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Car-dependent suburbia is subsidized by productive urban places. That's why American cities are broke. But how bad is it, and who is subsidizing who?
Watch the rest of my Strong Towns series here: • Strong Towns
Urban3 is a consulting company that helps cities better understand the economic impact of development. They have worked with many American cities to better understand and visualize the costs of development, and uncover which properties are productive, and which are not. Some municipalities have been willing to share that information, and it has provided a fascinating glimpse into the financial problems caused by sprawling car-centric suburban development.
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This video explores some of the cities analyzed by Urban3, and provides some lessons that cities should learn about how to build Strong Towns.
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Additional Reading & References:
The Real Reason Your City Has No Money
Strong Towns
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reas…
Poor Neighborhoods Make the Best Investments
Strong Towns
www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/10/poor-neighbo…
About Urban3
Urban3 takes a different approach to land value economics, property and retail tax analysis, and community design. They empower communities with new insights into their own data. Their work makes a quantifiable case for better city planning, urban design, and smarter growth whiling backing up their stories with facts and figures. Urban3 demystify tax codes, government jargon, and municipal finance data, allowing communities to clearly understand the economic impact of development.
www.urbanthree.com/
About Strong Towns
Strong Towns is a non-profit organization and an international movement dedicated to making communities across the United States and Canada financially strong and resilient.
www.strongtowns.org/
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:05 Introduction to Lafayette
0:49 Traditional Development and Tax Revenue
1:38 An ROI for Cities
2:17 You Need a Per-Acre Analysis
3:23 Mix-use Walkable vs. Car-dependent Suburbs
4:18 The Strong Towns Analysis
4:48 The Poor Subsidize the Wealthy
5:24 It's Not Just Lafayette
6:32 Exactly Who Subsizes Who?
7:31 It's Everywhere
8:25 What Should We Do?
9:17 Conclusion
9:37 Patreon Shout-out
9:55 Outtro
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I use to play Sim city. It was obvious that in order to not be bankrupt, you had to build density right away so you had a strong tax base.
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Seeing a development that is 1/3 building and 2/3 car park that is also often 2/3 empty really illustrates the insanity of our society....
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After watching the whole serie I feel that there is one thing missing. Most people want to OWN their property/condo/apartment, so that they don't feel that they are endlessly wasting their money on a rent that ultimately won't benefit them. However, nearly all of the old and new developpement in my city are rentable only. So knowing that the rent will inevitably keep going up ,as oppose of going down eventually with a mortgage, a lot of people opt to owning a house. And surprise-surprise, the only affordable home to OWN are in these horrible new developpement outside of the city.
Cities need to make those construction developers give option to actually own a property. I personally have nothing against small landlords (6 or less units), however the big corporation are absolutely horrible with rent spikes. And since it's an endless cash cows those units will always be rentable and never be able to be own.
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I have to say, this episode is a dramatic shift in the presentability of his case. While his other videos were clearly interesting and had a lot to say, this video was short, sweet, and punchy. It got the point across clearly and concisely, and got out.
Very good job.
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It would be interesting to have a map like this for a European city
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8:11 my city of Auckland got a mention, so proud I guess. Auckland has a huge group of lobbyists and nimbys fighting every zoning change and every public transport initiative. In the 1950s the city removed the tram lines and started building "modern" motorways and the city started sprawling across some of the most fertile farm land in the country. In the 1960s, Sir Dove-Myer Robinson (Auckland mayor), announced his vision for "Rapid Rail" with a mix of underground and surface level electric trains. He never lived to see the modern electrified suburban rail network. We are so backwards, it took until 2014 for our first suburban electric train service in Auckland. Now we are facing a similar fight for light-rail which was originally planned for Dominion road and other routes. The nimbys are complaining that light rail will destroy the traditional character of these suburbs, the same suburbs that had the tram lines in the 1950s.
