There are at least 7 bands named Cities: 1. an American-style powermetal ba… Read Full Bio ↴There are at least 7 bands named Cities: 1. an American-style powermetal band 2. an indie rock band, 3. A Massachusetts metal/grindcore band 4. a Canadian Hardcore Rock band, , 5. an indie/alternative piano influenced rock band fromNew Jersey, 6. an instrumental rock band from Swansea, Wales.

1. Cities was an American-style powermetal band from New York. They released one album, "Annihilation Absolute" in 1986, and then broke up. Ron Angell (vocals), Steve Mironovich (guitars), Mayne (bass), A.J. Pero (drums).

2. Cities is an indie rock band from the Chapel Hill scene. They formed in 2005 and the current lineup is Josh Nowlan [vocal/guitar], Robbie Mackey [guitar], Jeremy Paschall [bass] and Joey Ingram [drums]. They released their self-titled debut album in Spring 2006 on Yep Roc records.

3. Cities is a metal/grindcore band from Billerica MA. They played their first show in August of 2004, and had a non-stop rollercoaster ride until their untimely break-up in August of 2005.

In that short time they released a 5 song demo, played shows all over New England, New York, and New Jersey, and changed the scene in Billerica as we know it.

There are live versions of many of the songs floating on the internet, hopefully which will be released on a discography someday.

Lineup:
Bradley D. - vocals
Peter A. - guitar
Ian D. - guitar
Steven L. - drums

4. Cities is a rock/hardcore band from Bracebridge, ON, Canada. They played their first show in April 4th of 2007 at a high school coffee house only playing covers of their favorite and most inspiring bands.

Cities released an unfinished recording taken off of an mp3 player called, "Drunk is an Understatement". And fans are waiting a properly recorded EP later this year. They are surely beginning a non-stop roller coaster ride for the rest of their existence as a band.

Lineup:
Brandon V. - vocals
Matt R. - guitar
Graham P. - guitar
Jordan D. - drums

You can listen to them here:
www.myspace.com/cities
www.purevolume.com/citiesca

5. Cities is an alternative rock band with ambient verses and energetic choruses throughout their songs, also utilizing pianos and synthesizers. They are currently recording a 5 song demo.

Lineup:
Eric - Vocals
Chris - Guitar
Kevin - Guitar
Billy - Keyboards
Conway - Bass
Max - Drums

www.myspace.com/citiesnj

CITIES
BIO
JEREMY PASCHALL (plays bass)
JOSH NOWLAN
(sings and plays guitar)
ROBBIE MACKEY (plays guitar)
JOEY INGRAM (plays drums)
Frigid and icy, the winter of 2004 gave birth to a band by the name of CITIES. Conceived in a marvelously heated practice
room in Chapel Hill, NC’s GO! Studios - brought up in grimy NC rock clubs like the Cat’s Cradle, Local 506 and Kings
Barcade - the group formed after UNC student, and classically trained musician, Josh Nowlan met a few like-minded music fans
named Robbie Mackey and Jeremy Pashcall.
After arguing over their favorite bands and discussing their appreciation for musical-restraint and macabre indie rock, a just-forfun
project had begun. Drummer Joey Ingram, whom Josh had known since high school, was stationed in nearby Greensboro,
NC, and after his percussion services were enlisted a mere month later, the band’s official lineup was set.
As they began writing, the confluence of Nowlan’s classical training, Mackey’s originality, and Paschall and Ingram’s punk and
hardcore pedigree produced a crisp, bombastic form of indie rock. A steadfast appreciation for the music of their youth found
itself coupled with a conscious decision to turn their sound away from the feverish and aggressive aesthetic they’d grown up on.
Deeply impassioned, without coming off as ham fisted and oafish, the music was epic, yet controlled, insistent, yet decidedly
serene.
Sharing the stage with such acts as Engine Down, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness,
Thunderbirds are Now!, We are Scientists and Unwed Sailor, Cities quickly fine-tuned their brilliant live show and - on the
strength of a meager demo, recorded in two days with the consummate Nick Petersen (Dillinger Escape Plan, Bellafea) -
garnered the attention of powerhouse indie label, Yep Roc Records. After debuting their somber rock to wider audiences at the
CMJ music festival in NYC, Cities entered the swank home-studio of Brian Paulson (Beck, Slint, Superchunk) to record their selftitled
debut Yep Roc full-length in the fall 2005.
The self-titled debut is completed, and will street this April 18th, 2006. The release will come on the heels of the band’s ’06
SXSW appearances (Yep Roc showcase, Fader Magazine party, and the Yep Roc/HARP Magazine/KEXP day party), so be
sure to catch them in Austin if you’re in town.
Look for Cities in 2006, on the road in support of their debut release.

6. Cities in a Welsh post-rock and instrumental electronic band from Swansea, Wales. They have released on EP titled Manning Alaska in 2015.

7. Cities was a post-hardcore band from Palm Coast/Gainesville, Florida, United States.

The band did some demo songs in 2008 and 2009 that had a atmospheric ambient yet hard hitting post-hardcore sound. They had a feature from Brennan Taulbee from Oceana on one of their songs.

Members:
Brian Heffner - Vocals
Jack Cosgrove - Guitar
Jake Valiente - Guitar
Chris Lamb - Bass
Brent Guistwite - Drums

myspace.com/citiesfl

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Cities Lyrics

We have lyrics for these tracks by Cities:

Capitol Lies, tell 'em lie, tell 'em lies Burn 'em right into…
Good Time Huh, oh oh Whoa oh oh oh It's always a good time Whoa…
Safe and Sound I could lift you up I could show you what you…
Watches Over Me There's a saying old says that love is blind Still were…

Writing On the Wall Back through the city fog, I was another cog, For the machin…
You'll Think of Me She wound the thread around the pieces of, my broken…

The lyrics are frequently found in the comments by searching or by filtering for lyric videos

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

@grantmccoy6739

2y↑1

People should be considering how develop the world without making everything urban. Mega cities seem terrible. It's the worst part of living in a community. There's too many people, so it's inconvenient, and you don't get to know anyone, because there's too many people.

