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Transit, cities & urban planning Videos Recommended on Hacker News (174)

Transit, cities & urban planning is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 174 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 450 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Urbanism: public transit, trains, subways, high-speed rail, cycling infrastructure, Dutch road design, city planning, zoning, housing, road safety, hyperloop critiques, walkable cities.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it): “It's long, but well worth an hour of your time.” — an HN commenter, 2024.

12 mo on HN

How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)

Not Just Bikes
17 HN recommender · 2024–2026
11 mo on HN

Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere) [ST05]

Not Just Bikes
12 HN recommender · 2021–2025
10 mo on HN

Why This Channel Exists (and why I hate Houston)

Not Just Bikes
11 HN recommender · 2021–2025
10 mo on HN

Why American Cities Are Broke - The Growth Ponzi Scheme [ST03]

Not Just Bikes
14 HN recommender · 2021–2024
9 mo on HN

The Wrong Way to Set Speed Limits [ST06]

Not Just Bikes
9 HN recommender · 2021–2025
9 mo on HN

Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud

Not Just Bikes
10 HN recommender · 2021–2025
10 mo on HN

Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can)

Not Just Bikes
10 HN recommender · 2021–2026
9 mo on HN

How the Dutch got their cycle paths

BicycleDutch
9 HN recommender · 2013–2022
9 mo on HN

Why Japan Looks the Way it Does: Zoning

Life Where I'm From
8 HN recommender · 2021–2026
8 mo on HN

The Best Country in the World for Drivers

Not Just Bikes
9 HN recommender · 2021–2026
7 mo on HN

Why Grocery Shopping is Better in Amsterdam

Not Just Bikes
7 HN recommender · 2020–2025
7 mo on HN

What can Seattle learn from Dutch street design?

UniversityGreenways
3 HN recommender · 2014–2021
7 mo on HN

The Truth about American Cities - Part 1 - Strong Towns [ST01]

Not Just Bikes
7 HN recommender · 2021–2026
6 mo on HN

The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"

Technology Connections
7 HN recommender · 2019–2024
7 mo on HN

What People Get Wrong About Dense Urban Living

Oh The Urbanity!
4 HN recommender · 2022–2024
6 mo on HN

The Hyperloop: BUSTED!

Thunderf00t
7 HN recommender · 2016–2023
7 mo on HN

Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia

Not Just Bikes
7 HN recommender · 2022–2026
5 mo on HN

These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us

Not Just Bikes
11 HN recommender · 2023–2026
5 mo on HN

How Bankrupt American Cities Stay Alive - Debt [ST04]

Not Just Bikes
7 HN recommender · 2021–2024
6 mo on HN

Traffic Has a Perfect Solution. Humans Are the Problem.

CGP Grey
6 HN recommender · 2016–2026
6 mo on HN

Why Trains Suck in America

Wendover Productions
6 HN recommender · 2017–2022
6 mo on HN

Why Electric Bikes are More Dangerous than Motorcycles

FortNine
5 HN recommender · 2021–2025
5 mo on HN

Parking Laws Are Strangling America | Climate Town

Climate Town
6 HN recommender · 2023–2025
5 mo on HN

Traffic Waves

wbeaty
5 HN recommender · 2013–2022
4 mo on HN

Cities: Skylines | Power, Politics, & Planning: Episode 1: Parking

donoteat01
3 HN recommender · 2019–2021
5 mo on HN

Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07]

Not Just Bikes
5 HN recommender · 2022–2026
4 mo on HN

The Insane Battle To Sabotage a New Apartment Building Explains San Francisco's Housing Crisis

ReasonTV
3 HN recommender · 2019–2025
5 mo on HN

The End of Suburbia - 52 minute documentary on peak oil

endofsuburbia
3 HN recommender · 2011–2021
5 mo on HN

The Grille Trend that Kills 509 People per Year

FortNine
5 HN recommender · 2024–2026
5 mo on HN

The Lively & Liveable Neighbourhoods that are Illegal in Most of North America

Not Just Bikes
5 HN recommender · 2021–2024
4 mo on HN

What People Get Wrong About Induced Demand

Oh The Urbanity!
4 HN recommender · 2022–2024
4 mo on HN

Neom - The Line - The Rise and Fall of Saudi Arabia's Linear City.

Patrick Boyle
2 HN recommender · 2024–2025
4 mo on HN

The Houses that Can't be Built in America - The Missing Middle

Not Just Bikes
4 HN recommender · 2021–2023
4 mo on HN

How to Make an Attractive City

The School of Life
4 HN recommender · 2015–2018
4 mo on HN

The Gym of Life

Not Just Bikes
4 HN recommender · 2022–2026
4 mo on HN

Do Your Buses Get Stuck in Traffic? (The Downs-Thomson Paradox)

Not Just Bikes
4 HN recommender · 2021–2023