Thats true until 2000, after then, the style of nuew neverhood are like the USA

Madird? I only know ZARAGOZAAAAA

I think it is very hard for a child to grow up in a flat. I would much prefer to raise a family in a house in the US. Spain has the highest percentage of our population living in flats compared to the EU, and that is probably one of the most important reasons why we have one of the lowest birth rates.

I'm from barcelona and I don't understand how ppl like this kind of cities. I don't see the point of using a crowded bad smelling public transport instead of using your own car on your own terms, you can't even walk through the city minding your own business since the streets are so fucking crowded. Living in a spacious green area > concrete jungles, picking the car seem a fair trade from my pov

As someone who's been living in madrid for their whole life, that's also the reason why houses are insanely expensive here(in proportion to our salaries) so if you want a more quiet peaceful life i would recommend some of the other cities in spain, the urban planning is really well done in the rest of the country too and rent/buying properties is way more affordable ^^

By the way, the district of Salamanca looks so nice and tidy and livable because it was one of the few areas spared by the fascists during the Civil War, and the reason is that many of the benefactors of the fascist army lived there

Yes! Worth keeping in mind that the PUBLIC transport system that allows for this kind of urbanism and lifestyle is developped and maintainned through a beefy and well managed tax system. Tell that to your ancap friends next time they want to abolish taxes altogether ;)

Madrid shouldn't exist, it should be a sea for Toledo, Segovia, Ávila, Cuenca and Guadalajara to enjoy

whats nice about european urban core density is that it's like excessive in height like USA and a lot of Asia. residential buildings above 5 or 6 stories are ridiculous and destroy life at the ground level. in spain you can be living an urban life, but also be able tosee the sky from the street level

Hello! I am from Madrid, at least a fifth-generation resident. You have explained the city well. Recently, Madrid has been involved in the creation of five new large PAUs. These are: - Valdecarros - Los Berrocales - Los Ahijones - El Cañaveral - Los Cerros These will be the most recent neighborhoods. What I notice is that my grandparents had a house in the city center, my parents in neighborhoods built in the 80s (La Coma, Mirasierra, etc.), and my partner and I in new neighborhoods that are being constructed this decade. In our case, we bought in Los Berrocales, which today is still mostly undeveloped land with only a few phases ready for urbanization. The city center nowadays is for millionaires... and it frustrates me because my grandmother's house, which was a regular building back in the day, now costs at least a million euros. It was just a 5-minute walk from Sol and Gran Vía! ** to let know, about prices: avg salary (nets) is between 1600€ to 2500€ high salary is 2500-4000€ (is difficult to get this, less than a 5% of population have this). a house with 80m2 (utils) in berrocales (new paus cost around 350.000€) same size in the center of madrid, is 1Million. That's sad considering salarys, I wanna let know that info, looking prices in NY, we have same problem but our salarys are really lows comparing.

Yes! Finally someone did a video on this. I have seen so many videos praising Barcelona´s urban design (and other cities), but not Madrid´s. I think Madrid´s layout is one of t he best in the world. We cover this in a section in one of our videos too. I can´t wait to watch your video to see if you make some of the points we did and to learn more. I´m sure we probably missed some cool aspects too! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!

Desmotorizar

Madrid has a highway under it

They learned from Marquis of Pombal from Portugal

I lived all my live in a PAU from Madrid (Sanchinarro in my case). Although it's good, especially comparing to the US, I have to highlight the problem we have with public transport. The whole nearbourhood relies on a tram line. That makes trips to the city center longer that ideal. Sanchinarro is still Madrid but it takes longer to go to the city center than a person living in las rozas or other nearby city. Also, the commerce variety is really limited. The nearbourhood was first planed with the biggest mall in Spain back on the day. The city allowed that company to finance the building of the area but with a 15 year exclusivity period. So no business in that neighborhood could compete with the mall. This means there were no supermarkets, clothes shops, etc...

Are you wear a latex glove?

