Comments by "pongop" (@pongop) on "City Beautiful" channel.

  1. I was so excited at the title and the video delivered! This is one of your best videos of all time! I appreciate it as a history/social science teacher. This is a great, brief overview! I may actually use it in class. It fits in perfectly with my World History units at the start of year. I love the Simpsons reference! I wasn't aware of ancient cities in Malaysia and Myanmar, so that's awesome to know. Great points about the problems with cities, civilization, hierarchy, private property, and inequality. The thought occurs that humans were developing beer around the same time as cities, social hierarchy, and inequality, and beer is great at dumbing people down and keeping them in line. In Mesopotamia, the government gave people beer rations. Intriguing... The timing and content--about humans' shift from villages to cities and the accompanying change from circular cities to rectilineal cities--is especially interesting to me right now. I just watched an amazing video about how to turn a standard neighborhood into a village (rectilineal to circular). Folks are seeing the disadvantages of cities and wanting to benefit from the advantages of villages. Anyway, amazing stuff!
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  2. It's mind boggling that something can be so inexpensive that the US doesn't have a unit of currency small enough. A penny is double the cost. Wow.
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  3. that would be interesting! some students refer to living on campus as "the bubble"
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  4.  @evanoc  That sounds very interesting. Maybe the video could also touch on Finland's Housing First program.
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  5. I wish I could experience attending all of the colleges/universities and living in all the college towns. Well, a lot of them anyway. I think about how my life ended up partially due to the schools I went to, the professors and classes offered there, the people I met, campus meals, the cities they're in, the the relationships I was/am in, my career, the music I was exposed to... and how things could have turned out differently and I could have had a different life in a different place if I went to different schools. There are so many interesting and unique classes and instructors at each and every community college, university, technical school, etc. There are so many possibilities of intriguing classes I could have taken, what I could have learned, the experiences I could have had, the friendships and relationships, and who I am now... and I would like to experience it all.
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  6. Me too with walking.
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  7. Beer and bread may been developed together, but historians debate whether beer or bread actually came first. Some argue it was beer!
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  8. Great video! I would love to see one about floating cities and seasteading! That would be so cool!
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  9. Hey, it's Story Time with Mr. Beat! I teach history, so I've come across your videos when looking for material. Great stuff!
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  10. Lol true! Plus Orthanc further violated zoning restrictions when it added an industrial area to its residential facilities, not to mentioni violating the protected open space.
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  11. And it's by design
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  12. Yes! Great points!
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  13. I enjoyed visiting Eugene and UO a few years ago. I also liked Corvallis and OSU.
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  14. A video on sacred geometry in cities from a city planning perspective would be so interesting and unique! The YT documentary Secrets in Plain Sight blew my mind, and I will never see cities the same again. It's so interesting how European and American cities installed Egyptian obelisks (DC, Paris, London, Vatican), and how there are certain shapes, measurements, and proportions embedded in the design of these cities, which originate from ancient civilizations. I know City Beautiful would make an awesome video on this topic, and maybe just a little less conspiracy theory-ish than the documentary.
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  15.  @jumboshrimps4498  Many of those other poor communities probably don't have the level of police violence and brutality that Compton has had.
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  16. I want to live in SLO!
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  17.  @LucasDimoveo  Suburbs are good at ruining the landscape
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  18.  @Labyrinth6000  Redlining
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  19. The thought occurs that humans were developing beer around the same time as cities, social hierarchy, and inequality, and beer is great at dumbing people down and keeping them in line. In Mesopotamia, the government gave people beer rations. Intriguing...
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  20. Yes! Story time with Mr. Beat! I show your videos to my students every year! Great stuff!
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  21. David Graeber was awesome!
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  22. Yes, definitely lots of problems with cities, civilization, hierarchy, private property, and inequality. The video mentioned it briefly, but more on this topic would have been great.
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  23. Thank you for sharing. I also like how inclusive and compassionate this channel is. He has discussed Universal Design and accessibility in other videos as well. Universal design just makes sense because it benefits everybody.
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  24. Do you know Andy Bernard? Or Broccoli Rob?
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  25.  @ThePoopantsPlayers  Lol
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  26. Yes, Africa is the future!
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  27. I was like, "he's polyamorous?" but then I realized you're talking about the school! lol
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  28. I grew up there and rode the ferries but I didn't know about the water taxis! I'll have to check that out next time I visit.
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  29. The Anaconda burrito?
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  30. Yes, Davis is great! I love the big slide there! Davis, Santa Cruz, SLO, and Isla Vista/Goleta are all great campuses/college towns here that I love to visit! I wish I could live in all of them.
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  31. Awesome video on an interesting place! I appreciate the historical content. I hope to one day see a video on floating cities too!
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  32. That sounds amazing and exactly what I'm looking for! Solarpunk, eco futurist utopia, here I come!
