Built To Last

[fromhgwaii]

Have you seen the "highrise" suburbs in many developing countries? Gated Corbusian tower-in-the park, far from everything, and tied together highways.

This video would be great if you could translate it into a few other languages. Portuguese, Spanish, Hindi...

[Max01388]

Stack and Track housing for the masses. The UN, the worlds eugenics police force wants us all to live in little cubicles stacked one on top of the other side by side for many miles along rail tracks, moved like cattle, penned in like dogs or pigs where every move you make is monitored and personal freedoms are a thing of the past, a Communists dream dystopia.

[Cyrus992]

@Max01388

I see what you mean and sure New Urbanism has downsides, but what is your solution when it comes to urban design?

You know the car-dependent development of that last 80 years was ALSO infested with codes, regulations, and subsidies!

[1charlastar]

I suggest you take time to read "Understanding Sustainable Development Agenda 21" at Magic City News. (Posting a website is not allowed so add  (dot) pdf at end) Of course many of the concepts sound great and many of you apparently already love living in central city high-rise apartments. This is planned for almost all of us.

Pay special attention to the Wildlands Map on page 17 with areas allowed for human habitation, then to pages 19 and 20.

[Cyrus992]

@1charlastar

Well... I do have a few dislikes with them... However they were so much for control, why a huge chunk of their development involve single-family homes with yards? Did you see Celebration, FL?

[FlawdaFootball]

When I went to study abroad in Europe, the hardest part of leaving was trading the walkable cities with sidewalk cafes to come back to my suburban hell hole with 30 minute commutes and nothing but 3 miles of houses in any direction

[pavilionking06]

PORTLAND OREGON already gets it! One more reason I love it. 20-minute neighborhoods all over this city.

[krirks]

so...does Manhattan count for this?

I live in 32nd floor, there are many shops and groceries down the streets

I ride a bicycle to work in 10 min.

but it seems that i don't get any profit from this at all

[1charlastar]

On June 9, 2011, President Obama signed Executive Order 13575, Establishment of the White House Rural Council, with goals to take complete control of public lands and rural areas for development. This aligns with the purposes of Agenda 21, a United Nations environment and development program that removes local say in how lands and farms are managed.

[Cyrus992]

@1charlastar

I researched 13575 order and found no connection with New Urbanism.

I also found out that they want to ban Fannie Mae lending influence in their neighborhoods. Sounds like they want to promote the free market.

[1charlastar]

"Smart Growth" has become the politically-correct buzz-word to mask a variety of policy initiatives designed to bring about sustainable development of sustainable communities that will produce sustainable lifestyles - as determined by the authors and promoters of United Nations Agenda 21. To achieve this goal Agenda 21 proposes depopulating the planet by 80-85%. Who chooses who lives and who dies???

[Cyrus992]

@1charlastar

Are you sure the New Urbanism is related to this idea? 

[cscdigitalgraphics]

As an architect, I agree with the message. However, the message does appear to be a little bit narrow. Each element plays a role in the greater deterioration of the planet. This is just one of them.

[GospelTruth777]

Hopeful at best.

[Scottit]

What a wonderful to control & force people with false promises. What "disaster"? "Sprawl" is not true. In the contiguous US only about 3% of land is urbanized. The LA area is the most dense. The Bay Area is 2nd. There are not overall advantages to high densities. The numerous claims made are ridiculous & unfounded. Weigh all the pros & cons. How do nations w/high densities fare? Worse! Search for "Agenda 21" to see the hidden agenda. Also the enviro-extremists, aka watermelons.

[Cyrus992]

I admire many New Urbanist viewpoints, but there is a few things we must improve:

-DO NOT implement new codes. Just sell the product. Look at how codes made the post WW2 disaster

-DO NOT try to solve climate change. GW is not manmade.

-Fight for PRIVATE light rail. Learn from the subsidized highway disaster

-DO NOT lobby. NU will get tons of criticism for "forcing" people. Look at how GM and Big Oil lobbied and made the mess we have today

Fight for a Free Market New Urbanism!

[BuffaloRotary]

@Cyrus992 :

-Can we lobby to remove laws and codes that RESTRICT new urbanist developments and FORCE suburban sprawl style development?

