en City Beautiful is a YouTube channel dedicated to educating everyone about cities and city planning. Cities are amazing! I cover topics such as transportation, land use planning, and urban design. I post new videos regularly.Links:Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/citybeautifulNebula: https://nebula.tv/citybeautifulInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/citybeautifulyt/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/citybeautiful.nebula.tv https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/26324c12-a894-11f1-b2c3-cb1b98aa8c7e/image/dd321ad4c44b9b5e1495eadc8b48b807.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress no episodic City Beautiful City Beautiful is a YouTube channel dedicated to educating everyone about cities and city planning. Cities are amazing! I cover topics such as transportation, land use planning, and urban design. I post new videos regularly.Links:Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/citybeautifulNebula: https://nebula.tv/citybeautifulInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/citybeautifulyt/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/citybeautiful.nebula.tv City Beautiful is a YouTube channel dedicated to educating everyone about cities and city planning. Cities are amazing! I cover topics such as transportation, land use planning, and urban design. I post new videos regularly.

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]]> City Beautiful lenfrfr@gmail.com On September 1, 1964, the city leaders of Fresno, California broke ground a new pedestrian mall along Fulton Street (Fulton Mall), one of the city’s main thoroughfares. On March 3, 2016, when city leaders broke ground on the removal of that pedestrian mall. Will the removal reverse Fresno's fortunes?Resources on this topic:http://www.gofresnocounty.com/Fulton%20Mall/FultonIndex.htmhttp://tclf.org/landscapes/fulton-mallhttp://kvpr.org/post/fulton-mall-project-become-realityhttp://mall-hall-of-fame.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.htmlVideos courtesy of Archive.org's Moving Image Archive and the Community Media Access Collaborative.Photo credits:Alan Light, FlickrGeoff Livingston, FlickrDavid Prasade, FlickrJoe Green, FlickrNYCDOTGruen and AssociatesMinnesota Historical SocietyLife Magazine Photo Archive Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:10:00 -0000 full City Beautiful On September 1, 1964, the city leaders of Fresno, California broke ground a new pedestrian mall along Fulton Street (Fulton Mall), one of the city’s main thoroughfares. On March 3, 2016, when city leaders broke ground on the removal of that pedestrian mall. Will the removal reverse Fresno's fortunes?Resources on this topic:http://www.gofresnocounty.com/Fulton%20Mall/FultonIndex.htmhttp://tclf.org/landscapes/fulton-mallhttp://kvpr.org/post/fulton-mall-project-become-realityhttp://mall-hall-of-fame.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.htmlVideos courtesy of Archive.org's Moving Image Archive and the Community Media Access Collaborative.Photo credits:Alan Light, FlickrGeoff Livingston, FlickrDavid Prasade, FlickrJoe Green, FlickrNYCDOTGruen and AssociatesMinnesota Historical SocietyLife Magazine Photo Archive On September 1, 1964, the city leaders of Fresno, California broke ground a new pedestrian mall along Fulton Street (Fulton Mall), one of the city’s main thoroughfares. On March 3, 2016, when city leaders broke ground on the removal of that pedestrian mall. Will the removal reverse Fresno's fortunes?

Resources on this topic:
http://www.gofresnocounty.com/Fulton%20Mall/FultonIndex.htm
http://tclf.org/landscapes/fulton-mall
http://kvpr.org/post/fulton-mall-project-become-reality
http://mall-hall-of-fame.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html

Videos courtesy of Archive.org's Moving Image Archive and the Community Media Access Collaborative.

Photo credits:
Alan Light, Flickr
Geoff Livingston, Flickr
David Prasade, Flickr
Joe Green, Flickr
NYCDOT
Gruen and Associates
Minnesota Historical Society
Life Magazine Photo Archive

]]> 651 no Many U.S. cities were founded with a street grid. Why? This video describes the historic factors that contributed to the adoption of a grid. This includes influential city designs from Versailles, London, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and Reno. Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:36:40 -0000 full City Beautiful Many U.S. cities were founded with a street grid. Why? This video describes the historic factors that contributed to the adoption of a grid. This includes influential city designs from Versailles, London, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and Reno. Many U.S. cities were founded with a street grid. Why? This video describes the historic factors that contributed to the adoption of a grid. This includes influential city designs from Versailles, London, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and Reno.

