Sustainable Cities: Crash Course Geography #49

From towering skyscrapers covered in trees to zero carbon smart cities, there are so many ways to imagine what a sustainable city of the future might look like. But what does it really mean to be sustainable anyway? Today, we’re going to look at environmental planning and how it intersects with people and the communities they form.

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[dewberry]

I’ve always disliked cities but during my GEOG undergrad I kind of fell in love with sustainable city geography because it was about trying to address everything that made me hate cities. It made me realize that they don’t have to be this way

[indigograpefruit]

Beyond solarpunk, just building more mass transit, high density housing, and encouraging non-car transportation makes cities more sustainable than any future tech dream. Suburbs produce FAR more carbon per person than cities.

[trevinbeattie]

This felt like a whirlwind overview of the many, many considerations that go into sustainable living. A deeper dive into these facets would warrent many more episodes. There’s a series I’ve been watching on Curiosity Stream called “Dream the Future” which also goes into some of these topics in more detail; I think one of them covers some of the utopianlike cities you mentioned in the beginning of this video.

[joeybroda]

This was so well done. I love the shout-out to cooperative housing and the benefits of non-profit driven businesses. When we use money as the only unit of account, we end up obscuring other considerations that people would like to have.

[andrewwilliams]

Interesting to see a Rowlet and Timburr popping up. Neat use of Pokémon

[allysonkeller]

this video makes me so happy because it says everything im already thinking about, and gives me hope about being able to do this as a career in the future. i’ve always thought about reusing old places and just updating them, but i never knew the term “retrofitting”

[WhyDidIJustEatThat]

I agree with most of the points discussed, but at 5:10, saying that urban areas create more pollution is outright duplicitous. It had been found, repeatedly, that Americans living in urban cores pollute far less per capita than Americans living in suburbs/exurbs.

[zoeprazak]

I loved this video, and I want to do this as a career, solving these problems and building more sustainable cities. What would you recommend as a major that could lead me on this kind of career path?

[krackenkiller]

Sad to hear next time will be the last episode. Really enjoyed this series

[Eddiemil]

Thank you for the awesome work Crash course!

[cryptic]

Could be great if these more sustainable spaces could exist outside Solarpunk. Great video!

[eirikmurito]

The initiative is great but im worried people will be treated like machines rather than human beings. Most of the goals are just vague enough that they can be exploited by people who seeks to profit out of it. If the nr one goal was something like "no one left behind" i would perhaps be less worried

[lewis]

I love this! Please do more videos related to sustainability, this was amazing!

[meejinhuang]

Sustainable building materials, energy, public transit and policy all need to be implemented.

[michaelodonnell]

Here's the problem - this series is utterly Utopian and Fantasy.
Architects work for thos who can pay the most - ALWAYS.
Those who can afford architects can also purchase planners and other officials.
For those of us who do not have that kind of Wealth, we are at the Mercy of Plannerr and Officials who not only are completely unresponsive to local communities, they ONLY answer to communities of the Wealthy and the communities where they live.
In most urban areas in Europe, the planners DO NOT LIVE in the Cities they are responsible for planning and thus, they literally, have no skin in the game. Their kids won't get the asthma or live in the toxic miasma the Planners create.
Living as they do in their Ivory Towers and Gated Communities, Planners and Architects create Hells and call it "Paradise"!

[lorien]

This was a really good episode, relates a lot to what I’m studying. Is there any way to gain more information about what the conclusions of your PHD were?

[emilyjessen]

Excellent work, wow!! I’m sure y’all have sent these videos out to professors/teachers/other educators or have someone responsible for doing that. Have y’all thought about a supplemental video to some of these video topics that would explain what kinds of jobs there are in the field and what you might do to prepare for, enter, and succeed in that field? Students in secondary and higher ed would benefit so much from your research and presentation!! :)

[GaasubaMeskhenet]

my land lords keep cutting down my insulating foliage and not replacing it!
give people control over their own homes!
No more evictions from primary residences!!

[harayaespadrilles]

I love this series so much. The host is also the best.

[dewberry]

My question is how can we improve the quality of life in low income area without pricing them out?