-Seems like we have to fight for new codes, because current codes mandate suburban style development and prohibit new urbanist style.

-The free market WANTS new urbanism - demand is high, and there is a scarcity of supply, due to government restrictions and zoning/code laws that prohibit new urbanism style development.

[Cyrus992]

@BuffaloRotary

I will agree with most.

However if you want new codes, you will recieve ton of criticism and BS from the oil and highway lobbyists like Randal O'Toole and Wendell Cox. They will brainwash people the NU is making codes to dictate people on how they should live.

We have to kick some as*!!!

[sergeimik]

what program do u use to make this movie?

[Audiomuse]

I love new urbanism. I'm a teenager and hope to be a bigger part of the "back to the city movement" as I grow older. I support denser building and more cohesive communities. I have seen how unsustainable suburbs are and how little most people interact with each other within them. I have seen monopolies emerge with the Wal Marts and McDonald's dominating strip malls of little architectural value.

[tegoman12]

Just take a fly with google maps over europe and you will discover how to live better ;)

[Loraguy]

To each his own. I like the suburbs. Crowding people closer together might seem like utopia to you, but me... I can't imagine being happy living upstairs from a coffee shop. or around the corner from a coffee shop. or down the street from a coffee shop.

You know what I think is killing this world? People who try to make me feel guilty for liking what I can afford to like.

If North America was really going to hell in a hand basket, then people would be leaving, not dying to get here.

[SustainableToronto]

Very cool video! As a planner, I am an advocate of new urbanism. It realizes we can actually improve our quality of life, be more sociable, lower costs and save the environment. Unfortunately, we are lacking political will and the knowledge inside the bureaucracies to want to see this happen - but this too can change. Keep up the great work.

[Loraguy]

@SustainableToronto

Politicians are elected by the people. If the majority wanted density, then politicians espousing it would be elected in droves.

Elitism at its finest: if you don't agree with me, then obviously you need to be educated.

[treefingers1206]

@Loraguy Why don't people want it? That's the question. Just because we want it doesn't it make it 'good.' The effort of New Urbanism is not necessarily a "top down" thing, but to educate people on why it is better. Not elitism. It's actually education.

[Loraguy]

@treefingers1206

Well there you go. I disagree with your point of view, so obviously I need to be educated. Well you disagree with me, so why isn't it you that needs "educating" until you agree with me?

[treefingers1206]

@Loraguy Whoa whoa...if you disagree, then I deserve to be educated as to why you disagree. Then we have a conversation, evaluate each others' points, and draw conclusions about the topic. I'm not saying that "disagreement with my point of view means all people are idiots." It is very well possible (and I admit it occurs often) that I am wrong. All I am saying is that if people don't want "new urbanism" then why? I assume everyone realizes that the government planned and subsidized suburbs

[treefingers1206]

@Loraguy On that note, just to drive this home, I differentiate between "disagreement" and "ignorance." The conversation around new urbanism is about whether one form of settlement is more sustainable than another. Disagreement isn't preference, it means that you think suburban development is more sustainable than denser development.

[Loraguy]

@treefingers1206

I "prefer" as much elbow room as I can afford.

You look at urban planning from 50 years ago, and you think "those poor misguided fools. Well, they didn't know any better." I'm quite certain that 50 years from now, people will look back at your new urbanism theories and think "those poor misguided fools. Well, they didn't know any better." The trendier something is now, the more foolish it looks in retrospect.

[innotech]

@Loraguy

country living has always existed. Its just that sprawl has begun to creep INTO the country. You can still live far from everything and not be a part of the problem. Its the massive suburban areas of 100k+ people living OUTSIDE of a city center that are the problem. You would not be at home in a suburb anyway if you wanted "more elbow room".

[annotation]

This has to be one of the most inspiring videos I have seen, ever.

Thank you for sharing this, I hope so badly more citis/towns/etc. would plan this way.

[annotation]

This is an amazing video!!!!!! I wish, so very badly more places would be this way. It is the only and best way for our planet to grow, otherwise... well I hope never to see the full impact of the otherwise.

[TenderTrap86]

These walkable communites have to become necessary because how are people going to drive everywhere they need to go when a gallon gas goes back up to $4, or even higher, and settles there? The automobile was built to serve mankind. Now, it's obvious that the shoe is on the other foot and, may I add, not walking anywhere.