Single stream recycling is basically a joke. It's not hard at all to separate things at home. It's far more difficult to separate things when they are all mixed like that.

Maybe instead of developing automation for recycling, just give people different colored bags for each kind of type, and throw them in the bin. The sorting is much easier when it's already pre-sorted.

Composting can follow the same concept, of using a specially colored bag, but instead of being placed in the recycling bin, it can be in the trash, if that makes more sense.

Uber, in my opinion, was supposed to be a free way to connect people for ride sharing. Instead, it's just a lame taxi company with no union.

I think that shared transportation should be free, and people should opt in, because they have extra seats, and are heading that way. It shouldn't really be a job, just something you do because you are friendly. If there's no one headed your way, then taxi service is ok.

The problem with public transportation is the lack of convenience. How are you going to shop for anything, if you don't have a convenient way to get it home? I really don't buy this idea that public transportation is the solution. It's just part of the solution, not the answer. What's wrong with having a car that you don't need all the time?

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@paddyblake

2y↑175

You know it's time for serious "city discussion" when the violins start playing over a skyline timelapse

@paazbra

2y↑1

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@akshaypatel6720

2y↑91

i am from Ahmedabad, and this is accurate narrative of my city, yes there is some corruption in development, but it done in advancing projects, and also waste management is improving .

@CoolMan-ig1ol

2y↑7

True. Corruption to an extent is acceptable if the cost you pay in bribes makes the work much faster than the legal cost which is aimed at getting more votes than making economic sense.

@iip8948

2y↑5

Its pretty clear that ahmedabad is successful by just looking at the map.
All localities look similar and well connected irrespective of incomes.
That's astronomically better than having groups of luxury skyscrapers connected by a single road and slums all around...

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@nileshmakwana1810

2y↑15

I live in Ahmedabad and it's an awesome case study of development.

@NowLookRight

2y↑68

Cities all over the world should be doing everything they can to discourage car ownership. High quality Public transport and pedestrian infrastructure are the only way for a city to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

@KillianTattan

2y↑252

What about designing cities around humans rather than cars? Mixed use buildings (shops, offices, apartments all in the same building) which means travel distances are shorter, as well as making energy use cheaper due to the density. Encouraging people to walk, take public transport, cycle rather than drive their expensive and inefficient cars.

@xXIronSwanXx

2y↑9

Cars are somewhat useful to transport elderly from their homes to hospitals.

@fin2754

2y↑17

Look at American cities compared to Europe

@thesilentone4024

2y↑3

Don't forget diversity in food its been 40 years of the same stuff over and over in stores.
Earth has 100,000 to 200,000 edible plants on it.

@ConstructiveMinds100

2y↑8

Yes there are solutions but if psychopaths /greedy business run the countries you cannot expect much from them.
I really recomend channel about urbanisation
NOT JUST BIKES

@ConstructiveMinds100

2y↑3

@@fin2754
Exactly
channel
NOT JUST BIKES
can broaden some minds

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@jarjarbinks6018

2y↑49

I wasn’t aware of what San Francisco was doing with the automated recycling. That is a very cool use of artificial intelligence that I actually am ok with and definitely would like to see that technology be adopted in my city!

@MrToritani

2y↑70

I'm from Japan. Japan's population has been concentrated in metropolitan areas, especially in Tokyo. I suppose cities in Japan are relatively well-planed and well-organized but, in my opinion, Tokyo is facing the same problem as San Francisco. I feel that it's about time for companies to relocate their headquarters or branches from Tokyo to other areas in Japan, considering we no longer need to commute to offices thanks to the Internet technology.
I assume that companies will do this in the near future because they've realized that there was no need to gather employees in one place during the pandemic.
This trend could reduce traffic jams and then air pollutions in metropolitan areas.
In addition, given that Japan is a country with many earthquakes, decentralization of business or government is quite important.

@brentshuffler1234

2y↑7

English Novice, thanks for those excellent observations. Decentralisation and diversification of food-supplies, of energy-supplies, of transportation, of work, of education, of public services, and of other important aspects of society and the economy, would do wonders for improving food-security, energy-security, reliability of supply-chains, reduction of risks from high dependence on metropolitan centres, and empowerment and inclusion of rural, remote, and other communities.

@MrToritani

2y↑1

Thank you Brent-san!

@ABC-ABC1234

@@MrToritani Having worked with Japanese and their disgusting long working hours, I can only say that despite your nation's industrial progress, Japan is really a messed up nation! I don't consider a city of nearly 40 million people livable, sustainable or durable!!! Houses of 40 m², crowded subways wherever you go! Japan could learn a thing or two from China in terms of City planning and City development.

@elinelin4634

@hd-wz1is

2y↑1

that's true

@kevinclack6679

2y↑60

Fantastic video. However I disagree with the focus on composting. This is not a sustainable option in large-scale centralized applications. Centralized composting facilities will not last. They emit methane and nitrous oxide (36 and 298 times more potent than CO2, although not densely concentrated) and they still produce vast amounts of CO2 in this mostly aerobic process.

A more sustainable option in the future is to first recover the carbon into a value-added product or biofuel, and then use the residuals as soil amendment (eg. Hydrothermal Liquefaction, Gasification, Pyrolysis, Anaerobic Digestion)

@rajkishorebehera7489

2y↑1

So you are saying all the organic waste,like fruits and vegetables wastes etc shouldn't be left in open to break down on a large to obtain natural fertilizers.

@frostman9661

2y↑1

It does not have to. Those gases can quiet easily be captured and either sequestered or used for fuel. They don't just throw it in a giant head and let it rot. It's controlled.

