The Urbanist Agenda

By Not Just Bikes

What's The Urbanist Agenda about?

A podcast by the creator of the popular YouTube channel Not Just Bikes, The Urbanist Agenda is an exploration of the latest topics in urban planning and urban mobility from your favourite urbanist YouTubers. Each month we'll put another important topic on the agenda and pull back the curtain to discover how online urbanists plot and scheme to make cities work better for everyone.

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The Urbanist Agenda episodes:

04.19.2024
How Japan has Remained (relatively) Affordable (with Life Where I'm From)
As housing and transportation prices are skyrocketing around the developed world, Japan has somehow remained (relatively) affordable.
03.15.2024
Living with Self-Driving Cars (with Bike Curious)
For most of us, autonomous vehicles are this nebulous concept that might appear some time in our future, but there are other people living with this reality today - whether they like it or not.
02.23.2024
Cars are (REALLY) Expensive! (with RMTransit)
Yup. Cars are REALLY expensive, and they're getting more expensive. And yet, most car owners seem completely oblivious to it.
02.02.2024
Europe Spends More on Roads than Rails (with Real Time History)
Europe is known for its train networks, and the EU has been promoting trains as the preferred mode of travel. But the train networks are not functioning well, and it's not a coincidence that many EU countries are spending twice...
01.12.2024
10 Years Car-Free (with Mrs. NJB)
It occurred to us the other day that we have lived 10 years without owning a car. This didn't happen intentionally, we just moved to a walkable neighbourhood and living car-free just made the most sense.
12.22.2023
From Pickup Driver to Cargo Bike Urbanist (with American Fietser)
Can rural people understand city folk and vice-versa? American Fietser went from being a die-hard truck driver to a cargo-bike riding urbanist, and it all started with a trip to the Netherlands.
12.01.2023
The Problem with Cities: Skylines 2 (with Cities by Diana)
City Simulators, such as SimCity and Cities: Skylines are very popular, both among gamers and the general public, but they're not real. Should we be concerned about the car-centric myths they reinforce?
11.10.2023
Following the War on Cars (with Doug Gordon)
You've probably heard the phrase "The War on Cars" before, but did you know that this term has been around for over a hundred years?
10.19.2023
The Amsterdam Metro ... Kinda Sucks, Actually (with RMTransit)
Not Just Bikes, normally a champion of all things Amsterdam, talks to RMTransit about why the Amsterdam Metro isn't good enough.
09.29.2023
The Staggering Ignorance of Traffic Engineers (with Build the Lanes)
The American “transportation engineer” is a really a civil engineer who has received a little exposure to the transportation sector. If all a nation can provide are civil engineers who are given a crash course in transportation studies, what do...
09.08.2023
5 Years Living in the Netherlands (with Mrs. NJB)
Our family has lived in the Netherlands for 5 years; here's what it's been like.
08.17.2023
Most Europeans Aren't Chained to their Cars (with Adam Something)
A single mother in my hometown of Fake London in Canada was forced to pay $6000 she couldn't afford to fix the transmission in her car. This situation happens all the time in North America, but thankfully, it's rare in...
07.28.2023
The Superior Form of Housing (with Justin from WTYP)
Rowhouses is illegal in huge swaths of the US and Canada, but it's extremely common elsewhere because it is the greatest form of housing.
07.07.2023
Opening Transit Payments (with Urban Caffeine)
Paying for public transit is way too complicated, especially if you're an occasional user or tourist. Can open payments make this process easier for everyone? In this conversation, Jason from Not Just Bikes and Thea from Urban Caffeine discuss recent developments...
06.18.2023
Toronto Needs a New Mayor (with RMTransit)
Jason from Not Just Bikes and Reece from RMTransit go through the top candidates in the Toronto mayoral election and give our takes on who we think should be (or shouldn't be) the next mayor of Toronto.
06.15.2023
Engineering Bad Outcomes (with CityNerd)
Jason (Not Just Bikes) and Ray (CityNerd) discuss how traffic engineers use complicated models and guidebooks but still manage to build terrible streets that don't actually work.
05.19.2023
Closing Open Streets (with City Beautiful)
During the covid-19 pandemic, many US cities made streets off-limits to cars and opened them to people walking an cycling. These "open streets" were loved by urbanists everywhere, but now that the lockdowns are over, many of these places are...
04.21.2023
Toronto Drivers are Above the Law (with RMTransit)
Jason from Not Just Bikes and Reece from RMTransit discuss the shocking lack of law enforcement towards drivers in Toronto, while violations against transit riders and cyclists are ramped up.
03.24.2023
The 15-Minute Cities Conspiracy (with Adam Something)
In this inaugural episode of The Urbanist Agenda, Jason from Not Just Bikes and Adam from Adam Something discuss a topic that just ... won't go away: the conspiracy theories around 15-minute cities.
03.21.2023
Welcome to the Urbanist Agenda
A podcast by the creator of the popular YouTube channel Not Just Bikes, The Urbanist Agenda is an exploration of the latest topics in urban planning and urban mobility from your favourite urbanist YouTubers.

What's The Urbanist Agenda about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Urbanist Agenda episodes:

How Japan has Remained (relatively) Affordable (with Life Where I'm From)

Living with Self-Driving Cars (with Bike Curious)

Cars are (REALLY) Expensive! (with RMTransit)

Europe Spends More on Roads than Rails (with Real Time History)

10 Years Car-Free (with Mrs. NJB)

From Pickup Driver to Cargo Bike Urbanist (with American Fietser)

The Problem with Cities: Skylines 2 (with Cities by Diana)

Following the War on Cars (with Doug Gordon)

The Amsterdam Metro ... Kinda Sucks, Actually (with RMTransit)

The Staggering Ignorance of Traffic Engineers (with Build the Lanes)

5 Years Living in the Netherlands (with Mrs. NJB)

Most Europeans Aren't Chained to their Cars (with Adam Something)

The Superior Form of Housing (with Justin from WTYP)

Opening Transit Payments (with Urban Caffeine)

Toronto Needs a New Mayor (with RMTransit)

Engineering Bad Outcomes (with CityNerd)

Closing Open Streets (with City Beautiful)

Toronto Drivers are Above the Law (with RMTransit)

The 15-Minute Cities Conspiracy (with Adam Something)

Welcome to the Urbanist Agenda