Biking in the suburbs tends to suck. Sure, they sometimes have some nice recreational pathways, and many residential streets are fine for short trips. But most suburbs are not set up to support cycling for transportation, especially on the enormous arterials with the most destinations. But what if cycling in the suburbs sucked less? And what if, eventually, it didn’t suck at all? Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit

NIMBYs from all over point to Paris as an argument against allowing tall buildings in their cities. Paris is a city everyone loves that achieves very high population densities mostly with mid-rise buildings. Actually, mid-rise Paris is denser than high-rise New York. Checkmate, tall-building-ists! Is there anything to this argument? Well, kind of, but they’re also missing some big details. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit

The simple cul-de-sac is one of the greatest innovations of North American suburbia. By blocking through traffic, you create a residential street that’s safer and calmer for kids and that’s quieter and more community-oriented for adults. The suburbs have the advantage of being built like this from the start, but can we retrofit older cities with some of these principles? Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: Montreal tramway map: https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/2244450

Contrary to what a lot of people assume, biking in the winter in a cold, snowy climate like Montreal or Minneapolis is entirely possible and not that difficult if you follow these six steps. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit

As Canada’s most populous province considers tunneling a new highway underneath the existing Highway 401, one of the busiest in the world reaching up to 18 lanes wide, we want to tackle a related argument against housing: “The same [urbanists] who say ‘just build more lanes’ is doomed to fail never see that ‘just build more units’ is doomed for the same reason.” This is a reference to induced demand or induced traffic, a concept that describes how new roads or lanes tend to fill up and not help congestion as much as promised or at all. In the short term, people take more trips by car and are less careful about avoiding rush hour. In the medium term, people and businesses see the new road capacity and move to the area to use it. The question critics are asking then is that if building more roads is futile, doesn’t the same apply to housing? Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: Tom Tom Traffic Index: https://www.tomtom.com/traffic-index/ranking/ History of bikes: https://labouringallourlives.ca/i-want-to-ride-my-bicycle-the-history-of-bicycles-in-19th-and-early-20th-century-guelph/ LED light bulbs: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Annual-change-of-LED-cost-per-kilolumen-blue-line-left-axis-and-installations-of_fig1_319970854

In 2019, this wide open intersection in a residential neighbourhood in Montreal was transformed into l’île aux volcans — the island of volcanoes — a public space for children intended to encourage non-programmed free play, something that’s become less and less common in the modern world of attention-grabbing technology like tablets and YouTube. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit

Can we just tell cyclists to ride on the sidewalk (or footpath) and avoid all this stupid bike-specific infrastructure? We covered this briefly before in an old “bad arguments against bike lanes” video early in the channel but seeing it come up dozens of times recently tells us that it needs to be covered in more detail. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit

One criticism of urbanism and the movement for walkable cities is that it’s just a fad among young people who have no responsibilities and want to be close to trendy bars, restaurants, and concerts. They’ll grow out of it and move to the suburbs when they want to settle down and start families. We actually have our first child on the way so in this video we want to talk about what this gets wrong, whether it gets anything right, and what urbanism means for families. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit

The premier of Canada’s most populous province has doubled down on his anti-cycling rhetoric, promising to remove existing bike lanes on primary roads. He singled out three important routes that had been major wins for cycling in Toronto: Bloor Street, Yonge Street, and University Avenue. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: Protected intersection at Bloor & St. George: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki2zGMmSrAU Toronto cycling map: https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-transportation/cycling-in-toronto/cycling-network-map/#location=&lat=43.639633&lng=-79.399100&zoom=15 Bike commuting in Toronto by census tract in the 2021 census: https://censusmapper.ca/maps/3725#12/43.6640/-79.4300 Globe & Mail letter to the editor: https://archive.is/jZLjS#selection-2831.0-2839.88 Eglinton bike lane upgrades: https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/985e-eglintontoday-installation-avenue-chaplin.pdf City of Toronto cycling survey: https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/8f76-2019-Cycling-Public-Option-Survey-City-of-Toronto-Cycling.pdf National Post anti-cycling: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/michael-taube-the-left-is-losing-the-battle-for-the-bike-as-it-should Doug Ford’s $200 cheques: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rebate-cheques-ontario-election-fall-economic-statement-1.7366559 Bill 212 (submit a comment if you live in Ontario): https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-9266

Most people know Old Quebec, the most historic and picturesque part of Quebec City that competes with the Rocky Mountains and Niagara Falls for the most iconic tourist destination in Canada. But there’s a lot more to this city than just the Old Town. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: Saint-Olivier Street: https://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/citoyens/participation-citoyenne/activites/fiche.aspx?IdProjet=535 Pedestrian scrambles in Toronto: https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-transportation/traffic-management/traffic-signals-street-signs/types-of-traffic-signals/all-way-signal-crossing/ Earlier Tramway proposal: https://tramwaydequebec.info/carte/img/carte_tramway.jpg Increased construction costs on the Tramway: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2023011/bruno-marchand-annonce-tramway&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1729958868607100&usg=AOvVaw2G2smz_DsZstqXhZzbCiVx CDPQ on Tramway: https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/cdpq-infra-launches-planning-for-the-first-phase-of-the-cite-plan-to-improve-mobility-in-the-communaute-metropolitaine-de-quebec-880041306.html Housing developments cancelled because of transit delays: https://www.journaldequebec.com/2024/10/16/projet-immobilier-abandonne-le-long-du-tramway---lidu-pointe--les-tergiversations--du-gouvernement-legault Transit-only third link tunnel: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-third-link-public-transit-1.6814960 Newspaper clip on urban renewal: https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3493762 Aerial view of urban renewal: https://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/citoyens/patrimoine/archives/recherche/archive.aspx?aid=947738 Construction sites in Quebec City: https://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/citoyens/travaux_entretien_rues/grands-chantiers/

With the goal of speeding up Toronto’s congested roads, the government of Ontario has been considering banning the installation of bike lanes that take space from cars. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: Considering banning bike lanes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7nkQVQ98cU Building a tunnel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSXZoY1o2r8 Limit to side streets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RZfL33Q13c Toronto street hierarchy: https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/9072-TS_RCS_2019-City-Wide.pdf Toronto's imperfect grid: https://spacing.ca/toronto/2013/07/23/toronto-is-not-a-grid/ Vancouver cycling map: https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/map-cycling-vancouver.pdf Vancouver declined to put bike lanes on Broadway: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/separated-bike-lane-along-broadway-rejected-by-vancouver-city-council-1.6797007 Toronto's early fights over side street bike lanes: https://www.tvo.org/article/no-place-on-busy-main-streets-looking-back-at-torontos-original-bike-lane-wars West Parkdale cycling connections public consultation report: https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/962b-2024-05-22-WestParkdaleConsultationReportAODA.pdf

If density is the key to housing affordability, how is it that New York and San Francisco — two of the densest cities in the United States — are also the most expensive? We’ve also seen this question asked in Canada about Vancouver but we’re going to focus on the US in this video. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: Median build date of homes in NYC and SF: https://censusreporter.org/data/table/?table=B25035&geo_ids=16000US3651000,16000US0667000&primary_geo_id=16000US3651000 40% of Manhattan buildings would be illegal today: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-percent-of-manhattans-buildings-could-not-be-built-today.html San Francisco buildings that would be illegal to build today: https://sfzoning.deapthoughts.com/illegal_homes.html SF 1978 downzoning: https://x.com/enf/status/999030803609899013 Why is Manhattan so expensive? https://manhattan.institute/article/why-is-manhattan-so-expensive Wharton Land Use Regulation Index: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26573/w26573.pdf Zillow rent data: https://www.zillow.com/research/data/ Building permits data: https://www.census.gov/construction/bps/current.html Rental vacancy data: https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/prevann.html Wharton Survey: https://real-faculty.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/~gyourko/WRLURI/GyourkoHartleyKrimmel_NBERw26573appendix.pdf Housing supply elasticity: https://localinannarbor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/the-quarterly-journal-of-economics-2010-saiz-1253-96.pdf

What does rush hour on a popular bike route in Montreal look like? Here's Saint-Denis Street from 5:30 pm to 6:00 pm on a Friday in September. We counted more bikes than vehicles, although despite the protected bike lane (installed just a few years ago), the route continues to move plenty of cars as well. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: Our cameras

“Cyclists are ***holes, they’ll see a bike lane and ride in the road because they can.” That’s an actual comment we got on this channel, and it’s one of the most puzzling arguments we’ve ever seen against urban cycling and bike infrastructure. It’s just so counterintuitive, like hearing someone claim that drivers are parking their cars in farmers’ fields instead of parking lots. If it’s happening, it’s a little odd, something we should investigate instead of saying “well, I guess there’s no point in bike lanes”. So one day I saw it happening and decided to figure out what was going on. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References:

Earlier this summer I was riding along a new bike lane under construction when I came across this poster: “Help save our neighbourhood. Big new bike path endangers schoolchildren, removes parking, and was imposed without neighbourhood consultation.” It advertised a meeting to take action and organize resistance at a local church, so I went to see what they had to say. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: Cyclist tickets in Montreal: https://spvm.qc.ca/upload/02/SPVM_Rapport_annuel_2023_EN.pdf Cyclist ticketing blitzes: https://www.reddit.com/r/montreal/comments/1djgyr5/cops_giving_tickets_to_cyclists_this_morning_on/ Netherlands bike licensing April Fool's joke: https://dutchreview.com/featured/bike-license-internationals-in-the-netherlands/ Bike share usage in Montreal: https://botsin.space/@mtlvelobot

We promised ourselves never to make another video about 15-minute cities. The conspiracy theories about people being locked inside their homes and unable to travel are just so far out of left field that it’s hard to engage with them like any normal disagreement. But this video is going to be different. Rather than tackling the conspiracy theories, we want to actually talk about the problems or at least the limitations of the 15-minute city concept itself. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: Toronto schools: https://www.tdsb.on.ca/Portals/0/Find%20Your%20School/School/PDF%20Maps/Files/Wall%20Map%20Ward%20&%20LCentres.pdf Alan Bertaud on 15-minute cities: https://urbanreforminstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/15mincity-bertaud.pdf

After visiting Chicago this spring, we continued on to Washington, DC—a fascinating city that surprisingly doesn’t receive as much attention in the online urbanist community as it deserves. We already made a video talking about the trade-offs and consequences of the height limit but there’s a lot more that’s interesting and unique about the urbanism of the US capital. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: Housing permitting data in different metro areas: https://housing-data.vercel.app/ DC building registry for dates: https://dcgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=4892107c0c5d44789e6fb96908f88f60 Fallout 3 clip from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWCVkrCHuLk Transit ridership data (look under "heavy rail" for subways): https://www.apta.com/wp-content/uploads/2024-Q1-Ridership-APTA.pdf

Montreal is not a city you associate with transit-oriented development. The typical metro station is surrounded by medium-density walk-ups, and where higher density does exist it’s not necessarily correlated with transit. But while it’s no Vancouver or Washington, DC, Montreal has been building more density near transit over the past two decades than you probably realize. In this video we’re going to check in on some TOD around the city to explain the promising potential and the fundamental problem with transit-oriented development. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: Density data came from the Canadian census, using 2021 numbers when possible/relevant.

In talking up the density of low-rise walk-up apartments, many people claim that the Plateau in Montreal is the densest borough or neighbourhood in all of Canada. I’m not sure where this originally came from but the assertion even shows up on the Wikipedia page. At 13,000 people per square kilometre, the Plateau is pretty dense. But is it really the densest in the country? Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: Density data came from the Canadian census, using 2021 numbers when possible/relevant.

