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I'm not a city person. I could never live in a city. I love the suburbs.

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and it shall be name "Haussmannville"

Forgive me, but Robert Scruton's whole ideology can be described as traditionalistic, socially and morally conservative, and frankly a bit too classist, paternalistic, and chauvinistic in its character. And despite some lip service against totalitarianism, the kind of traditionalism in art and architecture he pushed is disturbingly similar to the political technology that fascists used nearly a century ago. The government policies he supported moreover were harmful to the working classes and to the national economy in general. That man helped engineer Brexit, to help put things in perspective. You should think twice before taking inspiration from the same people Borris Johnson openly looks up to. I have nothing against revivalist architecture of various sorts, but only if it contributes to the colorful mish-mash of styles that make cities interesting, and respects the history and evolution of cities, even ones that traditionalists deem ugly.

You should take a look at the new Vathorst neighbourhood in Amersfoort. It's entirely newly built and similarly varied and modern yet connected in its design, and it's just a regular neighbourhood, not especially high income. I'm not sure your argument holds up about such designs only being worthwhile for more expensive new builds. I think it's mostly about urban design choices.

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Interesting theories presented here, even if we may have to agree to disagree on a few things. Though I sense that we may be of similar minds on a concept that I've struggled to try to communicate and you might be in a better position to explain: namely that all cities are driven by 'resources'. 'Resource' isn't necessarily a commodity but something about a specific location which makes it desirable. What I term "Area Resources" are probably most in line with the general concept of a resource; arable land, mineral deposits, etc. What I term "Linear Resources" are either where multiple Area Resources meet/overlap or access to reliable transportation networks; coastlines, rivers, railways, canals, freeways, etc. What I term "Point Resources" are either extremely small Area Resources or where multiple Linear Resources converge; most prominently things like deep-water harbors. New York City, as an example, is the confluence of multiple Point Resources. Originally a natural deep-water harbor, a period as a prominent capitol city, and eventually a preeminent capital city. Chicago is predominantly a Point Resource city where multiple railheads converge with the southwestern terminus of the Great Lakes - in turn connected to NYC via the Erie Canal. Saint Louis is another Point Resource city, owing its prominence to multiple railways converging with the mighty Mississippi River. Most major cities in the southwest exist purely because that's where Linear Resources like cattle trails intersected other Linear Resources like rivers and railways. I still haven't quite puzzled out Phoenix yet... Despite the convergence of several very minor Linear Resources, I'm not seeing how these account for a ginormous sprawling metro nearly five million strong. Still, I think this is a rabbit hole that you might enjoy exploring. It would also be interesting to see if and how your analysis of this theory differs from mine.

The “Perfect City” from a white colonial European idea of superiority view point would have been a better title for this

There’s no perfect city without the sea

Excellent review of our world! Is it for profits and uniformity, besides utility is used by the "modern" in place of human sensitivity (for art..)? Like Europe and America after WWII in ..or in place of identity (good for overly mobile people..) and instead of a merit based social structure ,replaced by inherited money+race, religion or tribal belongings..Are we forced to lose our human qualities, culture, creativity..We can see it in low IQ (below 80-) societies, totally uniform boxes in the sand..or jungle, that many are trying to escape. They are not for creative intelligent human beings, only for a higher level of animal existence..slaves of the "deep state" mostly..still living in a tribal age..with advanced technologies and brain washing via media, churches and ideologies..leading to wars and regular destruction..

Perfect Video😃👍🏻 100% true

It's nice and all but how would a multi-polar city work with centralized places like railway stations? Cities usually have like one main station and some regional metros. That would place importance on one particular part of the city which would have increased traffic, and thus increased economic importance. This also applies to hospitals and such, small clinics can be spread throughout the city but i don't expect there to be an oncology centre for every 7km2

I live in brazil and i felt that it was really coherent for you to use our ugly architecture as an bad example. Truste me, nobody likes Brasilia, all brazilians think it is ugly, Oscar Niemeyer butchered architecture.

Why we want to live in such a environment?

Let me guess, you are a city skylines player as well

The only way this approach can work is if it’s proven to be true for the most people over an extended period of time. And it’s a very difficult thing to gauge. Remember modernism took hold because that’s what people wanted at the time of its inception. So anything that people want now will have to be measured against what people want in 60 years’ time. Most importantly, demolishing to start again is not a solution. It’s exactly what the brutalists did and it proved to be unsuccessful in many cases. However at the time the feeling of the people was ‘out with the old, in with the new’. And it took quite some fighting for them to stop at a point. Now that we’re educated to like classical styles we can’t understand their thinking. We need to make sure the pendulum doesn’t swing again which it might, bearing post-COVID sentimentalism in mind.

Superb video. Subbed on first watch from your channel.

