City Beautiful

City Beautiful

Download on the App Store

City Beautiful episodes

  • Can Los Angeles Be Sustainable?

    This video is sponsored by Siemens.
    I'm on Patreon! Consider supporting this channel: https://www.patreon.com/citybeautiful

    Check out the pLAn here: http://plan.lamayor.org

    Cities are a great scale to think about sustainability. And no city is more interesting to consider than Los Angeles. Yes, the city well-known for its traffic and smog.

    A. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16819-city-dwellers-harm-climate-less/
    B. 2. http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-owens-valley-eminent-domain-20170712-story.html#

    Resources:
    Garbage Truck by icon 54 from the Noun Project
    Thermometer by Delwar Hossain from the Noun Project

    Produced in sunny Sacramento, California.

    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    10 min
  • Introduction to Housing - City Beautiful Basics

    People need places to live, but providing quality, affordable housing in the right size and location can be challenging. This video explains the basics of planning for housing and housing policy.

    This is part of the new "Basics" series. Two more videos to come!

    This video is funded by the Cal Poly Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activities Grant program. Thanks!

    Produced by Dave Amos and the fine folks at Nebula Studios.
    Select images and video from Getty Images.
    Black Lives Matter.
    Trans rights.

    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    14 min
  • How to Punish Bad Drivers

    Subscribe to Nebula and get $20 off at: https://go.nebula.tv/citybeautiful
    Watch this video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/citybeautiful-how-to-punish-bad-drivers

    Road deaths are on the rise, and dash cams are catching drivers do crazy and dangerous things. What is the best way to punish drivers that cause crashes, particularly those that cause serious injury or death? Is justice even possible?


    Resources on this topic:

    - https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/datarequest/D176;jsessionid=B5D158EC5FC4AEC58A85A15A6407

    - https://abc7ny.com/dj-jinx-paul-driver-killed-hit-and-run-in-brooklyn/5301601/

    - https://abcnews.go.com/US/hit-run-drivers-kill-people-jail-time-rarely/story?id=61845988

    - https://archive.ph/mSach

    - https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/arz64&id=722&men_tab=srchresults

    - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7500576/

    - https://trid.trb.org/View/850023

    - https://www4.courts.ca.gov/documents/dmv_handout.pdf

    - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7500576/

    - https://calmatters.org/justice/2021/01/california-drivers-licenses-traffic-ticket/

    - https://www.dps.texas.gov/section/driver-license/occupational-driver-license

    - https://www.hfkylawyers.com/blog/2022/04/madd-statistics-show-the-true-scope-of-drunk-driving/

    - https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/marqlr106&id=499&men_tab=srchresults

    - https://www.nhtsa.gov/book/countermeasures-that-work/distracted-driving/understanding-problem

    - https://www.chp.ca.gov/Documents/TextingItCanWait.pdf

    - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457524001532#b0170

    - https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/spc3.12586

    - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027273580500142X

    - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3109/00952990.2014.966199

    - https://journals.copmadrid.org/ejpalc/archivos/1889_1861_ejpalc_11_2_0081.pdf

    Produced by Dave Amos and the fine folks at Nebula Studios.
    Written by Dave Amos.
    Select images and video from Getty Images.
    Black Lives Matter.
    Trans rights.

    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    27 min
  • Fresno is removing its pedestrian mall. Will it save downtown?

    On September 1, 1964, the city leaders of Fresno, California broke ground a new pedestrian mall along Fulton Street (Fulton Mall), one of the city’s main thoroughfares. On March 3, 2016, when city leaders broke ground on the removal of that pedestrian mall. Will the removal reverse Fresno's fortunes?

    Resources on this topic:
    http://www.gofresnocounty.com/Fulton%20Mall/FultonIndex.htm
    http://tclf.org/landscapes/fulton-mall
    http://kvpr.org/post/fulton-mall-project-become-reality
    http://mall-hall-of-fame.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html

    Videos courtesy of Archive.org's Moving Image Archive and the Community Media Access Collaborative.

    Photo credits:
    Alan Light, Flickr
    Geoff Livingston, Flickr
    David Prasade, Flickr
    Joe Green, Flickr
    NYCDOT
    Gruen and Associates
    Minnesota Historical Society
    Life Magazine Photo Archive

    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    12 min

About City Beautiful

From the publisher's feed

City Beautiful is a YouTube channel dedicated to educating everyone about cities and city planning. Cities are amazing! I cover topics such as transportation, land use planning, and urban design. I…