Happy 4th of July to our neighbours to the south. In this video we want to cover what we think is underrated about US urbanism from a Canadian perspective. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: Alan Fisher Northeast Corridor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFDX1SI028I City populations reflect urban area boundaries in the US and population centre boundaries in Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_areas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_population_centres_in_Canada

We once heard a story from a driver in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia who was annoyed that a cyclist was slowing him down. Do you know what he said? “You’re not saving the environment, buddy.” This was interesting. The assumption was that if you’re on a bike trying to get somewhere you must be doing it for environmental reasons, probably in an annoyingly self-righteous way. But what if it was just a convenient way to get to work without having to worry about parking? What if it was how he spends time with his kids? What if he just enjoys the fresh air and activity? What if he sold a car in order to save money for other priorities? What if he just finds driving unpleasant? None of this occurred to the driver. The assumption was that the cyclist was there on a bike slowing them down for environmental reasons, probably climate change in particular. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: "Eat your vegetables" urbanism: https://thedeletedscenes.substack.com/p/how-convenient-are-supercenters BBC 15-minute cities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3nIXMA1j3E

This is Washington, DC, capital of the United States. If you look carefully, this city is unique in lacking something that most other American cities have. Can you tell what it is? Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: High-rises safer than single-family homes for fire: https://www.glengower.ca/notebook/notebook-fire-safety-and-high-rise-buildings/ Tysons is second biggest job centre: https://dw-rowlands.github.io/Job_Density_and_Commutes/Job_Density_and_Commutes.html Job/worker data: https://onthemap.ces.census.gov/ Purple Line to Tysons: https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/suburb-to-suburb-transit-part-three-purple-line-link/ Reece Martin on job sprawl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrifjkEXvnY Alon Levy on height limits: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2014/11/21/height-limits-still-a-bad-idea/

We’ve all kind of blocked it out of our minds but the COVID pandemic was absolutely devastating for transit ridership and even now, four years since 2020, we haven’t fully recovered. But some cities and systems actually fared much worse, while others have rebounded almost to their pre-pandemic numbers. In this video we’re going to take a look at the fall and recovery of rapid transit systems in the US and Canada to see who made it through the best and the worst. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: Ridership data from APTA: https://www.apta.com/wp-content/uploads/2019-Q4-Ridership-APTA.pdf BC had laxer COVID rules than the rest of Canada in the summer of 2020: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2021/02/staff-analytical-note-2021-1/ Vancouver cut transit service less than most of North America: https://findingspress.org/article/13395-a-tale-of-40-cities-a-preliminary-analysis-of-equity-impacts-of-covid-19-service-adjustments-across-north-america?attachment_id=37160 California stricter COVID measures: https://exploratory.io/viz/kanaugust/COVID-Lockdown-Stringency-Index-Data-for-US-States-Japan-QME1fIs9FS LA transit commuters tend to be lower income: https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-public-transportation-riders-demographic-divide-for-cities.html Vancouver's strong downtown recovery: https://downtownrecovery.com/charts/rankings Population growth contributing to Vancouver's transit recovery: https://www.translink.ca/news/2024/april/translink%20ridership%20rebounds%20to%20pre-pandemic%20overcrowding%20levels Boston slow zones: https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2023-03-13/mbta-interim-head-says-commutes-will-remain-slower-asks-for-patience Boston maintenance problems: https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2023-09-07/systemic-mbta-problems-led-to-poor-track-maintenance-and-slow-zones-new-reports-find Creative commons images of transit vehicles in different cities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBTA_subway#/media/File:Alewife_MBTA_Red_Line_Station,_April_2024.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Line_(MBTA)#/media/File:Northbound_Green_Line_train_at_Park_Street_station_(2),_July_2021.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(rail_system)#/media/File:PATH_Kawasaki_5602c.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARTA_rail#/media/File:College_Park_MARTA_Station.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Purple_Line_(Los_Angeles_Metro).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Street_Line#/media/File:SEPTA_Broad_Street_Subway_car_at_Race-Vine.jpg

If you’re visiting Canada as a person who likes dense, lively cities, our #1 recommendation is Montreal. It’s the strongest city for bike culture and infrastructure and it’s miles ahead on car-free streets and other pedestrian improvements, especially in the warmer months. Toronto and Vancouver stack up pretty well on transit so we can’t say that Montreal is the best there, but it’s unique with the Paris-inspired metro that’s full of interesting architecture and art. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit

Chicago and Toronto are the two biggest cities of the Great Lakes megaregion of North America, and they share a lot of similarities. They have similar populations, climates, street grids, and positions on the lake. To Americans, Toronto is sideways Chicago; to Canadians it’s the opposite. But how do these two Great Lakes metropolises compare? Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: Building heights came from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH): https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/city/toronto https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/city/chicago Populations came from the 2021 Canadian census and the 2020 US decennial census. Density maps came from: https://luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen/#10/41.8102/-87.8000 Transit ridership numbers (see legend on bottom for type of transit): https://www.apta.com/wp-content/uploads/2023-Q4-Ridership-APTA.pdf Toronto subway frequencies: https://www.ttc.ca/routes-and-schedules/1/0 Ghost trains in Chicago: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/10/16/23393276/cta-chicago-transit-authority-ghost-buses-trains-service-problems Reece's writings on transit in Toronto vs. Chicago: https://reecemartin.substack.com/p/table-of-contents Extending the Bloomingdale Trail in Chicago: https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/cdot/supp_info/bloomingdale_trail.html 6.6 million trips on Divvy in 2023: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2024/1/10/24033443/bicycles-cycling-chicago-protected-bike-lanes-streets-divvy 5.7 million trips on BikeShareTO in 2023: https://bikesharetoronto.com/news/looking-back-on-2023/ Greater Chicago has a higher median income: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/comparing-median-employment-income-in-large-canadian-and-american-metropolitan-areas.pdf Toronto is less economically segregated: http://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/mpi/content/insight-canada-segregated-city/ Toronto is less black-white racially segregated: https://www.torontomu.ca/content/dam/centre-for-immigration-and-settlement/tmcis/publications/featured/Segregation_Trends_in_Toronto_Hulchanski_at_Ryerson_14_Feb_2019_w_Appendix.pdf Health inequalities in Chicago vs Toronto: https://works.bepress.com/fdemaio/36/

When you argue for housing reform to legalize denser development in our cities, you quickly learn that some people hate density. Like, really hate density, with visceral disgust and contempt for any development pattern that involves buildings being tall or close together. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit

We’ve had a complicated relationship with biking in the winter. Unlike some of our favourite channels on the topic, we’re not long-time winter cyclists ourselves. We only started getting into year-round cycling a few years ago. At first it was exciting, we were breaking a mental block that we didn’t realize we had. So you don’t need to stop biking when the weather gets cold and snow starts to fall? Why didn’t anyone tell us this before? Why is our culture so weird about this? But biking in the winter never really became something we did that often. We did it here and there, it was a fun novelty, but it never felt that natural and we still shifted to walking and transit for most of our winter transportation needs. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: "I don't think this winter BIXI experiment is working": https://www.reddit.com/r/montreal/comments/18bfq8a/i_dont_think_this_winter_bixi_experiment_is/ Winterized BIXI: https://bixi.com/en/bixi-year-round/ Winter Ride by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://www.twinmusicom.org/song/308/winter-ride Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org

Vancouver is maybe the biggest housing affordability disaster in North America. Fortunately, over the past year, the government of BC just decided to become the most ambitious province or state in North America on housing reform. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: Housing affordability report: https://thoughtleadership.rbc.com/toughest-time-ever-to-afford-a-home-as-soaring-interest-costs-keep-raising-the-bar/ Larch Lab point access block report: https://www.larchlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Eliason_CoV-Point-Access-Blocks-report_v1.2.pdf Why North America Can't Build Nice Apartments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRdwXQb7CfM

Would you believe us if we said that the two big cities in Alberta — a province associated with cowboys and oil — are more “urbanist” than you thought? In this video we’re going to cover the underappreciated urbanism of Canada’s fifth and sixth biggest metro areas and talk about the fundamental challenge for urbanism in a place like this. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: History of Edmonton and Calgary's LRT systems: https://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/trr/1992/1361/1361-005.pdf Transit ridership (see bottom of page for legend): https://www.apta.com/wp-content/uploads/2023-Q4-Ridership-APTA.pdf 132 Ave Overhaul: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/here-s-why-edmonton-s-132nd-avenue-renewal-project-is-garnering-attention-1.6990066 Fossil fuels in Alberta's economy: https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/trend-analysis/job-market-reports/alberta/sectoral-profile-mining-oil-gas 15 minute city protests: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-edmonton-15-minute-city-protests/ Winnipeg referendum 2018: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/portage-main-divide-urban-suburban-1.4878309 Winnipeg 2024 update: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/portage-main-winnipeg-crossing-pedestrians-1.7152085 Calgary opposition to zoning reform: https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-blanket-zoning-will-ruin-character-of-neighbourhoods-like-rideau-roxboro

In a video recently we talked about the bad pedestrian experience in Miami. In response to this video we got some comments telling us to stop complaining. We actually understand this instinctive and emotional reaction people have against strangers coming to their city and criticizing it. But whether or not we should stop complaining, what do the numbers actually say about danger on Miami’s streets? Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: Miami-Dade County traffic crash statistics: https://www.flhsmv.gov/traffic-crash-reports/crash-dashboard/ City of Toronto traffic fatality statistics: https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-transportation/road-safety/vision-zero/vision-zero-dashboard/fatalities-vision-zero/ Analysis of traffic fatality rates in US cities (2019) used data from NHTSA FARS (select "Download Raw Data From FTP Site"): https://www.nhtsa.gov/research-data/fatality-analysis-reporting-system-fars Miami-Dade murder rate: https://www.fdle.state.fl.us/CJAB/UCR/Annual-Reports/UCR-Annual-Archives/County-and-Municipal-Offense-Data/County_and_Municipal_Offense_Report_2019A Miami-Dade violent crime rate: http://edr.state.fl.us/content/area-profiles/criminal-justice-county/miamidade.pdf Canadian comparison, Montreal traffic fatalities: https://saaq.gouv.qc.ca/blob/saaq/documents/publications/bilan-routier-2019.pdf Edmonton: https://globalnews.ca/news/6948602/edmonton-traffic-vision-zero-2019/ Ottawa: https://files.ontario.ca/pdf-2_0/mto-orsar-final-2019-en-pdf-2022-08-09.pdf Surrey (was actually 2018, not 2019): https://www.surrey.ca/services-payments/parking-streets-transportation/vision-zero-surrey/what-the-data-tells-us International traffic fatality statistics: https://data.oecd.org/transport/road-accidents.htm (note that this says "Per 1 000 000 inhabitants", which appears to be an error; data is per 100,000 residents)

“Neighbours over NIMBYs” — that’s a sticker we saw on the back of a sign in Edmonton, Alberta, and it gives a hint as to some of the attitudes that make this maybe the most forward-thinking city for housing reform in North America. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please fill out the following contact form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NeALCmO6ELwJAGPyV46BVbl5JXzjlWl6emH3ZRNiCiw/edit References: Two homes to 16-unit townhouse complex: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/neighbours-become-business-partners-in-north-glenora-infill-project-1.5754031 (also: https://engaged.edmonton.ca/t5mconnectdc2) Church development: https://rightathomehousing.com/turning-sod-affordable-housing-built-westmount-area/ Skinny homes legalized in 2013: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-infill-skinny-homes-1.4689007 Skinny homes approvals: https://www.edmonton.ca/public-files/assets/document?path=PDF/SkinnyHomes_InfillInEdmonton_2016.pdf Edmonton eliminated parking mandates: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-got-rid-of-parking-minimums-2-years-ago-what-has-happened-since-then-1.6680750 Canadian Home Builders’ Association municipal rankings: https://www.chba.ca/municipal-benchmarking/ Report on housing from Canada’s federal housing authority: https://assets.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/sf/project/cmhc/pdfs/content/en/69262.pdf Edmonton mayor on homelessness support: https://medium.com/mayorsohi/edmonton-city-council-requests-provincial-support-for-community-safety-and-well-being-22b5ed142efd California mountain lion city: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/05/california-woodside-mountain-lions-development Mayor of Windsor, Ontario: https://twitter.com/drewdilkens/status/1752843859661295872 Mayor named to housing team: https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/dilkens-named-chair-of-new-ontario-housing-team

Montreal is unique as a major North American city where the main language of everyday life isn’t English or even Spanish — it’s French. But how exactly language dynamics and etiquette work in the metropolis of French Canada isn’t remotely obvious if you’re new to the city. We hear a lot of questions: how French is Montreal, exactly? How much French do you need to move here? Do you need any French to visit? Is it rude to speak English to people? Let’s clear some things up. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please send us a message on Instagram or Twitter. Note that we may not be able to respond to all messages. References: Map of Quebec regions from: https://cartographyvectors.com/map/794-quebec-with-regions

A few years ago, a concerned resident opposed a four-storey apartment on this site in their Edmonton neighbourhood by saying: “more apartments are economically unnecessary and actually unwanted by the community”. We know what it means when homeowners don’t want new housing nearby but what does it mean for an apartment building to be “economically unnecessary”? Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please send us a message on Instagram or Twitter. Note that we may not be able to respond to all messages. References: Edmonton development: https://globalnews.ca/news/5404455/edmonton-west-jasper-place-apartment-proposal-rejected/ Nearby Edmonton proposal: https://edmonton.skyrisecities.com/news/2020/01/riocan-proposing-redevelopment-jasper-gates.40932 1926 court ruling: https://casetext.com/case/village-of-euclid-ohio-v-ambler-realty-co Toronto council speaker around 35:00: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b3-p-J3uow Vancouver Sun article: https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/riley-donovan-ending-single-family-zoning-an-unprecedented-act-of-provincial-overreach Gilbert, Arizona development: https://www.gilbertsunnews.com/news/council-to-vote-on-controversial-rivulon-apartment-project/article_b48ae112-614f-11ed-a18b-df47a5551ebf.html Dallas city councillor: https://twitter.com/caraathome/status/1716931564033155324

We would say that Miami isn’t what we expected but we actually didn’t really know what to expect from this city. We knew we wanted a break from Canadian winter and that we wanted a city we could explore a bit instead of going to a beach resort in the Caribbean. On the positive side, Miami has a very unique aesthetic and vibe. Spanish architecture, art deco, palm trees, cool skyscrapers, elevated rail, tropical colours — it’s really nice. We were even pleasantly surprised by the transit, especially for a place not known for it. On the negative side, this might be the most pedestrian-unfriendly major city we’ve ever walked around, definitely in recent memory. It’s the design of the roads, which feel like highways and sometimes literally are highways. It’s the oversized cars with tinted windows and drivers acting like pedestrians don’t matter. Florida is the third worst state in the US for pedestrian fatalities and it shows. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please send us a message on Instagram or Twitter. Note that we may not be able to respond to all messages. References: Higher vehicles are more likely to kill pedestrians: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212012224000017 Passing a stopped school bus is illegal: https://www.fox13news.com/news/when-do-you-have-to-stop-for-a-school-bus-in-florida Miami-Dade County versus Miami Beach: https://www.miamitodaynews.com/breaking/county-rejects-promenades-for-ocean-drive-and-espanola-way/ US bike commuting statistics: https://censusreporter.org Miami-Dade County pedestrian and cyclist volumes: https://miamidadetpo.org/library/studies/miami-dade-bicycle-and-pedestrian-data-collection-2018-06.pdf

What really stops people from biking in the winter? We can talk about our own winter cycling journey but we’re just two people, so we decided to ask the audience: you! We made a survey and posted it to our community page and social media platforms and we got almost 2,000 responses. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please send us a message on Instagram or Twitter. Note that we may not be able to respond to all messages.