[UlfilasUk]

erm - great idea in principle. here in the UK a lot of neighbourhoods are like that. BUT large corporates tend to be cheaper to buy from than local shops and so out of town shopping centres abound. Its more about changing attitudes of people to stay local - buy local and develop local - tough job

[irishluck43]

very nicely produced!

[MassachusettsMollusk]

It should be "fewer" parking garages and more parks.

[thequake180]

If you want to see a real nightmare of urban sprawl, go to Los Angeles.

[Cyrus992]

@thequake180 Dont forget its neighbor.. Orange County and the Inland Empire!!

[1standMain]

"Sprawlanta" - pilot episode for our new "American Makeover" series is now online - here on our youtube channel.  Find us on facebook.

[ew2swift3]

Question: What song is playing at the very beginning (the arrangment w/ the strings)??

[TenderTrap86]

Great video.

[mobilitymatters]

Don't forget the inside of the donut - rehabilitating and retrofitting the lovely old buildings from the early 20th century and re-investing in the public space around them is another way to do it - one that puts people more central to pre-existing parts of cities and acknowledges the pre-existing history.

[divanola]

screw this commie claptrap

[soulvisionq1]

this video is awesome! thank you to whoever made it!!

[zideaz]

The video is well-done, but the graphic at the start is just annoying. 

One graphic at the end advertising your other project is sufficient.

[1standMain]

thanks for feedback - not much experience with using those pop up ads - we scaled it back to one ad at the end (over credit roll).

[digitaldakini]

Love this video and I am going to use it in my web video marketing class for environmental groups!

[digitaldakini]

Who did the music?

[Spagapolis]

This is great. Tomorrow I start my first day as an Urban Planning graduate student and this is great motivation first thing in the morning. Thank you!

[dhbetty]

too bad New Urbanism doesn't include the wonders of bicycles in the fix of sprawl. Bikes are the most efficent form of transportation and can increase the distance covered by a pedestrian by miles! Come on New Urbanists, it is time to embrace bicycles too.

[jeffsandychelsea]

@dhbetty They do. That's why there are roads in all New Urbanist developments. Not to mention bike lanes and trails.

[ombst4]

"Through the postwar decades Americans happily allowed their cities and towns to be destroyed. They tore down half the old buildings downtown and paved them over for parking lots, passed zoning laws that forbade corner grocery stores in residential neighborhoods and set rules that required businesses to locate on a 1-acre lot until things became so spread out you had to drive everywhere." James Kunstler, "The geography of nowhere: the rise and decline of America's man-made landscape." 1994

[ombst4]

If you have not read this book yet, I highly recommend it!!! It's awesome!

[Cyrus992]

@ombst4 Tell lots of people that. Some are FOOLED that New Urbanism = urban government control. NOT TRUE!! It gives more freedom for transit, living, and choice. Critics like Wendell Cox and Randall O Toole have been MISLEADING people that NU is control, but its about giving people options. For years we had big box store, auto, asphalt, and oil lobbyist and public planners to control the way we live setting up NASTY codes and laws to create such an UNATTRACTIVE landscape..

[yahooserious73]

Love the music in this movie

[arthurfmh]

The greatest threat is government control!

Let the road users bear their cost of congestions due to urban sprawl. Let the private build their transport system in the urban core. That's it.

[1standMain]

@arthurfmh

FYI: it is the government that makes new urbanism illegal. Yes, illegal. People WANT to live in new urbanist type places, but developers have to fight all kinds of government laws just to build them. Government control is preventing walkable places and forcing us to live in sprawl.

[Sevenfold120]

@1standMain Because local and state governments think sprawl and suburbization is what we want. Besides corporations having their hand in government and encouraging this kind of direction.

[SaveArlington]

@1standMain haha no it isn't. Visit savearlington(dot)com and you'll find out that the government is heavily involved in promoting New Urbanism. This stuff is insane and overrated. Cul-de-sacs and private lawns? Really?