God bless Madrid's public transport. ~as a resident of Madrid

the only thing I miss in costa del sol is biking lanes in many parts and cities

I would love to help you make a video about Tres Cantos, a singular project to decongest the city of Madrid while prioritising quality of life for its residents in combination with an efficient and profitable industrial belt. This project will not be repeated in the future because it is not the most profitable or economically beneficial urban planning, but it sure sets an example of how life could be with a different approach in mind!

Because it was a small town.

I'm just here to say Madrid is the cancer of Spain.

If its so well designed should have much more green spaces ffs

From what spaniards have told me, Madrid is miserable in the summer. Probably less so than Texan cities but still too much asphalt.

Madrid has one of the best metro systems in the world... AFTER Moscow... ====> Moscow has a metro system that is by far unparalleled in terms of design efficiency and how to get around in a city.

Im Spanish and I live in Spain, in a nothern city. I don't really know how the thing is but In Madrid for example you can't even drive your private veichle or park your car in different centrical zones of the city. A few years ago there was a plan of a law, the plan was that half of the veichles could be used in Monday, Wednesday and Friday and the other half on Tuesday and Thursday, or something like that, I think this was rejected, but those are the type of actions that the goverment takes. This was in order to reduce pollution i guess.

05:00 nice

Nicely done! You caught the essence of Madrid's desirability in a succinct manner. Keep it up!

YES! and NO! Madrid has suffered of big sprawl after the 70s/80s... as well, following the Highways and Motorways so it combines that compact city 3million + 1 -2 million and the left 1-2 million to readch 6million lives suburban areas some of them like the US

30 min extended version pls

You should study the planning of British city Milton Keynes. It is unique in the world. You probably wouldn't like it because they did not include a tram or a train so people drive, but because of the good planning, there are little traffic jams, as they use roundabouts, not traffic lights

I'm an American and I thought I hated large cities. Until I moved to Spain. Madrid (and BCN) is really livable. Every time I visit I am floored with how absolutely FRIENDLY everyone is. In cities in America, once you crest about 2.5 million people, friendliness goes out the window--it starts to feel frenetic and competitive. I think a combination of this design and the culture contribute to this. The quality of life everywhere I've been in Spain has been fantastic and unmatched by any of my other experiences. There are, I'm sure, a lot of factors contributing to these different feelings, but I never thought I would consider living in a city of 7M people. But I consider Madrid often.

61% not 69%

Get out of the 19th century urban planning of Madrid and you'll see that Madrid is not at all well designed. The 20th century city plan is a bunch of uncontrolled growing with chaotic and improvised grids that don't maintain a homogeneous extension of the city. Every new extra neighbourhood added to the city looks like a new patch forming a frankenstein puzzle.

Madrid fun facts: The idea of the Madrid Metro originated in 1916 when a royal decree approved the 4-line plan for the creation of the metro of Madrid. The engineers who created the plan, Mendoza, González Echarte, and Otamendi then began the process of raising the 8 million pesetas to begin the first phase of the project, and the first phase was completed in 1919! Though not actually the first subway system in the Spanish-speaking world as the Subte in Buenos Aires first opened in 1913! When Philip II became king in 1556, he understood the importance of the city of Madrid and made it the capital of Spain. He moved his court there, solidifying the city as the de facto center of royal power in 1561. Before Madrid, Toledo was the capital! Madrid is among the highest cities in Europe, yet it is often overlooked when considering high-altitude cities. Surprisingly, Madrid is situated at an elevation of 667 meters above sea level, making it the highest European capital. The documented history of Madrid dates to the 9th century, even though the area has been inhabited since the Stone Age. Córdoba Emir Muhammad I commissioned the first construction in the late 9th century and involved the establishment of a citadel on the banks of the Manzanares River in Majrit/Mayrit village. Similarly to other fortresses north of the Tagus, Madrid made it difficult to muster reinforcements from the Asturian kingdom to the unruly inhabitants of Toledo, prone to rebellion against the Umayyad rule. Extending across roughly 8 hectares, Muslim Madrid consisted of the alcázar and the wider walled citadel (al-Mudayna) with the addition of some housing outside the walls. By the late 10th century, Majriṭ was an important borderland military stronghold territory with great strategic value, owing to its proximity to Toledo. In 1739 Philip V began constructing new palaces, including the Palacio Real de Madrid. Under Charles III (1716-1788) that Madrid became a truly modern city. Charles III, who cleaned up the city and its government, became one of the most popular kings to rule Madrid, and the saying "the best mayor, the king" became widespread. Besides completing the Palacio Real, Charles III is responsible for many of Madrid's finest buildings and monuments, including the Prado and the Puerta de Alcalá.