This is the urbanist myth that just won’t die: the one very mistaken idea about housing and density held by a lot of well-meaning urbanists who we agree with on most other topics. We’re talking about the belief that roughly five storeys maximum is a universal “optimal” or “ideal” building height. This idea comes in large part from Danish designer and architect Jan Gehl, voted the second most influential urbanist in modern history, after Jane Jacobs. In his book Cities for People, he argued that taller buildings are out of scale with the human experience. “Above the fifth floor, offices and housing should logically be the province of the air-traffic authorities [...] they no longer belong to the city”, he claims. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please send us a message on Instagram or Twitter. Note that we may not be able to respond to all messages. References: The 100 Most Influential Urbanists: https://www.planetizen.com/features/124594-100-most-influential-urbanists-past-and-present History of Greenwich Village: https://www.villagepreservation.org/resources/neighborhood-history/ Greenwich Village/Soho Statistics: https://furmancenter.org/neighborhoods/view/greenwich-village-soho Average Rent in Greenwich Village: https://www.zumper.com/rent-research/new-york-ny/greenwich-village Jan Gehl on Why Tall Buildings Aren’t Necessarily Bad for Street Life: https://commonedge.org/jan-gehl-on-why-tall-buildings-arent-necessarily-bad-for-street-life/ GIl Penalosa on tall buildings: https://twitter.com/Penalosa_G/status/1688342976081068036

It sounds funny to say, but this bike lane was a big influence on this channel. When we first moved to Montreal in 2019 we lived nearby and saw the city take Saint-Denis Street, a six lane road that we would never consider biking on, and turn it into the busiest bike corridor in the city under the concept of an “express bike network” (REV in French) that includes a few other routes right now and will include many more routes in the future. The Saint Denis express bike corridor was a big lesson in “if you build it, they will come”, and the number of cyclists has only been climbing. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please send us a message on Instagram or Twitter. Note that we may not be able to respond to all messages. References: Montreal bike counter data: https://data.eco-counter.com/ParcPublic/?id=630 Vision vélo 2023-27: https://portail-m4s.s3.montreal.ca/pdf/carte_et_liste_des_projets_annonces_-_vision_velo_2023-2027.pdf

What are the most urbanist neighbourhoods in Australia, the southern hemisphere version of Canada? Let’s take a look based on the 2021 Australian census. We’re going to measure urbanism based on three categories. First, population density — the denser the better. This isn’t to say that anyone into cities and urbanism must always prefer the highest density environments, but it’s the simplest way to compare. Number two: affordability. The cheaper the median rent, the better. And the third category is transportation, under which we’re including three separate measures: the percentage of people who commute by transit, the percentage of people who commute by walking or cycling, and the number of cars owned per household, with lower being better. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please send us a message on Instagram or Twitter. Note that we may not be able to respond to all messages.

What’s it like to bike in the winter in Montreal, a big North American city that’s pretty bike-friendly but also has cold and snowy winters? Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please send us a message on Instagram or Twitter. Note that we may not be able to respond to all messages. References: Weather comparison: https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/25077~51381~74001~10405/Comparison-of-the-Average-Weather-in-Montr%C3%A9al-Amsterdam-Copenhagen-and-Minneapolis#Figures-Snowfall

One of the most genuinely confusing phenomena over the past few years has been the conspiracy theories surrounding “15 minute cities” that have caused people to see things we advocate for — traffic calming, quality bike infrastructure, and public transit — as government control, overreach, and even tyranny. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please send us a message on Instagram or Twitter. Note that we may not be able to respond to all messages. References: Wiretaps on Wheels: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c1bfc7eee175995a4ceb638/t/63600c27c6b8f906dac93e62/1667238951800/2022.11.1_STOP+Report_Wiretaps+On+Wheels.pdf Mozilla privacy reviews: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

Five questions or topics for urbanists like us to think through. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases, credit at the end of each video, and bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ohurbanity Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity For professional inquiries, please send us a message on Instagram or Twitter. References: Downsides of height limits: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166046204000213 Upward mobility and commute times: https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/102992/access-to-opportunity-through-equitable-transportation_0.pdf Original source on upward mobility and commute times: https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/129/4/1553/1853754

The U.S. and Canada famously have a problem with the missing middle. Our cities have a lot of detached homes and in some cases a lot of high-rise towers but not a lot of housing in between. Or at least, so the argument goes. There’s just one problem: it’s not entirely true. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity Data & Analysis: The data on housing came from the 2021 Canadian Census, which can be accessed online here: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/index.cfm?Lang=E.

With its lower densities and longer distances, is suburbia inherently incompatible with cycling for transportation, or could high-quality protected bike infrastructure make this environment comfortable and practical to bike in? While not all suburbs are created equal, you might be surprised at how much potential there is. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity Data & Analysis: The data analysis was done in R, using the 'osmdata' package to pull data from OpenStreetMap and using 'cancensus' and 'tidycensus' to access Canadian and American population data. References: Median commute in different parts of the Los Angeles metro area: https://scag.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/ej_jhfit_scag_2021trb.pdf?1612993870

Thanks to Paradox for sponsoring this video. Check out Cities: Skylines II at our link here: https://play.citiesskylines.com/OhTheUrbanity Montreal’s urban transformation to become less car-dominated and more livable is nothing short of amazing. By now everyone knows about the big examples like the very well-used express bike corridor on Saint-Denis or the lively car-free summer streets, but if you walk or bike around the city you’ll encounter dozens more changes, big and small, that have only happened over the past decade or so. The thing is, you might not know that the changes were new, and that the city wasn’t always like this. In this video we’re going to highlight 25 recent, ongoing, or upcoming improvements we’ve never covered before that show how cities everywhere can turn the page on car-centric design. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

We’ve mentioned our love of bike share in a few videos and our surprise that the Netherlands, one of the most bike-friendly countries in the world, doesn’t have this seemingly essential service. We learned that a lot of Dutch people are kind of baffled by the concept, so in this video we’re going to make the case for bike share but also consider if there are any reasons it’s less relevant in the Netherlands. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity References: Bike share study from Vancouver: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211335519301202 Toronto bike share subsidy: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2022/pa/bgrd/backgroundfile-229023.pdf Amsterdam bike theft study: https://news.mit.edu/2023/where-do-stolen-bikes-go-0215 Bike parking regulations: https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/parking-your-bike-at-home/ OV-Fiets as last-mile solution: https://mal-verkosto.fi/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Peter-van-de-Pol-OV-fiets-bike-sharing-system-Asemanseutufoorumi2020.pdf Study on OV-Fiets users: http://essay.utwente.nl/93399/1/Pluister%20B.%201718150%20_openbaar.pdf

Here’s a weird fact you probably didn’t expect. Los Angeles — the sprawling metropolis of car-culture and suburbia — is actually the densest urban area in the United States, even denser than New York. How is that possible? Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity References and Data: The data came from the 2021 5-Year American Community Survey, accessed through the 'tidycensus' package in R and plotted using ggplot2. (Using population data from the decennial census would have been a bit more precise but I had issues getting data for all the relevant geographies.) The Median Lot Size in Every U.S. State in 2022 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/the-median-lot-size-in-every-american-state-2022/

There’s a theory of housing that says the problem we’re facing is fundamentally not a lack of homes or restrictions on building and density. Instead, we face a scourge of investors who buy homes not to live in but to rent out, taking away options from aspiring home buyers and forcing them into renting. As one comment on our channel argued, “the investors are the prime cause of this housing crisis let's stop the gaslighting and verbal gymnastics”. What we really need, then, is to encourage homeownership and clamp down on investors who outbid first-time-homebuyers. “Take out the demand from investors and you have more than enough supply. Which drives costs down.”, according to another commenter on one of our videos. Well, clamping down on investors is exactly what Rotterdam in the Netherlands tried to do — here’s how it turned out. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity References: First study on Rotterdam: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3913/1/Master%20Thesis%20final%20version%20Pieter%20Reitsma%2017-7-2022.pdf Second study on Rotterdam: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4480261 News coverage: https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/06/buy-to-let-ban-is-good-for-first-time-buyers-but-bad-for-tenants/ City of Rotterdam policy page: https://www.rotterdam.nl/opkoopbescherming

Something we don’t really understand is why Montreal pulls the plug on its wildly successful pedestrian streets so early, especially the extremely popular Mont-Royal Avenue, which starts to be taken down in early September. We see why the city’s cold and snowy winters are a particular challenge for pedestrian streets, requiring some creativity and planning if they’re going to work year round, but September and October are pretty nice and they seem like a no-brainer. But as we say goodbye to these lively linear parks, what exactly makes a good pedestrian street? Once you take cars off the road, how do you make the best of the space? Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

Recently we made a video challenging the idea that North America is “doomed” and everyone who cares about urbanism needs to get out now and move to one of the European capitals of urban design. The video resonated pretty well but there was one response that really stood out: “wait a second, didn’t you guys abandon Ottawa for Montreal?”. Some people called us hypocrites for apparently jumping ship on a city when we told other people that they need to stay and fight. This was really surprising! Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

We visited the Netherlands recently and had a lot of fun. It’s a cool country that lines up well with our interests in cycling and urbanism, and if you regularly watch our channel, you’d probably enjoy visiting too. But while we took home some lessons and inspiration, we did not return home completely depressed about where we live and desperate to uproot and move to the Netherlands. In this video we’re going to explain why we’re happily staying in North America instead of moving to Europe. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity References “The deadliest states for pedestrians” (Axios): https://www.axios.com/2023/06/27/pedestrians-deadliest-states “How Hoboken Eliminated Traffic Deaths and What DC Can Learn” (NBC4 Washington): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-DSwvmKnHY Sound Transit (Seattle) Future Service: https://www.soundtransit.org/sites/default/files/documents/st-future-service-map.pdf “Exploring Bike Share Growth in Toronto” (Michael Liu & Jeff Allen, UofT School of Cities): https://schoolofcities.github.io/bike-share-toronto/growth “Why All New Apartment Buildings Look Identical” (Cheddar): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrxZqPVFTag Parking Mandates Map (Parking Reform Network): https://parkingreform.org/resources/mandates-map/ “Urban Meltdown” (Clive Doucet): https://www.amazon.ca/Urban-Meltdown-Clive-Doucet/dp/086571584X “The Rise of Suburbs” (CItiesX): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpO3qRYn52A “1978 mob hits across the New York City area” (FOX 5 New York): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1jhmRdohBQ “Millennials in Motion: Changing Travel Habits of Young Americans and the Implications for Public Policy”: https://publicinterestnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Millennials-in-Motion-USPIRG.pdf “Survey: Buyers May Pay More to Live in Walkable Communities” (Realtor Magazine): https://www.nar.realtor/magazine/real-estate-news/survey-buyers-may-pay-more-to-live-in-walkable-communities “Daily Survey: Attitudes Toward Development” (YouGov): https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/pj671pokvi/tabs_Attitudes_Toward_Development_20220407.pdf “Fewer young, but more elderly, have driver’s license”: https://news.umich.edu/fewer-young-but-more-elderly-have-drivers-license/ “Are Millennials Really the Generation That Bikes?”: https://trec.pdx.edu/blog/are-millennials-really-generation-bikes Le Monde à bicyclette: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/info/videos/1-8434468/monde-a-bicyclette?isAutoPlay=1

Why build bike lanes — shouldn’t we focus on public transit instead? There’s a criticism we’ve seen that bicycle urbanism is a niche obsession and that urbanists’ attention should instead be on public transit as a more robust, reliable, and realistic alternative to driving. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

If there’s anything we find encouraging about the future of housing affordability, it’s that the “yes in my backyard” pro-housing movement crosses political and ideological lines. Unfortunately, the “not in my backyard” activists who oppose housing and neighbourhood change are also pretty diverse politically. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

The opening of the REM is bittersweet. Montreal is getting a lot more transit and that’s exciting! But it also highlights just how frustrating it is that activists and politicians said “no” to the east end getting its own REM. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity The lines we quote from from the "DÉCLARATION COMMUNE : ARRÊTONS LE PROJET DU REM DE L’EST ! – 21 février 2022" from the Collectif en environnement Mercier-Est, notably: ·Le REM aérien sera un mastodonte de béton et d’acier qui infligera aux populations des quartiers densément peuplés des nuisances significatives (bruit, vibrations, tourbillons de vent, pollution visuelle, etc.) qui entraîneront un impact certain sur la santé physique, psychologique et mentale des citoyen.nes incluant un sentiment d’insécurité publique accru. ·Le REM aérien écrasera, défigurera et fracturera nos quartiers, en plus d’augmenter considérablement ou de rendre impossible la protection ou la requalification future de bâtiments et de milieux de vie dont plusieurs sites patrimoniaux, historiques ou emblématiques. ·Des horreurs comme l’autoroute Métropolitaine construite dans les années 60 au nom de la mobilité automobile sont des erreurs du passé. CDPQ Infra impose déjà un modèle semblable avec le REM de l’Ouest et elle persiste à répéter les mêmes erreurs dans l’Est, au nom du transport collectif. Source: https://collectifeme.ca/declaration-commune-arretons-le-projet-du-rem-de-lest-21-fevrier-2022/ Translation: · The aerial REM will be a behemoth of concrete and steel, inflicting significant nuisances (noise, vibrations, wind vortices, visual pollution, etc.) on the populations of densely populated neighbourhoods, with a definite impact on the physical, psychological and mental health of citizens, including an increased sense of public insecurity. · REM will crush, disfigure and fracture our neighbourhoods, as well as considerably increase or render impossible the future protection or requalification of buildings and living environments, including many heritage, historic or emblematic sites. · Horrors like the Metropolitan Expressway, built in the 1960s in the name of automobile mobility, are mistakes of the past. CDPQ Infra is already imposing a similar model with the REM in the West, and persists in repeating the same mistakes in the East, in the name of public transit.