[Cyrus992]

@arthurfmh BEST COMMENT ever!! Some are FOOLED that New Urbanism = urban government control. NOT TRUE!! It gives more freedom for transit, living, and choice. Critics like Wendell Cox and Randall O Toole have been MISLEADING people that NU is control, but its about giving people options. For years we had big box store, auto, asphalt, and oil lobbyist and public planners to control the way we live setting up NASTY codes and laws to create such an UNATTRACTIVE landscape..

[strawberries2442]

This seems like propaganda to me. I hate sprawl, too, but this new urbanism thought movement is getting scary.

[BBdaWolfy]

It seems to me your solution is more of a bandaid to the real problem of over population. If everyone watching this video would simply get themselves sexually sterilized, the planet would have fewer humans, thus solving all the the issues this video addresses.

[tgold1968]

At only 72K viewers, I seriously doubt it.

[quietnchaos]

BBdaWolfy, are you sexually sterilized?  Hmm, thought not.

[gw2005]

u can start by cutting off ur own enital.

[pavilionking06]

I am visiting my family in Salt Lake City Utah.. my God.. it takes 30 min just to get to the grocery store here.. an Extremely limited mass transit system, NO bike paths, NO pedestrian walks.. the entire city is miles upon miles upon miles of sprawling suburbia.. ugh.. I Miss Portland already.

[jeffsandychelsea]

@pavilionking06 Yeah. And Portland's transit system is vastly superior to many areas (like the San Fran area in CA) even though our pop. is relatively small... Maybe the transit is a bit better in SF proper, but still not as good Portland's.

[arqeruiz]

just let me know if i can help, i know many people can be convinced with this kind of material, it tells you everything in less de 3 minutes.

[arqeruiz]

have you consider to translate it to spanish?! It would be very helpful for some of us who want to make a change and explain it to the authorities in this country!..I'd be glad to help..

[raynekoest]

I agree I think it would be very worthwhile.

[bobduvar]

Culs de sacs !!!

hahahahaha !!

Ne sont-ce pas plutôt des voies sans issues ?

La seule issue à laquelle nous ne pouvons plus échapper, c'est la fin de l'espèce humaine.

Human species is about to disappear.....et c'est bien fait pour notre gueule !!!

[stevemallen1]

Great Video! I recently moved to Downtown Portland Oregon and it is an amazing city. Focused on community, mass transit, pedestrian friendly paths, bike lanes, and sustainable environmentally safe building practices. It's awesome here!

[pavilionking06]

I LOVE Portland Oregon! It is my favorite American City!

[11mut]

tells the truth

[raynekoest]

Too many developments are being built under the New Urbanist banner that a) do not have sufficient residential densities to support essential services like grocery stores within a five minute walk, b) are not resulting in shifts in lifestyle for occupants.

There needs to be 1) scoring and ranking criteria with minimum residential densities and mixed uses specified and 2) Objective post-occupancy scoring/ranking to see which New Urbanist communities are achieving meaningful shifts.

[djkenny]

San Jose CA....perfect example downtown. They need to really solidify making it car free..schools within walking distance, grocery, etc

[raynekoest]

There is downtown and then there is downtown - alot of suburban neighbourhoods would benefit from a mini business/mixed use area (midrise, maybe 3 or 4:1 FSR) with an FSR stepping down to rowhouses and then finally houses in concentric distances away - infill and proper sidewalks, treed boulevards etc. Not so much for night clubs but for a supermarket, some medical services, smaller offices, apartments above. Sort and old-style 1900s "downtown"

[SaveArlington]

@jianrossi Is this the same LEED that tells us single-family homes are among one of the worst polluters on the planet? Just curious. SaveArlington(dot)com

[Morphinos]

what is so new about this new urbanism? at first glance you'd think the video is presenting some revolutionary creative thinking, something out of the box, but what you have actually seen is nothing but a dead normal city.. maybe its new for people in America, but in Europe people will laugh you out if you show them this video

[gcp1250]

well yeah thats kinda the idea, the whole movement is entirely focused on the US, making our "dead normal cities" lively places worth living in again, like they were 60 years ago

[rodrye]

Like the part in the video where it says 'new urbanism' aka 'old urbanism' aka 'traditional neighbourhood design' aka, what they have in Europe that America and the other countries who imitate her seem to have forgotten.