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  33. The history and geography videos are some of my favorites! Great one!
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  34. Good points! In my city, though, the malls can be dangerous, with shootings and bomb threats.
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  35. This video puts together concepts and designs from some of your previous videos in an interesting way. And I'm always here for history and for India. Cool video!
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  36.  @AsiaMinor12  Carrying on the Griot tradition
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  37. Very true! Carrying on the Griot tradition
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  38. The US is wild. We're crazy here.
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  39. What an intriguing and surprising video! Today the LA area has several downtowns, each pretty small. Driving, you'll pass them. Cities/metropolitan areas are beasts and LA is one of the strangest beasts of all. It's difficult to comprehend. If you start at the ocean and drive east, it goes forever. So many beautiful cultures and communities and tons of great vegan food options though! Thank you for the video!
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  40. Yay! Gilmore Girls! Stars Hollow! I love that you included this because I totally thought of Stars Hollow when you mentioned the town meeting format. This is now one of my favorite videos. I'm sure GG fans would love to see a future video on the planning and design of Stars Hollow! I know I would. <3
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  41. Great idea and very inspiring and hopeful, especially your conclusion --- getting rid of cars and they'd be just a blip in history, a failed experiment. What if we also got rid of cities (which will expand continually as they're part of civilization)? They would also became a mere blip in human history. I know you love cities, but I think they're unsustainable. As a part of civilization, cities continually grow and expand and exhaust their resources, just as civilizations themselves. That or we need a solarpunk future with solarpunk cities. Those are the only possibilities I see.
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  42. This is by far City Beautiful's most watched video. Interesting.
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  43. Awesome video! I love and miss the Northwest! In my 25 years of growing up and living in the Northwest/Seattle metro area (been gone several years now), I used the following forms of transit: bike, skateboard, car, bus, train, light rail, monorail, canoe, row boat, small/local cruise ship, ferry, small prop plane, commercial airplanes (prop and jet). This video made me realize how many forms of transportation are available there. Wow!
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  44. It seems like the US invading North Korea may have contributed to the North Korea of today. The US is always creating its own enemies so it can perpetually fight wars and unify the Americans behind the government. 1984.
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  45. I did not know that Nicholas Flamel was a real, historical person!
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  46. Crappy PG&E. They exist for profit as a private company, so what did we expect? Bring back public utilities!
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  47. Awesome video! I appreciate you covering Native American cities. These indigenous communities were amazing. Some Pueblo cities were astronomically aligned. I would love to see these sites like Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, and Cahokia. I was fortunate to see some Mayan sites and holy cow -- the Mayans were amazing.
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  48.  @siefer117  Humans are both cooperative and competitive, but mainly cooperative. One who thinks humans are only competitive doesn't know history or anthropology.
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  49.  @Alex-pm9vy  For tools, not solely for clubs. There are many examples of past and contemporary societies who are peaceful, nonviolent, and cooperative.
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  50. @markvictor8776 Santa Cruz sounds amazing back in the day. That's cool you got go . The campus is amazing. Yes, Reed College is similar to how UCSC used to be and has a nice campus. The Evergreen State College is also similar to how UCSC was. Evergreen still doesn't have grades, whereas UCSC implemented grades in 2000, I believe. Both schools have weird mascots, too. Although Evergreen is changing and struggling now. I went there in 2005-2007. It's basically Hogwarts. I miss it.
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  51.  @skysurfer5cva  Please make our city better! lol. It and the government have always been so backwards. We're finally making some good changes in terms of design and planning, but criminalizing the homeless and canceling Art Hop are stupid.
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  52. Lol stop rubbing it in! I'm reminded of an early COVID meme that said, "we get it! everyone in Europe has balconies!" from those videos of people playing music and talking to each other from their balconies.
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  53.  @sigmaballsnetwork  Are they any relation to Barney Rubble?
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  54. Yes, Davis of course! I'm glad to know SLO is on the list too! I love the Central Coast and might want to live there. Maybe we'll be neighbors! Hey, Prof. Can you hook a fellow educator up with a high school teaching job? =) Yay, Madonna Inn! I thought that looked familiar. I finally got to stay there a couple years ago! Awesome to know about SLO. Thank you for the video!
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  55. I love the history videos!
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  56. Great Rousseau quote! It's still true!
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  57. Cool video! Now I'm hungry for Indian food.
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  58. I knew some towns had banned chain restaurants and businesses, but I wasn't aware of drive thru bans. Great idea! And cool that SLO bans them. And yet another reason I need to move to SLO!
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  59.  @Lucciii32  Humans are primates. We are social and we evolved and adapted mainly through cooperation, as did our primate cousins. We have the potential for both civility and brutality. It's hard to pinpoint and say for sure what is human nature.