@falconJB

Did you not listen to the fact they add in stuff that absorbs the greenhouse gasses?

@viewer-of-content

2y↑3

@@rajkishorebehera7489 digestive reactors or modern landfills go through the process of composting while trapping methane for biofuel disposal. This both creates a green fuel and removes methane pollution which is 100 times more potent as a greenhouse gas as co2. The only issue is cost. It is much more green than traditional composting though and can still create compost. They just require tanks or tarps to capture gas

@brentshuffler1234

2y↑2

Kevin Clack, that is an interesting perspective. However, some countries and some large cities have done composting well on a large and commercially viable scale. E.g., from Barbados to Las Vegas, there are entrepreneurs who are collecting food and other organic waste from hospitals, from schools, from restaurants, from hotels, from supermarkets to avoid having these valuable resources treated as immediate garbage. Some items can be redirected to supply food-banks, the poor, the homeless. Other items can be composted and turned into soil for farmers and for households, and other outputs can go towards animal-feeds.

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@aarongoyvaerts438

2y↑9

I think water infrastructures is one of the most important issues that need to be solved.

@xartaetos2419

2y↑10

San Francisco waste management is nice but most modern mega-cities are in Asia (e.g. Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Tokyo, Seoul), the video would be much more complete if it would show how they are managed

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@MrTrickFM

2y↑7

I read somewhere (perhaps in a comment) that the concept of Waste-to-Energy (WtE) has some drawbacks, and that is why it is not being automatically employed near all the large (urban) waste sources to generate electricity and/or heat.
However, I always forget what the disadvantages of such a technology are, as they haven't seemed to be convincing to me yet, and I'm starting to find it suspicious how little WtE is being talked about as a solution to the increasing waste problem.

@CrRodney1

2y↑1

Waste being plastic to energy is the least worst choice of those options. But we need to stop the plastic in the first place.

@Ricardo-lb4so

2y↑16

Here's an idea to foster survival of urban population: fossil fuel corporations should be either lured or forced to move their business models to solid waste processing. mounting demand from megacities is a sustained source of revenue.

@audience2

2y↑22

"Overcrowding", screen shows traffic jam which is a consequence of urban sprawl.

@NeonNion

2y↑5

And a lack proper urban design (walkability, micromobility, transit). Cars are the most inefficient modes of transportation. So let's just ban cars from entering city centres. Cities are for people, not cars.

@beback_

2y↑2

@@NeonNion The thing about cars is, the only thing worse than giving them free rein is to try and get rid of them completely.

@xXIronSwanXx

2y↑2

Cars are definitely not ideal for commuting purposes as they are highly inefficient. But going on a weekend journey to the country side to enjoy some nature camping requires a car, and doing your entire week's grocery shopping certainly helps to have a car.

@originalunoriginal4055

2y↑4

When you look at it from the perspective of an individual's daily life routine, their isn't such a daunting crisis!

@WaveRider1989

51w

Not when people in mega cities realize thier health issues is causing from CO2, from plastic waste, and congession stress.

@Marksligh162

2y↑2

Being of age and how to manage the sequence of returns in those early periods is what seems quite scary in the current market. The market is never a loser in a twenty year cycle, but the 2000s decade scenario scares me and could really disrupt my retirement. When you are no longer accumulating but withdrawing its hard to be anything but cautious.

@ste6826

2y↑10

Great planning makes great cities!

@Danny_6Handford

2y↑9

Clever and smart people along with technology will help but, the idea and thinking that the economy always has to grow for humans to progress and to be able to survive may need to be reviewed and revised. Presently, if the economy is not growing, it is considered a problem and or a failure. Growing the economy is also thought to be the best way to help end poverty. If a growing economy could end poverty, the most developed and prosperous countries should not have any poverty.

This type of thinking cannot continue uninterrupted on a finite planet with finite resources. There needs to be flexibility in the system for the economy to expand and contract and for a contraction to be considered normal and not a problem or a failure. For this type of thinking to work, there needs to be some new economic models developed along with some new types of money and financial systems based on economic sustainability! Not on economic growth!

@serhiishuturmynskyi4676

2y↑1

Many thanks for your work! Great material!

@darinbauer8122

2y↑2

Let me know when ecosystemic methodology will be a required application amidst the urbanized planet. Waiting for that. <3

@WestOfEarth

2y↑5

It's become clear you cannot build your way out of automobile congestion. Congestion comes down to human tolerance for inconvenience. If you increase capacity of highways, you'll get short term relief from congestion, but it will soon return to jamming up as people who had given up driving return to the automobile.
The only way constructing more highways can work is if you construct super-by-pass corridors. Each suburb gets its own highway terminus, with no off ramps in between. Of course politically this doesn't work because the neighborhoods near the city limits get carved up and isolated, and the land given over to a super-by-pass provides zero economic benefits, unlike traditional off ramp / on ramp access which provides some economic stimulus.

@justahamsterthatcodes

2y↑2

Or, hear me out. Instead of running a highway from everywhere we should run public transit. Having a convenient bus route will reduce congestion by huge amounts. Right now in America you can't really live without cars, giving people other options to driving will really reduce car usage. Traffic there isn't a problem of not enough capacity it's a problem because cars are the only option.

@WestOfEarth

@@justahamsterthatcodes I'm not advocating for my idea. It's unworkable, and wasteful. I was only pointing out a way that building more roads would solve congestion.

@Erin-rg3dw

@@WestOfEarth Yes, but like you said, only briefly. I used to live near DC - we had highways go everywhere in every direction. Once a new road is built, it fills up. People take other roads (often residential or 2 lane) and then those roads have issues and turn into their own highways. Especially in these areas, with the population continuing to grow, the need for roads will only continue.