Whenever urbanists point to Dutch cycling infrastructure as a model to follow, skeptics respond with a list of reasons why Dutch cities are just too different to be relevant elsewhere, especially the U.S. and Canada. “This is all great if you live in a flat, tiny, crowded country without a real winter.” Do they have a point? Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

There isn’t really a wrong way to explore cities, but when we visit a new city we do try to optimize for seeing as much of it as we can because we like to leave places feeling like we wouldn’t need to visit again, even though we might want to. So, what’s the best way to explore a new city if you want to get the most out of your visit: walking, driving, cycling, or taking transit? We’ve taken some trips over the past few years covering places as different as Newfoundland, Vancouver, San Francisco, and the Netherlands, and we have opinions! Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

Each year, a ranking of the world’s ten most livable cities inspires a combination of pride from people who live in those cities and confusion about how exactly those cities were deemed to be the best. The 2023 ranking recently came out and, as usual, European, Canadian, and Australian cities topped the list. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

What does a suburb look like in the famously bike-friendly country of the Netherlands? It’s one thing to inherit historic human-scale cities built before cars even existed, but what can the Dutch teach us about building sane suburbs in the modern era? On our recent trip we made sure to visit some newer, lower density residential developments on the edge of Amsterdam and the Hague to see just how they compare to suburbs back home in North America. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

Cycling in the Netherlands was an eye-opening experience that made us at the same time more hopeful and more pessimistic about the future of our cities back home in North America. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

Cities are at an exciting place right now. Bad planning after World War II left us facing enormous challenges with housing affordability and car-dependence, but it feels more and more like there’s energy and awareness about fixing these problems. But how do you turn that into actual progress in your city? Here are eight suggestions. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

People sometimes think of barriers and opposition to new housing construction as coming from a suburban culture of NIMBYism, but urban areas can be just as bad. A few weeks ago we told the story of neighbours and councillors fighting new housing development near Guildwood Train Station in suburban Toronto, and in this video we’re going to tell another frustrating tale of housing dysfunction in the heart of the city. References: City council asking for affordable housing component on 200 Queens Quay West land sale: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/affordable-housing-queens-quay-1.5222316 Canada Lands agreeing: https://twitter.com/clc_sic/status/1156658118950105090 Final report on 200 Queens Quay West housing application: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2022/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-227382.pdf 10 York being criticized for blocking views: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2012/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-51448.pdf Toronto's goal of no shade on parks: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/condo-shadow-tocore-plan-1.4667335 Toronto's goal of having shade on parks: https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/8ecf-AODA_Shade_Guidelines_2010_Final_Report-002.pdf Final report on 27 Grosvenor, the other site where shadow concerns reduced affordable housing: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2021/te/bgrd/backgroundfile-165186.pdf Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

It’s always encouraging to see that the European capitals of urban design and livability weren’t always like that. The Dutch didn’t always have their bike paths, and it was just a few years ago that Paris used its riverbanks as highways. Some cities do start with more advantages when it comes to density or mixed-use neighbourhoods, but at the same time every city has a lot of latitude about what direction it wants to go. On this channel we talk a lot about the urbanism of Montreal, but Montreal wasn’t always like this either. Living here has been an exciting experience of seeing the city actively get better, and learning that features we took for granted didn’t even exist until surprisingly recently. In this video we’re going to showcase 9 urbanist transformations in Montreal that we haven’t given much attention to on this channel yet. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

Hong Kong is one of those places, alongside Singapore and Manhattan, that often gets cited as a failure of urbanism — an overdose of density, an example of what you don’t want your city to look like. But there’s a reason Hong Kong is like this, and why other cities probably won’t end up the same way. We should stop using Hong Kong as our density punching bag. References 2021 Hong Kong census (select "Major Housing Estates"): https://www.census2021.gov.hk/en/district_profiles.html Estimate of Hong Kong density for developed area: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/room-to-grow-comparing-urban-density-in-canada-and-abroad.pdf Home size by country: https://shrinkthatfootprint.com/how-big-is-a-house/ Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

What are the most “urbanist” cities in North America, the places you might gravitate to if you enjoy dense, lively, mixed-use neighbourhoods and not being required to drive? Subjective impressions are easy but building an objective ranking based on factors like density and transportation patterns is harder. In this video we’re going to score the top 10 urbanist cities in the U.S. and Canada using a method that we think lines up with how people actually experience their city, which is at the neighbourhood level. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

Are there really two kinds of cyclists? Urbanists and bike advocates often draw a sharp distinction between sporty recreational cyclists on one hand, who use their bikes for fun and exercise, and utility cyclists on the other hand, who use their bikes to get where they need to go, like work, school, groceries, or appointments. In this video we argue that the distinction isn't as clear as it might seem. References: North Carolina study: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15568318.2017.1382622?journalCode=ujst20 Ireland study: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261842820_Swapping_the_Lycra_for_the_suit_determinants_of_cycling_for_transport_among_leisure_cyclists_in_Ireland Bicycle Dutch on a "wielrenner" versus a "fietser": https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/lycra-on-the-streets-of-the-netherlands/ Spanish study: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17450101.2022.2057811?scroll=top&needAccess=true&role=tab Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

Do the disasters of urban highways have anything to teach us about housing? We’re very critical of “not in my backyard” activists who fight against newer, denser housing development in their neighbourhoods, but stepping back, aren’t they just exhibiting the same spirit of grassroots citizen activism and skepticism of big change that led Jane Jacobs and others to fight to protect their neighbourhoods against the overreaches of urban highway master plans? In this video we’re going to explain the difference between highways and housing as we see it and why not all NIMBYism is created equal. References: "Taken as a whole, the health studies show elevated risk for development of asthma and reduced lung function in children who live near major highways." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1971259/ Developmental delays in children living near a highway: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4590752/ Slum clearance and urban renewal in Halifax: http://theoryandpractice.planning.dal.ca/_pdf/history/dverbeek_thesis.pdf Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

In this video we cover our experiences, good and bad, with Ottawa, a city that we think is both underrated and frustrating. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

Do you ever wonder whether our system of housing is fundamentally broken? Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity Background references Home prices versus incomes in Canadian cities (2022): https://blog.remax.ca/housing-affordability-in-canada/ Soaring rents (March 2023): https://rentals.ca/national-rent-report Subsidized housing waitlists: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/11/29/a-37-year-wait-for-a-subsidized-one-bedroom-3808-applicants-for-200-lower-cost-rentals-the-hunt-for-affordable-housing-in-toronto-today.html Families leaving Toronto: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/toronto-young-children-southwestern-ontario-1.6411782 Young adults living with their parents: https://mikepmoffatt.medium.com/ontarios-housing-crisis-we-need-to-stop-interpreting-constrained-optimization-as-free-choice-403c896b627c Homes approved but not built: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-housing-homes-approved-not-built-1.6774509 Bank of Canada interest rates: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/banking-and-financial-statistics/posted-interest-rates-offered-by-chartered-banks/ Residential building construction price index Q4 2022 (Toronto is 182.5): https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230208/t001d-eng.htm Residential building construction price index Q2 2018 (Toronto is 108.1): https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/180816/t001c-eng.htm 80 Dale Avenue references UrbanToronto on 80 Dale original high-rise proposal: https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2018/05/affordable-housing-rentals-proposed-near-guildwood-go.32355 UrbanToronto on mid-rise proposal: https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2019/07/80-dale-avenue-proposal-scarborough-scaled-back-resubmitted.37969 2002 city report on city land in Scarborough Village: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/2002/agendas/council/cc020521/sc4rpt/cl014.pdf Loss of development charge refund: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/affordable-housing-project-up-in-the-air-after-provincial-cuts-1.5297638 80 Dale public consultation report: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c94e6f1f8135a38595641fc/t/5ef506c9cb4a5e5db1f2ac68/1593116365933/19-02-06_80+Dale+Consultation+Report.pdf Two councillors speaking out against the original high-rise proposal: https://www.toronto.com/news/development-bid-near-scarboroughs-guildwood-go-station-to-be-revised/article_10bf8fa9-e935-5b90-a4f9-18f425f4b0d5.html? 2021 staff report on 80 Dale Avenue that includes a report on neighbourhood opposition to original high-rise proposal: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2021/sc/bgrd/backgroundfile-170816.pdf Neighbours speaking out at Scarborough Community Council against scaled-down mid-rise plan: https://www.youtube.com/live/7b3-p-J3uow?feature=share&t=849 HousingNowTO statement on loss of affordable housing in mid-rise proposal: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2021/sc/comm/communicationfile-136369.pdf Toronto’s development charge fee list: https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/8dad-Development-Charge-Rates-Effective-August-15-2022.pdf “Reassessing the Case for Development Charges in Canadian Municipalities”: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=urbancentre-reports CMHC report on development charges, including Montreal charging less: https://assets.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/sites/cmhc/professional/housing-markets-data-and-research/market-reports/housing-market-insight/2022/housing-market-insight-69949-m07-en.pdf?rev=bbc85058-a9ee-4a77-a047-80ac855278bc Councillor’s letter against affordable housing funding for original high-rise proposal: https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2018/ah/comm/communicationfile-85140.pdf

Is this the most counterproductive idea in the world of cycling? Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity Thanks to John Simmerman of Active Towns for footage from the Netherlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF_Ck5za0Yk John Forester resources: https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a32257789/vehicular-cycling-advocate-john-forester-dies-at-90/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmT4x6eWDjA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWSqf1B8sis References: "Enjoy the Ride - Essential Bicycling Skills": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s5hJhLBUec Vancouver study on preferred bike routes: https://cyclingincities-spph.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2015/01/Winters-Teschke-2010-Route-preferences-among-adults-in-the-near-market-for-bicycling-findings-of-the-cycling-in-cities-study.pdf Public bike counter data (including top bike counter in Paris): https://data.eco-counter.com/ParcPublic/?id=4586 Montreal bike counter data: https://data.eco-counter.com/ParcPublic/?id=630 Commuting data came from 2021 census in Australia and Canada Study on cycling in Melbourne: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140521003200 Research review of cycling safety: https://bikehub.ca/sites/default/files/imce/safety_performance_of_bicycle_infrastructure_in_canada.pdf Bike lane safety study in Montreal: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3064866/ Astonishingly high cyclist death and injury rates in USA: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Cyclist-and-pedestrian-fatality-rates-and-nonfatal-injury-rates-in-the-Netherlands_fig3_279579564 Cyclist death on Saint-Denis in Montreal: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/cyclist-mathilde-blais-death-was-avoidable-says-coroner-1.2782554

We’re used to hearing “bikes aren’t practical here, we have winter” all the time. In this video we flip this on its head and ask whether it’s actually cars that are a dangerous headache in winter. References: “Snow has a greater effect than rain does on crash occurrence: snow can increase the crash rate by 84% and the injury rate by 75%.” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3141/2055-16 “Even with the changes in rainfall-related risk to approximately 1.5 today, values are similar to the estimated risk of being responsible for a traffic crash as a function of alcohol-impairment with blood alcohol level equal to 0.08 relative to sober condition”: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0966692309000702 Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

The Rideau Canal Skateway is one of the most iconic features of Ottawa, the capital of Canada, but for the first time in its history it won't be open for skating this year. Because we know that a lot of people are missing this quintessential winter experience, we thought we’d take you on a tour of the skateway recorded last year and tell the tale of how it almost got turned into a highway. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

Cities are fundamentally about living close to things you want, like jobs, schools, stores, services, and infrastructure, and that means living close to other people who want to access these amenities too. But cities and neighbourhoods vary enormously in density based on laws, geography, preferences, demographics, and historical development patterns. In this video we take a tour of population density in the U.S. and Canada, from semi-rural suburbs to ultra-dense downtowns. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity

In this video we give some news about our channel and talk about what makes a "livable" city. Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity Music we used: Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Artist: http://audionautix.com/ #urbanplanning #cycling #halifax

