So much effort

Fire hazard, there’s only one way out. I think I’ll stick with the two staircases if it’s a larger building.

Essentially you need the land developer to own a bigger parcel of land and to seek the well being of the residents instead of just profit... I'm from Singapore and I think the government does pretty good with this! A lot of the new public housing is designed to have more corner units, and sizes for apartments go from 1 to 5 rooms, suitable for families. There's also open, green areas with exercise equipment and playgrounds. The ground levels of almost all such apartments are empty and clear, where people can host community events (even wakes). They are often with seating and even Chinese chess tables that the elderly often like to sit and play at. Sometimes the ground level floor is filled with shops instead, like grocery stores, hairdressers, and coffee shops/food shops. I have mixed feelings about my government but they've done a great job with public housing layout and functionality.

As someone who used to commute to City Centre by bike from South Surrey, I can say there are great bike lanes in Surrey. There's a BC Hydro right of way near 128th Street and others that run west to east from City Centre to Langley. The problem from what I experienced is quick, safe, and easy access to these routes. Way finding, protected lanes, lighting and more routes connecting North to South Surrey would be very helpful.

Around $250,000 was made when I sold my flat in Rochester. That's why I was upset when my standard savings account yielded only $171 in interest. It was suggested to me to buy stocks after I conducted some study. Which stocks would be a good place to start?

Houten was designed from the ground up to make all local trips much easier to do by bike, while out-of town trips are better by car. There's also a train connection to Utrecht 4 times an hour from two stations. Even here in the Netherlands it's a bit of an anomaly. Frankly, I think it's fantastic.

Conclusion: go back to communism

I wanna see more tiny home on wheels communities. So that people can own an inexpensive home, don't need to deal with the issue of owning land, and can relocate at will, without having to spend a small fortune hiring a moving company and realtor.

Try Fort Smith AR , it's as far as it gets from bike friendly and an hour away from Bentonville the ""MTB"" friendly city of Arkansas.

NIMBYs and car addicts always prevent good things from happening

Much safer to have 2 stairs though

The city of Surrey has a “bike to work week” . One Saturday I was cycling from south Surrey to Caps on Scott rd and while cycling along hwy 10 I came across a big sign mounted on a trailer advertising bike to work week. The problem was that it was positioned in the bike lane forcing cyclists into the busy traffic to proceed around it. It says a lot about the city of Surrey and their understanding of cycling.

We walked the block to school today kids hop on the bus.

Without a mitigation for the parking, you are designing a miserable experience for the new occupants and the neighbors. Our society is adapted to the freedom of cars. Until we have full autonomous cars and normal people can no longer afford to own their own car, and then are forced to buy into a fleet share system, we will need somewhere to put our cars while we sleep, without getting in chest thumping matches with Nancy 2 doors down.

Enjoy cycling in the suburbs. it's so easy to reach your destination while laughing at all those in their motorised tin boxes blocked in lock-ups trying to reach their destination..

omg this is such a good ad

Uytae is one this city's finest citzens

When you first said it only covers operating costs I was like holy shit, operating costs are THAT HIGH! Then you said mortgage, well fucking yeah, landlords adding 2500 in sheer profit per unit is fucking wild.

If I wanted to live in your slum high density ghettos, I would have. Stop petitioning to ruining people's chosen lives to make yourself feel like a crusader for non-residents.

I actually believed this video and thought "but how do they know it works?!"😭

5:55 I got an ad just as the camera cut back to the host. So I was left with a pause to ponder what kind of monster the host was since he reacted to various cities burning down with a smile.

Australia isn’t like that, it’s not “the rest of the world” and it’s only Europe

the auto industry paid off politicians to make kids car dependent and parents scared of everything that does not involve a car walking is dangerouse riding a bicycle is dangerouse cars are safe

Rest of the world or just Europe? Because I don't see silly buildings like that in Asia, Africa, South America, and Oceania. 😜

Thanks for coming to Victoria for this. I love seeing the goose featured on your channel! My bike commute from a suburb to uptown is 15 minutes and the drive is only 2 minutes shorter. Not to mention that getting on my bike in the morning is better than a cup of coffee!