@richardallan2767

2y↑3

Looks like a lot of these megacities are on the coast and around the equator. Not sure how to break this to you guys....

@KootFloris

2y↑1

Big corporations will not like it, but we have the technology to make them food and energy independent.
The start-ups bringing that tech to neighborhoods and individuals will be essential for survival.
Especially when huge distribution collapses happen.
And they will happen.

@SotheabothLMUTHVORN

Great article found, thanks you.

@kaihambern8374

13w

you deserve more views. that was an awesome work

@Earth098

This is excellent!! Please make more quality content about cities

@Bruno-jp6dx

The economist e seus planos para um mundo "melhor"

@joemb1977

That Ted talk was aaaaaamazing.

@matthews4159

WHIM ( 5m 42s, Helsinki ) was deployed in the west midlands UK in 2018

what was or is the outcome of that?

@vksingh770

Very nice production!

@beatrizcascelli

loved this video!

@gprogers1

2y↑2

Interesting propositions - wouldn't it be even greener to deal with waste at source? Where there are homes that can equip themselves with specific bins for sorting waste products and a composting facility, these could be on hand. Where homes do not have the space - eg flats - there could be a communal waste site for recycling/composting. It would be more cost efficient than the full scale and probably more expensive processes. The waste generated is bought with the product - so the immediate disposal should be part of the buyers remit. They could remove packaging at the store and have a facility there for leaving it with the store if the store is not on board with recycling /net zero waste. The problem should be eliminated so that it isn't a problem, not nursed. We don't live in a world that is easily blanketed for some - the negative effects of living in a negative lifestyle affects the planet. L R

@andrew40

2y↑1

Yes, it may be greener and more efficient, but it ignores the reality of people. Getting a mass of individual people to change their behavior, to actually do the work themselves, is a huge hurdle. Most cities and suburban areas have recycling facilities if you're willing and able to sort and drop off yourself. The percentage of people that actually go through that effort is disturbingly low.

@brothaman1685

33w

@@andrew40in my country every home has four bins: general waste, food waste, paper, and metal/plastic
It gets sorted further at the station but much of the work is done already. Most people I know sort their trash, it was rolled out only 4 years ago and people pretty quickly accepted it

@khoirulanam9141

2y↑1

this video leaves the best example that is metropolitan tokyo.

@picassopete3766

Lagos, Nigeria is projected to hit 70 million by 2100. With their oil revenues waning, they had better get a grip on family size fast. This is big trouble on the horizon.

@br2266

Here's a simple solution. Build a second level highway above the first. Wow, it's like double the road in the same area, spend 20 billion doing that, and then over 5 years you save 80 billion.

@falconJB

2y↑8

City scale composting is not new, my city has been doing it for decades.

@jk-gb4et

It is a recent thing in like half of my city (Calgary Canada)

@falconJB

@@jk-gb4et Glad to see more cities doing it.

@jk-gb4et

2y↑1

@@falconJB What's your city?

@bobshakor8184

High air pressure underground tubes could carry garbage to recycling centers automatically.
No trash truck and manual labor are required.

@vkrgfan

Compost produces greenhouse gas effect as well, specifically methane which is more harmful than CO2. How do you capture those Vapours?

@jackosmon7147

14w

what was the song at the beginning I liked it

@18bantu

To say this is a planning issue... without asking what the capacity to plan of cities and also what is the context for planning. Indian cities are different from West African cities and other mega-cities across the world. How easily transferable are solutions in one mega-city compared to another?

@xXIronSwanXx

2y↑18

I live in Japan, and everyone moves to Tokyo. When I look around, all I see are a bunch of miserable people with their heads down sighing away. Try to strike a convo with them and they will give you a mean glare like you invaded their personal space. Go to the countryside and you'll see more cheerful people. Are mega cities really necessary? The internet brings us together now so we don't need to physically live near each other in shoebox sized houses.

@captianpicard1055

2y↑1

I agree 100%

@brentshuffler1234

2y↑4

Iron Swan, these are excellent points. I would also add that dispersion of the population more evenly would decongest urban centres in multiple ways. People in cities are overpaying for everything, including food, clothing and transportation. The noise, the pollution, the growing unaffordability of cities to the bottom 90% of the income-distribution in most countries, the crowds, the traffic, and the risks from not growing one's own food, and/or not eating fresh foods from safe, organic, local sources, are contributing to sickness, to premature deaths, to overwork, to malstressors, to anxiety/depression, and to personal feelings of being in isolation, despite the presence of many other people. The disconnection of people from each other and from Nature contributes to a lack of peace, of joy, of health, and of spirituality.

@captianpicard1055

2y↑1

@@brentshuffler1234 this is so true cities do not increase the standard of living at all the money that u earn does not increase your real income since it all goes to rent and expenses and u end up not only poor but without access to clean air and nature too

@frommarkham424

That's not why megacities exist

@jacksoncheung7796

It is crucial to set up multi-centers in the megacities to solve the problem of traffic congestion. Expanding the mass transit system isn't a solution as facing perpetual growth of population and business activities.
Hope that this tragedy can be ended in the future : )

@miblazej

O to chodzi że meta może być lekiem na nadchodzącą recesję w starym znaczeniu, maskonur Tzn Lem miał rację maskony organiczne i nieorganiczne będą potrzebne, sterylizacja stopniowa regulacja bôlu i zmiany ekonomii rządowych na model scarcity proponuje hodowlę krów mlecznych na parterach

@mileyh249

2y↑11

What about the problem of Innequality and Poverty, what are solutions?

@Crashed131963

2y↑4

The Earth only has the resources for 3 billion people to all live at middle class standards. We are already at 7.9 billion with 10 billion by 2050.
Poverty will only get worse.

@NeonNion

2y↑1

@@Crashed131963 Degrowth is the solution. Welfare growth is what we need.

