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@UzumakiNaruto_ There're trailers that you can attach to bikes. Said bikes could then be installed with an electric motor to help you pedal it... But in general it's possible to do deliveries (even of furnitures etc.) without owning a vehicle. You just pay for the deliveries (or the cost be included in the purchase). Or maybe someone somewhere could subsidy it...
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LOS should be used to plan a city as a whole - not to rule in or out a single development. A totally good point. Traffic impact studies aren't just used in the US though - apparently in the UK it's also problematic, although where the problem truly lies haven't really been uncovered to laypersons.
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Theme parks only have a few point of interests though. Cities will have tons and tons of it for each different individuals.
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I think there was a mismatch at 0:21 - it says "Jakarta, Indonesia" but at 1:58 the same picture is used for Karachi. I live around Jakarta and I don't recognize the landscape in the picture either (Jakarta is largely flat and devoid of any large open space closer to the coast, plus the coastline is just straight with a slight curve to it), so I presume it is actually Karachi and not Jakarta being shown.
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I guess the amount of homes being burned down in fires doesn't help either. I know (and you probably knoe as well) of one YouTuber whose house was burnt down and even years after it hasn't been rebuilt. Maybe there's some relation between that.
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Yeah. Where I live planning (well, planning enforcement) is nearly non-existant, and as a result things just go wild. But still in a bad way. I have to say one of the good things with japanese urban expressway types is that they allow trucks to access the city centers separated from the pedestrian-dominated local roads. Their narrow nature prevents too much vehicles from using it, and their expensive tolls makes it not that attractive to use for private vehicles (unless they're really rich). Combined with good public transport, you've got yourself something highly desirable.
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I think the single-family zoning part is mostly OK - what really escapes me is the minimum land size the plot has to be. Down here nearly all homes are single-family yet we don't have oversized rooms and oversized lawns. Most houses are two stories all the way to the plot border because that's all there is - they often starts off as being single-story and they didn't quite span the plot, but people build more and more additions to their homes to accomodate a growing family. Due to increasing land prices (and house prices) now some downtown houses of larger styles (what used to be utilized only by one family) might be utilized by two families or more. I might say that it might not even require dropping R1 zones - just a relaxation of the lot size and setback rules and the amount of families to live in such dwellings could be enough to make sure that they start to become more densely populated. I've often compared the population density in a US suburb and here - honestly the suburb densities there equals rural areas here where houses are still interrupted by paddy fields !
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I've never really known about temporary homelessness. Thanks for providing insights on those. Here the official count for homelessness stands at ~78000 out of 260 million population nationally (maybe up to 70 million population in larger conurbations only). However most homeless persons have been depicted as being newcomers who hasn't got anything yet. Homelessness problem here kind of mixes with slums too - they'd be an easy place to find living if you were ousted from your previous one, but in turn slums can be a source of homelessness esp. when they're cleared out, either from land clearing or from "disasters" (most often flood). I guess that the best method that would work everywhere is a combination of guiding those who have the problem to regain a stable live and to provide them with either temporary shelter (that does protect from the elements - a tent camp doesn't really count) or a permanent housing. Plus, if temporary homelessness are a thing, maybe it would help to make sure they could stay where they were rather than loitering about until new arragements could be made. It sure is a problem that requires to be handled on a case-by-case basis.
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The problem lies in that you'd be living as the showcase. Actual cities shaped like such would be OK to good for living in; but when you have people near-continuously peering in like that ? It's just not the same, not worth it.
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@dennisp8520 It's not a sentiment, it's a possibility and a reality in other places already. I'm not an avid bicycle user or anything either - but in the part of the world I live in (SE Asia) motorcycles are very common and I use it myself, and honestly if e-bikes keep getting better it's barely an imagination to see motorcycles being replaced by e-bikes. Even a standard SE Asian motorcycle that uses a petrol engine is already much more efficient than a car, fuel consumption is only half of any standard-sized car and not to mention the space saving (reason for owning and using a motorcycle often goes to the amount of congestion we have here and how small the streets and alleys are). Example of a cargo-bike rental service : https://twitter.com/pedalmeapp And an example of person in the US already using bikes (this one is in one of the suburbs of Minneapolis - to be precise, Minnetonka, MN) : https://americanfietser.home.blog/ But yeah, I'll say that your mileage may vary, though if we really want to move forward then we have to put in more and more efficient means of doing our life.
