Former Chief Urban Designer of The City of New York Alexandros Washburn joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about city planning. How does the New York City Subway compare to others worldwide? What are the pros and cons of rent control initiatives? Which city can lay claim to being “smartest” in the world? Or has the best airport? What challenges will the urban designers of tomorrow need to meet? Alexandros Washburn answers these questions and many more on City Planning Support.
0:00 Urban Planning Support
0:15 Safer bike lanes
0:37 How does the NYC Subway compare to others worldwide?
1:26 The pros and cons of rent control policy
2:33 Sorry, Boston drivers
2:56 Green Singapore
3:43 …featuring the best airport in the world
4:29 P A R I S
5:09 Smart cities
5:39 Car go vroom
6:24 Converting empty offices into housing
7:30 The challenges facing urban planners of tomorrow
8:17 Library Late Nites
8:50 Why pay tolls?
9:49 How to survive summer Dubai heat
10:49 “Fixing” Los Angeles traffic?
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Do you play sim city?
Homogeneity has very little to do with effectiveness of rent controlled policy
On maintaining subway systems: The solution is, and I say this by the experience as passengers: have compensation ready. The U4 metro line of Vienna is being overhauled and repared for years now, but fortunately, there is an extensive tramway system here in the city that can stand in (or better run in 🙂 for the sections that are bwing worked on. So I would recommend to the responsible innsitution to set up a tramways system that can compensate for repaired sections. And when the section is repaired, keep the tramway. It can take care of short distances while th subway takes care of the longer. It’s convenientz for the passenger. And it’s good for small business as tramway passengers actually can see the streets and the shops there.
Idea?
Yes, public libraries at night with a coffee bar, entertainmen space for local musicians, writers, dramatists.
When talking about Singapore incorporating vegetation into their designs, which in turn cools down cities, that got me thinking about cities with little greenery. The urban heat island effect could be greatly mitigated if more vegetation was directly grown on buildings rather than just being on the outskirts.
6:20 That’s an Irish name, pronounced Seer-sheh, most often.
Hoping to see a question about how often are bribes included in proposals.
“Every street should be a place where you can respectfully interact with your fellow citizens.”
Unless your country tolerates criminal and anti-social behavior, like much of the US. We are an open prison, where the law abiding get to experience the depredatation of criminals.
When he stated the pros of rent control he gave Germany as an example, when he describes its cons huge is general and really he is speaking of the politics of the US
awesome guy, solid knowledge
I didn’t realize he was based
You found that out in NY only now? We did this in Antwerp in the 90ies….😂
My jaw dropped at how well you explained this!
disrespect for mentioning russia as a good example
I didn’t just learn—I upgraded my operating system.
I don’t mind tolls. Why should taxpayers subsidize private vehicles that pollute and endanger public spaces?
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It does warm my heart that so many American city planners, especially in big progressive cities seem to hate the modern state of American cities and infrastructure just as much as I do, and are looking to places like Europe, Japan, Singapore, etc who do so many things right.
NYC and other cities like Mumbai do not build redundancy in their systems for maintenance and if they do, their leaders allow those redundant resources to be redistributed for budget savings and tada, no maintenance, no timely emergency recovery. We should be doing better for ourselves but we let money decide our next steps and not need. 😢
Wired sure knows how to reel me in with those thumbnail questions. Can’t complain, though; I feel like I always learn something.