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  60.  @Crocophant572  That sounds amazing
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  61. Cool video! I would love to see a video on ancient and indigenous cities as well. There are so many great topics! Indus Valley cities had advanced plumbing and sewer systems. Native American and other cities were aligned with celestial events. The Mayans created huge networks of cities from the jungle, linked by white streets and causeways that light up at night by reflecting moonlight. Cahokia being one of the largest cities in the world. The unbelievable beauty and cleanliness of Tenochtitlan. Mesopotamian, Greek, and Roman cities. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon! The oldest cities in the world. So many amazing possibilities, and you would make it so awesome!
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  62.  @dirtydan2721  Schools teach sex ed. LGBTQ people, relationships, and sexuality exist. Therefore, it's part of sex ed. The better educated everyone is, the better off society will be. Then we won't have ignorant, homophobic dopes like you spewing your virulent stupidity over the place. You should go live in Afghanistan. I think you would agree with the Taliban's educational policies.
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  63.  @dirtydan2721  What if your kid ends up LGBTQ? You're obviously not talking to them about reality, and if the schools don't, then no one will, and your kid will have a much more difficult life and will be more likely to develop mental health issues and commit suicide.
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  64.  @dirtydan2721  You also have the right to send your kid to a private school of your choice and stop denying critical education to the public school students.
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  65. Thank you for another interesting video on an important topic. I would love to see your take on floating cities!
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  66. The Venus Project
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  67. Just thought about this video again on these headlines "Florida Gov. DeSantis signs bill revoking Disney’s special district status." We'll see what happens...
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  68. Can you get DoorDash in the Vatican?
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  69. I'm picturing a halved jelly donut.
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  70. Yess, shout out to the beautiful Pacific Northwest! Tacoma! The NW, California, and Hawai'i are the best parts of the country! Too expensive, though.
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  71.  @megaboz42  Good point. But speaking for myself (different than most), I hate indoor malls, so I don't use them. I used to go to the Fulton Mall, however (before they changed it -- now I don't go anymore). With parking on the outside of the Fulton Mall, even more walking was required. So I did get some exercise by using the Fulton Mall, and I don't from indoor malls. I also used to ride my bike through the Fulton Mall, which was safer and more pleasant than taking the downtown streets, and I also got exercise that way. Also by strolling/biking the Fulton Mall, I got to enjoy the fountains, artwork, and historical monuments.
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  72. Cool, there's a vegetarian restaurant on one of the Paris streets! Now I'm hungry. Maoz Vegetarian. It's up a Mediterranean/falafel restaurant chain. I looked it up lol.
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  73. Everybody who isn't from a small town wants to live in a small town until they actually live then. Then they realize that everybody knows your business, there is a lack of opportunity and social mobility, most people are narrow-minded hicks, and that it's kind of awful in a lot of ways. That said, I wish Stars Hollow were a real place!
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  74. I'm from Washington State (which also had a Vancouver), and we pronounce both cities as Ian Maki said (van-COO-ver)
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  75.  @fredashay  Lots of people around the world ride bicycles in all kinds of extreme weather. Americans are just babies. Myself included. But my sister isn't and she rides in all kinds of weather.
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  76. Co-ops are awesome! There are some amazing co-ops and intentional communities around the world.
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  77.  @jeremyepstein7977  It's not a restriction; it's the purpose around which this intentional community was created.
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  78. Interesting video! I keep seeing ads to visit the Santa Maria area as a less expensive alternative to staying closer to the ocean. I want to live on the Central Coast, but it's expensive, so I've looked a little at the more inland areas like Santa Maria. This is very helpful. Thank you! And yay for SLO!
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  79.  @ThatOneNerd14  Very true. If you look up Food Dessert in the dictionary, you'll get a picture of Fresno's north vs south sides.
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  80. Clueless!!! 😍
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  81.  @BrandonWilliams-wf6hg  You're thinking of Europe.
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  82. Thank you for making all your videos so inclusive!
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  83. Lol how are the Suns going to threaten to move to Seattle? The Seattle Suns? Something about that just doesn't sound quite right.
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  84. Great video! Thank you for keeping it real and discussing so important topics. Yeah, Parks and Rec! There's also hotel near the town hall with a courtyard that they filmed scene in.
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  85. This is one of your best videos! As a history/government/social science teacher, I may be biased though.
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  86. There were/are underground tunnels underneath all this too! And that history is even more fascinating (and secretive) than the Fulton Mall story.
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  87. Yes, Hearst Castle and the Central Coast!
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  88. In Gilmore Girls they say that the correct plural of "cul-de-sac" is "culs-de-sac" rather than "cul-de-sacs." I looked it up and both ways are actually correct.
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  89. Shout out to us surviving the Central Valley heat!
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  90. Thank you for the great lesson!
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  91.  @catlerbatty  So true! Universal design benefits all of us!