The housing myth that just won't die: "we don't have a housing supply shortage because there are more vacant homes than homeless people". References: Rental vacancies being good for tenants: https://www.acto.ca/production/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Factsheet_March2021.pdf Vacation homes in the US census: https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/dec/coh-vacation.html Vacancy rate fact sheet (showing American Community Survey counting units as "vacant" if the owner plans to move within two months): https://www.census.gov/housing/vacanciesfactsheet.html "Other" vacancies definitions: https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/definitions.pdf "Other" vacancies distribution: https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/qtr113/PAA-poster.pdf Point-in-time homelessness counts: https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness/ Study on Americans living "doubled up": https://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/Quantifying-Doubled-Up-Homelessness.pdf Fertility rates in California linked to housing: https://calmatters.org/housing/2018/07/low-california-birth-rate-housing-costs/ Fertility rates in Canada linked to housing: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/91-620-x/2019001/chap03-eng.htm Canadian young adults increasingly living with parents: https://mikepmoffatt.medium.com/more-25-34-year-olds-are-living-with-their-parents-in-cities-in-ontario-but-not-in-alberta-and-18fd8f463ff6 Statistics on crowded housing in the US: https://www.americashealthrankings.org/explore/annual/measure/crowded_housing/state/ALL Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity Music we used: Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Artist: http://audionautix.com/ #housingcrisis #urbanplanning #affordable

We usually talk about big cities on this channel — Toronto, Montreal, San Francisco, New York. But most of the same ideas about housing and transportation also apply to smaller cities too. In this video we take a look at Halifax, a smaller city in Atlantic Canada. Data note: As indicated in the video, most statistics from the census (on population or commuting) use "population centre" boundaries, previously called "urban area", for the city. These ignore city limits (e.g., the City of Toronto) and include all connected urban (and suburban) area. This is similar to a census metropolitan area or CMA, but it's not the same (CMAs group together multiple municipalities while population centres basically ignore municipal boundaries). References: Study on dense development in Halifax: https://www.halifax.ca/sites/default/files/documents/about-the-city/regional-community-planning/HRMGrowthScenariosFinalReportJuly82013.pdf 1945 Master Plan for Halifax: https://cdn.halifax.ca/sites/default/files/documents/about-the-city/archives/711.45.H17-1945_MasterPlan%5BNewPg5%5D.pdf Analysis of 1945 Master Plan: http://theoryandpractice.planning.dal.ca/_pdf/history/sdube_masterplan_2015.pdf Angus Reid poll on support for bike infrastructure: https://angusreid.org/bike-lanes/ Toronto Star article on Centre Plan: https://www.thestar.com/halifax/2019/04/10/centre-plan-sets-new-higher-height-limits-for-halifax-peninsula-and-downtown-dartmouth.html Bill Ozard talk radio segment on Harbour Drive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSaSCL0tlgY Toronto Star video on King Street in Toronto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80OfVEZe8MI Halifax councillor on the Centre Plan: https://wayemason.ca/2021/06/11/proposed-changes-to-residential-zoning-centre-plan-package-b/ Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity Music we used: Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Artist: http://audionautix.com/ #urbanplanning #cycling #halifax

Cities like New York, Toronto, London, and Sydney have extremely expensive housing not just because a lot of people want to live there — although that’s obviously true too — but because of dysfunctional housing policies that limit how much housing can be built. But given the unfortunate reality that these cities are very expensive, does it ever make financial sense to live in them? Are you crazy for trying to make it work instead of giving up and moving somewhere else with more reasonable housing costs? Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity Music we used: Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Artist: http://audionautix.com/ #urbanplanning #housingcrisis #newyork #toronto #london #sydney

Does AirBnB harm housing affordability? The simple answer is "yes". The more complicated answer is... "it depends". In this video we look at the effect of AirBnB on housing affordability based on a study in Portugal. Study: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJHMA-04-2021-0047/full/pdf Previous study from Portugal also finding a hit to affordability from AirBnB: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166046221000272 Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity Music we used: Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Artist: http://audionautix.com/ #urbanplanning #housingcrisis #airbnb

In this video we try out eBikes for the very first time and consider some criticisms of them. References: Electric BIXI stats: https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/bixi-montreal-achieves-a-balanced-budget-in-2020-899908500.html eBike Rebates in British Columbia: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/transportation/transportation-environment/active-transportation/funding/individuals-business DeVinci E-Griffin E6100 (battery comparison bike): https://www.devinci.com/en/bikes/electric/e-griffin-e6100-9s-goldland/ Help keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity More Oh The Urbanity!: Transportation playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMwNtc-6XuWFdr0K5cDhaY3 Music we used: Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Artist: http://audionautix.com/ #montreal #cycling #ebike

Recently we visited a city and encountered housing affordability. Ever heard of it? References: Housing Affordability in Canada: 2022 RE/MAX Report: https://blog.remax.ca/housing-affordability-in-canada/ Trickle-Down Housing is a Failure. Here’s What You Need to Know.: https://www.housinghumanright.org/trickle-down-housing-is-a-failure-heres-what-you-need-to-know/ Supply constraints have increased prices of apartment condominiums in Canadian cities: (1) https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2020/schl-cmhc/nh18-33/NH18-33-31-2020-eng.pdf (2) https://eppdscrmssa01.blob.core.windows.net/cmhcprodcontainer/sf/project/archive/research_5/rr_supply_constraints_increased_prices_mar_12.pdf Why is Manhattan So Expensive?: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w10124/w10124.pdf

We had no plans to comment on Ottawa's upcoming mayoral election until one candidate released a very frustrating campaign video about a "war on cars". Help keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity More Oh The Urbanity!: Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf7VsodvV0I&list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMVtLl6I7gFoJuAejCSBkaw Music we used: Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Artist: http://audionautix.com/ #ottawa #cycling #urbanplanning

We had an amazing time visiting San Francisco recently. It’s a gem of a city with so much to offer in terms of interesting and vibrant neighbourhoods, culture, history, architecture, and nature. Help keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity More Oh The Urbanity!: Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf7VsodvV0I&list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMVtLl6I7gFoJuAejCSBkaw Music we used: Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Artist: http://audionautix.com/ #sanfrancisco #cycling #urbanplanning

We hear this surprisingly often: “My city built bike lanes, but cyclists don’t actually use them. They just ride on the road or the sidewalk instead.” For this video we decided to get out our clipboards, put on our research hats, and go collect some data on how commonly cyclists ignore bike lanes and why they do it. Help keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity More Oh The Urbanity!: Transportation playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMwNtc-6XuWFdr0K5cDhaY3 Music we used: Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Artist: http://audionautix.com/ #cycling #urbanplanning #bikelanes

To a lot of people, the solution to housing affordability is simple: just stop people and corporations from owning multiple properties. If only it was that simple! Keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity This video was a follow-up to our earlier video about housing affordability myths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s61Gb4RUsck Music we used: Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Artist: http://audionautix.com/ References: Rental deserts: https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/rental-deserts-perpetuate-socioeconomic-and-racial-segregation #urbanplanning #housingcrisis #realestate

Are high-rise towers bad? In this video we look at the livability of tall buildings from the perspective of people who actually prefer medium-density, ground-oriented housing styles like Montreal's multiplexes. Help keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon for early releases: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity More Oh The Urbanity!: First video in the series about high-rises: https://youtu.be/s61Gb4RUsck Housing playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD Music we used: Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Artist: http://audionautix.com/ References: Is concrete construction better than wood frame?: https://donurquhart.com/blog/concrete-vs-wood/ 1.3 million residents of mid/high-rise in Greater Toronto: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/dt-td/Rp-eng.cfm?TABID=2&Lang=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=1235738&GK=0&GRP=1&PID=109885&PRID=10&PTYPE=109445&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2016&THEME=116&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&D1=0&D2=0&D3=0&D4=0&D5=0&D6=0 #highrise #towers #density

Who said biking to a suburban IKEA had to be difficult? Help keep Urbanity rolling: Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity More Oh The Urbanity!: Transportation playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMwNtc-6XuWFdr0K5cDhaY3 Music we used: Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Artist: http://audionautix.com/ References: Which Cities in Canada Have the Most Cycleable IKEA Store: https://mobycon.com/updates/which-cities-in-canada-have-the-most-cycleable-ikea-store/ #cycling #ottawa #mup #urbanplanning

Take a walk with us on Montreal's pedestrianized streets! How you can help the channel: Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity More Oh The Urbanity!: General Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf7VsodvV0I&list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMVtLl6I7gFoJuAejCSBkaw Music we used: Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Artist: http://audionautix.com/ References: https://projetmontreal.org/nouvelles/animation-estivale-montréal-sinvestit-dans-la-vitalité-commerciale-et-confirme-le-financement-pour-des-projets-de-piétonnisation-pour-une-durée-de-trois-ans https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-pedestrian-street-summer-1.6408088 https://portail-m4s.s3.montreal.ca/pdf/pmr_-_cohabitation_cyclistes-pietons_sur_les_rues_pietonnes_inrs_rapport_final_v3.pdf #pedestrian #montreal #walking #urbanplanning

Discussions of urbanism often devolve into fights between "downtown living" and "suburban (or small town) living". This misses something big — most city-dwellers don't actually live "downtown". They live in dense residential neighbourhoods outside of downtown. We understand the aversion that many people have to "downtown living" because it can feel overwhelming, noisy, and crowded, but urban density does not have to be like that. It can actually be quite peaceful and calming. In this video, we cover our experiences based on living in older, denser parts of Toronto and Montreal. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥: Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity We borrowed a lot of footage from Paige Saunders for this video; here's his channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/PaigeSaundersMontreal/featured Music we used: Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Artist: http://audionautix.com/ #urbanplanning #urbanism #density #Toronto #Montreal

There aren't a lot of prominent critics of urbanism out there. Yes, lots of people argue against bike lanes, public transit, or housing density at city hall meetings, but relatively few people make their name in arguing for "suburbanist" approaches to housing and transportation. Randal O'Toole, also known as the Antiplanner, is one big exception. He takes urbanist beliefs about housing and transportation, flips them on their head, and argues for the exact opposite. In this video we explore some of his beliefs to try to see where he's coming from. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥: Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬: Densification Was a Communist Plot: https://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=19904 Free Transit Is Just More Oppression: https://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=19924 The Case for Single-Family Neighborhoods: https://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=16526 How Cato Sold Out California Property Owners: https://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=19643 Americans Are Unprepared for a Nuclear Attack: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/11/would-you-know-what-to-do-during-a-nuclear-attack-218675/ The Local Residential Land Use Regulatory Environment Across U.S. Housing Markets: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26573/w26573.pdf Vancouver lot sizes: https://twitter.com/GRIDSVancouver/status/1513703003366178818?t=cJdaXyR34vXu3GeI1KNlHw Toronto housing market: https://wowa.ca/toronto-housing-market Green Cities, Brown Suburbs: https://www.city-journal.org/html/green-cities-brown-suburbs-13143.html Music we used: Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Artist: http://audionautix.com/ #urbanplanning #suburbs

With the O-Train back on track for a while now, this video showcases a walk we did of Line 1 back in the fall of 2021. We also provide some background on the problems the system has faced in recent times. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥: Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐎𝐡 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲! Transportation playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMwNtc-6XuWFdr0K5cDhaY3 Video on multi-use pathways: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5pTZuYP4pI 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬: A more detailed chronicle of the history of the Confederation Line: https://www.tvo.org/article/ottawas-colossal-lrt-debacle-a-brief-ish-history Music we used: Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; Artist: http://audionautix.com/ #transit #ottawa #train

There are a lot of compelling ideas out there about why we’re experiencing the current housing affordability crisis, and it can be easy to want some of these myths to be true. It’s a lot easier to have clear bad guys and feel-good proposals than to acknowledge that housing affordability is a complex problem like any other that requires practical and reality-driven solutions that are based on the best evidence we have. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥: Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐎𝐡 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲! The Myth of 1.3 Million Vacant Investor Homes in Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evYOhpjMql0&list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD Housing playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bkC8YlBxoM&list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬: City-wide effects of new housing supply: Evidence from moving chains: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3929243 The Economic Implications of Housing Supply: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.32.1.3 Case-Shiller National Index up 19.8% Year-over-year in February; New Record Monthly Increase: https://calculatedrisk.substack.com/p/case-shiller-national-index-up-198 Vacancy Rates and Rent Change, 2021 Update: https://doodles.mountainmath.ca/blog/2022/02/18/vacancy-rates-and-rent-change-2021-update/ Forecast for Failure: https://institute.smartprosperity.ca/publications/forecast-for-failure Music we used: Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; Artist: http://audionautix.com/ #housing #affordabilitycrisis #housingincanada

What Canadian cities lack in separated, on-street bike lanes they make up for in...multi-use pathways? While they have some downsides, like sometimes being too narrow and not leading to useful destinations, multi-use pathways are still, in many cities, the gem of the bike network. Footage from Edmonton (thommy bikes): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcy7TTrQcwntpcy8yw5lyBA 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥: Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐎𝐡 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲! Transportation playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRD29BJxqZc&list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMwNtc-6XuWFdr0K5cDhaY3 Routes and Trips in Quebec playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNMIgL_PuFw&list=PLN3OhfIDlvuOSWunGeo2em93ip66XlDMS Music we used: Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; Artist: http://audionautix.com/ #multiusepathways #canada #cycling #bikeinfrastructure