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@tortoise-chan Yeah, this particular series of stock videos he was using claims footages of Istanbul for Karachi, Dhaka and Jakarta as well. https://www.istockphoto.com/search/stack/797330614?assettype=film Footage at 0:21 is looking over the Asian side of Istanbul on the approach path to Attaturk airport rwy 23.
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As we're going with all-the-modes rather than all-the-stations/stops, maybe NYC ? Or SF. Anywhere with a significant body of water is going to be interesting.
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There's the downtown exit of the I-5 though...
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Will we see more "international" content in the future ?
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@transitvideosbayarea Probably either along similar corridors, or making sure there are bus transfers and/or park-and-ride schemes. Though probably putting up noise barriers or other similar obscuration could help. Not just to the rail lines but also to the freeway itself to reduce noise to elsewhere.
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Though, in absence of such jaywalking laws in other countries, pedestrians are often left to their own devices either as the legal implication of having to cater to their needs are not as apparent. So I guess undoing the law is one thing, but keeping pedestrians in the front center of city planning would be needed regardless of existence of laws contrary or not.
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@ImranZakhaev9 Hence why you should coordinate the planning within the whole city as well. Focusing on a single intersection doesn't help much. But you need evaluation for each and every single one of them as well, in view of the greater planning.
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And here I am left thinking you'd do something radically different ! turns out "fun" is still simple. Also, maybe you'd be interested in a collaboration with another city planner ? I know one from Australia : https://www.youtube.com/user/101burridge/
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While clear gentrification in the way mentioned in the video haven't really happened where I live (completely the opposite part of Earth from US east coast), most of the low-level slums are usually desired to undergo some sort of clearance anyway. Most developments takes place either in these areas or in entirely new satellite towns with planned public transport. You just need to make an entirely new district for these newcomers. Or alternatively, develop an even higher density urban core.
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Meanwhile in 3rd world countries... I have a feeling that the reason why US 'cities' are soo huge is just out of the sheer amount of lawn they have.
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@ccc310 My subdistrict (populated by ~ 50k people) is only 1.6 sq km (0.6 sq mi) in size - so that's 31,300 ppl/sq km (81,000 ppl/sq mi), and we don't have any high-rises, all just 2-story houses (largely housing estates at that, if it weren't for the housing estates it won't be a subdistrict of it's own right). If a 30 km (~ 20 mi) radius circle area (assuming 30 kph [20 mph] travel speed) was to have the same density, you're looking at population in the tens of millions (88 million straight out of maths but in reality you're probably looking at only a third or a quarter - 22 million to 30 million - given the need for commercial and industrial areas as well as infrastructure). Asian cities can occupy an order of magnitude smaller areas and still have an order of magnitude higher population compared to western cities, even without high-rises.
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Speaking from a country where we rent out a house and it has been used as an office twice and now it's a kindergartner, and where one house in the area has been converted to distribute LPG gas for cooking, seems like Houston still has a much more rigid planning and zoning than here.
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And Singapore is the gate to SE Asia, as well as East Asia (at least by sea). We'll see whether PRC would cut it down by opening a canal somewhere on the Kra Isthmus...
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I think there was a mismatch at 0:21 - it says "Jakarta, Indonesia" but at 1:58 the same picture is used for Karachi. I live around Jakarta and I don't recognize the landscape in the picture either (Jakarta is largely flat and devoid of any large open space closer to the coast, plus the coastline is just straight with a slight curve to it), so I presume it is actually Karachi and not Jakarta being shown.
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I think what would also be helpful is the low/medium/high income as with SC4. You can see both gentrification and decay more easily that way. Plus separate demands for industry, offices, agriculture and mining.