@michaeljiang960

education

@matheenarif8645

@@Crashed131963 The Birth-rate throughout the world is declining. It will not cross 9 billion to be accurate.

@crocus5632

Degrowth. Less consumption. Higher taxation for high income. More social benefits. Lower working hours.

@avarmauk

2y↑49

India has never taken an innovative approach to anything. India is full of individuals how are innovative. Sadly the country, it’s politicians and it’s leaders do not value these people enough.

@user-vu8ot1pq5d

2y↑1

Innovation is less than what is needed
But it is not 'never'

@matheenarif8645

2y↑5

Well, politicians are elected by the people (at the ground level at least). It seems to me that people here are more into religious and Caste BS than education and development (especially the rural people). The common people don't value them in the first place, all are behind engineer and doctor jobs.

@Piloti.

I don't think it's only the politicians fault. People in India are uneducated and their mentality doesn't let them create better social conditions.

@avarmauk

2y↑1

@@Piloti. even this is the politicians fault. The majority of money in India is black money and therefore untaxed. No tax revenue, means no schools. Why does nobody want to pay tax? Because the people who collect it are corrupt and it doesn’t get used to build schools. The politicians eat all the money and therefore discourage individuals and businesses in paying taxes.

@Piloti.

@@avarmauk You are right, but the mentality is not politicians fault. It's a culture thing. A lot of Indians are stuck with medieval ideas and don't want to change.

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@pad9x

2y↑1

private cars are a suburban utility. they have absolutely no place in highly dense urban areas. if you hate transit, walking, or cycling, then move back to the suburbs or coutry side.

@miblazej

Dobry temat poruszony, nigdy więcej te labirynty są najprostsza droga do wojny światowej. Przecież to jest walka uli tylko że pszczoły chyba się nie zabijają

@vkrgfan

Yes compare developed country to developing country. The thing is you throw the business model in countries that aren’t prepared to deal with such lifestyle. They have no technology or skilled labour in this particular field.
When it comes to environmental issues critical zones must be addressed regardless in which country it’s happening because the effects of mismanagement will spill over globally.

@alparslankorkmaz2964

2y↑1

Nice video.

@miblazej

Jest straszny problem jakbym sam miał podejmować decyzje to bym po prostu był bezpieczny i bezwzględny a Rzeszów jest mały także raczej będą strzelać co najwyżej bez nuklearnych wybuchów

@rajkishorebehera7489

2y↑11

But most palstic can't be recycled and it can be very expensive for any developing countries to recycle whatever litte plastic can be recycled

@JD-ny3vz

Yea exactly that's what I was thinking

@ronnie9187

2y↑2

There are some assumptions about the superiority of mega cities in the beginning of this clip which are simply not true. Al the advantages are true for smaller cities and in bigger extend. The most creative and wealthiest cities are not (alone) the mega cities, but cities much smaller in size. San Francisco, Boston, Zürich, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Frankfurt to name a few I know. They have all the advantages of mega cities, culturally, universities, jobs, etc. but not the problems concerning housing, traffic jams, crime, health (CO2 smog), al least in much lesser extend. They are much smaller and much more managable and generally more relaxed. A city like Amsterdam is offering more in terms of culture and art of highest level then half of the mega cities mentioned. San Francisco has more IT expertise then all of the megacities in the world. And most megacities would dream to have Boston's MIT or Zürichs ETH or the creativity of Berlin or the high level of life quality of Munich or the fashion and style of Milan. All mentioned cities offer much lower crime rates, has and have at least the same level of job opportunties. I don't know the midsized cities from other continents but I presume you would see a similar image as in Europe or the USA.

@xXIronSwanXx

Yeah I prefer smaller cities like San Diego than the overly crowded Tokyo.

@davidconnelly2008

2y↑1

Sorry but San Francisco definitely has a crime and housing problem

@ronnie9187

2y↑1

@@davidconnelly2008 Hi David, I think at the moment almost all larger cities in the western countries have a housing problem due to the extreme low interest rates. But you can more easily escape this problem in Zürich where I live then for example in London. With just 30 minutes of commuting you have rental prices that are very affordable for most citizens in my example of Zürich. In London you just have to communite for two hours one way to find a affordable appartment. Is it not a problem of the last years in SF ? In New York or Paris, housing was always too expensive for everybody. How is the situation of SF in comparisment to LA for exampe. ? I had a collegue from SF that told me he would never ever move to LA.

@crocus5632

But in smaller cities people drive more and use public transport less. You would not find a subway in a small city.

@zeitgeist5134

2y↑1

Cities should ban conventional cars from the city center. Instead, they should create a fleet of self-driving, electric, one-person, PLASTIC pod-taxis, which would recharge in the pod barn. Need to go somewhere? Summon a pod. Want to visit the city? Park on the edge of the city and summon a pod. The conversion of parking lots/structures to housing/offices WOULD PAY FOR THE FLEET. Pedestrians would be safer (an accident with a plastic, one-person pod would cause less injury than with a heavy, conventional car). Furthermore, the pods would be more predictable than human drivers (no more desperate turns into unoccupied parking spaces!). The pods would densify the city. Eliminating on-street parking would enhance street life.

@finalfan321

audio on the narrator a bit off on this one?

@thomasciarlariello3228

Replace agricultural farms with electroporated vats of Knall Gas bacteria, replace rail transit train trolleys with Robert L Morrisons Lighter than air solids sealed in foil for nuclear powered airships, and use Marshall J. Corbett's panted for aerial cold plasma highways with spaceplanes for upward angular acceleration into orbit.

Keitaro Yoshihara has patented nimbus storm clouds from humid air.

@miblazej

Dalej nie mogę usunąć co wy czekacie na kolejny cud za dużo się modlicie

@stelviodelbrava6218

2y↑12

It's wise to live in small towns or villages. Go to big cities to study and to have fun, but don't get stuck in there for life.
The real luxury of life is closer to nature, not to pollution.

