up the precious road.

That bike lane that dumps you directly into the path of an oncoming tram is like something I would design in Rollercoaster Tycoon

If you cannot imagine a 6 year old biking down a bike lane safely, it is INADEQUATE.

I offer my condolences to Adam for having to see this. The migraine is unimaginable

And I would have thought Prague urban planning for cycling would have been a bit more... Praguematic

Drivers: City roads were built for cars! 1500+ years of Prague history: What's a car?

"I'll save that one for later!" *sees video length* "Okay, I'll watch it now!"

That's even more creative than what we have in Poland!

Certified non-dutch urban planning moment

I went to prague on school trip 1) there was a bike lane just outside the place we were staying. Just painted on the side of a road, speed limit presumably around 70 2) Had an awesome time watching an enormous 4x4 trying to get out of a parking space in the old town

I love it when they "add" cycling lanes unless it's inconvinient then they just disappear.

Prague Public transportation: 😄🥰🤩♥🌟 Other urban planning in Prague: 💀🚗🚗🌫🌫

"We added a bunch of bicycle lanes and marked pedestrian areas quite clearly! Why are you complaining?" - Prague's City Hall, probably.

This is extremely well planned for human use compared to most places in the U.S. Source: I'm a United Statesian

Prague is such an amazing city... That's the most frustrating part about these issues. Adam is secretly in love with Prague that's why he is dunking on it all the time

I love when youtubers finally embrace their style and get artsy

I love Prague, I live here, but damn sometimes the urban planning really makes me jump into the Vltava in December

I remember how nice it was to visit Prague during covid, no pedestrians, no cars. Everything felt abandoned but peaceful at same time. The quiet old square, charles bridge just for you and you alone. It felt like a dream.

" the design is very human "

Those are some really dangerous situations :( . I can only imagine how many folks got injured cycling or walking there :( .

The problem with these cities is at first they were built for people walking, then to cars, but no one bothered to add more space for walking now that we use cars

I know "thin your paints" audio when I hear it.

So there is a city worse than Katowice ❤ love it

I was prepared for a rant about the cluelesness of Prague's political leadership. I wasn't prepared for this, but... I guess no words were needed anyway, this encapsulates it all.

The "we hate pedestrians and cyclists" method of urban planning.

I work 3 minutes from the place in the first picture and when a shared bicycle is available I would ride it exactly in that "bike lane" home. If you would continue to ride on that street you would come to two massive (in Prague's perspective) intersections, which are used to funnel traffic onto highway. What a lovely place to ride a bike really. That's why I use an alternative road which consists of riding down around concrete staircase (that's 30° slope) and then uphill on concrete panel road and through dog shit meadow. I suspect Prague administration that they conciously make bike lanes horrible to make people to dislike riding a bike in Prague.

As an American, I've never felt such a kinship with the Czech people before

I knew I recognized those metallic screeching noises, obviously Warhammer related. It perfectly encapsulates the anger felt looking at these pictures.

This is the type of high quality cinema I'm here for - 10/10 will rewatch

Informative and to the point! An avant-garde video essay!

Thank you, I can show this video to people who can't stop complaining about Gregory Silvester Christmas putting rods besides the bicycle roads.

reminds me of Seoul, contorting your body to avoid cars ON THE SIDEWALK

the first one is a definite "you had one job" moment

The video was very well done. It has a fine way of compressing all the feelings and the ways of how the depicted systems work in real life scenarios. Also the score and the sound design overall was a masterclass level presentation of how to do maximise the usable spectrum of human senses. A highly recommendable piece of work!

be me: getting ready to watch a 15-30 min nice documentation, then 25 seconds ...

This hurts my Dutch heart.

this is definitely a prague moment

This hits even harder - and funnier - because you're always so articulate and detailed in your videos.

Superfly from Daikatana trying to ride through Prague in a hurry so he can take a dump

"Planning" doing some heavy lifting

You could say they need to "thin" the roads out!