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@Xenomorph-hb4zf Housing prices are much higher where there are good public transit (read : rail-based, not saying that busses doesn't work but there's a magnitude of difference in their capacity) since it's a lot closer to the city, and usually people want a house on land rather than apartments (the apartments are massively overpriced as well however so it's understandable why people would seek a land house instead since they will nominally own it). I do live where there's a rail station nearby, and I can tell you I probably won't be able to afford the house had I been a young working couple who's just recently looking to buy a house. Decades ago this was the edge of the city, and that's when my family moved in, but it's now a fairly desirable part of the city and prices are a lot higher than when it started, even counting for inflation. And that's the best scenario. For some radial directions from the city barely any public transit exists, yet the house prices are as high if not higher.
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@koninkrijkc8559 Sadly a sign of too many cars. Western European countries still lead the example for reduced car dependency for countries with a considerable size and land connection.
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@TKUA11 Can you carry #3 or #4 40' long rebar on your car - or rather, would you ? Can you carry 8 cu ft of fresh concrete in your car ? How much sand can you carry with your car ? When we renovate our house we didn't use our car to take the stuff needed for it, we ask the contractor for that. Also, yes you can move furnitures and stuff with a bike. https://twitter.com/copenhenken/status/1350152421977313280
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Not just '3rd world' countries. Many developing countries' population still see car ownership (arguably dependence) as a form of new freedom and status rather than losing the option to do things without a car. And it's not helped with the gov't basically having little to no money to throw around - here where I live we've been building tollroads mostly (which are done through concession so it's technically not the govt's pocket), not a lot of major public transit. Even where there are new public transit they serve existing areas - the tollroads meanwhile are reaching further and further to the edge of the city (into the countryside), turning more land into housing, which would suffer from only being viable if you have a personal vehicle yourself.
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The only proper beachfront of Tokyo is at Odaiba though - which is a new island (well the beach is on the new island, "Odaiba" itself refers to the much older sea fortification) and is designed away from the expressways. Basically they destroyed their waterfront through the 60s and 70s only to build a new waterfront again in front of it in the 80s and 90s. Also their expressways barely exceed 2 lanes each way most of the time, unlike US highways which have like 5 lanes each way minimum. (they have stupidly massive surface roads though.)
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@str2010 Hey I'm just saying that Strait of Malacca * could * be bypassed entirely, that'd end all the 3 countries that borders it. But before that happens, the Strait will always be an important part of the journey. I question a canal would be more accomodative than the strait anyway, when it comes to maximum ship sizes and capacity...
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@madjames1134 Well it's definitely there just to ensure they have a grip on SE Asia. I question Russia would open their waters that easily, even to PRC. Plus you still can't reach the Mediterranean, India, Middle East and Africa through the Arctic - they collectively has way more people than Europe and North America combined.
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The US are blessed with wider streets than Europe. Should be a blessing to install bike lanes and whatnot too.
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Yeah, I think in SC4 there was protests and stuff, it was interesting. SC4 also had advisors for you that'd advise what's the best course of option you might need to take. Though what could be interesting too I think is gradual building. Like, when you say you want something demolished, it isn't immediately demolished, instead you wait until the building actually is vacated and then deconstructed. Then when making roads they don't just pop up but slowly being paved. This was present in SC4 as well, albeit very limited (and easily overridden). Could be cool to see like construction happening at "night" then finished when the day comes as well (the ambient sun day length is like 1 year in C:S right ?). This would definitely make it harder financially too however (you need to wait until revenue comes in after expending something much like real-world spending). Beyond these I think that city planning where I live is still mostly conducted behind closed doors albeit that a.) we have much less strict zoning (so in a sense the citizens are given a much larger freedom) and b.) they do have experts behind the curtain so it's OK I guess. Wish that C:S have less strict zoning (like mixed residential-commercial or commercial-office or commercial-industrial or so).
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@mfaizsyahmi Also partly as cue for the driver that crossing's ahead and keep the roadside clear of parked/stopped cars. Now, if you're asking about compliance, however...