To go more in depth about Ildefons Cerdà and his Eixample in Barcelona: He is considered the founder of modern town planning as a discipline, having coined the word "urbanización"...urbanization! In the 1850s, Barcelona was on the verge of collapse. It was growing at an extreme rate, but it couldn't expand because of medieval walls. When they demolished the walls, they needed a plan to suddenly redistribute an overflowing population. Enter Ildefons Cerdà. His plan consisted of a grid of streets that would unite the old city with seven peripheral villages. He did a comprehensive study of how the working class lived in the old city. He calculated the volume of atmospheric air one person needed to breathe correctly. He detailed professions the population might do, and mapped the services they might need, such as marketplaces, schools and hospitals. He concluded that, among other things, the narrower the city’s streets, the more deaths occurred. He created a plan where the rich and poor had equal access to the same services. The Eixample's iconic octagonal blocks (with gardens to hang out) was his unique idea to deal with traffic, allowing drivers to see more easily what was happening to the left and right! And that last part was during a time cars weren't a thing yet! When he learned about trains, he knew there would be some sort of steam machine that could run on the streets! Even today, this design makes traffic circulation infinitely easier in Eixample. He was a visionary! However, he wasn't who Barcelona originally selected. Barcelona chose Antoni Rovira, but the Spanish government intervened and suggested Ildefon instead, and this tainted Ildefon's vision, and many didn't like his plan because of the government. He died in 1876, fittingly in an Eixample-themed tomb. Decades later, Barcelona and the world recognizes the need to carry on his legacy!

my house is in the video hahahahha im shocked

The fact that those 50 last seconds were the most interesting part. I hope there is a part 2 with the critique of these PAU neighborhoods

Also, newly built buildings in these areas usually have huge communal areas with swimming pool and stuff like that. This makes it almost impossible to create areas for shops on the perimeter. These buildings are creating walled streets with little room for local shops.

Wow i like your video and the content

Despite new neighborhoods in Madrid and spanish cities are dense, they all share the same problem: the low level have no shops or stores, so you have the feeling of being in a deserted city… having a dense city not only requires big blocks but also places to go, to walk, to buy, to drink something… and to live

Insanely well designed.... what a joke. Don'r compare American flaws with European normalities. It is horrendous to live in Madrid compared with other cities. It is either freezing cold or boiling hot. The city has way too many people to walk comfortably around. Change the title to "Why Madrid has become huge though being a small town during the Middle Ages".

Trapezoid shaped mover cars. How very cartoonish.

Ah Central Planning, wasn't Fascism wonderful.

Madrid is the bomb!!! I ❤Madrid!!!

Madrid is extremely walkable, very nice

2:50 Not speaking about the RERs make it look like only in wall Paris have public transportation. It's not true.

Madrid is the best city in the entire world!

As a Spaniard I DONT CARE ABOUT THIS SHIT, I WANT TO LIVE IN SUBURBS

DENSITY IS SHIT AND MADRID NEW DEVELOPMENTS ARE EITHER

NOO!!!! It's NOT Plan Cerda! 0_0 (for people who don't speak Spanish "cerda" is a female pig, also used as a pejorative towards women) It's Plan Cerdà! pronounced with stress on DA!!!! VERY IMPORTANT!!!!