Best Transit, cities & urban planning Videos
「Transit, cities & urban planning」下面有174部被不同的人、在不同月份推荐过的视频。挑的时候先看对象:入门5部,适合还没学过的人;进阶1部,适合已经懂术语的人;普通向168部,按兴趣就能看;更硬的0部,留给想看推导或细节的人。这一类数量最多的是讲解,所以它们的共同点是用一个图像或类比把一个概念补上。常出现的频道包括Not Just Bikes、BicycleDutch、Wendover Productions。目录给这个主题划的范围是:Urbanism: public transit, trains, subways, high-speed rail, cycling infrastructure, Dutch road design, city planning, zoning, housing, road safety, hyperloop critiques, walkable cities.如果只看三部,就从《How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)》开始,它负责把问题讲出画面;然后看《Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere) [ST05]》,换一种讲法或例子;最后看《Why This Channel Exists (and why I hate Houston)》,留给已经有基础的人。页面按每页24部切开,顺序看的是被推荐跨越了多少个月,不是播放量。每条标题下面那一句是这部片子自己的内容说明,用来区分它在讲定义、过程、演示还是观点。点进去能看到推荐原话、原文链接和适合谁看。看的时候把强烈推荐当成有人明确叫你去看,把引用当成只是拿来举例,把批评留下来对照,不要把每条评论都当成同一力度。

How The Auto Industry Carjacked The American Dream | Climate Town
A Climate Town video on how the auto industry reshaped American cities and culture through advertising, lobbying and campaigns like the 1939 World's Fair.

Why China Is so Good at Building Railways
A Wendover Productions explainer on how China built the world's largest high-speed rail network so quickly and why its rail strategy differs from America's.

Stop Signs Suck and We Should Get Rid of Them
Not Just Bikes argues that stop signs are a poor traffic control, drawing on Dutch practice and the Idaho stop to show intersections can be safer without them, especially for cyclists.

The Dutch Solution for Safer Sidewalks - Continuous Sidewalks
A short Not Just Bikes video on continuous sidewalks in the Netherlands, where the sidewalk runs unbroken across side streets so cars must visibly cross pedestrian space.

Safe Cycling Showdown - Good vs. Bad City Design - Plus 1 Minus 2
Not Just Bikes compares the same cycling trip to a hardware store in Calgary and in Amsterdam, using a 'plus 1 minus 2' format.

The Suburbs Are Bleeding America Dry | Climate Town (feat. @NotJustBikes)
A snarky, comedic video essay from Climate Town, with a guest appearance by Not Just Bikes, arguing that American suburban sprawl and single-family zoning are financially and environmentally unsustainable.

How an Average Family in Tokyo Can Buy a New Home
A mini-documentary by a Canadian living in Japan explaining how an average family can afford a new detached house in Tokyo.

56 High Speed Rail Links We Should've Built Already
CityNerd lays out a data-driven method for deciding where high-speed rail should be built in North America and identifies 56 city pairs that justify it, based on population and distance.

The Boring Company Information Session
A long information session where The Boring Company presents its vision for Loop, an underground high-speed transit system, and the traffic problems it aims to solve.

The UK's Failed Experiment in Rail Privatization
Wendover Productions explains how UK rail privatization worked and why it failed.

What It Really Takes to Convert an Office Building to Apartments | Odd Lots
An Odd Lots podcast episode on why converting empty office buildings into apartments is hard.

James Kunstler: How bad architecture wrecked cities
James Howard Kunstler's TED talk argues that American public spaces and architecture have become unworthy of care, damaging civic life.

Why this British crossroads was so dangerous
Tom Scott explains why Ipley Cross in England's New Forest was one of Britain's most dangerous junctions.

Does Vienna Have the World's Best Council Housing? Swimming Pools, Private TV Channels & More
Channel 4's George Clarke visits a council estate in Vienna and is surprised by amenities such as swimming pools and private TV channels.

How American Fire Departments are Getting People Killed
Not Just Bikes argues that oversized American fire trucks and fire department requirements push cities toward wide roads and dangerous street design.

Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed | Roman Mars
Roman Mars gives a funny TED talk on vexillology, laying out five basic principles of good flag design and why many city flags fail them.

The One Tiny Law That Keeps Amtrak Terrible
Wendover Productions explains why Amtrak trains run late: most Amtrak routes run on freight-owned track, and the law giving passenger trains priority is rarely enforced.

The Non-capitalist Solution to the Housing Crisis
About Here looks at the housing crisis and argues for non-market solutions such as co-op and social housing, drawing on Vancouver's situation.

Modern Times Streetwise - part 1/4 - 1996 BBC Documentary how become a London cabbie.
Part one of a 1996 BBC Modern Times documentary on the training to become a London black cab driver.

Induced Demand & Roadway Widening: Everything You Always Wanted to Know (and Weren't Afraid to Ask)
CityNerd Ray Delahanty explains induced demand and what happens when freeways are widened.

BahnMining - Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier (David Kriesel)
David Kriesel's 36C3 talk, in German, analyzes a year of scraped data on every stop of every long-distance train in Germany.

The Miniature Microcars of Amsterdam
Not Just Bikes looks at the tiny microcars such as the Canta seen around Amsterdam.

[60 fps] The Flying Train, Germany, 1902
Neural-network upscaled, 60 fps, stabilized and colorized version of 1902 footage of the Wuppertal Schwebebahn suspended railway in Germany.

SIMCITY 3000 - MAGNASANTI - 6 MILLION - ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM.flv
A video tour of Magnasanti, a SimCity city built to hold six million residents, pushed to the absolute maximum and inspired by Kowloon Walled City.