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  92. Stop rubbing it in already! Lol
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  93. There was an FDR Jr?!
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  94. In my city, the wealthy side of town has bike lanes and nice, separate bike trails through nature. The rest of the people have to ride on the regular hot streets with the crazy drivers.
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  95.  @abdullahal-turaifi2692  Thanks! NEOM looks cool! I hadn't heard of it. Akon City is a similar project in Senegal that I'm excited about.
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  96. Thanks for another great video! I would love to see your take on floating cities next! =)
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  97. Dave Amos! This is LITERALLY the best video on how cities are designed.
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  98. Jolibee! Great video!
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  99. Fresno and Modesto! That is interesting to know about the plats and it makes sense because Fresno developed with the railroad. Cool! Tacoma is also awesome!
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  100. Lol good point!
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  101. Interesting video! Every community should hire you and we would improve this country one place at a time.
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  102. Great video on a great city! I'm from the Seattle area and enjoyed the waterfront many times. I haven't been back for years. Maybe the next time I'm able to visit, this project will be completed. I'm interested to see how it turns out.
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  103. Truth
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  104.  @siefer117  Ooohh, I've been exposed! What a brash, provocative investigator you are.
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  105.  @soundscape26  It was until you came along. You just now single-handedly ruined YouTube forever.
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  106.  @siefer117  Don't come for me because your mom already came for me last night
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  107.  @thomaswalsh4552  There's both cooperation and competition within humans and across all of nature. But especially since cities, hierarchy, and social stratification. Some people get a skewed sense of history and human nature by viewing the world through modern, civilized, or capitalist lenses.
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  108. Parks and Rec! "You just got jammed!"
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  109. This great video on the city level of wildfire design/planning is a perfect companion to @Andrew Millison's video on the individual home level of "Permaculture Design for Wildfire Defense". I would love to see a collaboration between your two channels about integrating eco/permaculture design at all levels. @Andrew Millison's permaculture video: https://youtu.be/y_HEHlE-_dE
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  110. I enjoyed going to school in Olympia and I've enjoyed visiting other west coast college towns: Bellingham, Corvallis, Eugene, Arcata, Davis, Santa Cruz, SLO, and Isla Vista/Goleta. Although I've never lived in one. I wish I could live in all of them! Been to Pullman but definitely wouldn't live there. Wow, I've been to quite a few college towns. I hadn't realized.
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  111. What a fun and unique video format! I loved it. Great video on one of the best cities on the planet. It really makes me nostalgic for the Northwest! But now the whole area is so expensive that I don't know if I can afford to move back.
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  112. Another awesome video! I love these history heavy ones! And I love the Catan footage!
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  113. Very interesting concept and video! Hopefully more cities will adopt public ridesharing. I was just in Pasadena for work.
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  114. Dear City Beautiful -- Cool video! Two fascinating Fresno places and history (if you're interested) -- Forestiere Underground Gardens! And the Chinatown Underground Tunnels! Both of which Fresno didn't care to preserve, and actually demolished most of. But at least we have what we have left.
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  115. I've always wanted to live near or in the forest. I'm questioning that now with all these wildfires. I dislike living in this desert valley but ironically the hottest place has so far been the safest from the wildfires.
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  116. Great points!
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  117. Interesting video! I've been to Redmond a few times. I can't recall if I've been to the Redmond Towne Center, but there is something similar in Lakewood, WA, a suburb of Tacoma. I it's even called Lakewood Town Center.
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  118.  @lunalinda9906  You're welcome! It gets a little conspiracy theory-y, but super intriguing and interesting, and changed how I look at cities, architecture, and history. Thanks and take care!
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  119. Yes, Fresno! I laughed at us being a role model, though. The city and government have always been so backwards. We're finally making some positive changes in terms of city planning and design. Although trying to cancel Art Hop and criminalizing our unhoused community shows that we're still pretty backwards.
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  120.  @AndrewOjeda  Lol yeah, the public transit is still kinda bad. And Fresno as a role model? We're so backwards!
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  121.  @gorgthesalty  Lol, yeah the transit is still not the best.
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  122.  @ryanburbridge  true
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  123. Toward a Solarpunk future!
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  124. Fresno, California (not Fresno, Texas) also has a show named after it It's called "Fresno."
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  125.  @tortellinifettuccine  Are you talking about half cents? That's no longer made or circulated as currency, but it's a collectible.
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  126.  @tortellinifettuccine  Can you share a link? Apparently they don't exist anywhere on the internet
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  127.  @tortellinifettuccine  or is this a joke? lol
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  128. I attended HempFest at that park years ago and it was a great time. It's a nice park.
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  129. Yes, The Simpsons! It applies to every possible situation.
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  130. Awesome video! Wow, you went to Cornell? Do you know Andy Bernard?