Many aspects of a successful city are successful because they have evolved over time. Ideas have been tried out small scale, and if successful adopted and implemented on a grand scale.An example is the London town house. These were builtin the 19th and early 20th century for tradesmen, artisans and blue collar workers. They were built not by planners or architects but builders. Their designs stood or fell by one metric. Did people like the house, the street, the neighbourhood to live there. If they did, the builder sold or rented his houses and went on to repeat the exercise. If people didn't like the design, the builder went bust. Now these houses exchange hands for over £1million. So that is one aspect to successful city design. Leave it to the market and avoid Grand Designs by the Government .That just gave us modernism, tower blocks and the banlieu But Napoleon III and Hausman managed to create the most beautiful city in the world. The Boulevards and street designs are beautiful, pleasing and liveable. So there are two forces at play. And that is what needs to be analysed.

im sorry to hear about your great great great uncle 6:15

The US needs to build more beautiful walkable towns!

1. There's no need for medieval old towns anymore. The goal is just walkability and old towns aren't the only solution to that. A superblock like in Barcelona is a perfectly adequate solution. And those winding roads are fun for tourists yes, but not a necessity 2. Many people don't want to live in higly dense areas. It's totally fine to have "tower in the park" solutions like rinkeby which give residences a ton of nature and breathing space. You just have to build traditional architecture and allow for commercial activity on the ground floor. Of course don't build crazy high apartment blocks and you make parking on the outskirts. I would go as far as to say, that would be a better solution for families. Raising kids in an old town doesn't sound very fun. Otherwise i agree with you. However in Copenhagen, 9:32 those grid places, which we call "brokvarter" are actually very independent and popular and not really dependent on the core. I usually never visit the old town, it's mostly just shopping and night clubs. The "brokvarter" is where the fun is at, because people actually live there. If they could duplicate THOSE areas then that would be great.

I wonder if its even possible to create the old culture hubs in european cities. I dont think it purely boils down to the place's arcitechture. The long and rich history might be much more important. I might have to look at some modern examples of urban planning, but simply "building" the perfect city might be impossible

Very interesting Video

If Brasilia has a million haters I am one of them. If Brasilia has ten haters I am one of them. If Brasilia has one hater then that is me. If Brasilia has no haters I am dead. If the world is against Brasilia haters then I am against the world. I hate Brasilia

I very much get the not just bikes vides

So basically: -Make other meens of transport more desirable to lower car users. -Build building in the style that came through 1000 yrs of building -Build roads that direct you to a public building as a monument -Build original villages that have tiny allies and such -When you want to expand just repeat what you already have instead of expanding on it -Building on the side of the sea don't matter architecturally cuz everybody is busy with the sea itself

Dublin already exists mate

8:14 I can see my house!

It’d be cool to see a video like this but about fixing modern cities.

I am also building a “perfect city” and that is just a giant city filled with art deco styled builings, both proposed and built. No modern city streets or modern architecture. No brutalist crap. In a video game.

6:16 Oh! i did not know that you were executed in order to build one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Thank you for your sacrifice👍

The perfect city is no city

It would be a dream to live there

this guys gonna love amsterdam

Wonderful presentation!! Thank you very much!

I'm the only one here who has a modern look to my perfect city. It has that sleekness and razor sharp focus quality to it. Think of a decisive businessman who knows where he's going in life.

Unfortunately Brazil is the bad example 😢 But Rio de Janeiro Downtown (old city) is pretty good 😊

Your perfect city lacks industry... and therefore jobs... and therefore highways to get to the jobs.

Гений придумал Советские микрорайоны в 23 году....

Not possible in this times. You have forgotten main substance...WATER...but not just any kind of water.

I hope mixed uses are introduced so it’s not all residential. This will enrich the area, produced more income, and feel more like a city.

Really well designed! Wish we had this here in Seattle.

Very interesting, but you should have talk about vegetation across the streets : that makes a boring street look enjoyable.

Insightful video. All I'm going to add is that urban planners should be required to take a course in molecular biology. There are rules for everything cosmic, and planners violate these rules constantly with ego, grandiosity, and with "engineer's disease", or the idea that you can stupid proof everything with technology and "innovation"...It don't work...

Most important aspect: no hordes from third world countries.

17:29 where is this bellfry located?

the perfect city is a jungle with high roads and buildings with some exits but mainly above ground

I did enjoy the video and subscribed, but i dont understand all the fuss against the post-war buildings, they looked like that for a reason, they were designed to be as functional as possible and not unnecessary details since the world simply wanted to build up the world as fast as possible. Why waste huge amounts of money on 2 good looking buildings when u can build 100 for the same amount, they only cared about housing everyone as fast as possible, I’m sure very few if any liked how they looked, but couldn’t care less if they didn’t had to be out in the rain instead