How Are Cities Organized? Crash Course Geography #46
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Akhila
I don-t normally comment on YT videos, but I would just like to point out -5: 00, industrialization actually occurred much before the 1850s during the Market Revolution which was more like 1820s to 1830s, and rapid economically societal changes ended primarily after the Jacksonian era.
I would also make the argument that -intense competition- for locations is a bit of an over exaggeration. Immigrants like the Irish and Germans were kind of forced into low/middle income areas given their financial statuses coming into the United States didn-t give them the ability to be able to afford rich property, let alone the fact that rampant discrimination they faced would have put an end to this anyways. And given the time period, this was still mostly before the Jacksonian era of democracy which sparked motivation for accomplishment in the lower classes. So, -intense competition- is a little dramatic. There was tons of economic competition, like in the marketplace, but not really in property or locations simply because -intense competition- wasn-t possible at this time (yet)
Good video though, I liked it. Just wanted to point this out
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I don-t normally comment on YT videos, but I would just like to point out -5: 00, industrialization actually occurred much before the 1850s during the Market Revolution which was more like 1820s to 1830s, and rapid economically societal changes ended primarily after the Jacksonian era.
I would also make the argument that -intense competition- for locations is a bit of an over exaggeration. Immigrants like the Irish and Germans were kind of forced into low/middle income areas given their financial statuses coming into the United States didn-t give them the ability to be able to afford rich property, let alone the fact that rampant discrimination they faced would have put an end to this anyways. And given the time period, this was still mostly before the Jacksonian era of democracy which sparked motivation for accomplishment in the lower classes. So, -intense competition- is a little dramatic. There was tons of economic competition, like in the marketplace, but not really in property or locations simply because -intense competition- wasn-t possible at this time (yet)
Good video though, I liked it. Just wanted to point this out
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Pfhorrest
Commuting is still a luxury, in the sense that it's something few people can really afford, it's a burden that you'd have to be relatively rich, in the sense of having enough free time because you can work few enough hours because you're paid highly enough per hour, to actually -afford- it. But the alternatives have become -even more- burdensome, so people are forced into alternatives that they still can't afford, but have no choice but to pony up for anyway.
Look at it this way: people are more eager now to live closer to the city center, where poorer people traditionally live, because more people are poor. But there are -so many- people -so eager- to live there that the demand make that expensive -- more expensive than the alternatives traditionally reserved for the rich.
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Commuting is still a luxury, in the sense that it's something few people can really afford, it's a burden that you'd have to be relatively rich, in the sense of having enough free time because you can work few enough hours because you're paid highly enough per hour, to actually -afford- it. But the alternatives have become -even more- burdensome, so people are forced into alternatives that they still can't afford, but have no choice but to pony up for anyway.
Look at it this way: people are more eager now to live closer to the city center, where poorer people traditionally live, because more people are poor. But there are -so many- people -so eager- to live there that the demand make that expensive -- more expensive than the alternatives traditionally reserved for the rich.
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Dea
I hadn't realized Crash Course started doing a geography series! I'm a world history teacher with a love for geography and really love the production changes that have gone into this series versus some of the earlier ones done by Crash Course. I also really appreciate the indigenous people whose land these cities currently occupy, thank you for acknowledging that!
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I hadn't realized Crash Course started doing a geography series! I'm a world history teacher with a love for geography and really love the production changes that have gone into this series versus some of the earlier ones done by Crash Course. I also really appreciate the indigenous people whose land these cities currently occupy, thank you for acknowledging that!
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Dhindara
Cities don't need to be organised around the excessively noisy automobile. Properly built cities are walkable/cyclable, have a well-developed public transport system and offer calm public spaces for people to enjoy gathering outdoors. Just look at older cities that have not been overtaken by the car craze and you'll see what I mean.
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Cities don't need to be organised around the excessively noisy automobile. Properly built cities are walkable/cyclable, have a well-developed public transport system and offer calm public spaces for people to enjoy gathering outdoors. Just look at older cities that have not been overtaken by the car craze and you'll see what I mean.
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J.
Just a small correction on the Fez part. Arabic is complex. Suq is not just one place like target or home Depot, Suq is the whole commercial zone. Think of it like the whole Mall or shipping center. So it's not suqs which sell books and suqs which sell paint. It's all actually one Suq with different people selling different things.
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Just a small correction on the Fez part. Arabic is complex. Suq is not just one place like target or home Depot, Suq is the whole commercial zone. Think of it like the whole Mall or shipping center. So it's not suqs which sell books and suqs which sell paint. It's all actually one Suq with different people selling different things.
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Eustache
There's also the differences between cities established after the proliferation of motor vehicles and those established before. In term of how the former mightve been designed around car ownership & driving experience instead of being pedestrian friendly.
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There's also the differences between cities established after the proliferation of motor vehicles and those established before. In term of how the former mightve been designed around car ownership & driving experience instead of being pedestrian friendly.
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Lakrids
The inner city is a highly sought after place to live in European cities.
The relocation to the suburbs did not leave the city center as an empty, dilapidated and underfunded problem in the same way as in North American cities.
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The inner city is a highly sought after place to live in European cities.
The relocation to the suburbs did not leave the city center as an empty, dilapidated and underfunded problem in the same way as in North American cities.
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sahara
for next time u should totally talk about how american model of planing cities was used in the gulf countries in cities lie dubai which didnt really work, also u should mention the problems dubai have in itss planningg and design
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for next time u should totally talk about how american model of planing cities was used in the gulf countries in cities lie dubai which didnt really work, also u should mention the problems dubai have in itss planningg and design
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Simon
Whilst interesting, I would have loved a less USA centric approach since for example EU cities are vastly different. And the USA approach has been attempted in the UAE with quite mixed results to put it mildly.
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Whilst interesting, I would have loved a less USA centric approach since for example EU cities are vastly different. And the USA approach has been attempted in the UAE with quite mixed results to put it mildly.
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Britney
Hearing about the structure of Fez is so eye-opening and interesting since I've only ever lived in America my whole life. Sometimes it's just hard to wrap your head around how much can go on in one city!
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Hearing about the structure of Fez is so eye-opening and interesting since I've only ever lived in America my whole life. Sometimes it's just hard to wrap your head around how much can go on in one city!
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