10:48 the first step is to realize that one can still build humane beautiful neighbourhoods where people enjoy being rather than where architects trying to show off their "unique" but monotonously modernist masturbation.

Where I live in the US every new build is wood frame, because it’s fast and cheap. I wish we could have more masonry and steel builds.

Ultimately housing is for people and profit. The real solution is that not everyone at every income level can afford to live in every zip code. Move

Wow! This one video explains so much!!! Thank you!

if you decrease the land value of houses by building low income houses next to them then the developer should have to pay the home owners the difference so they can move.

Or just build a shitload of market housing and prices go down lol. Way easier

Excellent video! The best I've seen in a while.

Middle housing is ugly, they are just apartments pretending to be houses but wasting land with the attempt at having a lawn still that is basically non existent.

Rentimg can be good when done through co-ops or govt owned units, that helps keep prices down and prevents as much wealth inequality

Lolol

Requiring dual staircases and thus stretching hallways to enormous sizes sounds insane to me as a non-US citizen.

Soon big bike companies will come up with a bicycle specially designed for suburb cycling and will sell it to you for the same price of a car

vehicular cycling secretly goated?

Great video, great ideas. Thanks for this :)

There is business access in proximity to waterfront (eg. granville island, quayside, creekside, english bay). There are already people on the path that just create a walking wall that won't let others pass. Let's just add businesses and see how the abundance of bikers come will be cussing at people walking in their path. There is a reason why the path doesn't go directly into granville island. There are tons of volleyball courts available at Spanish Banks. I could maybe agree on where lighting would be ideal, and how 'some' of the parks aren't as utilized. In a place where housing is in such demand, I'm not surprised to find more housing in near proximity. If you want to eat while on the path, just think ahead and buy something within a blocks radius before getting there. If people were on the paths at all for business then food trucks could be found in proximity. Look to Lonsdale Quay or Steveston for your waterfront business vibes. It is beautiful, frequently bustling, and does not warrant being discredited by a clickbait title.

No, I live in Germany and we have the same stupid disgusting buildings that turn green by nature after a while. There is even a term for it: Plattenbau.

To me the problem is every community wants to minimize its connectivity. This leads to traffic funneling into a few major roads. This sucks for cars and bikes. More connectivity means shorter drives, less total car time on the road (traffic), a larger transportation grid, less continual construction and expansion on actively used roads, and more direct roots on less trafficed roads for cyclists. The downside to connectivity is you might get some through traffic. But if every neighborhood follows that pattern that through traffic is distributed and not heavy. Do you know what place is bikable and drivable. Utah. They use a grid layout so everything is connected by default. You have one of 30 parallel streets you could bike on vs the main highway with nearly no cars on it. Again these neighborhoods that allow through traffic (all of them) still have nearly no traffic because it is all of them accepting through traffic. Cities should require that developers submit street plans that accept through traffic (not much). If you are going to contribute traffic then you need to help process traffic. One small road between two adjacent neighborhoods adds value, but they sometimes seem to make a point of not adding it.

I don't have an issue cycling around a residential area, where you get a car once every 10 min or something, but anything more than that, on a regularly trafficed street? Hell no. If there was a protected bike trail from my place to the grocery store, I'd be using that SO often

Nows thats one way to organize a city electoral system 😂

They're beautiful. Can they really fit the same number of apartments for the same land area though?

Living in Houston means cycling anywhere is impossible without sharing the road with F-150's, no matter if you're in the suburbs or closer to the city center.

Good example of how regulation to help people actually just hurts them, freedom > “safety”

Very interesting, loved how you organized and presented the main themes💯

I would not want to be the person who lives next door to these apts. parking nightmares, noise, dog poop, blocked views and sunshine, etc

cant hear it