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Where have you been buddy?

If a neighborhood is walkable public transport is unnecessary. Just walk or get a bike.

I grew up in Phoenix and lived there for 35 years. It’s just ridiculous that almost every home has their own swimming pool. It took us 4 hours once a week for the hose to fill our pool back up.

I live in Phoenix

here’s the thing tho, in barcelona i took the metro and was amazed at how clean and efficient it was. there was no mentally unstable homeless man threatening passengers, i didn’t feel like i’d be mugged (although pickpockets exist), and i never thought “wow i wonder if this seat was covered in human fluids” that’s the difference between the US transit and spain. when in DC or NY, i’m worried about “if i get on a train does someone potentially have a gun” or “will a homeless person endanger my life because they are hearing voices saying ‘push him’”

That development in Tempe, looks like some of the neighborhoods in Athens Greece, just more modern construction materials.

Barcelona has an overall population comparable to Phoenix, just 1.6 million. But an overall land area of just 39 square miles, or just about 7.5% of the entire land area of Phoenix, 518 square miles. A population density of 1/4 what it is for Barcelona could fit the entire population of metro Phoenix, 5 million, within the city limits.

Stroades are killing our life and cars in general 😢

Great video! I'm wondering if pursuing a bachelor's in Civil Engineering could help for doing well in an Urban Planning Master's Degree

By 2040 Arizona will be over wet bulb temperatures for 6months of the year so unfit for human habitation

Those residential blocks look like copy paste 🚮

How about retroactively banning grass? Having grass in this desert is idiotic. Tell the Midwestern transplants to stop trying to recreate the Midwest in a desert.

This is one of many reasons I’m glad we live in Prescott.

Okay, to be fair, that isn't Houston's public transit map, that is just the rail map. Here in Seattland, we have three streetcars and two light metros, and two commuter rail lines which seems sparse but we also have an incredibly strong BRT, local; and all day regional express bus network that doesn't show up on the Google overlay

I blame the Mormons.

We have too many golf courses. They use more water per day than any human.

Think C40 Think 15 minute City.

This guy has been brainwashed by the woke culture aristocrats. It's a shame to see our younger generations so easily misguided.

For you Americans this is the worlds greatest city, But for us Europeans this is just the standerd

Propel did a great vid' of Emeryville with the mayor (search 'This American Mayor is Creating the Ultimate Biking City')

So interesting how your skewed comments ignore my private property rights to not live next to an apartment building. Although, it brings more housing units, it also brings more parking, more people overwhelming services and making life crowded, noisy and full of blight, just like Miami

I'm in St Paul and tbh it's kinda walkable

Is there a way to contact you?

Affordable housing? I have owned two single family homes now and both became significantly cheaper to live at within only a few years after purchase when compared to local monthly apartment rent. So why is it called affordable housing?

In the 1960s the buses ran 15 minutes apart. Now they run an hour apart.

So a bunch of city slickin yuppies wanna come and tell me how to live in the desert, weeeeellllllllll maybe they’ll survive here, but then again maybe they won’t. 👉

You should also talk about how there's a large amount of water being used to grow alfalfa hay for Rich Saudi king's horses in Saudi arabia... why don't we stop that.

Wouldn’t this concept just cause more over crowding and stress on the public?

The hidden issues are political and money. Like anywhere, deep pockets control Phoenix areas. Arizona is now a blue state and the government will not control southern California migration due to Left wing influence. And cities cannot cut water without letting people go. If phoenix wanted to use water efficiency it can do so but at heavy costs to elected democrats. No way will that happen as long as water keeps parks green.

Phoenix sucks Tucson is where it's at.

Hahahahahahaha, why don’t you show the 6000 + homes that are being built as we speak in that “restricted” area. Bro you want us to all live in apartments?? You got your wish, thousands of units are being built in Glendale, Avondale, Goodyear, and many other cities. You’re an idiot.

I honestly prefer Valencias design, but Barcelona is very nice too

Phoenix will be a ghost town in 50 years. Prepare.

As a builder, we have to prove that our community has a 100year water supply. Building has slowed down because of the banking situation not water! I can show you thousands of gallons of water just wasted as overflow in “flood” irrigation. There’s plenty of water. Look at your golf courses !!

The sprawl needs to end, but the water is not what is going to force that. I think it's going to be due to the rising costs of transportation and high-speed internet infrastructure.

Thanks for the video. I always wondered why if were in an inminent water crisis there seems to be more and more new car washes being built.

Build the wall!... Between Arizona and California lol.

How about the local politicians selling your water to Saudi Arabia….? Perhaps you can start asking THOSE kinds of questions?

San Tan Vally is where it's at - I'm so far south east, I have a Florence address.

I'm proud to say I've never owned a car in my life. Grew up in the 80s in the suburbs, and even then, I recognized how awful commuting was. For the past 20 years, I've been living in a city where I primarily ride my bike, walk, take public transportation, and occasionally do ride share or rent a car when I need to. People regularly mistake me for being 10 years younger, and with the money I saved from not owning a car, I was able to buy my house back in 2015.

This is a win-win-win argument. Drivers don't have to make a conscious effort to change their driving habits, the road design will naturally do it for them. Pedestrians can feel safer and fatalities will decline. And a win for police, they won't have to do as many traffic stops, which I know can be a common source of anxiety for many officers.

We need to stop building new communities and stop allowing out of state people to move in. Problem solved.

They know how to fix this as we know they want the money

The good thing about Houston is that it does not have zoning laws - or it did not when I lived there in 1972. In many ways, this was a great idea and has worked for Houston. What has limited development in Houston is the existence of swamps, and it is expensive and difficult to drain swamps for development. Therefore, Houston has large areas that look like parks that are swamps that cannot be developed but are very beautiful. In the neighborhood in Houston where I lived, houses were built in the 1920s, and there was a law requiring live oak trees to be planted on both sides of the streets, in order to soak up the swamp water. As the trees got older, they covered the streets, providing much needed shade and got covered with beautiful Spanish moss. My neighborhood had student housing for University of St Thomas (I was a student at Rice University at the time) and so it had some very old multi-unit housing, although most of the neighborhood was single family housing and included the house where Howard Hughes grew up, just a couple of blocks from the house where I lived.

DESALINATION

It's 113 degrees F in Phoenix as I'm posting this. Why anyone would wanna live in such a place is beyond me

sorry to inform you that La Plata, Argentina is the best planned city.

Author Edward Abbey called phoenix “the blob that ate Arizona”

I thought the sewer and other utilities were maxed out and increased density is hard right now?

The Desert Wildlife is Fkd