The City Grid: Is It Coming Back?

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Although their roots date back thousands of years, city grids are starting to inspire modern urban planners.
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City grids are a way of structuring streets so they run at right angles to one another, forming a grid pattern to the bird’s eye. Communities that use a grid plan are typically more easily navigable, adaptable, and equitable.
An expanding town in Texas is proving just that. Bastrop’s short, walkable blocks are strengthening the city’s sense of community - and preventing traffic jams. The city grid is also helping Bastrop be sustainable, both environmentally and economically.
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@freethink 3 года назад

What do you think about this approach?

@ihateregistrationbul 3 года назад

Density is expensive. I live in a walkable grid and my cost of living is double of the suburbs. My supermarket is more. My coffee is more. Rent is higher.

@freethink 3 года назад

@@ihateregistrationbul Cost of living is definitely an important thing to consider! It's worth noting that many major cities have not themselves kept up with the demand for housing or commercial space due to their own sets of restrictions, which has pushed up rents there--and in turn drives up the prices in stores. (citymonitor.ai/housing/why-do-wealthy-cities-have-a-housing-shortage) While in some cases a suburban house may be less expensive than an apartment in a city, if you lived in a suburban-size house in a city it would be extremely expensive, and in turn a city-size dwelling in the suburbs would be less expensive than a house there. But many suburbs in America ban small dwellings entirely, so they end up being very expensive as well as low density.

@dxtxzbunchanumbers 3 года назад

"Sponsored by Ford"

@Alex-ec1lu 3 года назад

what about earth2.io ?

@uppityglivestockian 3 года назад

Grid design means cramming more people into multi-dwelling buildings and doing a lot more walking, having to park farther away. How does that work for women walking alone? How does that work for the elderly with limited mobility? Neighbors who are bad at being quiet? It sounds a bit too much like social engineering to save the planet crap being slid into our lives without us noticing. And, it was sponsored by Ford. Until I know how woke Ford has become, I'm gonna remain skeptical.

@kimwood6632 3 года назад

YES! And while you're at it, get rid of the ridiculous sq ft requirements too! Bigger isn't always better.

@freethink 3 года назад

Yup! There's a lot of requirements that end up mandating sprawl, hurting affordability, etc. that most people are unaware of. It's cool to see it starting to change!

@thatsawesome2060 2 года назад

Hong Kong will welcome you.

@bui3415 2 года назад

@@thatsawesome2060 And the homeless will welcome you :P

@mediocrebanters 3 года назад

Just copy the urban design from around Japan & the Netherlands, with special emphasis on exclusive roads for bicycles/tricycles & raised foot path for pedestrian. Make all buildings multi-level, multi-purpose & of mixed zoning use. In Japan & China for instance (even Dubai is mimicking also) is the "Village In A Building Complex" concept, where essential businesses/ services are accessible to residents. Ground floor level & 2nd levels are reserved for Groceries & Restaurants, 3rd & 4th levels are reserved for small office medical & businesses, and while the rest are residence section; everything is convenient and accessible. Going vertical is the future, not horizontal. Saving spaces for growing local food.

@freethink 3 года назад

Japan & the Netherlands are definitely leaders on this. Tokyo's an incredible example of how even the biggest cities can be surprisingly affordable, quiet and livable if done right. And it's underappreciated how sustainable dense cities are, since people use so much less energy for transport, heating, etc.

@mediocrebanters 3 года назад

@@freethink Absolutely, cities are by its own design, efficient in all aspects including transportation. The problem lies in the way local government burdens the city residence with high taxes (income, property & consumption types), unnecessary bureaucracies, prohibitive fees & laws for business enterprises, high expenses for political pet projects and excessive numbers of city employees under payroll. Also some business sectors take advantage of a city's efficiency by charging high prices of goods & services for the convenience (which does not make sense).

@nameberry220 2 года назад

vertical is more expensive that horizontal.

@burgerpommes2001 2 года назад

@@nameberry220 not if you include infratructure maintainance and transport costs

@eddielopez2373 2 года назад

@@nameberry220 that is absolutely false. Vertical is less expensive at every phase of development - land cost, design and engineering, infrastructure for the city, building costs (foundations are expensive), etc. Vertical also utilizes land more efficiently. Even single-family homes are cheaper to build vertically. It is far more expensive to build a 2000 sqft single story house than to build a two story home with 1000 sqft on each level.

@zepatrik 3 года назад

It is quite funny to see this from Europe. We have nice, walkable towns and curvy roads. I guess the main difference is having more public space, less huge footprint buildings and huge parking lots. Also it is common to have business and residential areas mixed, where the first floor is business and above are apartments. For me the "american style" feels too stretched out, too flat. We have problems with traffic as well, mainly due to too many people taking the car into the city. But that is really a different problem here as we have public transport and are starting to restrict cars while promoting bicyclists and pedestrians.