It's not new, its just realising that cars are awesome, until everyone has one. Then they're required just to bring you a little bit closer to where we were before we needed them. I love my car, but I don't live NEEDING it.

[raynekoest]

Yes and no - I think that the form of central European cities (the part that we North American/New Urban aficionados all admire so much), are very different from the newer areas of European cities.

[professordon]

Excellent, great use of words that capture the challenges and the goals. I agree with the author who suggested including the theme of environmental justice, but that could be done in another video! This one is really a gem. Donal

[cybr426]

That is one of the things the book I am currently reading "Suburban Nation, The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream" begins to address.

It talks about how sustainable neighboorhoods need not segregate the classes like the worn suburbs have but allow for diversity by blending in affordable housing into the mix of a well planned, pedestrian oriented community.

Also the authors suggest that affordable housing shouldn't look different from market-rate housing.

[tortuga66]

thanks Cybr426 I will check it out

[keinaan12345]

@cybr426 diversity does not workd. The slums will move to the suburbs and be 10 times worse then the current inner-city. It will be terrible. Shootings,drugs,blight all in the burbs. What about them? We cant live in cities live in cities like you rich white folk.

[tortuga66]

The general aim of this video is good, but it's missing environmental justice. The "new urbanism" is already happening it's called gentrification. Those businesses and infrastructure are moving back to the urban center for the returning children of White Flight.

Meanwhile working poor and people of color who were left in the cities and/or forced their by zoning laws are being pushed out to these abandoned suburbs. We need new cities but w/ concern for working class residents.

[Cyrus992]

AMEN!!! ONE OF THE BEST NEW URBANISM CLIPS EVER!!!

If only developers, politicians, residents, etc.. could see this clip, especially those criticizers and of course...

ALL THE 2 MILLION RESIDENTS OF THE LAS VEGAS VALLEY!!! THEY NEED THIS!!!

[tuffmac]

Man-made global warming is a scam. It's all about money and control. Who would have thought that so many Americans could so easily be suckered into thinking carbon dioxide, the very gas that keeps plants alive, would kill us all. I'll chock this one up to our pathetic public education that's been dumbing American's down for years. What happened to free thinkers? It's truly sad. I also feel bad for the rain forests, seeing that we're killing it by taking away it's food. Way to go Al Gore.. idiot!

[munson66]

Since you don't know how to use apostrophes correctly, does that make you a victim of the dumbing-down of American's [sic]?

[tuffmac]

Typical... attack the person, not the topic.

[djkenny]

uhhh, you watch Fox News...I think your level of intellect is clear enough

[geoffreyjhall]

New Urbanism simply provides a well-formed positive vision of how our own communities could be like.

It's neither utopian nor oppressive.

Just as the modern suburb was a vision of perfect motoring mobility, New Urbanism is a vision for walkable, accessible, and low-carbon communities.

It is one of few truly excellent visions for a post-Carbon world.

[caletaadams]

I am living this and it is worth the change.

[kmcrawford111]

How do you like it there? There is a little NU development going on near me that also happens to be closer to work... if it goes as planned I'd like to move there within a few years if it turns out as planned. Unfortunately it's strictly residential now. Having a grocery store close is very important to me. I currently bike to work about 7 miles though, which isn't bad... I could have done a lot worse. Wish I had woken up to peak oil and NU before I started my career and moved to a suburb...

[Newurbanite]

It amazes me at how people scoff at this video. This isn't fantasy - there are many new urbanism communities across the country U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, South America...

I'm living in one...our "sprawling" suburb was once a farm community 100 years ago. We've reclaimed some of the historic gems of this regions and developed thriving towns/new urbanism communities within the region. It has changed the quality of my life here IMMENSELY.

[antsun85]

Common sense:

mangoknights > electer1776

[electer1776]

So some questions for the utopians:

1. How will you get people to leave their nice suburban homes? Force?

2.  How will you stop people from fleeing your overcrowded utopia? Force?

3. How will you stop an explosion of crime in your overcrowded hell?

4. What will you do to control concentrated pollution in your overcrowded areas?

5. What size army will you need to oppress the people into your utopia?

[mangoknights]

Answer to each matching question:

1. NU is not about forcing anything. A growing number of people no longer like the suburbs & are moving/making NU communities.