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Where I live we have no real building codes and zoning, but while it does allow for rather... "flexible" land use, it's also often a PITA when someone end up using the land in a way that disturbs the others. Are there provisions for those ?
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3rd runway and possible 4th terminal for Soekarno-Hatta International Airport of Jakarta (Jabodetabek) being under construction, and recently finished Kertajati Airport near Cirebon / Indramayu which is supposed to replace Bandung's Husein Sastranegara Airport (which might well be located smack dab in the middle of the city) and lure some traffic away from Soekarno-Hatta. But they're about as destructive as each other, at least from land clearance perspective. In the case of Kertajati, it's a good 180 km and 60 km from Jakarta and Bandung respectively, with no easy transport connection for the time being. A new tollroad is being made from Bandung towards Kertajati but it's still a good few years away from completion, and while plans were made for railways (the area around Kertajati being planned to become the future seat of government of West Java province after all) these plans might well be a good decade away. But it is a large airport in an area that's fairly populated and could definitely use some of it (many have seen the project being slightly political as well since the area had campaigned to become their own province in the past). Soekarno-Hatta is probably still good for some more decades - developments are just catching up to it, and it still have room for expansion (with some land clearing), all the while new transit connections are being made to it. But after that point we might need to start think of a proper replacement. There have been proposals for replacement around Karawang (40-50 km away to the east from Jakarta) and around Purwakarta (70-80 km away to the east from Jakarta), but the presence of Kertajati sort of spoils it, so it might end up being on the west side once again. Other than that, nearly all airports around Indonesia are appealing to expand for at least small jetliners, and long-distance jetliners for larger ones. It is an archipelago after all, and air travel is still the fastest and easiest way around.
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@ryanleaf8704 Tourist from abroad ? Honestly I think the traffic there is pretty scary indeed but if there weren't anyone pulling at me or just stopping in front I'd have continued on as back home.
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Yay, content about foreigners ! XD I'm slightly surprised you pulled this off - most of their literatures are going to be in full japanese... But yeah. I think the rest of the world has a lot to learn from East Asia, the problem is they're quite reluctant to interact and share their wisdom with other countries (not to mention the language barrier) XD
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How deep do you intend to dive into it ? ;-)
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I think that this all goes to local behaviour. Here while there are written rules on the road, enforcement and practice is quite abysmal. In many ways the road still works like it did centuries ago.
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@Jay-ho9io Yeah, to be fair there's a difference in aspect socially (which neighborhood were the highways built through) and physically (the size of the highways itself and the placement ie. elevated or at-grade or covered). Over there they redid the "slums" into housing complexes instead post-war. (and even then it's not really slums either - it's traditional housing that has been ravaged in the war and haven't really been properly fixed/reconnected with services.) There's probably some social aspect but it is a lot more difficult to navigate through it.
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@Jay-ho9io Language barrier is real, sadly. And then cultural barrier. Free resources in english are pretty scarce. They see things in a different way, and currently they're suffering from a completely different problem.
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@Jay-ho9io Nah, the decision regarding the way how they developed back in the 60s and 70s had a different aspect completely, although to be fair the decade after that saw the more pressed parts of the society themselves gained a much more respectable status. The other, modern problem is simply one of not enough young population, clashed with the generally perceived-as-difficult integration of non-Japanese... pandemic is just more tree stump on the road.
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That's nice ! I wanted some old signs from a rebuilt station but I don't think I can...
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@berkeylmaz1778 Good point, Karachi is also flat as well so no hills. I think this must be landing at Sabiha Gokcen International Airport ?
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Sadly the US never saw the suburban railway mania. Growth came a bit later for trains to be able to rule the roost, and even then the railways are often located just at-grade to the roads.
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I think our comparisons are made from the need to compare A with B... not necessarily that the two are actually fully comparable.
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the US also had urban railway and tram system that'd beat everyone else. Still a shock to me they all faded so quick... maybe because they realized "it's a huge country, we can move to the countryside" ?