@freethink 3 года назад

It's turning out to be a blessing to have cities founded when people had to walk - because they were, unsurprisingly, walkable! Places created during the rise of the automobile felt forward-looking for a time, but in hindsight ended up having these problems. There's definitely American cities that are moving back in that direction as well as Bastrop, but Europe certainly is better positioned to make a transition and there's a lot of cool stuff happening in Paris, Seville, Barcelona, etc. with regard to transportation and walkability. We actually did a couple videos on Copenhagen: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pUbHGI-kHsU.html

@nutyyyy 2 года назад

A lot of European cities are more guided than people assume, its just that there isn't an overaching grid structure but many smaller ones with the exception of the historic core which is sometimes a grid depending on its history but more often has lots of squares and streets that connect in various ways based on its growth and the landscape.

@cizeek9748 2 года назад

@@nutyyyy yeah, considering the main travel method in history was walking, the sidewalks and foundations were laid organically!

@coolioso808 2 года назад

@@freethink Yes, speaking as a born/raised Canadian, the evidence of cities built around the idea of vehicular transport AND being such a vast sized country has made it easily attractive for developers to just move out more and more and with less concern about sustainability or reviving and maintaining city-centres. Some have done it retroactively but it is a long road back, unfortunately. I'm a fan of the 15-min. city/neighbourhood idea. We should be able to step outside our door and have a 15-min walk or bike to essentials like groceries, health clinic/drug store, gym, hardware store/repair shop and of course nice parks and quaint restaurants.

@soleus333 2 года назад

As an American living in the Netherlands for the past 5 years, it just makes intuitive sense, how things are laid out here. I could do with less bricks, but that's another story haha! I recall a video from the Not Just Bikes channel, which is a Canadian guy now based in Amsterdam, which explained exactly how and why such backward, single purpose zoning became the default in North America.

@dustinstorey6779 3 года назад

This is inspiring, I live nearby and I’m finishing up with a tiny house I’ve built. I will soon have to move off the land I’m on and trying to find land to purchase is basically impossible because of restrictions. I think about these issues constantly not just for myself but affordable housing that makes sense for a lot of people. I think I’ll see what kind possible opportunity there is in Bastrop. The Austin area is great and unique in so many ways but it’s going in bad directions especially when it comes to creating communities that keep that spirit. Great to see what Bastrop and SimpleCity are doing with B3. Hopefully this just the beginning for the entire area.

@henryefry 3 года назад

sounds like strong towns to me

@gaskins2077 3 года назад

I hate meandering roads in neighborhoods. They are ridiculous. Much prefer grids. Glad somebody is working to fix this.

@freethink 3 года назад

It definitely makes things a lot easier to navigate, among other things. At least we have GPS now - before that getting lost in sprawling, windy streets was truly a nightmare

@shawngbrennan9893 3 года назад

The first thing I did after watching this video was look up Bastrop on the map. Unfortunately, there is regular old Texas sprawl developments popping up immediately southwest and north of the downtown area. So I am not sure if what was mentioned in the video was just a proposal, but it didn't seem to prevent what they were trying to prevent. That makes me sort of sad.

@shoeicanoe 2 года назад

Shawn, The plan actually creates the grid throughout the city by way of the Transportation Masterplan. The patterns you see now is what drove the community back to the grid. New development will not be configured in that manner.

@josephchandler8418 3 года назад

Bastrop is really nice I love the Texas small towns centered around courthouses. I hope austin can learn a thing or two

@groundfloorguthrie 3 года назад

One major (IMO) contribution to the expansion of the Suburbs was the Federal Government's fears of nuclear war. The Suburb was a strategic development to lower the loss of life if a city like Los Angeles or NYC is struck by an ICBM (or five). Not to minimize their impact, but this seems to me to be a far more powerful driver of incentives than thigs like White Fight, Redlining, or Block Busting.

@groundfloorguthrie 3 года назад

Another complexity, it would seem, is that reverting back to a 'grid system' isn't the only, or even the major, change. There are tens of miles of gridded-out suburban-style neighborhoods in Los Angeles, for example, but I can tell you it is rare to find 'walkable' or 'neighborly' blocks in the sense that seems to be referred to in this video. There must be something more to it. For example, the changes suggested seem to imply incentivizing the small businesses that would make up the 'center' of this system. Makes sense because people who own businesses in a community, it can be reasonably assumed, are more invested in that community. The problem comes when zoning laws aren't the only regulations blocking the path to this sort of entrepreneurship. Large 'box' type stores have -on the one hand- economy of scale which allows them to undercut prices of more localized business, and - on the other hand - corporate clout and influence which makes it more possible to 'grease the wheels' and limit exposure to smaller competitors. Urban planning and Civil Engineering are only single spokes of a much wider wheel that needs to turn before the positive outcomes that are aspired to here can be reached.