2&5. NU is not about heavy metropolis (NYC, etc). NU focuses on moderate urbanism, offering an intermediate choice between suburbs & cities.

3&4. NU is medium density, not heavy density. Crime is crime, it's present in any community. It's a social problem (jobs, education, culture, community, etc) not purely an urban design problem.

[tgold1968]

1) It appears the banks will take care of that much sooner than any group of utopians.

2) Converting the 60+ years supply of foreclosed conventional suburbs to rentals will prevent this; new and old urban centers will continue building uncrowded condo space to meet demand.

3) See #2. In all likelihood, the crime will be in the wild 'burbs, not in civilized transit-served centers which are inhabited by choice, not coercion.

[tgold1968]

4) Lets see... advanced stormwater & wastewater management systems, green roofs, PVs, etc.. These high tech green solutions are affordable in urban settings, where cost can be allocated across more inhabitants.

5) They are called police officers. How many do you think the suburbs will need after vast swaths of suburban homes are converted into low income rentals?

[electer1776]

Dreams are nice... but this supposed fantasy is a nightmare. I see jackbooted thugs removing people from their homes by force. I see widespread oppression as people are told where they must live, how they must live.

Heck.. lets just burn the Constitution and have a dictatorship..... every utopian dream has to start this way.

[simdave2000]

yeah, because every other movement of society (i.e. from farmland to cities) has been by force. oh wait...

[tuffmac]

What does that have to do with the faulty science that says carbon dioxide is going to kill us all? Stay on subject.

[spyderdil]

CO2 doesn't kill you. It's a harmless gas we use in fizzy drinks, medicine etc. CO2 is needed for the planets climate which is always changing. The problem is that too much CO2 alters the climate quickly chaning weather systems etc. Rain will still fall but in the wrong places. Climate change affects us because 1 we won't have enough water to drink, grow crops, 2 wed start wars to acquire water 3 diseases commonly found in tropical areas will occur in temperate areas.

[electer1776]

OMG..... you people are smoking crack.

How are you going to "reorganize" and "reinvent"? By throwing families out of their homes? And what makes you think stuffing alot of people into a smaller area will lead to desireable results? Cities have more pollution, more traffic, and more crime than suburbs. That is why people move to suburbs. If people wanted to live the way suggested in this video, they would move to the city where this condition already exists.

[dwhs]

Glad to see I'm not the only one that's is bothered by this. It's seems so simple that everything is wrong with development of cities. Disgusts me

[mangoknights]

You're not the only one. I'm also very glad that there is a growing awareness and action. Yet, not enough know. Spread the word!

[mangoknights]

New Urbanism & the Suburbs are a purely US phenomenon. The rest of the world never abandoned human-centric habitation. Suburbia wasn't about 'failed' urbanism, it was a reaction to INDUSTRIAL urbanism, when heavy factories and habitat were intermixed at the beginning of the industrial revolution. But that problem was fixed when cities started to zone out heavy industry. But it was too late, suburbia had taken root in time to sell to millions of WWII vets. Good thing the trend is back to urbanism

[riocobreman]

this is far from true... sprawl is a worldwide phenomena unfortunately

this is why it is so danerous

[mangoknights]

Sprawl, "suburban development", is uniquely American. It's been copied globally, but not in the significant mass volume as in the USA.

You meant global sprawl. Human overpopulation. You're right, to much population using too much land & resources. Global sprawl is an issue of human overpopulation. The root cause of all our problems, and the only thing the world should really be talking about. We solve overpopulation, everything else falls into place. Otherwise, even New Urbanism isn't enough.

[riocobreman]

what are you talking about?????

[Chick6517]

hey that was too funny when you guys did that... what made you guys wanna do something like that haha ... well you made me luahg hahaha lol

[allyssalewis]

That was a wonderful video. I totally agree :)

[tsjoencinema]

Sustainable footprint?

That means 0% growth OR negative growth.

[chadepcot]

Urbanisim didn't fail - we just haven's implemented it to scale yet and enough people don't know how to do it.

The zoning laws in all of cities should be updated to reflect these concepts.

[tallhmong]

I like this, but it goes against what people believe that US is a big and expanding nation. We do have to spread to cover the natural resources. Other countries does this because it is cheaper for town, village and cities. In between those gabs are nothing but nothing.