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Well maybe in 3rd world countries it's all waay more difficult. I live in Indonesia, and the cities are hostile both to public and private transport alike - existing infrastructure are often not enough, and to create new dedicated RoW, usually a few things will have to be sacrificed, be it for a new transit or a new highway alike, even when trying as hard as possible to follow existing lines or roads. At least be grateful that you have well-planned and well-regulated cities in the US. The rest goes to whether the populace wants to live (properly) in a city or not - cities in the US are equal to rural areas here by population density.
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Cue having a church on top of an apartment on top of a shopping mall, next to the office building
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@timmyturner327 Yeah, although one downside with a larger store is that you need a larger catchment area to be profitable, and in lieu of public transport presence (and even at that not one dedicated to get you to the store but rather as a means for commute, just that this store happens to be nearby) you end up needing to drive to get stuff. Here most such chains are within walking distance (<500 m extreme) - even in some cases you can walk from one to the other, and rivals are usually just around the corner from each other. If the US wants to successfuly increase the density of their cities (and reduce car usage) I'd say you need things to be within walking distance.
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Some have said that another thing that exacerbates the effect of sea level rise is land subsidence. You have mentioned about that in the video, but in some areas with underlying clay soils, subsidence can play a larger factor. Most of Tokyo's bay area is now undersea, not due to the sea level rising, but due to subsidence. So another way to prevent being drown by the sea is by stopping subsidence, usually by stopping groundwater pumping. Though then we'd still need to deal with the sea level rise itself again, albeit that happens at a somewhat "slower" rate.
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@影山平ら They also tend to have smaller lots and taller buildings though, compared to southern and western US
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@TheSharkasmCrew Would say that that's partly due to the Kanto classification. Tokyo prefectural city itself is fairly dense (even when it includes a mountain peak it reaches 13 million population), as well as things like Yokohama and Kanagawa. Although if one were to ignore the rest of it (like Gunma, Tochigi, as well as the more rural part of Kanagawa and Chiba) then their 'metro' population is only like 2/3 the 40 million figure often quoted, making it on par with for example Jabodetabek where I live in (Jakarta special capital province at 10 million, plus immediately neighboring core cities numbers in 16 million, even then there's a good amount of new development outside of the core cities designation)
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Or it could be like a "green belt" around the cities. Us ? Haha, no, it's just endless sea of houses very close to each other. Does give you impressive population desity though (30,000 ppl/sq mi !)
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@AVeryRandomPerson Will say that some Transit-Oriented Development can never hurt however.
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Sadly it doesn't work that way. Where I live there's at least 6 different major holidays that retailers use for large promotions, and parking are equally awful at all those times.
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@ae1ae2 Well not quite where I live - online commerce is indeed on the rise however there're still a lot of people here not really connected with technology. It's not really having to do with lowered price either, it's just that people often feel they'd need something "new". Ie. in preparation of Ied-al-Fitr a lot of people often think of giving others gift and stuff, and maybe having something new themselves. Around Christmas / New Year and Chinese new year as well. And it often goes for consumables as well - Ramadan, leading up to Ied-al-Fitr, for example would see increased sales in consumables (despite fasting, I know !) because people often feel they need to end their fasting with something. So it's not just parking - it's also traffic and such.
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If such change could happen from a 'catastrophy' it'd be something nice to work upon while we can. Here the rules of the road has always been somewhat open anyway - you can go parade on large streets inprompt if you want (and you have enough members).
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To be fair, propellers were less high-pitched than jetliners, and Heathrow were built in the time of propeller airplanes.
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If only free transit fare could support centuries-old systems through an unclear bureucracy... We know that's just the reddest herring ever isn't it.
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Off the top of my head, for anything 'tech-y' in Miami (and FL) there's CCSFS and KSC where they launch rockets to space... The rockets themselves aren't built there though, they just get assembled there before launch.