]]> 343 no Click https://saily.com/citybeautiful or use the code CityBeautiful to get an exclusive 15% off your first Saily purchase!U.S. architect Frank Lloyd Wright proposed Broadacre City in the 1930s. It was a vision for a decentralized, low-density city that presaged the exurbs, or the most rural of the suburbs. What did Broadacre City get right, and what did it miss?Resources on this topic:- The Disappearing City by FLW: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015047936219- The Suburbanite of FLW's Broadacre City: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0096144218797923?casa_token=Ym9IPiU9YloAAAAA%3AXniSCLN0XfasavCJ2xLoH8R8ZMlJoJJlWLD483Sb_JpeZ7Ph3R9Lu83YHoJA8n7bPAKhduI-CPYUProduced by Dave Amos and the fine folks at Nebula Studios.Written by Dave Amos.Select images and video from Getty Images.Black Lives Matter.Trans rights. Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:03:20 -0000 full City Beautiful Click https://saily.com/citybeautiful or use the code CityBeautiful to get an exclusive 15% off your first Saily purchase!U.S. architect Frank Lloyd Wright proposed Broadacre City in the 1930s. It was a vision for a decentralized, low-density city that presaged the exurbs, or the most rural of the suburbs. What did Broadacre City get right, and what did it miss?Resources on this topic:- The Disappearing City by FLW: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015047936219- The Suburbanite of FLW's Broadacre City: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0096144218797923?casa_token=Ym9IPiU9YloAAAAA%3AXniSCLN0XfasavCJ2xLoH8R8ZMlJoJJlWLD483Sb_JpeZ7Ph3R9Lu83YHoJA8n7bPAKhduI-CPYUProduced by Dave Amos and the fine folks at Nebula Studios.Written by Dave Amos.Select images and video from Getty Images.Black Lives Matter.Trans rights. Click https://saily.com/citybeautiful or use the code CityBeautiful to get an exclusive 15% off your first Saily purchase!

U.S. architect Frank Lloyd Wright proposed Broadacre City in the 1930s. It was a vision for a decentralized, low-density city that presaged the exurbs, or the most rural of the suburbs. What did Broadacre City get right, and what did it miss?

Resources on this topic:

- The Disappearing City by FLW: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015047936219

- The Suburbanite of FLW's Broadacre City: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0096144218797923?casa_token=Ym9IPiU9YloAAAAA%3AXniSCLN0XfasavCJ2xLoH8R8ZMlJoJJlWLD483Sb_JpeZ7Ph3R9Lu83YHoJA8n7bPAKhduI-CPYU

Produced by Dave Amos and the fine folks at Nebula Studios.
Written by Dave Amos.
Select images and video from Getty Images.
Black Lives Matter.
Trans rights.

]]> 1040 no Check out Tom Scott here: https://nebula.tv/tomscott?ref=citybeautifulWatch this video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/citybeautiful-can-i-design-the-perfect-neighborhood-streetWe are used to the usual street in front of our houses: wide, parking, driveways, maybe sidewalks. But is there an optimal design? One that improves safety and makes it nicer to live along?# Resources mentioned in this video- Oregon Neighborhood Street Design Guidelines# Other stuff!Produced by Dave Amos and the fine folks at Nebula Studios.Written by Dave Amos.Select images and video from Getty Images.Black Lives Matter.Trans rights. Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:30:00 -0000 full City Beautiful Check out Tom Scott here: https://nebula.tv/tomscott?ref=citybeautifulWatch this video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/citybeautiful-can-i-design-the-perfect-neighborhood-streetWe are used to the usual street in front of our houses: wide, parking, driveways, maybe sidewalks. But is there an optimal design? One that improves safety and makes it nicer to live along?# Resources mentioned in this video- Oregon Neighborhood Street Design Guidelines# Other stuff!Produced by Dave Amos and the fine folks at Nebula Studios.Written by Dave Amos.Select images and video from Getty Images.Black Lives Matter.Trans rights. Check out Tom Scott here: https://nebula.tv/tomscott?ref=citybeautiful
Watch this video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/citybeautiful-can-i-design-the-perfect-neighborhood-street

We are used to the usual street in front of our houses: wide, parking, driveways, maybe sidewalks. But is there an optimal design? One that improves safety and makes it nicer to live along?

# Resources mentioned in this video

- Oregon Neighborhood Street Design Guidelines

# Other stuff!

Produced by Dave Amos and the fine folks at Nebula Studios.
Written by Dave Amos.
Select images and video from Getty Images.
Black Lives Matter.
Trans rights.

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