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  131. I was born in that hospital on the Fairfax, VA map
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  132.  @Game_Hero  I could see that
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  133. Awesome! It would be so great to see a collab on Permaculture Neighborhoods with Andrew Millison! https://youtu.be/9R-fAc0wl10
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  134. LOL -- no Oxford comma??? Great video!
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  135. Amazing LOTR reference!
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  136. Great video! Have you read Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach? Awesome book. I was reminded of it by this video, and it may give you planning inspiration that is care-free, people/pedestrian-centered, and sustainable.
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  137. I wonder what the carbon footprint of Bill Gates' 65,000 square foot mansion is. I'm sure having one and buying all the farmland is a great way to avoid a climate disaster.
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  138. Imagine how many unhoused people could fit in those mansions. They don't need all that space, especially if they're breaking the law.
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  139. Just earlier today, I saw a cat run by outside my work, and I thought of the Matrix. Now this glitch.
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  140. Awesome video!
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  141.  @ottovonbass-mark5424  ?
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  142.  @ottovonbass-mark5424  Oh cool, thank you so much! There are some great educators online who explain and demonstrate the topics better than I do, so I use them often! You're awesome for watching mr beat!
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  143. Ba Sing Se!
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  144. Yeah Fresno! Also, I'm gonna be in your town this weekend for my anniversary and again in May to see Rilo Kiley!!! Have you had Ziggy's?! We're addicted to their Korean Fried Cauliflower, and we go there every time we're in town, and once we drove to SLO just for Ziggy's and a quick trip to the beach.
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  145. Yes! Office Space! I've been watching that over and over for weeks now -- while I work lol. You reference the best movies and shows!
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  146. Awesome and fascinating video! I love the idea of circular and utopian communities. I also would have liked to see your take on The Venus Project. Also, what about Ba Sing Se?!
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  147. Sim City was great! Yes, Paolo Soleri and Arcosanti! Awesome video. Interesting concept. I love the aesthetic of green/eco/sustainable arcologies with plants everywhere. Do underground cities count as arcology? Is a Stanford Torus a type of arcology or is it technically different? Great video! I would love to see your take on floating cities next!
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  148. I like college towns. I wonder how European college towns compare. My parents stayed in Montpelier, France, which has a medical school from the 12th century.
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  149. In Times Square there is a sign for The Good Place. I love that show! It was so amazing!
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  150. Please do floating cities! Thank you for your channel!
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  151. Yes, Michael Scott! I can't stand Eminem though.
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  152.  @LemonDove  yes, their architecture is so amazing!
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  153. Excellent video! Lol I love the astronaut zoning meme! That's great!
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  154. Lol Eagleton Dave! I love it!
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  155. I love your channel and videos! Thank you!
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  156. Very informative video on an interesting story! I hadn't heard the term 'inner ring suburbs' but it makes sense. Love The Office clip!
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  157. Today's headline made me think of this video: "Florida Legislature Votes To Repeal Special District For Walt Disney World After Company’s Opposition To “Don’t Say Gay” Law". From the article, "Disney’s property has been covered by the Reedy Creek Improvement District since 1967, giving it self-governance over land use and environmental issues and allowing it to float tax-free municipal bonds. Democrats said that the repeal of the district could leave Osceola and Orange counties on the hook for nearly $1 billion in bond debt." It will be interesting to see if Disney actually loses the district and what the affects might be. Stupid ass Florida. Not that I care about Disney, and they certainly aren't the most ethical company, but they're finally doing the right thing, and backward ass Florida is punishing them for it. Florida is so wack! I hate that damn state and I will never go there. Stop codifying hate, injustice, and oppression, and stop messing up every single election!
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  158.  @dirtydan2721  There are more than two genders. That's a fact of humanity, both throughout time and across cultures. Open up your narrow mind and learn about other perspectives. Lol gay propaganda? You're right. Let's keep teaching and reinforcing straight propaganda, toxic masculinity, and heteronormativity instead. Cuz society is doing so well right now. I can tell you haven't even read the curriculum. I can also tell that you secretly enjoy buttsex and may be closeted. Methinks thou dost protest too much. I wish you the best with all that.
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  159.  @dirtydan2721  PS LGBTQ people exist and have always existed and will continue to exist. The sooner you get over it, the easier it'll be for you.
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  160. He also tricked voters into approving sports stadiums that made him richer and didn't help the people. I've hated Paul Allen since I was a kid.
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  161. Hello! Great video! I love your other videos too. Thanks for sharing! I see you live in SLO I live in the Central Valley but want to live near the beach. I'm a teacher, so I'm not rich, and we're looking for cultural and racial diversity. I love the Central Coast and have visited several times, including the SLO area. Would you recommend living in SLO, or another Central Coast community? Thank you so much!
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  162. Great video and interesting idea! And I always appreciate when you include some history. Another idea: floating cities!