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@curburfosho Given the proximity to another country I honestly have doubts that they'd continue to use the site however. It sure is a lot more to the south than any point in FL but I have questions for whether they could put the same enforcement that they currently do for CCSFS and KSC.
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@curburfosho You're right, yeah. Their EIS for Boca Chica back in 2014 included plans for FH/F9 launch pads as well.
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What if the US were to have city-states ? Would that makes sense ?
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Glasgow is one of a few main cities in Scotland ; ) It's impressive actually. Many plans were drawn in the UK to welcome the automobile era. Many obviously didn't fruit - but that wasn't through lack of support or momentum. It was due to lack of money (which then snowball to become lack of momentum). You can see the outline for these historic plans for many UKs main cities in these sites : http://pathetic.org.uk/features/ http://www.cbrd.co.uk/articles http://www.cbrd.co.uk/ringways (specifically London - sadly under rebuilding !)
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Disney's Peoplemovers are actually powered by linear induction motors, which is better because of the lack of any moving parts. Are there systems like that elsewhere ? Well... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2a9Yvo2Yyg
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But are there good uses of eminent domain ? Like, I know it's probably rare to come across, but perhaps it could be defined more firmly so there'd be an actual common metric that can be taken to justify their use, where it is entirely justifiable.
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I was referring to an actual, measured, preferrably quantized "common metric" ie. cost-benefit analysis, or economic internal rate of return etc. Or perhaps the planners could invent yet another metric that'd give a fair result that makes eminent domain only possible in cases where it is truly beneficial for both the public at large and the locals. Data is all abound these years, all that's left is interpretating them in a fair way.
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I was asking if a different method is available; ie. those that also includes socio-economic reasons rather than just finance.
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@UzumakiNaruto_ Tokyo doesn't have the 12-lane 401 or 8-lane/10-lane 407 though. The expressways are all tolled to ridiculously high tolls (tell me 13USD toll isn't high), they are much narrower and twistier (limits the speed people would do on it), and like you said yourself, most people can as easily do stuff with the public transit (railways and metros at that) rather than driving a car and using the highway. And even with all that being said they're still planning to finally bury the Shuto Expwy. C1 loop over Nihonbashi into a tunnel. They know that they lost something with the elevated expressways, and now they're looking to get it back. I'll always defend that their surface roads (esp. the major boulevard throughfares) are waaay too large though. Far cry from what mobility looks like in NL or the nordic countries, or even post-pandemic Paris.
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@UzumakiNaruto_ Large vehicle RTAs and long pedestrian wait times are literally the plots of a few stories from there. They might have the right idea separating trucks from pedestrians by making them use the expressways but the large roads are still a problem.
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@detroitcoffeeartdetroit6502 Fact that nearly all of it is piers kinda give away the industrial-commercial nature of it though.
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Well at least it has some consistency... unlike the actual extra dense sprawl of here XD Then again it does have high density, making public transport far, far more viable !
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idk, here "small towns" would still warrant a form of share taxis or paratransit since the population would be well above 100,000. Where I live it's really, really dense.
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Indeed - but if you narrow the motorized traffic lanes down, you're left with all the extra space... a boon for designing proper sidewalks with all their essentials. Meanwhile in Europe, more often than not they'll have to design shared spaces, or close a street to motorized traffic entirely, or only provide the bare minimum.
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Kind of wondering if they could move the ferry terminal as well further south. Would at least help the extra length of 'major' road on the redeveloped waterfront. Also I think they can get away with a smaller road on the rest of the waterfront - there's the downtown I-5 exit still... perhaps something like better traffic regulation as well (ie. trucks only or no trucks at midday or so). Though considering the 4-lane tidal part of I-5... maybe that needs addressing first, make sure demands are controlled as well for the reduced capacity.
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Fairly sure it gets into that. Here while accessibility isn't very well, there are loads of staff members around to help you, so it's not that much of a problem once they're notified.
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EV car batteries usually lasts about a decade. Would still say that getting around by cars less is better, be it fossil-fuel powered and manually-controlled or electric-battery-powered and fully autonomous.