@blancavelasquez9859 3 года назад

yea we also need to take into account the culture at the time which the cold war influenced a lot of it

@longiusaescius2537 6 месяцев назад

Yeah and then they'll ignore crime anyway but live away from it

@khuldoonaziz6406 3 года назад

Personally I live in one of the few planned gridded cities in the world it was done by the same guy who architected Canberra capitol territory. AND for some reason it clicks I lived my whole life and it never got held up as there are too many routes.. Matches

@freethink 3 года назад

Good to know! What city if you don't mind us asking?

@MrPBODY1966 3 года назад

@@freethink Walter Burley Griffin (November 24, 1876 - February 11, 1937) was an American architect and landscape architect.

@khuldoonaziz6406 3 года назад

Same architect and Canberra.....

@khuldoonaziz6406 3 года назад

Constantinos A. Doxiadis....... sorry my mistake this is the architect for my city

@ntznbgzt 2 года назад

Grid, walkable, and sustainable. Lowering use of car. More green spaces, more outdoor activities at the end more healthy city.

@jimmyryan5880 3 года назад

These videos are too short. They're just an into.

@davidhodgin8900 3 года назад

no wonder i’m so unhappy in this neighborhood my parents moved into. If there’s no businesses and there’s no sidewalks How do the younger kids meet each other

@DJBell1986 3 года назад

There’s a reason the old timers built in grids. Modernist crap from the 60s screwed up so much stuff.

@jukio02 2 года назад

Looking at suburbs makes my eyes hurt, now. I always knew something wasn't right about how we lived, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it until I came across some of this videos.

@rodimcgeesums633 3 года назад

This is what Free Market is for baby. If there's competition let it come in and stop regulating and restricting opportunity out. We can have high, medium, and low density that serves effective with competitive planning for the best outcome for their citizens. May the best Cities Win! Breakthroughs not stagnation!

@asmaben1114 Год назад

The grid with squares is based on the ancient Roman military grid. In Europe, we used to hace a concentric grid, based around a center, usually the church, or other sacred place, in ever widening circles around it. It kept the people feeling ''orientated'' to a common center, which a square grid does not do.

@Renanaguilar 2 года назад

Usanians discover the grid 2 thousand years after the Roman Empired used it...that is progress

@Jessica-kk1cz 2 года назад

Here in northern Virginia suburban sprawl outside Washington D.C., it’s the new areas that are laid out in a grid that draw in people. Even shopping areas aren’t going in malls, but rather indoor/ outdoor "town centers", as they call them.

@thewhooncrack 2 года назад

Danville Va needs this.

@Monsterdrinker98 2 года назад

this is the greatest video ever. thank you

@marlbankian 2 года назад

Excellent

@montithered4741 2 года назад

Generational thinking is the future

@imogen1 2 года назад

"y-you can't kill the suburbs, where will I raise my good sheltered traditional fam--" "--Freedom machine go Brrrrrr"

@user-dr2pg8fk2i 2 года назад

Where are more details on Simple City?

@adamkautz2686 2 года назад

Please do this in Las Vegas.

@TimBryan 2 года назад

The author of the book Happy City recommends form based codes as a remedy to urban sprawl.

@Photographerindian 3 года назад

Its simple shop on ground floor and residential above it.

@kevinwelsh7490 2 года назад

Not new! New urbanism has been around at least since Seaside, FL in the 1990s. Peter Calthorpe and Andres Duane promoted it.

@Bhehar 2 года назад

this channel is an antidepressant

@SolarSeaSlug 2 года назад

Facts

@qolspony 2 года назад

If Texas can do it, anyone can follow this model.

@ambergris5705 Год назад

Let's be honest, it's not because a road is curvy and not in a grid that there's more accidents... it's a question of driving culture.

@cybertrk 2 года назад

If you don’t have enough land to produce an abundance of energy and food… you’re screwed.

@Cyrus992 7 месяцев назад

You can still have car dependent areas even if all of the buildings are high rises. It depends on the land use, traffic flow and building layout.

