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The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities
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I have no interest in making “debunking” videos, but there’s one lame excuse that is so common, so prevalent, so ubiquitous, that I was literally forced to make this video. It's true: I had no other choice. My hands were drawn to the keyboard to write this script like they were possessed by the ghosts of people killed by cars.
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References & Further Reading
Downtown Houston, 1912
https://hdl.handle.net/1911/62636
Country size comparisons
https://www.thetruesize.com
Number of Vehicle Trips by Trip Distance
US Department of Transportation
https://nhts.ornl.gov/vehicle-trips
NHTS BRIEF November 2006
National Household Travel Survey - Commuting for Life
https://nhts.ornl.gov/briefs/commuting%20for%20life.pdf
Urban sprawl erodes rural lands
https://www.farmprogress.com/business/urban-sprawl-erodes-rural-lands
Ontario loses 175 acres of farmland to urban development a day, says farmers group
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/urban-development-disappearing-farmland-ontario-1.6044620
[Netherlands] Agricultural export in 2021 in excess of 100 billion euros for the first time
https://www.wur.nl/en/research-results/research-institutes/economic-research/show-wecr/agricultural-export-in-2021-in-excess-of-100-billion-euros-for-the-first-time.htm
Ray Hill’s Tunnel photograph (2019) by Michael Manoni
https://www.alltrails.com/members/michael-manoni
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/pennsylvania/pike-2-bike-abandoned-pennsylvania-turnpike/photos
Why did Minneapolis tear down its biggest train station?
https://www.startribune.com/why-did-minneapolis-tear-down-its-train-station-great-northern-depot/600013884/#15
This video contains content licensed from Getty Images.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:57 People don't know this stuff
1:42 The excuses begin
2:30 Most travel is local
3:41 Life is more than commuting
4:35 America was built for trains
5:40 Even intercity travel is regional
6:41 Conducteurs sans frontieres
7:45 Walkability can exist anywhere
8:34 It's all land use
10:43 Wrapping up
11:31 Try Nebula, it's great!
12:42 Patreon shout-out
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