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  163. Great video and great point about communication power and action!
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  164. See also: Forestiere Underground Gardens and the Chinatown underground tunnels. Fresno is fascinating! Too bad the city destroys, rather than preserves, everything that is fascinating.
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  165. Cool video! I love history mysteries!
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  166. Lol I also often watch this for fun while eating and during work breaks and whenever I have spare time. I'm not a planner or engineer or anything like that, but I love this channel!
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  167. This got me thinking about the newest mall in Fresno (not that new anymore, but the latest one built). It is a private outdoor mall, which hosts a farmers market. You can drive through part of it, you can park right outside some stores and restaurants, but there are some stores you have to walk to. It seems like a combination of pedestrian mall and indoor mall. It has been pretty successful, as have the indoor malls, except the oldest indoor mall. It became less popular when the other indoor mall was built. They're trying to revitalize it currently. The downtown pedestrian mall (Fulton Mall) has been opened back up to cars for the last few years now, as stated in the video. I'm not sure how it's doing. I stopped going after it was converted back to streets, and some people still don't really go downtown.
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  168. Malaysia has # mile road names too, from what I remember.
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  169. The city as a cell!
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  170. Great video and critique!
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  171. Great video! We need to do this in California's Central Valley. Fresno has so many empty dirt lots. The dirt just blows around in the already dusty, hot, polluted air. I'll never get over it. Tacoma, WA had empty lots too, but at least they had grass and trees.
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  172. California streets are much wider than Pacific Northwest streets, generally.
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  173. Great video and ideas! We keep building against Nature. We just need to keep wild spaces wild, build with Nature, and incorporate Nature. It seems simple to me. Solarpunk!
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  174. The Portland tram ride is pretty cool!
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  175. People/Americans like HOAs for the same reason they live in housing developments: They're dumb, boring, sheep. Even expat communities in other countries can have HOAs, so they bring this crap with them.
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  176. Nebula should invite Mr. Beat!
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  177. Lol that footage of driving in South Asia brought back memories/flashbacks of my visit to India. There were several times where I thought I might die, lol. I have so many stories just of the transportation. That time the auto rickshaw we were in drove on the sidewalk to bypass traffic and pedestrians had to dive out of the way. Or driving up the mountain through the rainy jungle on a one lane road with hairpin twists and turns on metal shuttered prison bus. Good times. They make it work.
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  178. I've watched all your videos. I'm not a city planner, but these videos are super fascinating. I have learned so much from your channel! I used to think NIMBYism and single unit housing zoning were good things.
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  179. Great stuff! I love all your videos. I would love to see one about floating cities and seasteading! That would be so cool!
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  180.  @Cobblestoner  Yes, same here. I think that despite the continuing colonization and exploitation and violence, Africans will succeed and will be the main world players in the future.
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  181.  @chloekpearl  True!
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  182.  @bartlett2335  I've visited Corvallis and really liked it. That's cool to know!
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  183. OMG TROGDOR!!!!!!! Grass roof cottages!!!
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  184. In Freaks and Geeks, Lindsay Weir's family store is on 16 Mile Road in a fictional town in Michigan.
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  185.  @brendonhalverson5178  Cool to know!
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  186. Castle Rock is beautiful
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  187. Cool video! I am reminded of that Futurama episode about New New York's garbage. Regarding the seas, I would love to see your take on floating cities and seasteading!
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  188. This is a very cool and interesting video! I would also love to see videos on floating cities and seasteading! That would be really cool!
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  189. "Little Boxes" by Malvina Reynolds.
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  190. Interesting and awesome video! Africa is the future!
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  191. Also Aberdeen, WA.
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  192. I've seen on some house hunting and renovation shows that some historic water towers have been refurbished as homes. Imagine the views!
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  193. "Kyoto: the anagram lover's Tokyo." -- Futurama
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  194. "How to turn your neighborhood into a village" video from Andrew Millison channel is also a great video which is applicable!
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  195. I especially hate when rich people build or move to gated communities in other countries. Like, don't move there then if you don't want to associate with the people there.
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  196. Social Darwinism and eugenics applied to cities and development.
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  197. Today's headline made me think of this video: "Florida Legislature Votes To Repeal Special District For Walt Disney World After Company’s Opposition To “Don’t Say Gay” Law". From the article, "Disney’s property has been covered by the Reedy Creek Improvement District since 1967, giving it self-governance over land use and environmental issues and allowing it to float tax-free municipal bonds. Democrats said that the repeal of the district could leave Osceola and Orange counties on the hook for nearly $1 billion in bond debt." It will be interesting to see if Disney actually loses the district and what the effects might be.
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  198. Done!