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@berkeylmaz1778 I was thinking that before but it's pretty difficult to match the somewhat pointed hill within the open space.
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@FarrasOctara Yeah sure as heck that's not Jakarta. Jakarta's airport is located either to the northwest (so you'd see it from the coastline) or to the southeast (but it's rare to land from the west for that airport, plus it'd mean the sunlight would strike to the sides of the buildings in view, and the most striking feature will be the National Monument). Also I just realized they're not the exact same picture at 0:21 and 1:58, however it was a series where it claims to take footage from Karachi, Dhaka, Istanbul and Jakarta : https://www.istockphoto.com/search/stack/797330614?assettype=film I can confirm that the Istanbul one really is Istanbul (the coastline matches perfectly), but I can say that the Jakarta one is mistaken, and I'm not sure about the others. Given the lighting matches closely with each other it must be from a single day take however, and given only the Istanbul one was correct it was probably of Istanbul.
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Yeah. I honestly wonder why are all homes in the US are like mansions rather than, idk, just enough living space. I don't need a garden - I can get to somewhere else where it's green.
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You had one hell of urban landscape though. The Turks didn't made the Empire State Building or all the other early skyscrapers - Americans did.
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Well it'd also be much harder to hit all the points. So on that end alone I'd give the disney system some penalty.
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Here, most of the time you'd get any areas having their area-central traits grow declare themselves a municipality - even if it's mostly suburbs. Also, maybe a new definition : If it has roof tiles, it's a suburb. Otherwise, urban. Too many trees and empty lots, rural. Here that works to areas with red-ish roofs being suburban, areas with any other color being urban. DC would work with any areas looking grey-green being suburban and anything with white cement roof being urban. Doesn't work with LA though, too many roof types.
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If a system is limiting itself to expansion then you don't have to help it be released from the strangle it has enacted upon itself. That being said I generally do think that we too often target those who're easiest to target when it comes to moving them away, so part of the way to make sure that that doesn't always happen is to make it as easy for one to keep stronger than the others... but that's hard as well. SF could still be denser yet though, my subdistrict sees density in the teens of thousand people/sq km yet we don't have a single high-rise here, tallest buildings be either mosque towers or 3/4 stories shops.
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Over here gas stations are owned by either the national petroleum company, or probably a proper businessperson considering the initial costs required. Standalone convenience store chains (usually a franchise) outnumber gas stations and not vice versa. If EV makes their inroad fully here then it'd practically be a problem only the government itself can solve, which right now seems to be interested in doing EV (aka. a problem they made themselves in the first place) so they'd probably convert them to charging stations or some other business model replacement. In my own view it's weird that the US doesn't see a lot of individual convenience stores (didn't count gas stations as one as it's not how it works here) so that would probably be what becomes of most gas stations. Idk how one lives without them, here they sell your basic daily needs from food and drinks (both fresh and stock) to hygiene and cosmetics to house cleaning products and even basic over-the-counter drugs. You can live completely off from them never going to a large supermarket or the market, although your choice is obviously somewhat limited and it's probably not the cheapest place to buy things. Although since this is a YouTube channel dedicated to city planning I'd say that the shift to EV cars won't solve most of the problems cars generate for cities - simply the amount of space their infrastructure takes. Perhaps if EV cars makes less money for the government and the economy they should try not to have cars in the first place and put in more public transport as well as increased population density (which are much more friendly to convenience stores).
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@timmyturner327 Yeah but those are massive. I'm talking like Seven-Eleven or Circle K but they sell more things beyond foodstuff. Also while there's the label to be had the plot itself is only leased to the franchise, so it's technically not owned by the franchising company
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Schiphol is intersting in that it gradually moves out further and futher from Amsterdam. The area behind the remote runway could easily be developed into terminals and stuff.
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I think what we're overlooking are smaller scale "continental" games (ie. Pan American Games) and regional events (SEA Games). They also happen for specific sport branches (ie. for soccer, the worldwide is World Cup, regional/continental Copa America). Then there are paralympic events. Combined, you have to hold a lot of them in a year, and almost one will be present in any year. I think with these extra events considered, it's more than enough to keep a few "olympic cities" alive in each continent.
