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Engineering, Transport & Making

Transit, cities & urban planning

Transit, cities & urban planning sits within Engineering, Transport & Making. Look at how a practical problem becomes a design, a process, or a working physical object. This selection contains 174 catalog videos from 89 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include urban planning, netherlands, urbanism, cycling, road safety and zoning. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include comedy, commentary, demo, documentary, explainer, lecture, news, other, podcast, talk and tutorial. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can)”, listed under Not Just Bikes, is cataloged as explainer. Not Just Bikes argues that winter is not what stops Canadians cycling, using Oulu, Finland as proof that safe, well-maintained cycling infrastructure enables year-round biking despite harsh weather.

“What People Get Wrong About Dense Urban Living”, listed under Oh The Urbanity!, is cataloged as explainer. Oh The Urbanity! argues that most city dwellers live in dense residential neighbourhoods outside downtown, which can be calm and peaceful. It draws on older, denser parts of Toronto and Montreal.

174 videos