Lecture Part 9 of 9

Part 9:
Back to the 11-hour workday: Spending our lives in our cars; Gold-plated highways at the expense of our civic and public buildings; Vertical vs. horizontal infrastructure; Affordable housing cont'd, by allowing families 'one car less' they can afford $50k more house! Conclusion; Year 2010 and 2015 projections

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[iamthepinkylifter]

i can't get over the fact that he was talking almost 20 years ago, and it's only now that people (including the US government) are beginning to really process this information. Excellent lecture, thanks for posting.

[NuHerbAndIzm]

I know, I know! When I taped it off the local cable government channel, I didn't realize how good it really was, it just resonated and the presenter reminded me of the college instructors I actually liked...

[petejmcd]

Amazing lecture, I am not an Architect or Planner but I have an appreciation for these things. This lecturer has summed up one of the great failures of the 20th century very well. Hopefully we see some change but I feel the U.S government will be unwilling to enact policies that would go against Big Oil and Car manufacturing, consuming etc. Thanks for posting!

[38snipshow]

I'm studying urban planning in Ontario, & even though my professor stresses how we need to design more walkable communities.....how can we possibly have mixed use buildings and such if we are forced to follow all of these insane laws and regulations which do in fact cater to the cars needs. Many planners are just doing what they're told, I don`t think they can ever design the proper community that will help our societies prosper which is unfortunate. : (

[raptorkiller2k5]

@lindamemphis. Well said. Living in Australia myself, I see this nonsense in Canberra. The surplus is being put into wasteful motorways rather than building mixed used communities and reducing commute times. Seems like morons in charge would rather have us spend well over $200/ week on automobile costs than live in walkable, mixed-used/ income, and more social communities.

[raptorkiller2k5]

@funguycheng. Those suburbs that cannot develop into mixed-used communities will end up becoming slums. The future is going to be more about local development than regional development with electrified commuter rail service (not high speed, btw) linking these highly autonomous towns.

[mangoknights]

@NuHerbAndIzm Could you please post this lecture series in a higher resolution? Maybe 480p. Thanks.

[eleganz]

That is funny how after 20 years of being dumb and poor, we're getting dumber and poorer.

[Cyrus992]

@petejmcd

There you go... Lets show these clips to Randall O'Toole and Wendell Cox who work for those "Big Oil and Car manufacturing, consuming etc" since they are trying to attack Duany's ideas and principals.

[TenderTrap86]

@funguycheng Suburban communities won't be able to exist when a gallon of gas goes up to $4 per gallon and beyond. It's impossible. The suburbs ( and the more recent "exurbs" or "solar suburbs") are going to turn into slums and dead zones in the coming decades, if not years. They're completely pointless. They were built on a cheap oil economy and an ever expaning real estate market. Those are both coming to an end and the suburbs are going to be casualties.

[Cyrus992]

The reason that our schools look so UNATTRACTIVE is not just because the public funding is transferred to highways.... its also because school boards and administrators waste more of the money for themselves!!! NOT FOR TEACHING!!

[lindamemphis]

Fascinating and spot on. I am from Australia and everything that was said here relates exactly to our cities, towns and suburbs. Thanks for posting.

[funguycheng]

i don't think we can get rid of suburbs. they are going to be with us for a long time. As some people move to new urbanist towns, the traffic will probably get better and the suburban people will probably be on traffic free roads.. and the two types of communities will exist at the same time.