Many people think of Montreal as a pretty special place, and we’re no different. After having lived there as well as in many other cities in Canada, Montreal does indeed stand out.This video looks at the unique features that make Montreal a one-of-a-kind city, while also looking at some of the less desirable features (so that our rose-coloured glasses don’t get the best of us). 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥: Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3725wx1IgM&list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD Montreal REV (réseau express vélo) video we mention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEkYnwUEOX0 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬: Picnics in the Park: What’s Allowed and What’s Not? https://educaloi.qc.ca/en/legal-news/picnics-in-the-park-whats-allowed-and-whats-not/ Dubé defends rerouting doctors from Montreal to suburbs: https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/dube-rerouted-doctors-from-montreal-to-other-parts-of-quebec-report-says More on PREM: https://www.reddit.com/r/montreal/comments/n2nh3a/how_the_hell_do_you_go_see_a_doctor_in_montreal/gwl1hfk/ #montreal #urbanism #livablecities

City zoning regulations usually place a lot of importance on preserving the character of neighbourhoods. In this video, we cover some of the problems with how cities think about and legislate neighbourhood character and how these decisions lead to exclusion and stifle cities’ growth. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3725wx1IgM&list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬: West Vancouver Neighbourhood Character Working Group: https://westvancouver.ca/sites/default/files/dwv/westvancouverite/neighbourhood-character/NCWG_Recommendations.pdf Staff Report - Committee of Adjustment Application - 54 Westhampton Drive: http://spacing.ca/toronto/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2019/03/54_westhampton-staff_report.pdf How city hall is keeping needed change out of ‘stable neighbourhoods’: http://spacing.ca/toronto/2019/03/05/how-city-hall-is-keeping-needed-change-out-of-stable-neighbourhoods/ Dissecting OPA 320: The Implications of Toronto's Neighbourhood Land Use Policies: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dissecting-opa-320-implications-torontos-land-use-policies-scorgie Transit-Supportive Guidelines: http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/transit/pdfs/transit-supportive-guidelines.pdf Mapping TDSB excess school capacity, population change and zoning: https://jdawang.github.io/posts/2022/02/mapping-tdsb-excess-school-capacity-population-change-and-zoning/ School construction has fallen way behind in booming condo neighbourhoods in Toronto: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-school-construction-has-fallen-way-behind-in-booming-condo/ #neighbourhoodcharacter #zoning #density

Fuel prices are fickle and can seriously negatively affect people’s lives when they spike, so let’s seriously get more serious about density and pedestrian-friendly cities, which will make us less dependent on gas to survive. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3725wx1IgM&list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬: “Impact of Rising Gas Prices on Below-Poverty Commuters”: https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/32031/411760-Impact-of-Rising-Gas-Prices-on-Below-Poverty-Commuters.PDF “What Consumers Think About Gas Prices”: https://www.convenience.org/Topics/Fuels/Documents/What-Consumers-Think-About-Gas-Prices.pdf 2011 Ottawa-Gatineau Origin-Destination Study: http://www.ncr-trans-rcn.ca/surveys/o-d-survey/o-d-survey-2011/ “Pinder: Walking versus 'windshield' bias — a tale of two Bank Streets”: https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/pinder-walking-versus-windshield-bias-a-tale-of-two-bank-streets Canadian Survey of Household Spending: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/cv.action?pid=1110022401 #gasprices #fuel #urbanism

People don't usually pay attention to Canada, let alone its capital city of Ottawa. This was upended over the past few weeks as protests over public health measures took over the downtown of the city, centred around a primary site on Wellington Street in front of Parliament but also extending into shopping, office, and residential districts. Ottawa is no stranger to protests, being the capital, but this one was uniquely disruptive because of how long it lasted and because of how vehicles were used. You don’t come to this channel to hear us talk about news or politics though, so as this surreal experience comes to a close, we want to talk about some observations on the event from an urbanist perspective. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3725wx1IgM&list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/what-is-a-fit-penalty-when-a-driver-takes-a-pedestrians-life/article33236677/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/15/noise-radar-in-paris-will-catch-raucous-cars-and-motorbikes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vehicle-ramming_incidents_during_George_Floyd_protests https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/ncc-confirms-wellington-street-is-the-best-way-to-run-gatineaus-tramway-into-ottawa https://globalnews.ca/news/8109905/ncc-ottawa-gatineau-tram-wellington-street/ Freakonomics episode: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-perfect-crime-rebroadcast/ #ottawa #urbanism #protest

Many people cite deficiencies in aesthetics, livability, and affordability as reasons to dislike and discourage high-rise towers, but do those criticisms make sense given our current housing situation? 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3725wx1IgM&list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬: "Returns to Scale in Residential Construction: The Marginal Impact of Building Height" (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3674181) "Confining Rental Homes to Busy Roads Is a Devil’s Bargain" from The Tyee (https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/10/25/Confining-Rental-Homes-To-Busy-Roads-Devil-Bargain/) "Point versus Wall" from Viewpoint Vancouver (https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2010/06/23/point-versus-wall/) "Urban Design Guidelines for High-rise Buildings" from the City of Ottawa (https://documents.ottawa.ca/sites/documents/files/highrise_guidelines_draft.pdf) "Why skyscrapers are so short" by Brian Potter (https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/why-skyscrapers-are-so-short/) Anti-tower perspectives: "Why high-density living isn't the answer to urban sprawl" from the Ottawa Citizen (https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/adam-why-high-density-living-isnt-the-answer-to-urban-sprawl) "7 Reasons Why High-Rises Kill Livability" from Smart Cities Dive (https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/7-reasons-why-high-rises-kill-livability/561536/) "Six myths about high-rise apartments" from Weston Web (https://www.westonweb.ca/six-myths-about-high-rise-apartments/) "The End of Tall Buildings" (https://applied.math.utsa.edu/~yxk833/tallbuildings.html) #housing #housingincanada #highrisetowers

In this video we give a reality check on winter in Canada and explain how biking in all seasons is not as crazy as some people suggest. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3725wx1IgM&list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬: The recent storm in the record books: https://twitter.com/YOW_Weather/status/1483247532897619969 The storm cancelling 4,200 flights: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/thousands-flights-canceled-eastern-us-winter-storm-heads-north-2022-01-17/ Half of Canadians use winter tires: https://tirf.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/2012_Winter_Tire_Report_7.pdf (page 2 of document, page 10 of PDF) Rideau Canal Skateway sees 20,000 visitors per day: https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/nearly-20-000-people-a-day-skate-on-rideau-canal-skateway-1.5313557 Ottawa's LRT weathered the snowstorm: https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/quite-pleased-ottawa-lrt-weathers-record-snowstorm-1.5744778 Apple Mobility data: https://covid19.apple.com/mobility The weather data comes from the 1981-2010 Canadian Climate Normals from Environment Canada. Explore here: Toronto (https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_1981_2010_e.html?searchType=stnName&txtStationName=toronto&searchMethod=contains&txtCentralLatMin=0&txtCentralLatSec=0&txtCentralLongMin=0&txtCentralLongSec=0&stnID=5097&dispBack=0) Montreal (https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_1981_2010_e.html?searchType=stnName&txtStationName=montreal&searchMethod=contains&txtCentralLatMin=0&txtCentralLatSec=0&txtCentralLongMin=0&txtCentralLongSec=0&stnID=5415&dispBack=0) Vancouver (https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_1981_2010_e.html?searchType=stnName&txtStationName=vancouver&searchMethod=contains&txtCentralLatMin=0&txtCentralLatSec=0&txtCentralLongMin=0&txtCentralLongSec=0&stnID=889&dispBack=0) Ottawa (https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_1981_2010_e.html?searchType=stnName&txtStationName=ottawa&searchMethod=contains&txtCentralLatMin=0&txtCentralLatSec=0&txtCentralLongMin=0&txtCentralLongSec=0&stnID=4337&dispBack=0) Winnipeg (https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_1981_2010_e.html?searchType=stnName&txtStationName=winnipeg&searchMethod=contains&txtCentralLatMin=0&txtCentralLatSec=0&txtCentralLongMin=0&txtCentralLongSec=0&stnID=3698&dispBack=1) Calgary (https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_1981_2010_e.html?searchType=stnName&txtStationName=calgary&searchMethod=contains&txtCentralLatMin=0&txtCentralLatSec=0&txtCentralLongMin=0&txtCentralLongSec=0&stnID=2205&dispBack=1) Edmonton (https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_1981_2010_e.html?searchType=stnName&txtStationName=edmonton&searchMethod=contains&txtCentralLatMin=0&txtCentralLatSec=0&txtCentralLongMin=0&txtCentralLongSec=0&stnID=1867&dispBack=0) Quebec City (https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/results_1981_2010_e.html?searchType=stnName&txtStationName=quebec&searchMethod=contains&txtCentralLatMin=0&txtCentralLatSec=0&txtCentralLongMin=0&txtCentralLongSec=0&stnID=5251&dispBack=1) #winterbiking #canada #winterincanada

You may have heard that Canada has 1.3 million vacant investment homes and that this is a reason why we don't lack housing supply in this country. In this video, we look more deeply at the census data behind that to understand what these "empty" homes really are. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3725wx1IgM&list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity #housingcrisis #urbanism #emptyhomes #canada

There’s a common refrain we hear often regarding people who rent or own apartment-sized units—that they secretly, deep down, want a single family detached house, and they would buy one if they could afford it. We take a look at that theory in this video through the lens of costs and trade-offs, and explain why, while many people do aspire to single family homes, that’s not the case for everyone, and there really are good reasons to prefer a smaller living space for all the advantages you gain from living in a vibrant urban centre. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3725wx1IgM&list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬: Report that covers over-housing in Ontario: https://rescon.com/news/files/Affordability-Phase2-report.pdf CBC article on suburban development in Ottawa: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/urban-expansion-costs-menard-memo-1.6193429 #zoning #singlefamilyhouse #urbanism

Join us as we interview Matt Pinder about the initiative the City of Ottawa has been taking in recent years to become a leader in building protected intersections for cyclists. 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫: Twitter: https://twitter.com/MattPinder1 Blog: https://beyondtheautomobile.com/ 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3725wx1IgM&list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OhUrbanity 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧/𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬: Ottawa’s Protected Intersection Design Guide: https://documents.ottawa.ca/sites/documents/files/protectedintersection_dg_en.pdf Cycling Safety Review of High-Volume Intersections (Ottawa): http://app05.ottawa.ca/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=7937&doctype=agenda&itemid=402233 #protectedintersections #cycling #ottawa #safecycling

Due to induced traffic, building or expanding roads and highways doesn't help to reduce congestion very much, if at all, over the long-run. Based on this, some people have asked us whether building more housing might not actually help affordability like you would expect. In this video we dive into the research on housing supply to find that it really does help housing affordability. We also discuss some of the differences between housing and roads that make it easier for the supply of housing to keep up with demand than for the supply of roads to keep up with (car) demand. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3725wx1IgM&list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧/𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬: -Generated Traffic and Induced Travel: https://www.vtpi.org/gentraf.pdf -Examining escalating house prices in large Canadian metropolitan centres: https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/professionals/housing-markets-data-and-research/housing-research/research-reports/housing-finance/examining-escalating-house-prices-in-large-canadian-metropolitan-centres -Why is Manhattan so expensive? https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w10124/w10124.pdf -The Effect of Zoning on Housing Prices (Australia): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3149272 -Quantifying the impact of land use regulation: Evidence from New Zealand https://thehub.swa.govt.nz/assets/documents/Impact_land_use-fullreport_110717.pdf -Research Roundup: The Effect of Market-Rate Development on Neighborhood Rents: https://www.lewis.ucla.edu/research/market-rate-development-impacts/ -Supply Skepticism: Housing Supply and Affordability: https://furmancenter.org/files/Supply_Skepticism_-_Final.pdf -1991 to 2016 population change in Toronto and Vancouver: https://censusmapper.ca/maps/1657#14/43.6603/-79.4050 -North American Crane Index: https://building.ca/toronto-continues-to-lead-north-america-in-crane-index/ #housingprices #affordability #housing

In this video, we take a look at a new study (linked below) from Montreal on how much road space is dedicated to cars, bikes, pedestrians, and transit. It might surprise you how little road space is needed to create a passable bike network. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3725wx1IgM&list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬: The study we reference (Caractérisation du partage de la voirie à Montréal): https://share.polymtl.ca/alfresco/service/api/path/content;cm:content/workspace/SpacesStore/Company%20Home/Sites/chaire-de-recherche-mobilit-web/documentLibrary/publications/Notes%20de%20recherche/note_recherche_partage_voirie_mtl_2021.pdf?guest=true&fbclid=IwAR2ybkQ_y6WjAa2cJM4pYjwp_PjcVRA1t42BbJlMoyXj2hnIsb1h7iES7BU #montreal #cycling #leplateau

