What is Urban Planning? Crash Course Geography #47

Hi there, with an educational background of Applied Psychology, I intend to apply Master in urban planning. Any advice would you like to offer ?

I’m interested in urban planning, but am not sure if it’s a good idea to pursue a master’s in this - can anyone explain what it takes to thrive as an urban planner, and the career prospects?

Thanks so much for putting this in free access no charge online

Amazing

very informative video

Thanks for this video and your others. In my mid 40s I decided to go back to University and this is exactly what I am studying.

great video - Loved it

So what should I major in to be an urbanist?

I wasn't expecting Luffy to be on the trampoline at the beginning hahaha!

Where’s Waldo? No Where’s Tina? 😂

The Brazilians literally replicated the colonial plan! The US is also copying that same plan with gentrification pushing minorities farther out of the city into areas where there are fewer services.

nice program but i hope she can be abit slower so that beginners can understand better

well explained. Good one.

What three characteristics urban planners weave together to reach their goals?

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As a master student in urban planning - this is such a great educational source!

anyone else peep tina belcher?

As an urban planner, this is about urban planning.

that is a killer shirt

Not only latin america places was destroyed, aboriginal people in USA was destroyed by western hand...

failed urban planing produces crime and hate

to learn more about Urban Planning I highly recommend the channels City Beautiful, Not Just Bikes, and Alan Fisher to start!

Sending this to everyone who tells me Geography is a useless degree or thinks the only thing I can do with it is teaching.

This is interesting

I also wanted to point out that the institutional-racism towards African Americans in regards to geography & urban plannings relationship towards equity & equal opportunities is far worse than what is summarized here. I wrote this earlier today: The ghettos & hoods were made intentionally, by decades of systemic racist policies & their consequences. Considering Redlining, for-profit prisons (Raegan loved those), defunding mental health funding, racial covenants, “white flight” (the origin of the suburbs), home equity discrimination, police militarization, The destruction of black farmers by banks, highway community displacement, mass incarceration, false home appraisals, “food deserts” (or “greasy spoons” as my parents used to call them), the war on drugs, & (other policies that skyrocketed in the 80s after the assassination & arrest of civil rights leaders). Whether it’s America or any other country, it’s not enough to legally “end” a policy, the consequences of those negative policies must be addressed. And the United States does not do that. Nobody here knows about the “red summer”, when African-Americans managed to create prosperous communities in spite of institutional racism, such as Tulsa (with the Zulu lounge), and Greenwood (etc). White mobs destroyed those thriving ebony communities with guns, artificial lakes, & sometimes with bombs dropped from planes across hundreds of prosperous negroe communities in the 20th century. With that being said, allot of my family comes from the South Side of Chicago. “The Black Belt”, Redlining and other segregationist policies that were employed throughout every city in the United States, including Chicago. Don’t forget about Robert Moses and to a lesser extent Walt Disney. The South Side is dangerous as heck, not proud of that. I don’t care what white people think or “model minorities”, It’s just I want my people especially my women, to be safe, they deserve that. Although, inspite of the violence with those areas, AfricanAmerican businesses (& other African descent businesses), churches, etc thrive. Uncle Remus, Heralds, Mic Arthur’s, Jay & Jay Fish, Churches, Djenne Collection, Kayra Imports, DuSable Museum of African American History, etc. Don’t even get me started on the groundbreaking talent, that pioneers American culture, that has come out of these areas, with a lot of love in spite of the violence. The high violence in ghettos, projects & hoods, tends to give America’s corrupted criminal justice system an excuse to further generalize and discriminate against black Americans. When Covid broke out, it predictably negatively impacted African-American and Native American communities the worst, because high-poverty tends to follow racial lines. The same thing happened with Zika and Covid in Brazil & other Latino counties, the most poor populations tend to be African and indigenous descent populations.

As an African-American, who is researching African civilizations and traditional urban design. Thank you so much for mentioning Indigenous American city design! We all live in the Americas, we need to learn how the original cities were built, not only the cities of Eurocentric designers.

ALL THE MURP PEOPLE GATHER

Weird that you used Lima as an example instead of Cuzco, the capital of the Inca empire, where the spanish literally built the Spanish city on the Inca one, often building upon or repurposing using existing Inca structures. If you are going to stick with the Lima example would have been cool to include how it has grown well outside the Colonial structure and now the wealthy areas are in other places, as well as the most deprived areas and the financial districts.

Also weird the in the beginning you mention the colonial cities the spanish built in "central american" and the "American South West " then give as the first example Lima which is in South America...

Transition sound is a bit annoying but good video with a lot of quality information.

We need to think about environmental change like some kind of Climate Town. We need cities with good public transport infrastructure, and not have so much room dedicated to cars. We ride trains, buses, trams and all sorts of things, Not Just Bikes, but bikes are cool too.

It’s weird to define suburbs as car dependent when here in London the suburbs are very much train dependent. There are definitely more cars than in town but that’s mostly for people that don’t commute in

It really helps me a lot in learning English. Thank you very much.

Urban planning is something that has failed in the US

I so love this series, esp the host is engaging. 😌

You guys should make crash course math

Trampoline streets don't sound very ADA compliant to me

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It's when I plan.

This episode is good. It literally sums up and makes connections in a whole semester of urban history class in my college.

I am an urban planner and know many planners who need to view this crash course.

Awesome content. Transition sound is really distracting to me.

As an urban planner in London - great video! 
Lots of change in urban planning still happening - such as "15 minute neighbourhoods" which provide residents access to most of their needs within a walk, bike or transit ride from their home

Thank you! ❤️

give people control over how their own homes are repaired and constructed. No more evictions from primary residences!

Aren't those apartment buildings in Italy mostly empty because of bugs? I could be thinking of the 1's that are in China I forget there's so many new fancy buildings now with green spaces.

Cool, just started the urbanization unit in ap human geography today

"Brasilia is considered a modern design masterpiece" Those must be some powerful drugs. Next you'll try and tell me that Pruitt Igoe was a wonderful success. What is urban planning? Cities designed by people that hate people.