@xXIronSwanXx

2y↑2

Amen

@ConstructiveMinds100

2y↑2

Very sagacious thought.

@crocus5632

But it is worse for nature.

@marcozolo3536

2y↑6

No matter what happens on Earth, you can be rest assured the Megacities on the moon, Mars and Venus will be much better planned for the future of humanity.

@dralgon1752

2y↑1

Guangzhou metro city is 65 million people

@KingAsa5

Why don’t they measure mega cities by city population instead of Metro?

@neelroy2918

2y↑2

I understand accepting reality but shouldn't there be an effort to move away from city concentration. Half of world population in cities? Wouldn't there be a limit to what technological help can achieve?

@crocus5632

Why? People should live in cities and leave more space for nature.

@WaveRider1989

51w

@Свеча so people belong in concrete buildings and trains all day? Not one with nature? Not the ones that can walk and swim in lakes and rivers ?

@sangjendral8105

wow amazing subhanallah

@ibukunogunfeitimi5645

2y↑6

We couldn't agree more with the fact that with smart planning... shantytowns would be eradicated. The lack of new strategic planning had enabled new shantytowns to increase everywhere globally: a mistake.

Most important, inhabitants of shantytown must be moved away to other locations; and with the promise of returning when the areas are transformed in a time specified. Shantytowns represent new health hazards.

@brentshuffler1234

2y↑2

[1] Ibukun Ogunfeitime, thanks for sharing that perspective. However, I noticed that you focused mostly on the overall high-level political and governmental approach . . . but, following the origins of shantytowns to their main human root-causes, would you also acknowledge the individual choices, behaviours and lifestyles of persons and families? E.g., [a] abstinence versus promiscuity; . . . [b] family-planning versus unplanned pregnancies; . . . [c] contraception; . . . [d] delayed parenthood . . . . [e] financial planning . . . .

@brentshuffler1234

2y↑2

[2] Ibukun Ogunfeitime, Everywhere that I have lived, worked, visited, or studied, I have seen a strong connections of [a] persons' having too many children and/or unplanned / unprepared parenthood [See the work of Professor Elizabeth Sawhill, e.g., Drifting into Parenthood], with [b] poverty, financial risks, economic risks, overcrowding, crime, violence, pollution, dangerous housing conditions, et cetera . . .

@brentshuffler1234

2y↑1

[3] Therefore, I believe that we all can contribute to a better 21st century: [A] by having, on average, 1 child or none (optimal choice for the growing many in the world who are facing an uncertain labour-market, economic recessions/depressions, financial vulnerabilities, wars, recurring disasters, and such like) . . . and [B] by focusing on improving the life-conditions of those already born, instead of adding to their numbers. Happy holidays!

@ibukunogunfeitimi5645

2y↑1

@@brentshuffler1234 Smart planning is a collective responsibility that involves everyone everywhere globally - thanks Brent for your insights and contributions at all levels 👏.

@maacya1024

There should have been more info ..

@ricfermi5886

2y↑1

The future holds deeper inequalities for the big cities

@marianasalles242

2y↑25

Preserve natural habitats and animals. Cities? More trees 🌳

@NeonNion

2y↑4

In addion, trees also provide natural shade, cooling, reduced risk of flooding and prevent soil erosion. 🌲

@VFPn96kQT

2y↑4

Cities help preserving natural habitats because they reduce the amount of land used per capita

@xXIronSwanXx

@@VFPn96kQT you got a point

@miblazej

Juz teraz są maskony przecież jak się spalisz i oglądasz YT to masz wizual plus biologiczny maskon jak dla mnie to wystarczy

@Erin-rg3dw

2y↑3

Similar the "Whim" concept, how about paying people not to own or use cars? For example, the denser the area, the more expensive it is to own a car. This could be done in ways like charging more for parking and gas, as well as making the taxes on them higher, encouraging people to take alternate ways. Right now, in many places, not owning a car just means you save money, but if you paid people not to have one or raised the cost, people would be less likely to use them and therefore discourage urban sprawl. Also, creating more mixed-use developments, like retail or office space downstairs and residential upstairs, instead of zoning for just one or the other.

@davidturner4076

Yes, let's push the poor out of car ownership!

@fayezbharuchi6034

very nice

@charlieng3347

You know a task is tough when you have to spend more than 100 hours just to learn the basics of its gamey equivalent cousin a.k.a cities skylines

@melvincarbonel964

Bantar Gebang in Indonesia is the biggest landfill in the world.

@lil----lil

1. I wonder if we could use the plasmas from Fusion reactor furnace which reaches 100 Million degrees easily. ALL KNOWN materials by man even from outer space vaporizes instantly at that temperate. Then put a HUGE Air filter boxed in to capture ALL vapors - repeat. 2

@ABC-ABC1234

2y↑1

The only conclusion we can draw with certainty, is the following: NEVER LOOK AT USA examples!
Look at European, Chinese examples of how to manage megacities.
In terms of connectivity, promoting public infrastructure, waste management, energy handling, long term vision, they have the Americans beat!

@righthandstep5

Thank you

@davidturner4076

American cities are among the least congested on Earth, while dense cities are near the top. Just look at the TomTom index.

@ABC-ABC1234

@@davidturner4076 Kindly read my comment again, I am talking about the whole package!

@davidturner4076

@@ABC-ABC1234 no, thanks, I'd rather have a big backyard and drive a big car than living in a shoebox apartment and sharing a train with hundreds of others.

@ABC-ABC1234

@@davidturner4076 The bigger a city in terms of population the smaller the housing units, that's not a local feature but a global feature for mega cities...

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@samusande6461

2y↑1

❤️

@Pasha8204

32w↑1

Да миллиардерам, мега корпорациями насрать на развитие городов, улучшение обстановки, главное прибыль, ещë больше денег получать...

