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#atlanta #urbanplanning #videoessay Hello, after a long hiatus, I’M BACK!!!!! and with a new series, Urban Fox. A new video series focused on urban planning on current issues facing modern American cities, using my hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, as an example. In this first episode, I wanted to explore and explain what makes the Atlanta suburbs so sprawling and poorly planned. Many urban planners think that Houston, Texas, is the worst city in the United States for urban sprawl. This is based largely on the incredibly popular Not Just Bikes video essay. I think this is wrong, and while Houston is largely a suburban hellhole, in this video I make the case that not all sprawling, car-oriented suburbs are created equal, and because of how Atlanta developed, I think it’s the worst case of bad urban planning practice in the U.S. We’ll also explore how Atlanta’s suburbs can densify and become more livable places. I hope you enjoy it! The city is worse than Houston 0:00 What makes a suburb good or bad 2:53 Atlanta’s sprawl problem 7:01 How cul-de-sacs ruin walkability and urban development 11:05 The origin of sprawl (Atlanta’s suburban counties) 15:27 Fixing it by becoming a city 20:32 BSKY: https://bsky.app/profile/ltfoxyt.bsky.social
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Can we EVER have a video on YouTube about ANYTHING that doesn't have its injection of racial virtue signaling? Is this a YouTube requirement, or is it just a compulsion?
nah it still houston bruh 😂
I visited my aunt in the suburbs of houston when i was 16 and it was the first contact with american architecture for me. Since then i appreciate the cities here in germany much more and i could never live outside europe
I watch a bunch of urban planning youtubers and i'm not going to lie theyre all kind of a bore you have got to be one of the only ones ive actually been interested in watching keep it up…
Thing is people want large houses i can live with these things if the option is a small house or apparment
Throwing Atlanta a bone: at least before the current administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention operated an interesting and informative museum, with an art gallery. When I visited, they had an exhibit of the deadliest viruses knitted by a scientist.
People who love large yards spend 1/4 of their “free” time in steel cages they have to pay for.
Living in Houston cost more than people think : Houston residents pay 34% of net income on housing and Tokyo residents pay approximately 35%, but Tokyo residents spend 2%-4% on transportation, whereas Houstonians dined over 20% on transportation.
7:42 "it sucks for everyone" except anyone who doesn't want to live in bug-boxes stacked one on top of another.
3:09 nice pearl-clutching. How many do you live next to, pal?
Great video! Although I disagree with the cityhood expansion in the metro area, you can't deny that the suburban planning problem is bad.
The main reasons I disagree:
– The hyperlocal approach will never fix the issue of the traffic network (MARTA or another competing transit program will need approvals from way too many municipalities)
– When the new cities incorporate, they continue to use country resources, but hoard the tax only for the cities, thus straining the county (Clayton County, I'm looking square at you).
– For larger initiatives, cities with a well-coordinated metro often can propose an easier operation than the Metro Atlanta area because of the lack of municipalities in the way (Examples: Amazon choosing DC and New York City, GE choosing Boston)
We actually need to reduce these duplicitous cities and fuse some of them. Ultimately keeping our gov't accountable without the need for hyperlocalization.
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How many videos are you people gonna make about the same thing? If people really cared that much they wouldn’t live there! Give it a break already! Sheesh!
Your video is the first one I've come across that details the insane clusterfuck that is metro Atlanta. This place is basically one giant suburban subdivision. We moved here in 1989. Back then the metro area had 1.7 million people. There was hardly any traffic. Traveling between places was far less hectic, but still we noticed. Coming from Chicago and before the internet, cell phones and Google Maps, we noticed how you had to go out of your way, sometimes way out of your way to get from A to B. You still do. We noticed how natives of the area couldn't tell you how to get from your house to their house (we thought that was really strange). As the population took off around 1993 during the run up to the Olympics, the traffic got worse. And worse. Before the Olympics, with paper map in hand, you could drive slowly to your destination, stopping every now and then to check your route at a gas station or a store (yes, people had to do that). After the Olympics, the traffic really took off along with, of course, the population. Now we have what you have described and I will call a giant clusterfuck. The metro area has too many street names. It has a street numbering "system" that has no meaning (it often stops at the end of block and doesn't continue). NO ONE at the city, county or state level seems to want to fix any of this. At first we thought this was a Southern thing. But after visiting most of the major cities in the South, it's clear, this is a metro Atlanta thing. You didn't get into race, but that is a well documented driver of much of this disconnect. Good video.
I hate subdivisions, personally. Their profit motive makes really disingenuous environments that aren't made for people… They're made for profit. I wish we put people above profit 🙁
And stop all this driving. Get a bike or a horse. Your clogging up everything including lungs. Go away.
No government official in GA has a real brain 😅😂
All this & it still comes back to racism 😂😂 there even building more houses now just to make it harder in the future to plan better & more urban infrastructure
Maybe I am the only one but improve the audio please
I'm not from Atlanta (I'm from Long Island), but for certain, Atlanta and the state of Georgia are way worse at urban planning, transit planning and NIMBY lobbyist bureaucracy than Tbilisi and the country of Georgia.
Its just going to keep on happening. Hell, urban sprawl has been hitting Jackson County over the last 20 years with new Subdivisions popping that still use the Slug style.
lol he is such a hater yall… but you right
12:00 Blackburn Park Dunwoody
5:17 wait a minute….
I live in a quiet, non-HOA, non-generic neighborhood in metro Atlanta right off of a major limited-access state route where I can only turn right-in and right-out of. There is a new shopping center, as the crow flies, about 0.45 miles from our backyard. However, due to the right-out only nature of our neighborhood drive onto the limited-access state route, we have to drive, get this, a total of 2.8 miles to get there. Right-out of our neighborhood, then about 0.6 miles downstream to make a U-turn, then take the exit ramp onto the local road, turn left, across the ramp terminal intersection for the opposite direction for the limited-access state route, then turn left at the shopping center signal, then another 0.2 miles to get in to the parking lot.
Is it too much to ask for a non-motorized trail from our neighborhood to the shopping center? I would love a 0.4-0.5 mile walk to the shopping center instead of all this useless driving.
23:46 is that the ending music from Super Mario World?!
I always joked that Atlanta was so stubborn, after Sherman burnt Atlanta down, they built it back up on the same streets instead of upgrading it. I am not even shocked that the reality is worse.
Born and raised in GA, I had to throw in the towel and move, it isn't going to get better any time soon. Got out of the south and moved to an actual human sized city
Atlanta is the worst and ppl get upset about it.
Kind of want a playlist. The classical music was a nice touch.
Two things:
1. as a Minnesotan, those temps do make me wish for the sweet release of a sub-arctic polar vortex.
2. my buddy who moved to Houston put it best, "Houston is a swamp town for swamp people."
And yet it thrives
This is one of the first videos I’ve seen calling for Atlanta to consolidate, I feel so seen lol
Atlantan here. You touched on the micro level funneling of traffic, but it happens at the macro level too. All across the north metro, the small number of river crossings funnel huge amounts of traffic into I-285, GA-400, and a small number of surface streets. If you cross the hooch on 285 near Cumberland, the next crossing north is Johnson Ferry almost 5 miles away, then the next one north from there is Roswell Rd more than 6mi away.
why can't americanoids just build massive panel housing developments with amenities and public transport linked to them