Videos
Trailer for Brussel Express
BRUSSEL EXPRESS – A documentary about bike couriers in Brussels, the most congested city in Europe with only 4% cycling traffic. Online soon.
Confessions of a former Sprawl Addict
The Managing Principal of PlaceMakers, Hazel is an electrical engineer with an MBA. She organizes the SmartCode Workshop and Placemaking@Work webinar education series. Hazel guides governments through zoning reform to allow walkable, mixed-use, compact, sustainable places to develop. She helps developers build under form-based codes. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a [...]
Timelapse video of Kiev, Ukraine
This gorgeous timelapse video shows how people live in Kiev. The more I learn about the 2nd world, the more fascinated I get by it. This is just another example. The video shows varying aspects of Ukranian city life, from subway travel to shopping. Created by Efim Graboy & Daria Turetski Music: Adam Burns / [...]
Melbourne City Planner Rob Adams: “Bigger Cities are Better Cities”
From the YouTube Description: As Director of Design & Urban Environment for the City of Melbourne with nearly 40 years experience as a practising architect and urban designer, Rob has produced a large number of strategic urban design solutions and projects in addition to design-research based urban projects and strategies, and has attracted over 100 [...]
Insights into a Lively Downtown
This video case study on Ann Arbor, MI was done by Westphal Associates. You can purchase it and their other works to own at http://www.westphalassociates.com/store 42.2808256 -83.74303780000002
Metropolis II by Chris Burden
Great video I found on YouTube, the following is from the YouTube description A short doc about a kinetic sculpture that took four years to build. We had the honor of spending three days in Chris Burden’s studio filming this sculpture before it was moved to the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art (LACMA) where [...]
The Horrors of Opening an Ice Cream Shop in SF – By the SF Planning Department
You have to respect planners that favor stripping down red tape and making new business easy. This video, produced by the San Francisco Planning Department, shows what a pain it can be for new businesses to open a simple ice cream shop. A great short piece on regulation. 37.7749295 -122.41941550000001
China Builds 30 story building in 15 days – Time Lapse Video
This is amazing. The prospect of a project being approved by a city council, then fully built and implemented by the next council meeting is just wild in every regard. If there was any question as to how China would populate the wilderness stretching between their southern mega city, we now have the answer. Hotels and/or apartment buildings [...]
Tulsa Regional Fast Forward Transit Mobile Outreach Highlights
Tulsa, Oklahoma gets it right when they do transit mobile outreach to get the word on the street. 36.1539816 -95.992775
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