[heyitsmikesmart]

"we'd be more healthy"

someone buy these people a dictionary, and me a drink.

[carribeer]

This is an attempt to realign our thinking on the use of space and our sense of place. It is a good start. It is going to take a long time to educate people. The fact that Europe is well on its way to dealing with the ideas and issues of New Urbanism is a hopeful sign.

[kmcrawford111]

I agree, but Europe never really threw away great design of cities like we did, and has been around a lot longer. When the US was booming after WWII, we had cheap oil and were able to design everything around cars... TEMPORARILY.

I fear that it's going to take severe problems with oil to make change here, because even after all of the oil price shocks folks are still largely clueless... unfortunately by that time it may be too late.

Still, it's best to be positive. Go NU!

[totoroben]

I like how the music gets all serious at 0:50.

[flatspunk]

Where's the footnote that says "rich, white people only" ? People move to the suburbs for price. When an urban loft costs less than a suburban house, only then will it be realistic.

[astralislux]

The propagandist should do a video on why urbanism failed and people moved to the suburbs instead of trying to manage other peoples' lives.

[bedonkeydonk]

Boo yea, music + graphics + message = sick video that get's the point across. Love it.

[WarDogLRS]

The Globalist idea is much more refined " Nuke um All"

[Shirlz2008]

Love this. Sounds like MIAMI needs new urbanism on steroids. Someone wake these politicians up!

[ncowger]

Last time I checked this place existed, It's called New York City. No thank you! Oh and it didn't help the pollution much...

[squidpants]

you don't like NYC? well, to each their own.

[ncowger]

Not for me. I have no problem with it as long as I don't have to live there.

[astralislux]

Absolutely! What they don't realize is that the poor can't afford to live in these "urban centers" when they're crowded. Rents increase and services decrease. This is why suburbs were born in the first place. Full circle.

[7boon]

Well, if you can put up with $thousands$ of increased utility bills and higher property taxes (or live in one of the bankrupt suburbs), you're free to do so.

[tonsofsoul]

What are you talking about? Seriously, have you ever been to the suburbs? Built for the poor? Really? Do you know anything about their history? You should really open a book before you open your mouth. It makes you look ignorant.

[astralislux]

You are wrong. The history of suburbs is based on providing cheap housing and increased standards of living. Besides long commutes, people prefer to live in the suburbs because urban centers degrade quickly over time as they become more populated and housing prices increase. Prices in the suburbs are much lower than urban centers for most metro areas in the US. That is the way they're designed. Look at the history of suburbs and why they were built -- urbanism failed.

[LeapingHippo]

not bad actually, i was expecting another:

"please reduce your CO2 emission or we are all going to die, do this by separating your trash, carpooling, not driving SUV's etc. but this is seriously smart !

[narutopwnslol]

The video doesn't explain ANYTHING. At least say what new urbanism is! Come on!!!

[GeekAustin]

In < 3 minutes? I mean, it's a good video and all but it's no miracle! Now that you know what New Urbanism is do some research and get some explanations.

[ThePhantomBantam]

Hey! Minute 2:12 to 2:21 is Columbia Heights in Washington D.C. Woot!

[nipponoholic]

So absolutely true. I factored this in when I moved to Seattle. I now live 15 minutes from downtown, 15 minutes from all of my friends, and 15 minutes from 90% of the places I go to most frequently - all possible by bicycle. It costs me more to live there but less in vehicle costs. The only long commute I have is to work, which I do by bicycle anyway because there's a bike trail all the way there.

I buy gas once a month, at most, and my quality of life is much better now.

[TheNomadicMonad]

Good idea.

[totoroben]

this vid is great!

[manujarch]

I have to spend a dollar of fuel even to buy 10 cents of a commodity. Markets are so far.

[BeppaGriepp]

Excellent. When we were young we lived in the country & we longed to live in the city. At my present age I drive to our old farm to see the beauty of the earth and find the same spraul. It is so sad.

[neostriderbzk]

I live in a sprawl..gosh...I just plain hate it....

[goldenapplesmedia]

New Pedestrianism is the most ecology and pedestrian-oriented version of New Urbanism. Check it out.