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I have started to pay attention to this situation the more I have become an "adult". There's a place by my friend's apartment that is like this. It's a mixed-use place with shops and food and nice fountains. It is well shaded thanks to being narrow for walking and the buildings being tall. The concept makes total sense. Just hop on the transit train and then arrive where everything you need is within walking distance. No cars, no traffic lights, no honking and is so easy to utilize. There are even apartments/duplex style homes on top of the commercial buildings. At first I thought about who would want to live in a busy area like this, but it actually is pretty quiet since most noise is from music and talking. Neither of which carry very far.
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Wow so glad you brought up NZ, this country has dived head first with the USA suburbia car centric model which made it a literal nightmare if you didnt or couldnt own a car.
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Britain has a huge problem with urban sprawl - in particular it builds far too many car-dependent suburbs. The situation is not as bad as in North America, but it is worse than in our continental European neighbors. Our politicians, led by Boris Johnson, seem to think that if we all rode bikes Britain would suddenly become just like the Netherlands. But our politicians completely overlook the fact that Bikes are only one element in the Dutch paradise. The other elements are well-planned compact towns and superlative public transport planned by National and Regional governments.
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I would love to see this series go more into how to help convert car-centric cities towards traditional, walkable developments. I think this video, as well as the other videos in the series, have made a rock-solid case for why this style of development is terrible for cities, and I think it's only natural to go into how to promote this to local authorites, and in particular in-between solutions towards getting cities on the right track, especially for the concerned citizens of these cities (such as myself). Love the video and I'm excited for future episodes!
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A fun thing to consider in developing more mixed-used areas that encourage walking and the use of public transportation, it would also promote healthier lifestyles due to increased physical activity, thus decreasing healthcare costs in the US
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An urbanist giving a lecture at my University was talking about all these and suddenly he asked the attending politicians an authorities (and they were til that point oh-so-happy to have him there) whether they lived in the suburbs (here we call them private neighborhoods, since they're gated) or in the open, denser, downtown neighboorhoods. The obvious answer was a deep silence. Point made.... Your presentation rocks!
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The way you break down these "complex" issues is amazing. I wish this could be a curriculum in public schools. We really need the next generation to adopt this city planning philosophy, unfortunately too many in my generation and older are too stubborn to realize we are doing it the wrong way.
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The last 5 seconds is probably the most powerful way to convey to the average American how much better their communities could look if they got behind the whole "walkable neighborhoods" thing.
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Great video! You should do another video about Edmonton, which apparently is the only major city in Canada not having a housing price crisis. Why? Because they got rid of the whole single-family zoning almost two decades ago. Now they have housing to spare and stable prices because they have lots of mixed use areas.
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The simple solution which would never happen without a huge change in attitudes, is to convert each suburb into a self contained town. With mixed housing, retail, leisure/entertainment etc.
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I hope this channel gets to the size and influence of The B1M. Who knew we'd all be interested in construction engineering now we are interested in urban planning. And I'm a biologist. This is good work.
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Now I'm curious what a map like that would look like for some Dutch cities.
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I love how literally every sector was massively more profitable than low denisty residential and low density commercial. Goes to show you that Walmart is as equally useless as suburan mcmansion sprawl garbage. It feels like there should only be Urban or Rural with no in-between as we currently know it, and the Urban should be massively reworked to how it used to be, but with certain modern building practices such as higher ceilings, more insulation, and etc in order for the to be higher quality buildings.
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@NotJustBikes
2 years ago
There is so much more to say about the investigations done by Urban3. This video really just scratches the surface. If you'd like to know more, there are many long-form presentations by Joe and the Urban3 team available on YouTube, such as: Ask Strong Towns, with Joe Minicozzi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMkIMhFQezU Your Questions: Our Data-Driven Answers Part I - April 30, 2020 LAB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNG8_m9ALgE Bad Math and the Panther's Path: A Cautionary Tale from Southwest Florida https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMQWq0FwPBU Exploring the Economics of Infill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTknbfFHG3Y Really, there's just SO much good information, if you're into data and mapping. Check out their YouTube channel for more: www.youtube.com/channel/UCeWANE3pvRPD2g7FXLrkyKw/f… If anybody ever tells you that car-dependent suburbia isn’t subsidized, they’re just flat-out factually wrong. Urban3 has proven this over, and over, and over. Now we need to decide what to do about it.
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