Hello Patreon supporters!
I just sent my latest video off to the editors. Normally it takes them a week or two to edit a video, but this will be my longest one ever (about SUVs and pickup trucks 😬), so it might be a bit longer. We shall see!
It will be interesting ...
2023-02-21 23:48:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone!
You may have heard about this already, because it was all over the urbanist interwebs over the past week: Amsterdam just opened an underwater parking garage for 7,000 bicycles at Amsterdam Centraal station.
Hello wonderful Patreon supporters, and happy New Year!
After a short vacation and some travel over the holidays to see family, my latest video is now available. It's something a bit different: a sort of 'reaction' video, to a 1954 film by General Motors entitled, "Give Yourself the Green ...
Hello Patreon supporters!
This is a video I wanted to make for a while, as we were blown away that "remove 10,000 parking spaces" was an election promise of one of the political parties ... and they actually won the election!
This is the story of why and how Amsterdam is removing 10,0...
2022-12-09 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! My latest video is now ready, and it's about the concept of the "Third Place". This is a place that isn't home (the "First Place"), and it isn't work (the "Second Place") but another place nearby. Think the French café, British pub, or Japanese bathhouse.
YouTube: 2022-11-19 17:03:34 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello everyone! My latest video is finally complete, and it's about those new delivery services that promise (or used to promise) to deliver groceries in 10 minutes.
These are really interesting for so many reasons: they're only possible because of mixed-use zoning and delivery by bicycle o...
2022-10-29 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
I've wanted to make this video for a while: the sad story of how Toronto became such a car-friendly city.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/KkO-DttA9ew
Nebula (sponsor-free): 2022-10-02 10:00:06 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello Patreon supporters!
My latest video is finally completed! It's all about crossing the street, and includes footage from multiple videographers across multiple cities to show the realities of being a pedestrian in the US and Canada.
When we were moving back to Canada, we knew we'd need a car, but we couldn't afford one after the move. Thankfully, we found an electric bakfiets, and not only did it take the place of a car, it also saved us thousands of dollars in the process.
I wanted to make this video for a long time, ...
2022-08-07 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patreon supporters!
My latest video is now ready, about the train system in Switzerland. I spent a week there back in May, and I rode a LOT of trains in order to get a really good understanding of why these trains are the best.
Direct link: 2022-07-16 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Does anybody actually cycle in Switzerland? Well, yes! I went to Switzerland a few weeks ago (mostly to ride trains) but I took lots of footage of cycling, too.
Here is the first video from that trip, looking at cycling Basel, Bern, Zürich, and one other city.
Direct link: 2022-07-01 14:00:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patreon supporters! My latest video is now up on the YouTubes:
https://youtu.be/MnyeRlMsTgI
I was talking to Dave from City Beautiful the other week and we were both working on videos on the same topic: transi...
2022-06-17 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patreons!
Of all the reasons why we moved to the Netherlands, the independence of children is probably the most important one.
You've probably seen this video before. Or think that you have! ;)
I originally made this video in the early days of my channel, back in 202...
2022-06-02 20:42:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of my fans online have talked about getting "orange pilled" - where they learn about the stuff I talk about in my videos, and they can't unlearn it: they never see their city the same way again.
So I gave my old editor a budget and a voiceover file, and this is what he created.
H...
2022-06-01 22:33:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patreon supporters! My latest video is now up, about how walkable and bikeable cities are healthier, by providing cheap and easy exercise opportunities to everyone.
Direct link: https://youtu.be/KPUlgSRn6e0
I w...
2022-05-10 20:56:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! My newest video is releasing on Monday, but I have it ready early for Patreon supporters.
This video came from an appointment I had in a business park by the airport in the Netherlands. I have a lot of experience going to business parks, and I've worked in many of them, so I...
2022-04-16 13:42:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone! My latest video is now up on YouTube, and it's about the only* car-free neighbourhood in Canada: the Toronto Islands.
The Toronto Islands community is really bizarre, and it has an interesting history, so I wanted to make a video about it for a while. It's crazy that there'...
Hello Patreon supporters! I hope you're having a good day.
I wanted to let you know that I'll be making some changes to the Patreon, and you may want to remove or change your pledge as a result.
First, bonus videos. I've been making a new bonus video almost every month for over a year...
2022-03-31 20:25:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Everyone!
My latest video is ready, and it's the 7th episode in my "Strong Towns" series.
I wanted to make this video for a while: it's based off of the excellent analysis by the consulting company Urban3. They work with municipalities in the US to discover which developments are ...
2022-03-05 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patreon supporters!
I'm back from holiday and my first full-length public video is now ready: a collab with the exceptionally great climate change channel, Climate Town!
In this video we talk about how my family moved to the Netherlands and our quality of life went UP while our ...
2022-02-03 23:09:39 +0000 UTC View Post
When I was visiting family in Fake London over the holidays, I decided to walk to buy a bag of milk.
I had this idea for a while to make a YouTube Shorts/TikTok video of walking to buy a bag of milk (instead of driving, like everybody else does). So a few weeks ago I filmed it and posted th...
2022-01-22 21:18:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
As you know, I went to Paris recently, and while I was there I filmed a lot with the GoPro as we were cycling.
I didn't use too much of this in the public video (I mostly used the better quality shots from my DSLR camera) but I thought you might be interested to se...
2021-12-17 23:17:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patreon supporters!
If you follow urban planning, you may have heard about all of the changes happening in Paris. There is a huge push to reduce car use and provide more space for walking, cycling, and public transit. But especially cycling.
I had heard a lot of great things, ...
Hello everyone!
I have recently joined Standard, the company behind the streaming service Nebula, which means that my content is now available there.
Nebula is not a normal streaming service, and I was not really aware of them until fairly recently. Instead of being owned by a company...
2021-12-11 23:10:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
This video is about high-speed rail in Italy. I had heard a lot about how great the trains were in Italy. And after hearing about Alitalia (the Italian national airline) going bankrupt in part to due to competition from high-speed rail, I wanted to see it for myself.
Thi...
2021-12-01 22:14:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons!
I've had some people ask about merch, so I've decided to do a trial run of a merch shop!
The products in the shop are all printed when you order them, and shipped as locally as possible, to cut down on wait times and shipping costs. Hopefully this will allow me to offer p...
2021-11-24 22:29:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a video you weren't expecting: how much I love driving in the Netherlands! :)
Despite the Netherlands doing so much for walking, cycling, and public transit, it's actually the best places that I've ever driven. And that's *because* they do so much to create viable alternatives to dr...
Since I have about 10x the number of Patreon supporters I had this time last year, I figured that most of you have not seen my Halloween bonus video from last year, so I'm linking to it here again.
Direct link: 2021-10-31 18:36:54 +0000 UTC
View Post
Hello Patrons!
My home town of Fake London was about to begin their largest infrastructure project in history! Turning 8 km of a 5 lane stroad into a 7 lane stroad! However last month, they decided to cancel it due to "climate change". Could this be a turning point for Fake London?
Di...
2021-10-22 18:26:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patreon supporters!
When I was making my Houston video, I briefly talked about the business travel I did, but one of the things that was cut from that script was my discussion about visiting Samsung Digital City. So I decided to expand on that a bit, and provide a small peek int...
2021-10-13 23:58:18 +0000 UTC View Post