Season 2025 Episodes
16 episodes1
Natural Handcrafted Artisanal ... Streets?!
Asphalt is a great material for building roads. But when it comes to streets, there's something better: klinkers!
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How is a Bike Tunnel this Freak'n Great!?
Bergen is a city on the West coast fjords of Norway, surrounded by mountains. And they just built the best bicycle tunnel in the world.
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These Ugly Big Box Stores are Literally Bankrupting Cities
North American suburbs are littered with these giant ugly "Big Box" stores. People like them because they're easy to drive to and they sell a lot of stuff at pretty cheap prices, but the way they operate is by literally bankrupting cities.
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The Absolute Best Transportation for Cities
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They Tore Down a Highway and Made it a River (and traffic got better)
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When Building a Brand-New City Doesn’t Go as Planned
There are a lot of problems with today's cities, so some people claim we should just build new cities instead. But South Korea has shown that building a brand-new city doesn't always go as planned.
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Samsung's Private City
In the city of Suwon, South Korea is the world headquarters of Samsung, called Samsung Digital City. A high-security campus built just for Samsung employees.
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The Best-Designed Town in the Netherlands (and therefore, the world)
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Trams are Great! So why are the Streetcars SO BAD!?
Trams are the absolute best transportation for cities, and yet the Toronto streetcars are borderline unusable. Why are they so bad, and will they ever get better?
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This Might Just Be the World's Best Metro System
In 1974, the first metro line was opened in Seoul, South Korea. Dozens of lines were built over the past few decades and today it's so advanced and comprehensive that it might just be the world's best metro system.
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This Train Just Keeps Getting Worse
I recently took a 24 hour ride on a sleeper train in Canada. The trip was pretty good, but this train used to be so much better. :(
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I Tried to Take the Bus to the Beach (and failed)
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The Laziest Excuse for Bad Cities
When it comes to great urbanism, there's no excuse lazier than "the weather" ????
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This is Why Cycling is Dangerous in America
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Keep These Stupid American Trucks Out of Europe
American SUVs and light trucks are dangerous. We cannot allow them to come to Europe.
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The Alpine Hotel You Can't Get to by Car
Gornergrat is has the highest hotel in Switzerland, and it's only accessible by train. This video is about our visit, and the trains we took to get there ... including a night train!