A Brief History of U.S. City Planning

500+ years of history in 15 minutes. I'm sure I didn't miss anything!

3. Reps, J. W. (1997). The making of urban America: a history of city planning in the United States (Nachdr.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press.
6. Levy, J. M. (2013). Contemporary urban planning (10th ed). Upper Saddle River, N.J: Pearson Education. p. 34.
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9. Ibid. p. 37-38
10. Ibid. p. 194
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[jayd]

"It's a story told in three acts...

The first was the Housing Act of 1937"

I like what you did there

[hijodelsoldeoriente]

Trivia: Daniel Burnham also planned the so-called City Beautiful Manila during the US occupation of The Philippines, but it was not entirely implemented due to WWII. Hence, there are various neo-classical buildings in Manila today around the planned administrative center back then.

[kikivoorburg]

I’m Dutch, and I’m super pleased with the cities here! I live in The Hague, and the amazing tram network as well as the great national railway system allows many people to avoid car use. On top of that, the many historic buildings mean that the majority of the city looks absolutely beautiful. There’s the occasional brutalist monstrosity (really how on earth did people think those would improve a city??) but designers are generally shifting back towards nice-looking buildings. (The “Babylon” building is a good example. It’s unique in design yet looks really good. (And best of all, no exposed concrete!!))

[devalston]

I appreciate city beautiful for never forgetting to include the racist - but true history of America. Lots of people gloss over the injustices that POC, specifically black Americans, have gone through at the expense of America and its “development.” Keep up the great videos

[sallyjom-cooper]

As a very rural minded person these city videos are very informative thank you

[Saltine-owwd]

That 1920s date of adopted national and state policies is so key. Add the 1919 Utilities policies... looking to see if you already did a video on that. Basic emergence of Electricity, Water, Sanitation. Wowza

[notyournormalg]

Wow. You just became my favorite new YouTuber.

[mitchyhilton]

I love your channel and now Im assigned to watch this video for a class of mine

[havek]

I'd like to hear what made people move from San Francisco to LA & SD and why everyone moved to Houston (other than oil)? Was it around the time that Air Conditioning became prevalent?

[madmarscha]

Houston is amazing, no zoning laws. My high school had a cow pasture across the street from it. My middle school was next to a beer distribution plant.

[Wade_SBB]

Bro i bet you wrote the best essays in college this is coo

[urbnickelchen]

I know, you're channel is almost exclusively about America, but is there a chance to see something like this for European city planning, or city planning in a special European nation? I believe it might be interesting. There are a number of different problems for European cities through history: a longer documented history, the bigger need for fortifications, more restricted space, different demographics, political and cultural movements compared to America, the problems of post-war rebuilding and probably several more.

[LynetteTheRogue]

I appreciate the little map dragon that pops up in the Atlantic ocean

[jasonrowe]

On my island we have the last city platted by the Spanish in North America. The lots are called peonias they are 47x95 feet or media pionia 47x47 and yes there is a central plaza it is called old town Fernandina.

[TrustInTheShepherd]

Just to clarify, the Dutch founded New York. So if you say French and English founded cities and start with naming New York this gives a bad impression as it implies as if either of these 2 founded the city, they didn't. Otherwise good video.

[funnyandamazingvideo]

Glad to see a new video on your channel

[ravenken]

As an practicing Urban and Regional Planner I think you did a bang up job on this video but I would throw one MORE topic that we are now having to 'address' - the impacts of climate change. In addition to City Planning duties regarding development proposals, I was also the floodplain manager.

[TriPham-jb]

Separate electricity services into sector base on function : residential, commercial, industrial, public office

[JarrodBaniqued]

Maybe you could do an examination of how high-speed rail affects commutes from and settlement patterns in exurbs, the best case study being Japan. Or at the very least, do a reaction to Wendover’s trains videos.

[kazhamo]

What an awesome and succinct introductory and refresher video.