On my driving test I accidentally drove too close to a cyclist and he made a scream that sounds exactly like the ones in this video and it haunts my dreams. Still passed though

dude you should totally come in Romania

Who else guessed that Adam was a secret warhammer fan this whole time ??! 🤣😂

Thank you for this truly amazing audiovisual masterpiece

The epitome of, "We did it, Patrick! We saved the city!"

you cheeky bastard! i didnt check length of that video so played it on background while im cooking 😂

I can with 100 percent assurance say that not only Adam went crazy after I saw this ,,masterpiece” of Urban planning

Gotta love the 40k Screams

As a bike enthusiast with disabled relative and small child (stroler) living in Prague, I wouldn't say it better 😅

My American ass is like, "What's wrong? This is what streets look like."

Me after Taco Bell

A cinematic masterpiece for the ages.

Funnily enough, people seem to not respect painted lines when it’s inconvenient to them! Who woulda thought?!

For the emperor's love, thin your lanes!

Wait til you see bucharest

i love that one of the most articulated and serious channel that i follow (which usually posts 15-25 minute in-depth videos) just dropped this 25s beauty with angry man growling sounds. :D

I can feel the pain

That is EXACTLY what happens in my head in those situations.😀

20 seconds of pictures say more than 20 minutes of words

Prague looks like if someone used an Ai image generator with the prompt " City Plans " and then looked att that and went "Yep, looks good to me".

So much conveyed in such a short video :)

Fun fact, the city of Yharnam from Bloodborne seems to be partially inspired by Prague

Thanks you for this high quality content :D

This always shocks me when i travel to Prague. It is a beautiful city, but coming from my small-ish town (50 000 people) to Prague, the sheer amount of cars surprises me very much

me right now

I accidentally just played this at max volume through my speakers at 3am with my family home... I'm going to die

Nice. Very cycle friendly.

Oh wow, how did you manage to record my daily commute?!

Wait til you see Gdynia (Poland) city centre and the whole bike road kerfuffle. There was this one CCTV recording where a driver was so confused by this tangled mess, that he used it as a right turn!

Those painted parking spaces on the pavement are also a thing where my mum lives in the UK, absolutely wonderful infrastructure

I accidentally read the title as "Plague Urban Planning" and now I feel obliged to ask you to make a video on European urban planning during the time of the Black Death.

Okay, DOW 2 screams and overall the reference to "THIN YOUR PAINTS" earned a like for sure.

now this is the content i subscribed for all those years ago

City planners saw nothing wrong with 1 foot of pedestrian walk space and bike lanes that crash into tram lines On the bright side, we found the solution to our overpopulation problem

Dawn of War screams make everything better

City planning so bad, it turned Adam into a Space Marine

Looks like cycling could get really expensive there. For instance, I'd want to make sure I had a separate GoPro to point front, back, and both sides before I ventured onto those roads!

Tragedy. Prague has a lot of potential. it has really dense and well accessible public transport network, but cars keep ruining it all. Maybe having a senile ultra steeringwheelophile as a mayor and people similar to him in the city council isn't the best situation. It's sad since Prague is really beautiful and keeps getting new infrastructure projects that make things better (HolKa pedestrian bridge, rail connection to the airport, new tram network extensions, return of trolleybuses). But it's not enough because once motorists start screaming any useful work is over. There is a hope though. Maybe you're heard of Dvorecký Bridge that's being built now and will only be accessible for public transit, pedestrians and cyclists. I love to see drivers whining how it would help the traffic sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much if they could use it. We need more of such places.

this is the content i subscribed for

Thank you for the clear and detailed comment, that helped me understand the pictures.

O what the f 😆 I had already waited for your lecture, but didn't expect that it's just a rage video lol

My dear Adam, the automotive centeric hellscape that is North America would make you beg for infrastructure as good as Prague's

The Quality content I subscribed for.

Ho nice to see Paris in a video. No wait.

Gotta love it here

That's the same in Lisbon, Portugal. Capital cities with decent public transportation and where you don't really need a car at all but there are still too many cars.

This wouldn't have happened if all those were electric cars powered by wind turbines inside hyperloop tubes

Came for the urban planning nightmare, stayed for the Dawn of War 2 Space Marine screams.

I feel I needed a bit of a heads up for the audio for this documentary short.

"a" -RU-vid's auto subtitles

The photo of the stroller on 0:03 is from Brno, I walk there every other day sliding on the car hoods

I live in Prague and I approve this message.

Simple and direct.

Hey Adam, I Hope you sended this video to prague city hall. They need to see this.