@dxtxzbunchanumbers 3 года назад

"Sponsored by Ford"

@knosis 2 года назад

Which is weird because they are one of the culprits as to why the US has so much sprawl

@danialrafiqi9346 3 года назад

SimCity mayor in real life

@erikkrauss8481 3 года назад

Awesome, 5 on 1s arent the only solution

@BarbellMethod 2 года назад

EARTHSHIPS should be CODE

@khuldoonaziz6406 3 года назад

Hmmm

@dominicbrown3519 2 года назад

Hey you guys should speak to Elon Musk or who ever is in charge of encorporating Boca chica texas. It would be awesome if they can use some of these ideas to build the city.

@jessicabixler1658 2 года назад

The grid on out town you practically have to a millionare unless you got in 4 years ago

@lemonlimek6816 Год назад

ironic that ford sponsored this lmao

@darrelllingman63 2 года назад

They don't plan for public transport.

@jimbo2227 3 года назад

We should just build Khrushchyovkas like the Soviet Union...

@kelaarin 3 года назад

That's what they're aiming for. Sadly, some people just don't learn from history.

@user-qi7ol9pf6n 2 года назад

Hey, I'm from Russia, and I've been living all my life in these Khrushchovkas. While they aren't really pretty, they did provide for a great childhood! I've always had the opportunity to walk safely to school or a supermarket, it took me about 10-15 minutes to do so. After school I played in the large communal yards/playgrounds, which are naturally built in the green space between the Krushchovkas. And I could always take public transport to the central area to do some fun stuff, it took me around 40 minutes, and I had never had to ask my father to drive me somewhere, so there was little dependency in whatever I do and where. And today, as a student, I really appreciate the low costs of renting a Krushchovka. I used to hate the greyish look of Soviet cities, but now I am starting to rethink my attitude towards USSR city planning. They did make some really great choices, despite the looks of it.

@oseiassilvadossantos4709 2 года назад

We have these systems in undeveloped countries. as for me a person who has been living in Brazil My whole life. This system is a messy. Just last year the government passed a law which requires you to follow a standard model. So people don't do a house in the middle of the road like they do.

@VulcanData84 3 года назад

I prefer the round cities of 'The Venus Project' way better! Sorry! Especially if you're going to talk about infrastructure and the future.

@MrCalls1 2 года назад

I cant believe that grift is still going. Yes its a cool sci-fi idea. But it’s based in an ‘FM’ not ‘AM’ reality. I loved it in school, but so many years later, it’s so juvenile.

@couriersix2684 9 месяцев назад

@@MrCalls1 What I hear you saying is you're pro #War, Pro #Poverty, & wasting time with the Infighting Drama that is #Politics. Got It!

@dalethomasdewitt 2 года назад

Now if only your remote control car could follow you as you walk. Freedom from that park & find your car. Backtracking all the time. Alas humans ain't prime time yet.

@mattyrjackson4261 2 года назад

Notice Ford sponsor this

@jmd1743 2 года назад

Yes. Companies change. Ford is now pushing for direct to consumer auto sales because of how bad things have become with dealerships charging outrageous dealership markups. Look at Hyundai, during the early 2000s they only produced autos that you hated to rent from the airport, now they produce cars that rival BMW's from just a few years ago.

@Alex-ec1lu 3 года назад

well, it’s not like the Heart Health Association is that trustworthy

@sparksmacoy Год назад

You need to chuck the suburban template in the bin it was a huge failure and needs to be completely destroyed. Rebuild what has always worked human scale walkable neighbourhoods that are beautiful and worth going to, but not just in one area in all areas of the west. The Suburban failure needs to be erased from the landscape.

@stormrobinson 2 года назад

I just can’t with the walking around outside with masks on…

@jahleeldavy 2 года назад

Lol

@BTDUBS123 3 года назад

You know what would make me depressed ? Having to walk 10 blocks to the “ park “ so that I can see grass inside the concrete jungle of this building plan. The entire idea of suburbs is having the niceties of having a backyard, while still being close enough to the city to go to and from effectively. These plans just look like any down town area that then degrades and looks terrible in 10 years

@music4thedeaf 3 года назад

Suburban sprawl bankrupted detriot. And it will kill newer cities too

@alehaim 3 года назад

There will always be suburbs, but this new zoning code is about not forcing the entire city to be an unprofitable suburb. Instead it allows for the city to grow naturally, and the down town area will develop in density as it becomes more valuable, while the suburbs/single family homes will expand outwards in a reasonable manner

@saxmanb777 3 года назад

You can still have houses with green and yards here too. It’s an easy walk from the houses to Main Street. The difference is you don’t HAVE to drive 1/4 mile just to get milk. But you can if you really want to.

