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

  1. 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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  2. Cue having a church on top of an apartment on top of a shopping mall, next to the office building
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  3.  @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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  4. 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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  5.  @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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  6.  @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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  7. 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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  8.  @AVeryRandomPerson  Will say that some Transit-Oriented Development can never hurt however.
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  9. 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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  10.  @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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  11. 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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  12. To be fair, propellers were less high-pitched than jetliners, and Heathrow were built in the time of propeller airplanes.
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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15.  @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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  16.  @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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  17. What if the US were to have city-states ? Would that makes sense ?
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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23.  @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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  24.  @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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  25.  @detroitcoffeeartdetroit6502  Fact that nearly all of it is piers kinda give away the industrial-commercial nature of it though.
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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32.  @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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  33.  @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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  34. 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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  35.    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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40.  @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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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. * looks at 3rd world * * lives in a 3rd world country * Surely cities aren't too bad ?
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  45. 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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  46. You could add the buildings DLC (or just mods). Parklife is just a prop and path repository.
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  47. Berlin have the BAB104 though. A glimpse of "what it could've been", only for the worst case scenario.
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  48. Why not a ring road ? Aren't Interstate highways supposed to be for long-distance traffic, not mere commuters ?
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  49.  @kurisu7885  SE Asian motorcycles merely count as mopeds elsewhere XD
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  50. 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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