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The Happy City Experiment
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The general theory of walkability
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The Gym of Life
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Large-scale physical activity data
cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/activity-inequaliâŚ
COVID-19 Commuting Survey
urbanstudies.uva.nl/content/blog-series/covid-19-pâŚ
Cycling and walking to work lowers risk of cancer, heart disease and death
theconversation.com/cycling-and-walking-to-work-loâŚ
Longer commute times increases risk of depression
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140âŚ
What if we can design transit to improve our health?
www.wsp.com/en-ca/insights/ca-what-if-we-can-desigâŚ
Are cars the new tobacco?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21610130/
The Dutch are the most physically active nation
www.ipsos.com/en-uk/dutch-are-most-physically-actiâŚ
The hidden ways that architecture affects how you feel
uwaterloo.ca/psychology/news/hidden-ways-architectâŚ
Facts + Statistics: Aggressive driving
www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-aggresâŚ
Cycling, car, or public transit: a study of stress and mood upon arrival at work
www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJWHM-âŚ
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0:00 Social connections are important
1:00 Why suburbia exists
1:26 Suburbs are isolating
3:23 "The happy city" experiment
4:31 Bland spaces suck
5:15 Americans are fat and lazy
6:36 Mall walkers
7:03 Driving is depressing
7:51 Road rage
8:57 We can do better
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Add on to this, parents were scared into having their kids not go outside because of strangers walking around snatching kids. This only occurs because thereâs no adults walking around to keep an eye on other kids safety.
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Back when my depression was bad, I would frequently get advice to "Just take a walk!" Except the suburbs were so repetitive and bland that they just made me more depressed lol
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I once read somewhere that people want to go back to college life so bad because of its walkability. How easy it is to go from where you live to where you study to where you eat, and you can see your friends anytime just by a 10 minute walk
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My parents live in a suburb and "mall walk." My theory is they like walking in a mall because it simulates a city, albeit poorly. Same with why they like Disney World and Europe. They also thought of moving to a planned residential community and raved about how the developer had built a school, library, fire department and a "Main Street" with a few restaurants. I though they were joking at first and said, "You mean it's an artificial city." But they shook their head and said no they would never live in a city.
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I talked with my brother about this. Now that we're adults, we were wondering why we ended up playing so many video games and becoming generally isolated. We think It was just so difficult to get out and do things when we were sooo far out on the fringes of the suburbs. We could hardly bike anywhere either.
As always, Im glad and thankful to see content like this that shines a light on these issues (even though they're in plain sight!)
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Talk to people that actually grew up in big cities. You'll find just as many that felt isolated, lonely, stressed, and depressed. Many that grew up or live in the suburbs may have a "grass is greener on the other side" view of urban life that is just not true. Lots of people leave cities for the suburbs or smaller cities and towns.
I absolutely love Tokyo. It could serve as a poster child of urban living. Low crime, great transportation, lots to see and do, etc. But you have to acknowledge that there are a lot of very lonely people in Tokyo. It's a growing crisis there, and in American cities, and in American suburbs. There's lots of things we might consider blaming that on, but it's not really a suburban vs urban thing imo.
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I also think because of the suburbs things like cottage core and studio ghibli have rised in popularity. Because a world where you can travel outside and hear nothing but leaves moving in the wind and birds chirping sounds like a dream. Not only that but the community aspect of villages is so unrealistic while living in a suburb.
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"it doesn't have to be this way" That's the kicker, it was planned. It certainly does not have to be this way and every day someone somewhere is making choices to negatively effect our lives. And I hate that.
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We build problems, so we can sell solutions.
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âBut it certainly doesnât help when, walking here, sometimes feels like youâre committing a crimeâ
This hit me so hard!! Iâve never heard that feeling put into words more accurately. It really does! In some areas you feel almost guilty and outcast for going on foot
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I am not an introvert by any means but I truly appreciate isolation. I've lived in just about every type of environment imaginable and I found it amazing how lonely it was living in or even near a city. You can be surrounded by thousands of people on a sidewalk or a bus stop or go into an office sit at a cubical and just not have any real connection with anyone for weeks on end. I ended up settling down in a small town in the woods with a population of about 1,500. There are weeks where I probably see more wildlife then people and times when I drive down a road 6 hours after it snowed and there are no other tire tracks made yet. We have 1 gas station that is also a pizzeria and wild game tagging station, you can't go in there without running into at least one person you know well enough to ask them how their family is doing. Interactions with people may be few and far between but at least they are genuine.
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I'm also an introvert who grew up in the suburbs. Don't think I realized what drew me into the larger city until I temporarily lost the ability to drive and started watching urbanist content. Transit saved me during this time, and now I'm looking for an even better place with good walking and transit options, where driving is fine for escaping into the mountains or an extended road trip but not a requirement for going to my local coffee shop. Sadly it's going to take decades and a cultural shift for many U.S. and Canadian cities to get to a point where all these modes of transport (rail, bus, driving, biking, walking) are valued equally for what they accomplish best.
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My problem with American Suberbs is that there is no city street life and at the same time it is not a peaceful nature walk. The community somehow takes the worst of both worlds that I agree only isolates
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One thing that I do advocate for is for people of the community to participate by attending their city hall meetings. There are a lot of meetings. Choose a few to attend. See how it works, see who goes, see who is left out of the planning decisions, who is part of the decision making, what is being planned, who is doing the actual planning? Remember, the community has a voice, just have to be part of the process.
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I got in an argument with someone about Chicago and they genuinely seemed to believe that all the crime, issues, etc happen in the Loop only and that we all live just where the big buildings are. I realized this and didn't even bother feeding into it because they probably wouldn't understand just how big Chicago really is.
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Unfortunately, i just absolutely hate people when there are too many. Drama, bickering, fights, crime, littering ...
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I see the opposite of this issue. It's impossible to build a community where people are packed in so tightly that you rarely see the same face twice. Nothing is more lonely and isolating than feeling alone in a crowd.
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The city is 1000x worse. My city has junkies everywhere. It literally feels like a walking dead episode. Everyone is trying to save enough money to move anywhere else.
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one thing i hate about these videos is how Euro centric they are when so many places in Asia also achieve the same vibrant and active streets without being a "historical old downtown". Lot of people think europe was built long ago and remain dense so thats why its possible there but fail to look at all the Japanese and Asian cities who also have ton of walkability, bikability and good transit.
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@kirkginoabolafia3650
7 months ago
My wife just moved in with me from Japan, here in North Carolina. The other day, we were driving back from doing some chores and she says randomly, "So what do teenagers do in American cities? I don't really see anything for them to do, if they don't have a car." I explained to her that they don't really have anything to do, especially now that a lot of malls are dying, and that's why American teenagers are usually either outside the house misbehaving and getting high, or just staying inside all day. Car dependency is ruining our cities, sure, but more importantly it is ruining our kids.
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