What is Urban Planning? Crash Course Geography #47
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Date: 2022-04-04
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franbalcal
Weird that you used Lima as an example instead of Cuzco, the capital of the Inca empire, where the spanish literally built the Spanish city on the Inca one, often building upon or repurposing using existing Inca structures. If you are going to stick with the Lima example would have been cool to include how it has grown well outside the Colonial structure and now the wealthy areas are in other places, as well as the most deprived areas and the financial districts.
Also weird the in the beginning you mention the colonial cities the spanish built in -central american- and the -American South West - then give as the first example Lima which is in South America.
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Weird that you used Lima as an example instead of Cuzco, the capital of the Inca empire, where the spanish literally built the Spanish city on the Inca one, often building upon or repurposing using existing Inca structures. If you are going to stick with the Lima example would have been cool to include how it has grown well outside the Colonial structure and now the wealthy areas are in other places, as well as the most deprived areas and the financial districts.
Also weird the in the beginning you mention the colonial cities the spanish built in -central american- and the -American South West - then give as the first example Lima which is in South America.
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Joe
ATTENTION BRITISH URBAN PLANNERS!
Please stop making estates that are all curly, they look pretty on a map and have some charm in real life too, but they are simply too big if made of semi detached houses to be walkable, but if you insist on them at least don't have random fences which fence different estates off even though there is no house or garden or anything between them because I keep getting lost when I try and and get off the noisy smelly main roads I have to walk around to get anywhere because your predecessors did a bad job accounting for the fact that humans exist.
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ATTENTION BRITISH URBAN PLANNERS!
Please stop making estates that are all curly, they look pretty on a map and have some charm in real life too, but they are simply too big if made of semi detached houses to be walkable, but if you insist on them at least don't have random fences which fence different estates off even though there is no house or garden or anything between them because I keep getting lost when I try and and get off the noisy smelly main roads I have to walk around to get anywhere because your predecessors did a bad job accounting for the fact that humans exist.
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Adam
When I was doing grad work on cities in colonial America, my advisor showed me how you can read the worldview of a city's framers from the plan of the city. Boston, where Puritans believed in the will of God being sovereign, was a city built in circles around the natural set-up while more Enlightenment (and later) cities like Philadelphia and Savannah were built in squares with straight roads because their founders believed humans could apply their reason to the way the city was laid out. Fascinating video, Alize!
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When I was doing grad work on cities in colonial America, my advisor showed me how you can read the worldview of a city's framers from the plan of the city. Boston, where Puritans believed in the will of God being sovereign, was a city built in circles around the natural set-up while more Enlightenment (and later) cities like Philadelphia and Savannah were built in squares with straight roads because their founders believed humans could apply their reason to the way the city was laid out. Fascinating video, Alize!
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Samuel
Heeey, I'm born and raised in Brasilia. Didn't expect it to appear here on Crash Course Geography, but really. Why wouldn't?
As addressed, inequality here is crystal clear. The city is yet unable to support all of its growth, infrastructure-wise. Even though the -satellites- are technically city neighborhoods.
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Heeey, I'm born and raised in Brasilia. Didn't expect it to appear here on Crash Course Geography, but really. Why wouldn't?
As addressed, inequality here is crystal clear. The city is yet unable to support all of its growth, infrastructure-wise. Even though the -satellites- are technically city neighborhoods.
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Afrinaut
As an African-American, who is researching African civilizations and traditional urban design. Thank you so much for mentioning Indigenous American city design! We all live in the Americas, we need to learn how the original cities were built, not only the cities of Eurocentric designers.
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As an African-American, who is researching African civilizations and traditional urban design. Thank you so much for mentioning Indigenous American city design! We all live in the Americas, we need to learn how the original cities were built, not only the cities of Eurocentric designers.
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Andy
We need to think about environmental change like some kind of Climate Town. We need cities with good public transport infrastructure, and not have so much room dedicated to cars. We ride trains, buses, trams and all sorts of things, Not Just Bikes, but bikes are cool too.
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We need to think about environmental change like some kind of Climate Town. We need cities with good public transport infrastructure, and not have so much room dedicated to cars. We ride trains, buses, trams and all sorts of things, Not Just Bikes, but bikes are cool too.
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Devyn
Urban Planner here. Never trust real estate agents to tell you the nitty gritty about the property. If you live in a buyer beware state you need to call community development to make sure that you don-t have to end up correcting what the prior owner made a code violation
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Urban Planner here. Never trust real estate agents to tell you the nitty gritty about the property. If you live in a buyer beware state you need to call community development to make sure that you don-t have to end up correcting what the prior owner made a code violation
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James
Have been doing urban planning for 40 years. We're losing momentum. Poorly designed urban areas are what is heating up the planet. Used to manage Northern Virginia for USDA NRCS. Better planning 20 years ago than today.
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Have been doing urban planning for 40 years. We're losing momentum. Poorly designed urban areas are what is heating up the planet. Used to manage Northern Virginia for USDA NRCS. Better planning 20 years ago than today.
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shadebug
It-s weird to define suburbs as car dependent when here in London the suburbs are very much train dependent. There are definitely more cars than in town but that-s mostly for people that don-t commute in
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It-s weird to define suburbs as car dependent when here in London the suburbs are very much train dependent. There are definitely more cars than in town but that-s mostly for people that don-t commute in
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Scott
Aren't those apartment buildings in Italy mostly empty because of bugs? I could be thinking of the 1's that are in China I forget there's so many new fancy buildings now with green spaces.
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Aren't those apartment buildings in Italy mostly empty because of bugs? I could be thinking of the 1's that are in China I forget there's so many new fancy buildings now with green spaces.
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