@erikkrauss8481 3 года назад

When u only ally suburbs eventually being close to the city becomes way to expensive and that's how 2 hr commutes are born

@alehaim 3 года назад

@@music4thedeaf not if they are not allowed to go bankrupt by law *points forehead* I suggest video by NotJustBikes about hpw the suburbs are going bankrupta

@J-8-k 2 года назад

Социалистический бред. Зачем в городе ходить? Цель? Попытаться возродить pedestrian molls ? Поытаться возродить маленькие магазинчики? В век бесплатной доставки, и онлайн сортировки по цене? Маленькие магазинчики разорятся. Уплотнение? Оно даст только тесноту. И снижение стоимости соседних жилых строений. Дистанция между домами - это санитарная норма, попытка в приватную зону импортировать зеленую инфраструктуру, и так зеленая инфраструктура значительно дольше сохраняется, чем когда она в публичной зоне. Все соображения этого ролика - детские ошибки. Рекреационные прогулки, вот весь смысл прогулок для маленьких городов. Не нужно уплотнять застройку до дискомфорта, и даже не нужно путаться строить рекреационную зону в публичной зоне, и на муниципальном содержании. Нужно иметь и сохранить, естественный лес рядом, вне городской черты, и прогуливаться там. Ходьба за покупками полностью утратила смысл. Хотьба по каменному троттуару, облагораживание транзитных зон - утратила все смыслы кроме коррупционного. Если хотите чтото развивать - развивайте общественные зоны , не публичные, cic . Внутри общественных территорий, где можно реализовать разнообразие самоуправления, люди сами создадут и смогут поддерживать комфортную среду. И такая среда будет комфортна тем кто там живет, а не тем кто пробует навязать свои представления - вам. В советском союзе, де-факто запретив самоуправление, монополизировав освоение бюджета на благоустройство и дорожную сеть, выстроили коррупцию титанических масштабов, а на базе коррупции диктатуру. В ваших утопических идеях усматривается продвижение коррупционных стратегий, диктатуры, и неудобств для людей.

@andrewd3899 2 года назад

Made possible by Ford 😭😭😭

@dem0nchild610 3 года назад

What I'm getting from this is that everything is getting turned into a city

@freethink 3 года назад

We know not every place wants to be a city, and fortunately that is not what's being done. As the video mentions, places don't really get do-overs; if they are already built as suburbs, it's unlikely that they will be turned into cities. In this case, the city of Bastrop wants to maintain its small town feel without turning into something else - a suburb. This is a way for it to grow and maintain their intimacy, walkability and economic vitality as demand increases to live there because of their proximity to Austin.

@nishiljaiswal2216 Год назад

Define city please

@luderickwong 2 года назад

this is a repackaging of the soviet republic idea. they “zone” their city. does it make their city greener? may be? but definitely make more concrete for sure. grass and trees never get use to concrete. someone did try to make a small “zone” in our city long time ago, depends on what is on top, if soil on top of concrete, trees never grow roots, and drainage of soil becomes problem, it is hugh flower pot, a bowl of mud, when typhoon comes, they simply lie down in hugh numbers. how about vice versa? concrete on soil? it cracks faster than you think. plant roots can go 30+ feet deep and will squeeze pipes and cables underground. and trees are living creatures, they don't have obligation to follow our command to grow as we wish. you can choose fallen trees or crack roads.

@prashantpandya1751 2 года назад

wtf?

@kamielnuyens 2 года назад

0:48 "Ford Presents" ... Wait what?? No, Just no!

@rexingtonfunk 2 года назад

I already know why this is a good idea, so I support it. But this video did a terrible job at explaining anything at all, let alone why we would want a grid over a suburb. Many people like suburbs, so did you make this video for the people already convinced or to convince more people?" Why is it bad for the environment, why is it bad for traffic? This video felt like an ad for either the SimpleCity Design company, or for the town/mayor of Bastrop. Also Who is that man speaking for Bastrop?

@chappiedatass1361 2 года назад

I just can’t like this. The greatest benefit of low density areas is that you have a mental relief from the nature that isn’t bulldozed and poured with concrete. It’s better for privacy, it’s better for mental health, it’s better for noise, it allows people to use their land for things other than just a house. Packing people into cities isn’t good for mental health, it’s well documented. The idea that you’d sacrifice a number of benefits so that you can walk instead of investing in low density sprawl with efficient and well planned public infrastructure is so dumb. You could even plan a city around centralized high density housing in small areas surrounded by low density sprawl so that people can still walk and have nature and privacy and some freedom to use their land as they please. It’s just not a good idea to do everything like this, a blended approach can bring the benefits of both systems while mitigating the detriments.

@nishiljaiswal2216 Год назад

Nobody is packing people into cities. We need HUMAN ORIENTED places not cars.