Early access: Did pedestrian malls ruin U.S. downtowns?
This one features some original research by me!
2019-10-24 00:36:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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Early Access: How Bad Planning Makes Wildfires Worse
Here you go! This goes live tomorrow.
2019-10-09 22:15:02 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember Channel Update
I want to start this periodic channel update by thanking all of you who support City Beautiful, and I want to give a special shout out to all of you who started supporting the channel recently. There’s been a recent uptick in patrons and that’s awesome!
Here’s the latest on City Beaut...
2019-09-26 23:32:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Early access: Why is Tokyo the world's largest urban area?
This goes live tomorrow morning, but here it is a few hours early!
2019-09-12 03:23:45 +0000 UTC View PostEarly access: How Eminent Domain Destroys Neighborhoods
This is a collab video with Mr. Beat and goes live Friday morning.
2019-08-22 02:54:07 +0000 UTC View PostEarly access: The Reason Our Streets Switched to Cul-De-Sacs
This one goes live Thursday morning (PT), but you can check it out now.
2019-08-07 22:47:11 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access: What is New Urbanism?
Learn a little about New Urbanism and its criticisms through the lens of the Disney-built community of Celebration.
2019-07-23 21:40:43 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access: EPCOT: Walt Disney's City of the Future
Travel back to the futuristic world of the 1960s!
2019-07-10 21:50:18 +0000 UTC View PostEarly Access: Can Tourism Ruin Cities?
Tomorrow's video, today!
2019-06-26 21:35:14 +0000 UTC View PostEarly access: An Urban Planner Reviews LEGO City Sets
This video is rather silly. Back to more serious topics in two weeks.
2019-05-29 22:33:41 +0000 UTC View PostMay Channel Update
Hello everyone!
As always, thank you so much for your support. The last time I did an update the channel crossed 100,000 subscribers. About 15,000 subscribers later, I received the silver play button from YouTube. Very cool!
2019-05-25 03:18:08 +0000 UTC
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Early access: Are cities like organisms?
Sorry this is only about 12 hours early!
2019-05-16 04:32:55 +0000 UTC View PostEarly access: Why do countries build new capital cities?
I actually discuss non-US cities for a change!
2019-05-02 03:26:07 +0000 UTC View PostFriday Trivia!
Come hang out and play some trivia on Friday, April 26 at 3:30pm PT, 6:30pm ET.
2019-04-25 21:04:31 +0000 UTC View PostEarly access: Can you build main streets in the suburbs?
Description and thumbnail coming soon!
2019-04-17 18:18:28 +0000 UTC View PostEarly access: How do I choose a school for my child?
I have until 9am PT, April 4th (tomorrow as of this posting) to come up with a better title for this video. Any ideas from those who watched it?
2019-04-03 18:45:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Brief 100,000 subscribers update
Hi Patrons!
- The channel crossed a big milestone on Monday: 100,000 subscribers! I'm very thankful to have so many people interested in cities, city planning, and the videos I make. Onward to 1,000,000! :)
- Over the past nine months, I've posted on a regular schedule of one vid... 2019-03-13 17:02:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Early access: A Brief History of U.S. City Planning
I'm not sure 14:31 is brief, but it covers 500+ years.
2019-03-05 16:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostEarly access: How realistic is Cities: Skylines?
This one is coming out on Thursday, but you get an early look!
2019-02-13 02:31:51 +0000 UTC View PostInterview with Miska Fredman of Colossal Order
Here's the interview I did with a game designer at Colossal Order. Parts of this interview will be included in the upcoming Cities: Skylines video, but I thought you all might want to see the whole thing.
2019-02-11 04:16:47 +0000 UTC View PostEarly access: Where is the densest place in the United States?
Do you have any questions for a Cities: Skylines game designer?
Hi folks! I'm setting up an interview with a game designer at Colossal Order, the studio responsible for the game Cities: Skylines. Does anyone have a question they think should be asked? The video will explore how realistically Cities: Skylines mimics real cities.
If you have any ideas for...
2019-01-18 22:58:17 +0000 UTC View PostSome changes to tiers
Hello Patreon Patrons!
As always, thank you so much for your support. This Patreon page has been here for over nine months, and I haven't changed the "perks" for patrons at all so far. Today I made some tweaks and I wanted to let you know.
1. Hamlet ($1) tier: no chan...
2019-01-12 05:45:31 +0000 UTC View PostFirst video ever: Why Use a Grid?
I posted this video exactly two years ago. There are definitely some technical problems with it (and a factual error or two), but it definitely has the City Beautiful DNA.
2018-12-31 21:39:45 +0000 UTC View PostCity Beautiful Annual Report
Happy New Year! I posted my first video on December 31, 2016, so New Years is also City Beautiful’s anniversary. Double the reason to make a year-end wrap-up post. I’ll recap some of the big events of the year, give you some statistics, and discuss the coming year. I’m also planning some ch...
2018-12-31 21:33:34 +0000 UTC View PostEarly access: An urban planner reviews Minecraft cities
Another gaming video! I'm not a Minecraft person, so I hope it's not to cringe-y.
2018-12-13 03:55:34 +0000 UTC View PostThankful for all of you!
It's Thanksgiving here in the United States and I wanted to thank everyone here for your generous support of the channel. When I started this Patreon in the spring I didn't know if anyone would *actually* support City Beautiful, so it always blows me away when I see that currently 87 people do! Here...
2018-11-22 18:22:18 +0000 UTC View Post