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  199. PS Floating cities =)
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  200. Great video! Have you seen this video on designing Permaculture Neighborhoods? https://youtu.be/9R-fAc0wl10
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  201. Lol Jesse Ventura, the strongest mayor! And then he was governor. And then he made a conspiracy theory tv series lol. Interesting guy. In my youth, I visited Minnesota and saw the capitol building and Ventura's office when he was governor. I also saw Garrison Keillor. What a nerdy kid.
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  202. Mr. Fischoeder kind of owns part of a town, right?
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  203.  @cryptbeast3222  Semantics. It sounds like it's not the kind of place for you, so good thing you don't live there. You can start a co-op where people don't have to have kids. Also, guess where people without kids can live? Practically anywhere else. Co-ops are not the same as HOAs.
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  204. Interesting video! The Fulton Mall was cool. It was stupid to re-open it. Let's go backward in time! That will work! I hate Fresno's leaders and planners. They have always been the worst and still are the worst. They don't care about preserving historic and meaningful buildings. They are gentrifying the city. Fresno actually looked really cool back in the day, with beautiful Victorian buildings downtown, and a classic looking City Hall. Everything nice got destroyed, was not maintained or preserved, or whatever else. The renovations and new buildings have been crap. Driving around here is nuts. The curbs are too high so the car door gets stuck. Near the highway entrances and exits, there are so many damn lights and intersections that only a few cars can fit within each section, that it backs up like crazy. Even if there is no traffic at the time, you have to start and stop over and over because one light turns green, you start speeding up and going, then the next light turns red so you have to stop immediately. The only true visionary was Forestiere. The city would be much d the city would better and we would be happier and healthier if we built underground. His underground dwellings and gardens are so unique and amazing! It is a model for sustainable and more bearable living in hot places in the world.
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  205. Awesome video! Power to the People! A friend's dad (4th generation San Franciscan) once mentioned that freeways didn't really go through the city, but that's all I knew of the story. I didn't even know there was a story. It's cool to learn the whole story.
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  206. Awesome video! Thanks for more great content. Hopefully we'll see more car-free streets in the near future. It would be so cool to see a video on floating cities and seasteading! You would make it a great video.
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  207. Fresno!!! Love the shout out. Fresno being a role model is a laugh, too. The city and government have always been so backwards and public transit isn't great still. We're finally making some good changes, which I've noticed because of watching this channel. More bike lanes, day lighting, marked or painted crosswalks, etc. We've even got a couple ecovillages. Come visit and check out Dakota Ecovillage and garden, Chinatown underground tunnels, and Forestiere Underground Gardens!
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  208. Those of us with running water in homes, especially drinkable running water, are so fortunate.
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  209. Interesting video! Property is theft. Borders are stupid. Land should not be owned. Decolonize and Land Back! The US needs to finally adopt the metric system.
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  210. Anyone who likes the sameness of suburbs and developments needs to read and/or watch The Giver.
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  211. Yes! Arrested Development! Sometimes I think we have the same interests as each other.
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  212. Thanks for another great video! I would love to see a video on floating cities and/or seasteading. Busan, South Korea is planning to host the world's first floating city by 2025.
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  213. @Zaydan Naufal Great point! You're correct and thank you for pointing that out. There are floating communities and cities all over the world, communities who live on the water. Borneo is amazing. I hadn't heard of Kampong Ayer, but the name makes sense. I looked it up and I'm going to check it out more. Thank you!
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  214. Lol I love the pun counter! I missed them at first, so I appreciate it lol.
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  215. I wish so badly it were still around so we could see and appreciate it! It looked like such a unique and beautiful city.
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  216. We can't forget about the grass roof cottages!
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  217. Please do a video on Stars Hollow from Gilmore Girls!!! It's the quintessential small town. Also, Mystic, CT.
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  218. The Golden Gate bridge is also privately owned (or operated?) and the toll has gotten pretty expensive: $8-9+.
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  219. Universal Design for Learning is an important and essential concept in education (one that is under-discussed and under-implemented), so it is interesting to know the concept is extended to street and city design as well.
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  220. Great video! It's important and helpful to see how other places do it so we can learn from them!
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  221. Yes, Parks and Rec!
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  222. Awesome video! Congratulations on your research getting published!
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  223. I loved visiting Vancouver. It's so culturally diverse and there are lots of great restaurants. I stayed with someone in what seemed like a condo. It was fancy and on a higher floor. Vancouver is also where I saw my first sex worker and was offered shrooms.
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  224.  @darkeu0r  I mean I guess you go to the places where they usually work? I wouldn't know. She had a really short skirt and tried pulling it down when cops drove by. Since moving to the city I live in now and working and hanging out on the poor side of town, I see sex workers all the time.
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  225. Great video! I love Catan!
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  226. Better fund the fire department and EMS and defund the police!
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  227. Great video with some real talk! Adam Ruins Everything also does a good video on the jaywalking scam.