In this video we address more of the bad arguments against bike infrastructure we've encountered, including some that came up very often in response to our last video. 1. Canada, the U.S., and Australia are big countries with low population densities. How can cycling be practical? 2. You should stop the “social engineering” of forcing bikes onto cities. People just want to drive. 3. Cyclists don’t have the right to road space because they don’t get a license or registration. 4. Cyclists don’t need dedicated infrastructure; they should learn to share the road with cars and trucks. 5. Cyclists don’t need dedicated infrastructure; they should just bike on the sidewalk. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Braving the Bikelash #1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xXZaLMlXvs Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬: Cycling potential in Greater Toronto and Hamilton: http://transformlab.ryerson.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Cycling-potential-in-GTHA-final-report-2016.pdf Robert Silverman and Claire Morissette: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Monde_%C3%A0_bicyclette 41% wish they cycled more than they do: https://www.sharetheroad.ca/files/2018_1126_Cycling__Populated_Report_with_Tabs.pdf 78% think more other people would bike with better infrastructure: https://www.sharetheroad.ca/files/Media_Release___OBS_Metrolinx___FINAL.pdf Motor vehicles are the leading cause of death for young Canadians: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-018-6269-9 Toronto bike licensing history: https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-transportation/cycling-in-toronto/cycling-and-the-law/bicycle-licencing/ 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐬: Toronto: https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-transportation/cycling-in-toronto/cycling-and-the-law/ Montreal: https://spvm.qc.ca/en/Fiches/Details/Traffic-Rules-for-Cyclists Vancouver: https://www.personalinjurylawbc.com/blog/cycling-sidewalks-permitted/ Calgary: https://bikecalgary.org/resources/safety-and-the-law/ Ottawa: https://ottawa.ca/en/parking-roads-and-travel/road-safety/cycling-safety Boston (allowed): https://www.boston.gov/departments/boston-bikes/bike-laws-boston Los Angeles (allowed): https://ladotbikeblog.wordpress.com/bikes-on-sidewalks/ Chicago: https://www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-information/can-i-ride-bicycle-sidewalk New York City: https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/biketips.shtml Houston: https://www.bikelaw.com/2014/08/houston-texas-bicycle-laws/ #bikelanes #urbanism #canada #bikeinfrastructure

We've covered Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa on this channel—but what's Vancouver like for cycling? In 2019, the Copenhagenize Index of Bicycle-Friendly Cities listed the city (along with Montreal) in the top 20. In this video we take a look at the pros, cons, and interesting quirks of cycling in Vancouver. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Beach Avenue hitting 10,000 cyclists per day: https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/city-to-make-interim-safety-and-design-upgrades-to-beach-avenue.aspx 2019 Copenhagenize Index: https://copenhagenizeindex.eu/ #Vancouver #Cycling #Bikeinfrastructure #Canada #Copenhagenize

If there’s anything we’ve learned following urban planning and city politics it’s that questioning the role of cars in cities really strikes a nerve. Policies like bike lanes, pedestrian streets, transit priority, and traffic calming are dismissed as a war waged against suburbanites and their cars by people who live downtown. In this video we question whether this view of the debate really makes sense. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧/𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬: Appeal of cul-de-sacs in suburban areas: https://www.realtor.com/advice/buy/why-do-we-have-cul-de-sacs/ https://rismedia.com/2019/02/26/pros-cons-choosing-house-cul-de-sac/ https://www.mashvisor.com/blog/cul-de-sac-house-investment/ https://www.northjersey.com/story/money/real-estate/2016/08/14/culdesacs-are-a-must-for-some-homeowners/93593028/ https://www.maunakearealty.com/market-reports/post/cul-de-sacs-some-of-the-most-prized-properties-on-the-big-island https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00216591 Suwanee denies controversial zoning amendment after weeks of public outcry: https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/suwanee-denies-controversial-zoning-amendment-after-weeks-of-public-outcry/CKWPL46RVBBIDGHTV6R3S3UJ3Q/ Los Altos Hills Town Plan: https://www.losaltoshills.ca.gov/179/General-Plan Cities and suburbs fighting with Waze and other navigation apps: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/03/06/mapping-software-routing-waze-google-traffic-calming-algorithmsi/98588980/ https://slate.com/business/2017/06/suburbs-finally-figured-out-a-way-to-get-rid-of-pesky-drivers-on-waze-shortcuts.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/24/nyregion/traffic-apps-gps-neighborhoods.html https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/mapping-apps-and-the-price-of-anarchy/555551/ #suburbs #traffic #trafficcalming #waroncars

Originally we planned to do a Q&A for 3,000 subscribers, but things moved more quickly than we expected, so here's our 10,000 subscriber video. 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 1. Do you have a Patreon? (0:56) 2. Will you do more videos about Ottawa? (1:15) 3. How do you film your bike rides? (1:49) 4. What are your backgrounds? Do you work in urban planning? (2:30) 5. What other YouTube channels do you watch? (5:45) 6. Est-ce que vous envisageriez de redéménager à Montréal? (6:26) 7. What will it take to combat urban sprawl? Do people want sprawl? (7:08) 8. Are there plans to make Montreal even more bike friendly? (9:14) 9. Quels sont vos endroits préférés à Montréal? (10:10) 10. Do you have any tips for immigrants to Montreal? (11:09) 11. Is it true what they say about the mafia and construction in Montreal? (12:21) 12. What are your favourite cities for urban planning? (12:50) 13. Quand est-ce que vous visiterez Wakefield? (14:03) 14. What's your favourite bike trip you've done? (14:15) 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐰𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐬: RMTransit: https://www.youtube.com/c/RMTransit About Here: https://www.youtube.com/c/AboutHere Paige Saunders: https://www.youtube.com/c/PaigeSaundersMontreal Not Just Bikes: https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes Life Where I'm From: https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeWhereImFrom JohnnyStrides: https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnnyStrides 𝐀 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡: Urbanism: Streetfilms, Alan Fischer, Vanishing Underground, Shifter, The Life-Sized City, City Beautiful, Tehsiewdai, Strong Towns, Bike Quest with Mike West Fitness: Stronger By Science, Jeff Nippard, Megsquats Cycling: One Less Car, Everyday Cycling, CJ Hoyle, Berm Peak Express, 2Bikes4Adventure, Urban Cycling Institute, Bicycle Dutch Other: Propos Montréal, The Agenda with Steve Paikin, The Tim Traveller, StreetFrench.org #AMA #Urbanism

In this video we address some of the worst arguments against bike infrastructure that we've encountered: 1. “Bike Lanes Pollute” 2. “Not Everyone Can Bike” 3. “Roads Are For Cars” 4. “Empty Bike Lanes” 5. “They Don't Pay Taxes” 6. “Cyclists Break the Rules” 7. “Just a Hobby” 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬: "Whose Roads? Evaluating Bicyclists’ and Pedestrians’ Right to Use Public Roadways" (https://www.vtpi.org/whoserd.pdf) "Suburban sprawl cancels carbon-footprint savings of dense urban cores" (https://news.berkeley.edu/2014/01/06/suburban-sprawl-cancels-carbon-footprint-savings-of-dense-urban-cores/) "Exploring the link between the neighborhood typologies, bicycle infrastructure and commuting cycling over time and the potential impact on commuter GHG emissions" (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S136192091630270X) "Car ownership in Canada 2021" (https://www.statista.com/forecasts/998479/car-ownership-in-canada) #bikelanes #canada #urbanism

Induced demand (probably more accurately called induced traffic) is the phenomenon where building or expanding roads and highways doesn't help congestion because it results in more people driving. This is often used as an argument against building the new car infrastructure, but people don't talk often about how induced demand applies to other modes. In this video we explain why induced demand does apply to transit, walking, and cycling infrastructure, but with different consequences. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Visualizing the Footprint of Highways in American Cities: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-the-footprint-of-highways-in-american-cities/ Metrolinx Ontario Line report: http://www.metrolinx.com/en/docs/pdf/board_agenda/20190912/20190912_BoardMtg_Ontario_Line_Initial_Business_Case_EN.pdf #urbanism #induceddemand #transit #toronto #ontarioline #metrolinx

eScooters are fun, but do they belong in our cities? Can they help reduce car dependence? Are they as good as bikes? How do dockless rentals from Bird, Lime, and Neuron compare to their privately-owned equivalents? Come along for a scoot and we'll see. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Urbanism playlist → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD Subscribe for more videos → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬: Vienna: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692320309510#bb0005 Portland, Oregon: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/transportation/article/709719 Rosslyn, Virginia: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/20/5591 New Zealand: https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10092/16336/E-scooter%20Results%20Summary.pdf?sequence=6&isAllowed=y Nashville: https://theconversation.com/80-of-fatal-e-scooter-crashes-involve-cars-new-study-reveals-where-and-why-most-collisions-occur-158609 Washington, DC: https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/most-e-scooter-rider-injuries-happen-on-sidewalk-study-finds #escooters #activemobility #ottawa #canada

You've heard of ActiveTO (probably)—but did you know that Ottawa has its own program of closing parkways to cars and opening them to bikes and other active mobility? 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #cycling #ottawa #activemobility

Stop means stop, right? One of the most common criticisms you see about cyclists in an urban environment is that they don't stop at stop signs, but what people seem to be forgetting is that drivers don't either. In this video we present original groundbreaking research on the stop sign habits of motorists and discuss what this should mean for cyclists. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #cycling #stopsigns #cyclists #driving #bikecommuting #trafficlaws

People often hold up cycling success stories like Copenhagen or Amsterdam to argue for more bike infrastructure here in North America. That's great, and there's a lot we can learn from those places, but they're also easier for people to dismiss as irrelevant because they seem so unrelatable—"maybe cycling works there, but we have a different culture, climate, and landscape here in North America". Fortunately, we also have cycling success stories here in North America too. They're more modest, but they're very real and harder to ignore. In this video we look at how bike commuting grew in Toronto from 1996 to 2016. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity The Evolution of Cycling Commuting in Montreal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kgckth7hyY Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #toronto #cycling #bikecommuting Data from the 2016 Canadian census, accessed using the 'cancensus' package in R.

Do you prefer living in a detached home or a condo/apartment tower? That's how most of us in North America think about housing options, but as it turns out, there are lots of intermediate options that could be built. It's called the "missing middle" and it can balance advantages of higher and lower density living. Montreal, as an older city in North America with different architectural influences, is an excellent example of a city that retains this "missing middle" housing and in fact actively builds more of it. In this video we profile five different missing middle neighbourhoods in Montreal to see how to achieve density on a low-rise scale. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Urbanism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN3OhfIDlvuMjcg36sdLJuxaXi6OaOWFD Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬: Les escaliers de Montréal vs towers of Toronto (https://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/les-escaliers-de-montreal-vs-towers-of.html) A catalog of density, Québec/Canada version (http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2017/03/a-catalog-of-density-quebeccanada.html) Montreal: A Rich Tradition in Medium Density Housing (https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2011/schl-cmhc/nh18-1-2/NH18-1-2-37-2002-eng.pdf) 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚: The density values in this video come from the 2016 census. The neighbourhood values come from visually analyzing the density of dissemination blocks (DBs) using censusmapper.ca, while other analysis was done on dissemination areas (DAs) using census data accessed through the 'cancensus' package in R. #montreal #urbanism #missingmiddle

Varennes is about 30km from downtown Montreal by bike on comfortable routes, mostly separated from cars, making it an accessible day trip (or half-day trip) for Montreal cyclists looking to cover a reasonable but not exhausting distance. It also features interesting historic village-style neighbourhoods with interesting architecture. The route we took: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1BGeg_wDOCzsdfRF-PbX7aib255SLMusT 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Routes and trips in Quebec playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN3OhfIDlvuOSWunGeo2em93ip66XlDMS Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #varennes #quebec #cycling

It's the return of utility cycling! Come with us as we test out Montreal's cycling infrastructure with an actual destination that we need to get to. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #vaccination #montreal #coronavirus #cycling

North American suburbs are not just the result of people's preferences. To a large extent, they're mandated by government rules and regulations. Things like minimum parking requirements and single-family detached zoning have raised more attention and controversy recently—in this video we're going to look at Toronto's restrictions on the number of front doors a residence can have as another example of suburban-style housing regulation. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: https://spacing.ca/toronto/2019/04/02/lorinc-fiddling-while-toronto-burns/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-term-neighbourhood-character-is-a-euphemism-for-something-ugly/ http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/viewAgendaItemHistory.do?item=2019.PH3.1 https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2019/ph/bgrd/backgroundfile-130496.pdf https://www.toronto.ca/zoning/bylaw_amendments/ZBL_NewProvision_Chapter150_10.htm #urbanism #montreal #lifesizedcity #doors

When we ride our folding bikes around the neighbourhood, we get a lot of questions about them: how well do they ride? Are they easy to fold? How much do they cost? In this video we cover our experiences with folding bikes (specifically the Zizzo Forte and Via), after about 500 kilometres of use so far. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #foldingbikes #cycling #zizzo #urbancycling

Are you the tortoise or the hare? All options are open to you at the Gilles Villeneuve Racetrack, a fun day trip for cyclists in the Montreal region. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #montreal #CircuitGillesVilleneuve #cycling

Montreal is known for its cycling culture and its protest culture. What happens when you combine those things? 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Interview with Coderre (fr): https://www.985fm.ca/nouvelles/politique/382247/deux-visions-de-montreal-saffrontent-denis-coderre-est-pret-pour-un-nouveau-duel-avec-valerie-plante #rev #bikelanes #montreal

Montreal isn't the only city to implement a long and direct bike route over a major transit line recently. In this video we explore Toronto's Bloor–Danforth Bikeway, which actually has a special place in our heart because a pilot project of this corridor back in 2016 played a pretty big role in us becoming comfortable biking in cities. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Pilot project study (summary report): https://www.tcat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Bloor-Economic-Impact-Study-Summary-Report-10-11-2017-1-1.pdf Pilot project study (full report): https://www.tcat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Bloor-Economic-Impact-Study-Full-Report-2019-09-03.pdf Pandemic network study: https://findingspress.org/article/19069-the-impact-of-covid-19-cycling-infrastructure-on-low-stress-cycling-accessibility-a-case-study-in-the-city-of-toronto Cjhoyle's channel: https://youtube.com/c/cjhoyle *Filmed before the interprovincial travel restrictions were put into place. #bikecommuting #toronto #bikelanes

