How Did Cities Work Before Cars?

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How did cities work before the industrial revolution? How different were they to our modern cities, but also how similar were they, despite the technological differences?

Thanks to @ByronLewis for lending his voice!

MUSIC:
"Far Over the Mountain" by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
"Chennai" by Esme Cruz
"Terms of Trade" by Esme Cruz
"An Ordinary Day" by Deskant
"Pacific Journey" by Edward Karl Hanson
"A Celtic Blessing" by Bonnie Grace
(All via EpidemicSound)

📖 SOURCES:

CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:51 Density
01:33 Roads/transport
02:48 Walls
05:12 City planning (roads cont'd)
06:47 Daily life and logistics
09:14 Conclusion and finishing thoughts

Parts of this video were filmed in Assassin's Creed Origins, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and Minecraft (featuring the Conquest Reforged mod). KhAnubis is not affiliated with or endorsed by Ubisoft nor Mojang/Microsoft

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Astute viewers may notice that this is indeed a re-upload. Some editing mistakes made their way in at 1:56 and 3:37, where I had accidentally cut myself off mid-sentence. This video turned into quite the stressful ordeal to finish and get out by Sunday (my usual upload day). Even then there is still a lot I had to leave out of the video, but depending on how well this video does, there is always potential for a second part!

KhAnubis

Imagine an ancient City Skylines game where you plan city’s with old technology they used in order to gain a better perspective

florentin

Pompeii had a cistern on a hill that would release water to regularly flood the streets and wash away the manure and trash. The elevated sidewalk and stepping stones allowed foot traffic to continue when the streets were flooded.

santawashere

Math is magic. If you don't have 2 miles of parking lots around each building, you don't need to traverse 4 miles of parking lots to to reach your neighbor.

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I like how even though there was no internet in those times, the ancient civilizations all over the world followed similar design conventions when building cities despite them being separated from one another.

shariqhasan

I would honestly LOVE a long-format video talking about all the ins and outs of ancient city dynamics, with all the info you said you had to cut off.

thelegend

It's cool to look at how ancient cites and towns around the world were built to accommodate different environmental conditions. Like how the Incas built at high elevations in the Andes, and how Venice and Tenochtitlan were built on water.

OrbitalLizardStudios

9:15 it's always weird to be watching a video in my free time and hearing a reference to myself. 😉

I went to Pompeii last year and took a bunch of footage, but never got around to making a video about it, so thanks for making this.

The "crosswalks" are really interesting to walk across in person. They also had what we would call "bollards" to cut off cart traffic from certain streets and busy areas (like the centre square).

The Romans also had problems with carts being driven dangerously fast, so low speed limits were introduced to many cities, and as you said, cart traffic was often limited to only certain times of the day.

We could actually improve our cities quite a lot by just copying what the Romans did. But maybe without the lead pipes and raw sewage in the streets.

NotJustBikes

Dude, you are doing an absolutely *excellent* job for being a one-man show. You have good, naturally-paced self-narration on a concise, interesting script and totally solid video editing. Not many people can research, write, narrate, and video edit equally well by themselves. This is a seriously high-quality proof of concept without having a paid team backing you, and I am shocked more people don't support you financially yet. I'll do my part to at least slightly remediate that last bit.

awibs

Cross walks existed so that people wouldn’t step on horse feces. Furthermore rainwater would pass from the lower part. Crosswalks also helped keep horses on the correct track. Therefore, sidewalks and crossroads preceded cars.

olbiomoiros

short answer: HORSES GO **COLP CLOP CLOP**

هايالقناةفقطتجربة

7:36 As someone who lives in a large modern American city, whose local rivers are full of sewer feces water and we pipe in clean water from elsewhere, this sounds like home. <3

greatscott

Note that the small (in area), highly dense cities like Rome is specific to the west. Many non-european civilizations built cities much larger in area than Rome such as medieval Baghdad (Islamic), Chang'an (Chinese), Angkor (Khmr), Vijayanagara (Indian) and Tikal (Mayan) to name a few.

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