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  228. The Central Valley heat is AWFUL!!!! And the winters are still cold! At least have mild/warmer winters if the summer is unbearably hot. I'm not from here, and I'm not staying, but I've been here 13 years now. Every summer I tell myself, "This is the last summer I will endure here. I'm moving!" There are tons of trees ("Tree City USA") but it's still horrible and unbearable. I hate the heat so much. But a good job is here, and it's somewhat affordable, and everywhere else I would want to live seems unattainable. I know you moved to the Central Coast region, which is my favorite part of California, and where I have my eye too. Good for you for getting out and to the coast! I also miss the Pacific Northwest. Trees are so amazing and important! And usually the wealthy are the ones who get trees and the nature. In my city, the wealthier parts of town have beautiful old trees, are shady, and cooler than the rest of the city. The lower income areas contain asphalt, concrete, and empty, dusty dirt lots. Anyway, great video!
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  229. LOL Parks and Rec!
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  230.  @bootleg0012  Fresno because it's in the center of the state. Or North Fork, which is the actual center.
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  231. Olympia, WA! It's kinda similar to Madison, although smaller. It's home to a smaller progressive/hippie college (public though) and known for this. Students also settle down and start organizations and businesses in town, so the school's influence and scope expands beyond campus. It's also the state capitol so there are politicians, lobbyists, and conservatives, as well. Also, the school (The Evergreen State College) is basically Hogwarts.
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  232. Why anyone would want to live an identical yardless box that is right next to their neighbor and the house looks the same as every other house in the neighborhood is beyond me. I hate housing developments and suburbs. They're soulless and god awful.
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  233. Fresno has an amazing history but nobody talks about it. Some of my favorite places: Forestiere Underground Gardens, Chinatown underground tunnels, Zapp Park, and Tulare Lake.
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  234. Awesome video!
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  235. Central Valley!
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  236. Excellent video!
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  237. Today I was playing Geoguessr and one of the places I landed was easily recognizable as Russia because of these Soviet-era buildings.
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  238. Information and fun video!
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  239. Lol @ that person that took up four parking spaces. Yard House has great vegetarian food!
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  240. Yay SLO and Corvallis!
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  241. I thought of Barcelona too. I'll have to check out that Vox video. Thanks!
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  242. Antigua is so nice! I think I was right next to that plaza in the photo. I am remembering seeing it from across the street at ground level, so it's interesting to see the overhead shot. And now I understand the similarity in architecture among Latin American cities. In a previous video when discussing porticoes, it reminded me of Antigua. Your videos help me make all these connections and see the world in a different way now. It's so cool! I'm not even a planner or anything like that. But I love this channel.
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  243.  @PaulFisher  Sounds interesting. I looked him up and he seems pretty cool. Thanks!
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  244. Old Fresno Water Tower
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  245. I'm kind of surprised that Russia has romantic comedies. I thought it was an American thing. Maybe British too. But mostly American movies filmed in the UK or starring British actors. This Soviet movie seems kinda Kafkaesque as well.
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  246. Capitalism is crazy and property is theft.
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  247. I was in southern Germany. Beautiful place. Interesting to know that it's very organized.
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  248.  @teddycooke8145  Policing and incarceration were intentionally increased around the nation and in Compton during the 1970s and 1980s despite the decrease in crime and drug use. So you've got it backwards. The police are there to lock up poor people of color, disenfranchise them, use them for cheap labor, and to enrich the prison corporations. Mass incarceration is current stage of white supremacy in this country, a continuation of Jim Crow before it, of sharecropping before that, and slavery began it all. Policing in America developed from the slave patrols. Today cops are modern day slave patrols and lynch mobs. The whole system is based on white supremacy. But don't believe me. Do your own research -- white supremacy, racism, mass incarceration, prison-industrial complex, prison abolition, The New Jim Crow (book), Angela Davis, white privilege, Black Lives Matter.
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  249. I think its busy days were the 70s through 90s. I went to the Fulton Mall from around 2009 (after moving here) to a few years ago when the city re-opened the streets. I did shopping, eating, hanging out, biking, music shows, etc at the Fulton Mall. It wasn't super busy, but people still went there, and there were several businesses, restaurants, and food carts. You could get good deals there. There was an indoor swap mall with multiple vendors with booths. It kind of reminded me of shopping in other countries. It was pretty cool. Since they re-opened the streets a few years ago and some of the older businesses closed, I don't go anymore. I hate indoor malls so I don't go there either.
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  250. We would love to see something on floating cities!
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  251. Floating cities or Stars Hollow next? =)
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  252. Oh yeah, the Duck! That may be the only form of transportation in the Northwest that I haven't experienced.
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  253. I grew up there and rode the ferries but I didn't know about the water taxis! I'll have to check that out next time I visit.
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  254. Yes, Jay and Silent Bob!
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  255. I love these history heavy ones!
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