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Deciding the Next Video: Your Vote Matters!

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As mentioned in the new video post, I'm leaving it up to you to decide what our next video topic will be. The options are described below. This poll is only open to Patrons, so your vote counts! 

Our first topic is about the rise of local control and gated communities in the United States and elsewhere, with a special focus on "The Villages", an infamous master-planned development in Florida. This video would draw on social theory about touris...

New Video and Poll for New Topic

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As promised, I'm returning to a more regular video creation and posting schedule. This time, we're stepping back from cities for a moment to start a new, sporadic series: Journal Clubs. In these videos, I'll be reviewing the cutting-edge academic literature on a specific socioeconomic topic. Don't worry, this channel is still (mostly) about urban planning--but I'll occasionally address other topics as well. In this episode, we review the evidence to determine if American...

New video! Alternatives to sprawl and building better suburbs

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My last few videos have been relative downers, and so this time I have some hopium for y'all. For the next week you should have exclusive access to my longest video yet, in which we review examples of groundbreaking, livable, transit-oriented, and family-friendly suburbs that have been built in recent decades in Denmark, Austria, Germany, and Sweden. We conclude by reviewing policy changes that would allow any country to build better 'burbs, rather than the endless...

New Video and Future Video Plans

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Thanks for your patience as I've put this new one together! This time we're talking about the revolution in urban policing that has taken the US by storm in the last thirty years: broken windows policing. While it has done little to address serious crime, we discuss how the broken windows strategy is actually a critical component of America's urban transformation in the last thirty years, forming an illusion of order and prosperity to prop up a society increasingly plagued by...

New Suburban Wasteland and Future Videos

Hello all! After a year-long hiatus, we're back with some more Suburban Wasteland content, this time about the deleterious effects of suburban upbringings on children. 

This one was quite a doozy: I initially planned it to be split in half between children and seniors, but there turned out to be so much research just about kids that it cannibalized the other half of the video. 

This video is currently unlisted on YouTube, with the link available to all y'all exclusively ...

Sotsgorod: The Socialist "New Cities" & Planning for Utopia

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My latest video, the second in the Sotsgorod series, should now be accessible to all of you via the link included in this post. The video will be available to the general public on 2 February 2021.