@humbugswangkerton9972

2y↑1

Car-pool lanes are a failed experiment. Very few people actually change their driving habits to use the car pool lane and so the result is you have a useless lane.

@hangsu7519

This video doesn’t define what kind of cities can be considered as megacity. Since different places have different measures. In China, a city is combined with urban area and rural area, and only population of urban area greater than 10M can be define as megacity, that’s why China has only 7 of them by 2021. If only consider the city population or metropolitan population, China would have more than 20 megacities.

@fahimiqbal7221

2y↑1

Megacity is simultaneously comforting and destroying the humankind

@crocus5632

2y↑1

We should think more about the planet and nature rather than mankind. Besides, why are cities destroying it? The is better medical help in the cities and more comfortable life.

@fahimiqbal7221

2y↑1

@@crocus5632 right you are❤️

@Lybrel

2y↑6

By leaving one for the suburbs like always 🤔

@gabrielescolan5701

1:37 rural to urban demographic composition, this implies a process of migration from the third to the first world on an unprecedented scale. Wthat do you think about that, The Economist?

@righthandstep5

Not really. You're just racist

@don8829

2y↑3

In India, it would be how to manage a overrated place with lot of slums.

@merelinbojilova9151

Здрасти ХРИСТО миличък мое да1 на работа в екип с него и 3драве милипък здрасти Дай ми е да се видим Христо Божилов миличко мое момченце на теб ти си 6.коръл е наисткна стигА да не си че 6.обич на пао отново ХРИСТО в пак ли ще си остане в историята на клуба и да не ли ми казали че съм на работа в момента съм в историята на клуба и да не се притеснявай за теб мисля да си 6.коръл Никога не се съмнявам благодря ти. Няма нищо. Ти не се притеснявай за какво. Трябва. Да напрсвя здрасти Дай пари за пасти. Ти. Си помислил здрасти Дай пари за пасти да миличко 3моебичноногон мое мнение 6 кенжи хубаво ДЕТЕНЦЕ МОЕ ХРИСТО БОЖИЛОВ АМС ТРЪГВАМПО здрасти Дай ми е много мило мое сладък вкус и аромат ХРИСТО Божилов детето ми Браин всичко това 6 кенжи 9.се.влепл. Пусна бойлера на пао отново ХРИСТО Божилов ДОБРО то ми. Момче. Добре само за няколко дни след това ще се видим Христо. Божилов ангел мой приятел че мое СЕРГЕЙЧО здрасти. Е ставаме ли да ми кажеш как си ти говори с теб ТОВА е самата статия за да се чуем скъпи нещо не като цяло в София. Добре 1я здрасти Дай пари за пасти да си 6.коръл е наисткна да си 6.коръл 6 кенжи 9.се.влепл 8 да се чуем скъпи нещо не като си дойдеш в София през лятото дпбре здрасти ХРИСТО Божилов ДОБРО то ми скъпо момче вече е късно да се чуем. ДобреХристо мило здрасти Дай пари за пасти да миличко мое тя ви обожава да си 6.коръл е Кажи. Миличко мое мнение за това. Какво правим сега ще се радвам да те питам за това как ще се видим ТОВА КАК Е ВРЕМЕТО. АЗ ОТЛОЖИХ ОТИВАТ В ТЯХНАТА ДА ДОБРЕ ДА МИЛО МОЕ СЛАДЪК ДЕТЕНЦЕ ДА ДА АЗ БИХ ИСКАЛ ДА ПОПИТАМ. ЗДРАСТИ. АЗ ИСКАМ ТИ ДА. КАЖ Е ПРАВИЛ 68.НО ОБИЧАМ ТЕ МНОГО МИЛО МОЕ СЛАДЪК ДЕТЕНЦЕ ДА ДА АЗ БИХ ИСКАЛА ЩАСТИЕ ТО МИ СКЪПО МОМЧЕ ВЕЧЕ Е В ТЯХНАТА ДА СИ 6.КОРЪЛ ТОВА ЛИ Е ДА СИ 6.КОРЪЛ Е НАИСТКНА ЗДРАСТИ ДАЙ ПАРИ ЗА ПАСТИ ОБИЧАМ МНОГО МИЛО МОЕ СЛАДЪК ДЕТЕНЦЕ ДА ДА АЗ БИХ ИСКАЛ ДА ПОПИТАМ. ДАТОЧНО ДА СИ 6.КОРЪЛ ТОРА ДА СИ 6.КОРЪЛ ТОРА ДА КАКТО. КАЖЕШ ТИ СИ знаеш че съм се занимавал с теб ТОВА е самата статия за да се чуем скъпи Нещо не като си. НЕИСКАШ ЗДРАСТИ ДАЙ ПАРИ ЗА ДА. СЕ ОБИЧАМЕ ЛИ ДА МИ КАЖЕШ КАК ТИ ЗНСЕ ТОВАДОБРЕ. ТИ СИ ЗНАЕШ. АЗ. МИСЛЕХ. ЗАРАДИ. ПРАЗНИКА НОРМАЛНО. Е. ТОГАВА КЖИ. ЗДРАСТИ ДАЙ ПАРИ ЗА ПАСТИ ОБИЧАМ МНОГО МИЛО БШЕФКАТА ДА СИ 6.КОРЪЛ Е НАИСТКНА ДА МИЛИЧКО МОЕ ТЯ Е БИЛА ЗВЪНЯХ ТИ. КЪДЕ. И АЗ СТАНАХ. И СЛЕД ТОВА ЗАОНА. ДЪЛГАТА. КОРЕСПОНДЕЦИЯ ПУСНАХ. МУЗИКА НО УВИ СЕГА. ТИ МИ КАЖИ. ДА ЛИ ДОБРЕ ЩЕВЛИЗАМ. Е М ТЕМИЛИЧЪК МОЙХРИСТО ОБИЧМТО МИ БРАИН ЧАКМ ТЕМИЛИЧЪК МОЙХРИСТО. ПО БЪРЗО

@izakpotgieter5033

2y↑3

Sentient Mustache: "As you can see this city is clearly more organised" Translation: Look this city is successfully reproducing the nightmare sprawl we have in the west that rewards capital and the privileged few with their own cars over the needs of the poor.