You'll find some weird bike infrastructure in Toronto on Roncesvalles Avenue, which has intermittent "bike lanes" that only show up near transit stops. Not only does this easily create conflicts between cyclists and transit users, after the bike lane ends you're thrown onto the street in a way that's hard to predict or see from the perspective of a driver. 2009 (when these were put in) was not a good year for bike lanes in Toronto. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/streetcar-tracks-cyclists-1.3696234 https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-016-3242-3

It's the first weekend of spring and winter is over—or is it? On this short bike trip we visit Longueuil, on Montreal's south shore, and do battle with the last remnants of winter. Longueuil is close to Montreal, just across the Jacques-Cartier Bridge, and it has an enjoyable older downtown to spend some time in before heading further up the Saint Lawrence. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #cycling #montreal #longueuil #cyclingincanada #biketrip

Montreal's Réseau Express Vélo (REV), or Express Bike Network, is an ambitious project underway to build or upgrade 184km of bike lanes to create a network of wide and direct bike routes. In this video we feature Axis 1 of the REV, on St-Denis / Berri / Lajeunesse, which goes from Ahuntsic to the Plateau (and then to Old Montreal). 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Montreal's main page on the REV: https://montreal.ca/articles/le-rev-un-reseau-express-velo Consultations: https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/ehq-production-canada/documents/attachments/8cd4511bcb7f44945b201aa2d6fa48a09f2475f3/000/012/165/original/Rapport_Synth%C3%A8se_Consultation_publique_VF.pdf?1539973915 Information session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2ER2q8V7aU #bikecommuting #montreal #bikelanes

Hearing a lot of European French accents on the street in Montreal? In this video we put some numbers to the "French invasion" of Montreal. Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Y'a trop de Français sur le Plateau: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0iAfgJesZU Foreign students in Canada: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1091569/etudiants-etrangers-international-canada-origine-universite-education

We've watched the snow plows in the bike lanes and run the statistics on winter cycling—now it's time to actually get out there on our bikes and see what winter cycling in Montreal is *really* like. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #wintercycling #montreal #bikelanes

Montreal bike counters recorded 12 million cyclists in 2020. Let's take a look at where in the city most of this bike traffic is happening! The top cycle counter recorded more than 1.1 million people, which is almost 10% of all cyclists recorded in the city (across 44 counters). 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Montreal bike counter data: https://donnees.montreal.ca/ville-de-montreal/velos-comptage #montreal #urbanism #bikes #data

City borders are weird and arbitrary. This makes it hard to understand cities on their own, but it also makes it difficult to compare cities with each other. In this video we discuss the problem of city comparison and cover some solutions in the Canadian context. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 Eugene, Oregon city boundary guide: https://www.eugene-or.gov/DocumentCenter/View/2080/A-Guide-to-Urban-Services-in-River-Road-and-Santa-Clara #montreal #ottawa #urbanism #cityborders #canadiancities

Mont-Tremblant is surprisingly accessible from Montreal by bike. After a commuter train ride to Saint-Jérôme, it's just 85km of very comfortable and scenic cycling on the P'tit Train du Nord (Little North Train) to the town of Mont-Tremblant, with the ski resort a little further. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 P'tit Train du Nord: https://ptittraindunord.com/en/ #cycling #monttremblant #littlenorthtrain #montreal #routeverte #greenroute

How does Montreal keep bike lanes clear of snow? In this video we take a look at some of the methods we've seen, as well as the results. Overall we're pretty satisfied that Montreal, or at least our borough, takes winter bike lane maintenance pretty seriously. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #wintercycling #snowremoval #montreal #bikelanes

Trois-Rivieres, the second oldest city in Quebec, was the longest bike trip we did from Montreal in the summer of 2020. It was a challenge, both the distance and the route, but the Saint Lawrence River provides some excellent scenery. Trois-Rivieres isn't a superstar tourism destination like Quebec City, but we absolutely enjoyed our time there. Route Verte Map: https://www.routeverte.com/en/discover/?carte=https://carte.routeverte.com/rv/?locale=en 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Support our videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #cycling #troisrivieres #montreal #greenroute #cyclingincanada #biketrip

Snow removal is one of the most interesting and impressive parts of winter in Montreal. This city gets 210 cm of snow each year on average, which is almost double Toronto and five times as much as Vancouver. This requires a massive, synchronized operation to not just clear snow from streets but actually remove snow from neighbourhoods. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Canadian climate normals: https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_normals/index_e.html Sidewalk clearing in Toronto: https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/988c-City-of-Toronto-Sidewalk-Plowing.pdf #montreal #snowremoval #winterincanada #snow

Montreal offers high quality intensive French courses to citizens and immigrants for nearly free, but the program isn't as well-known as it should be. In this video we cover our experiences with the "Francisation" program offered at Centre St-Louis in the Plateau. For a list of other language centres around the city that should work similarly, check out: https://cybersavoir.csdm.qc.ca/francais/ 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #montreal #frenchcourses #learningfrench #frenchincanada

Here in Canada, lots of people think bike infrastructure is a waste because it won't get used in the winter. We think this view is mistaken, and in this video we're going to explain why. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Seven Bad Arguments Against Bike Lanes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xXZaLMlXvs Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Bike counter data: https://donnees.montreal.ca/ville-de-montreal/velos-comptage U.S. Department of Transportation vehicle miles travelled: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/travel_monitoring/tvt.cfm #biking #montreal #bikelanes #winter #infrastructure

Cyclists ignoring bike lanes? We noticed this on a bike trip this summer and at first we were confused, but as we continued using the path ourselves the reason became clear. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #biking #montreal #bikelanes

There's so much more to Mount Royal than just the famous view of downtown from the chalet. Join us as we present a walking route covering four main lookout views from Mount Royal (Camillien-Houde, Kondiaronk, Westmount, and Outremont) plus lots of secondary views of the city and mountain. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Support our videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #montreal #hiking #naturewalks

Montreal is set to add an impressive amount of distance to its rapid transit network. In this video we look at how these developments (the REM, Blue Line extension, and Pie-IX BRT) meet critical needs in underserved neighbourhoods. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #montreal #urbanism #publictransit #REM

Have you ever wondered why Montreal has so many cats, and how it must be related to urban planning in some way? In this video we provide some informed speculation on the presence of these urban tigers in our midst. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #montreal #urbanism #cats

Bicycle commuting in Montreal has grown a lot in the past 20 years. From 1996 to 2016, the area of the city with a bike commuting rate above 5% grew by almost 400%. In this video we look at where in the city this growth occurred and also why it occurred there, from infrastructure to the distribution of jobs to geography. 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤/𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: Support our videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity Bike Bike Evolution, Toronto Edition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBXhyZzf8lI Subscribe for more videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬: Numbers on cycle commuting come from the Canadian census. Statistics on jobs by borough were calculated from data provided by Montréal en statistiques and reported in the Montreal Gazette (https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/maps-whos-putting-montrealers-to-work). #montreal #urbanism #bikecommuting #cycling

Vancouver is by far the most walkable city in Canada, if you look at WalkScore rankings. If you look closer, you'll see that this isn't exactly an apples-to-apples comparison. WalkScore is still a really useful resource but we wanted to cover its limitations for city comparisons. Support our videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity (we also really appreciate when viewers simply comment and share our videos/channel online or with others who might be interested). Subscribe for more videos 👉 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #density #walkability #montreal #vancouver #walkscore #urbanism

Montreal has some of North America's best cycling infrastructure, but it also has harsh winters. In this video we combine statistics on cycling volumes with historical weather data to better understand how cycling in Montreal changes over the course of the year (and based on the weather). Due to missing data (weather or cycling numbers), the analysis was able to look at 1,544 of the 1,826 total days in the five year period of 2015 to 2019. The cycling data is available at: https://donnees.montreal.ca/ville-de-montreal/velos-comptage The weather data is available from Environment Canada under Historical Data: https://climate.weather.gc.ca/historical_data/search_historic_data_e.html The weather station chosen was St-Hubert airport in Longueuil, just outside of Montreal. Support our videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity (we also really appreciate when viewers simply comment and share our videos/channel online or with others who might be interested). Subscribe for more videos 👉 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #cycling #biking #cyclinginwinter #montreal #wintercycling #urbanism

The title says it all—a unique, must-do bike trip for anyone exploring Montreal. Starting at a Formula 1 racetrack and ending at a beach, this path follows a narrow strip of land in the Saint Lawrence River and gives impressive views of the Montreal skyline. On the way back, you can follow the same path or follow Quebec's Route Verte (Green Route) series of separated bike paths through surrounding suburbs to return to Montreal over the Champlain bridge. Note: In the video we said you can continue on the Petite Voie du Fleuve past RécréoParc, but we've since learned that this part of the path is closed unless you have authorization. Support our videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity (we also really appreciate when viewers simply comment and share our videos/channel online or with others who might be interested). Subscribe for more videos 👉 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #Montreal #Cycling #Biketravel #Quebec #Bikeinfrastructure #BikinginCanada #Biking

Housing in Montreal is different from other parts of Canada. Specifically, the city of Montreal features plexes of various sizes that create dense and livable neigbourhoods and that make walking, biking and using public transit the easy choice. Apart from creating lively neighbourhoods, this style of housing also means renting an apartment is more affordable to the average person. Finally, Montreal housing is architecturally interesting and unique, offering features like spiral staircases and balconies. Support our videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity (we also really appreciate when viewers simply comment and share our videos/channel online or with others who might be interested). Subscribe for more videos → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #lifesizedcity #density #walkability #mixeduse #housing #apartments #housingincanada #montreal #urbanism

This series of videos highlights some places in the Montreal region that are accessible from the city by bike. Here’s our trip to Terrebonne, a small city in the Lanaudière region of Quebec. This trip includes time spent on Quebec's Route Verte (Green Route). Support our videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity (we also really appreciate when viewers simply comment and share our videos/channel online or with others who might be interested). Subscribe for more videos 👉 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #Montreal #Cycling #Biketravel #Cities #Quebec #Bikelanes #Bikeinfrastructure #BikinginCanada #Biking #LifeSizedCity #RouteVerte #Terrebonne

Let's travel Quebec by bike! This video covers our cycling trip from Montreal to Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu on Quebec's Route Verte (Green Route). The first leg of our trip was a 17km ride to Parc de la Cité in the suburb of Longueuil. Parc de la Cité has picnic tables, a water bottle filling station, and outhouses available to the public. The second leg of the trip followed the Route Verte for another 13km to Chambly, a city of about 30,000. Chambly is quite tourist-oriented with lots of shops, restaurants, and boat rentals and is home to the start of the Chambly Canal and Fort Chambly, both National Historic Sites of Canada. Chambly's waterfront also offers a nice view of Mont Saint-Hilaire. The third leg of the trip followed the Chambly Canal for another 18km to the final destination, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu is a less tourist-oriented city but still interesting to see, with a train running through the centre and an Oasis-themed public space set up downtown. Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu usually has a hot air balloon festival that takes place in August, but it was cancelled this year due to the pandemic. Support our videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity (we also really appreciate when viewers simply comment and share our videos/channel online or with others who might be interested). Subscribe for more videos 👉 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #Montreal #Cycling #Biketravel #Cities #Quebec #Bikelanes #Bikeinfrastructure #BikinginCanada #Biking #LifeSizedCity

Some parts of Montreal are less French than others. If you're going to Montreal to improve your French, you'll want to consider where exactly you live or stay to optimize the amount of exposure and practice that you get. This video covers the best neighbourhoods in Montreal for French, and where you should avoid to escape the dreaded "anglo bubble". Support our videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity (we also really appreciate when viewers simply comment and share our videos/channel online or with others who might be interested). Subscribe for more videos 👉 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #French #Montreal #Languages #Bilingualism #Canada The language map used in this video: https://censusmapper.ca/maps/2348 (based on the 2016 census, as presented by CensusMapper)

Montreal has implemented some welcome improvements to bike infrastructure because of the current pandemic. This short video highlights the addition of double-wide bike lanes and how they improve cycling in the city. Support our videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity (we also really appreciate when viewers simply comment and share our videos/channel online or with others who might be interested). Subscribe for more videos 👉 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #Montreal #Cycling #Biketravel #Cities #Quebec #Bikelanes #Bikeinfrastructure #BikinginCanada #Biking #LifeSizedCity #Urbanism

Montreal is Canada's largest French-speaking city, but is it a good place to learn French? This video discusses the pros and cons of choosing Montreal as a French-language learner. We'll get to the bottom of exactly how French the city is, and compare it to other places in Quebec on language, employment, and amenities. All of the figures presented come from the 2016 census. When cities are mentioned, the figures are for the census metropolitan area (CMA). Bilingualism rates for anglophones were calculated by comparing the number of people whose first official language is English to the number of people who currently only have knowledge of English. Support our videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ohtheurbanity (we also really appreciate when viewers simply comment and share our videos/channel online or with others who might be interested). Subscribe for more videos 👉 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5CBM1NkqDYAHgS-AbgGHA?sub_confirmation=1 #Montreal #French #FrenchinCanada #Languages #Cities #Bilingualism #LearningFrench #Quebec