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Maybe we should wait until the falter off on their own, then the city can come in and adopt the community... Oh wait that'd need a great depression of sorts.
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* looks at 3rd world * * lives in a 3rd world country * Surely cities aren't too bad ?
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China has started research into 'green' techs. Once they progress through though, they'd swamp put most western efforts. So hold your high horses and start pacing it I say.
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You could add the buildings DLC (or just mods). Parklife is just a prop and path repository.
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Berlin have the BAB104 though. A glimpse of "what it could've been", only for the worst case scenario.
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Why not a ring road ? Aren't Interstate highways supposed to be for long-distance traffic, not mere commuters ?
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@kurisu7885 SE Asian motorcycles merely count as mopeds elsewhere XD
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Automobile usage partly helped in making people living more sparsely possible. And that indirectly made for larger plots being available. I know property prices in the outskirts are really cheap there.
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IMO even those "full" parking spaces aren't full at all - with access roads that huge, you can still park parallel to the road in front of the perpendicular ones (without handbrake obviously), and the roadside around the whole place can be used as parking areas as well. If people know that such centers would be overflowed in certain days then a deviation from the rules at those days should be tolerated.
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Many cities in Europe has made underground electrical distribution... maybe a waterproof underground electrical substation somehow ? I'd understand however that the two sides of the atlantic has entirely different conditions and challenges (most western european coast being at a higher latitude yet milder seasons and weather).
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I was wondering if we could say the same to TOD, however...
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@Cabalen Entertainment I think this channel has talked about RCID and Buena Vista before. The problem they'd have with residents lies from those really.
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@OatmealTheCrazy Celebration, FL is more like any town built to support a worksite - think Oak Ridge, TN and the US nuclear programme (it's a whole lot less secret though ofc). Epcot in the way Walt Disney envisioned it would be closer to if you live in those house sets for display in an IKEA - complete with visitors and whatnot. You'd have all the latest stuff, sure, but the visitors would surely bother you at one point.
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@bayareaaviation17 They made Concorde and Hovercraft too, so no surprises honestly. Guess you should see Jay Foreman's videos.
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@stanislavkostarnov2157 Guess when they were made... We were really bonkers back then. Only starting to get slightly sensible again.
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The Great Lakes, while not undergoing any water level rise through melting or even expansion, might become more susceptible to odd cyclones like the one in 1996. The problem would be through increased wave height.
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We just played on the streets ! It was fun until we smash someone's window while playing soccer (well, football) XD
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@zacharyhenderson2902 You can make a garden at the 2nd floor, which wouldn't be entirely visible from ground level so you can have a tan in it as well, you can walk the dogs while buying stuff, you don't need plain ground-level soil for that kinds of stuff. Our "lawn" is only enough for three cars, but we only have one car, so the rest becomes a small lawn, then we made a balcony over the car park so we have an extra garden above.
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@zacharyhenderson2902 Okay, a 2nd floor lawn garden would be quite expensive, but yeah you can have gardens on your roof which means no need for extra space around the house footprint just for them.
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@zacharyhenderson2902 Why not on a single-family home ?
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@zacharyhenderson2902 Well quite a lot of single family homes here have two stories with balconies of sorts. Not all do, but it's largely because there wouldn't be enough land otherwise... Which I guess raise the point that a smaller plot size or densification of existing plots would lead to more efficient usage of the land.
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Ginger True, but it still baffles me a lot. Thought capitalism is all about efficiency... apparently not !
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Because that's where there aren't people's houses. Japan took it to the extreme - their first expressway (and 80 decades before that, their first railway) was literally over the sea. Also in the 19th and 20th century waterfronts are usually heavy with industry or shipping, they aren't the nice beaches we often want them to be today.
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Aren't San Marino and Liechtenstein practically city-states ? You forgot those.
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@lukeGO I said 'practically'. True tho that they're quite large.
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