The Economist is so aggressively status quo. What about a world where we provide basic infrastructure around which walkable cities can organically emerge?

@recordedonlinechemistry

How can save the earth from polythene pollution?

@grantmccoy6739

2y↑1

@dzello

2y↑3

To answer you, big cities are just massively superior to any other form of development which is why academics focus on this type of structure since a couple of decades and why we're going with those worldwide. They produce more per capita (I'm a francophone academic, I don't know the proper English word, but it would translate to something called ''agglomeration economies'' where things being close to eachother creates extra production), they cost less per capita (especially for governmental spending; think how a single police station covers more people based on population density), they are more ecological (public transport being the most obvious reason, but the availability of walking being the true one), etc.

As for your question relative to cars and public transport, it goes back to the 1960s. Back then, we weren't sure wether cars or public transport would be the way of the future so some cities based their development on one or the other; some opted for a mixed structure. Nowadays however, we do know. Car transportation is the worst type of transport by a significant margin. It creates insane levels of urban sprawl (which is bad for the opposite reasons of what I covered previously about big cities; it reduces production, cost more per capita, are less ecological, etc.). The other significant issue related to cars is called ''induced traffic'' whereby adding car infrastructure leads to a proportional increase in traffic. What happens is the more cars you have, the more traffic you get. And since you want to reduce traffic, you add more roads which leads to induced traffic so you get more cars. Because you have more cars, you get more traffic... Basically, it's a toxic loop. This is the main reason we go for public transportation nowadays over cars. It's also why you might see cities actively removing roads to turn them into bicycle or pedestrian avenues (it's the opposite idea to induced traffic where removing car roads reduces traffic; there's also other economical benefits where pedestrian roads actually lead to an increased production of the commerces in the vicinity). This is why development today generally avoids cars together outside of the bare minimum.

As for the recycling aspect, people don't bother sorting stuff which is exactly why we're going for automation. Even if you give them different colors and stuff, people are lazy and don't care much. It's not about how hard it is, it's about the fact people aren't doing it so we find way to go around this issue. It's not hard to walk 10 minutes, but people still take their car to do short range transportation, so urbanists have to find way to ''force'' people into considering walking as their first way to get from A to B. Otherwise, people default to the worst ways for collectivity out of individual values.

I hope I answered your questions!

@NeonNion

@@dzello Thanks for writing this! You saved me a lot of time and did better job than what I could have done ;)

@dzello

@@NeonNion Im glad decades of studying economics werent in vain, I could vulgarize urban economy succesfully hahaha.

@karenslivesmatter2186

People need to stop having so many kids

@dzello

@@karenslivesmatter2186 They did, the boomers did. We currently got a free lack of workers from it.

@mariadaluzmoutinho5701

Se formos a ver os países e a diferença entre ricos e pobres é colossal ... O capital financeiro está a destruir a economia produtiva...e o que será sem a economia produtiva? Pobreza, miséria e a mudanças radicais e redefinidoras de modos de vida! Os Ventos que passam e os estragos que ficam e os paradoxos do progresso...Uns têm poder para inovar com tecnologia outros não ...Poderá haver aproximação num mundo a 4 velocidades?!!

@marlbankian

Food for thought

@wardogmobius

Sustainability should not be the priority for the longterm health of a more urban society. Its an excuse for governments to expand their bureaucracy, taxes and power. What should be prioritize its the potential of individuality in realms of innovation and productivity. Most government's treat their citizen subjects as pawns towards an agenda that most of the time its utopic, unrealized or benefits a few well connected on the top. The rest of society feeds this monster of the state their time and resources for so called stability.
Once we realized that we can achieve a more faster and happier growth through a system of less dependence on involuntarily altruism and coercion, our civilization will catapult towards the fourth industrial revolution. This will bring forth the most productive means and solve the greatest problems in our society. Cryptocurrencys, blockchains and smart contracts will lead the charge.

@kingk2405

Free energy made cities bigger but this is about to change with less and less energy available .
Before the fossils fuel era so 2 centuries ago the size of the cities were limited by the food supply the surroundings can provide and transport using animals . With the end of the free energy people will have to leave cities and go to the countryside in order to produce themselves their food . Thought ‘ The economist ‘ will dig deeper than trying to explain how unsustainable system will evolve as it is a sustainable one .
If you want to invest buy some land in the middle of nowhere and preferably in high latitudes certainly not real estate in cities.

@anthonydawson9556

What is the upcoming megacity in Russia???

@dannywalters2365

Recycling plastic into more plastic. How is that going to help???

@fredricful

Vorr mange har kloakk og vanntrøt i bakken Og strømm?
Vordann bytter dere vann og kloakk og El høyspent ledninger i disse byene?

@Kokice5

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@mythsealaes2206

I don't think we should be focusing on this problem.
we should make housing, food, and energy human right. when we do this, and we can start in places of the modern world with high homelessness like california.
my vision is not 1 big city more like 1 city made of smaller self-sustainable districts - which have their own power plant - nuclear fission later fusion.
housing can be made more efficiently - small houses, which are easy to build, and repair. to do that we could nest shipping containers into the ground and build around several of those second layers to help protect against weather. we will not need pretty houses anyway since we will be moving to VR.
today we have the technology to grow food more efficiently - laboratories can produce meat, and vertical farming can help make vegetables and fruit.