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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.
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12 mo on HNHow Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)
Not Just Bikes
17 HN recommender · 2024–2026
11 mo on HNStroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere) [ST05]
Not Just Bikes
12 HN recommender · 2021–2025
10 mo on HNWhy This Channel Exists (and why I hate Houston)
Not Just Bikes
11 HN recommender · 2021–2025
10 mo on HNWhy American Cities Are Broke - The Growth Ponzi Scheme [ST03]
Not Just Bikes
14 HN recommender · 2021–2024
9 mo on HNThe Wrong Way to Set Speed Limits [ST06]
Not Just Bikes
9 HN recommender · 2021–2025
9 mo on HNCities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud
Not Just Bikes
10 HN recommender · 2021–2025
10 mo on HNWhy Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can)
Not Just Bikes
10 HN recommender · 2021–2026
9 mo on HNHow the Dutch got their cycle paths
BicycleDutch
9 HN recommender · 2013–2022
9 mo on HNWhy Japan Looks the Way it Does: Zoning
Life Where I'm From
8 HN recommender · 2021–2026
8 mo on HNThe Best Country in the World for Drivers
Not Just Bikes
9 HN recommender · 2021–2026
7 mo on HNWhy Grocery Shopping is Better in Amsterdam
Not Just Bikes
7 HN recommender · 2020–2025
7 mo on HNWhat can Seattle learn from Dutch street design?
UniversityGreenways
3 HN recommender · 2014–2021
7 mo on HNThe Truth about American Cities - Part 1 - Strong Towns [ST01]
Not Just Bikes
7 HN recommender · 2021–2026
6 mo on HNThe LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"
Technology Connections
7 HN recommender · 2019–2024
7 mo on HNWhat People Get Wrong About Dense Urban Living
Oh The Urbanity!
4 HN recommender · 2022–2024
6 mo on HNThe Hyperloop: BUSTED!
Thunderf00t
7 HN recommender · 2016–2023
7 mo on HNWhy We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia
Not Just Bikes
7 HN recommender · 2022–2026
5 mo on HNThese Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us
Not Just Bikes
11 HN recommender · 2023–2026
5 mo on HNHow Bankrupt American Cities Stay Alive - Debt [ST04]
Not Just Bikes
7 HN recommender · 2021–2024
6 mo on HNTraffic Has a Perfect Solution. Humans Are the Problem.
CGP Grey
6 HN recommender · 2016–2026
6 mo on HNWhy Trains Suck in America
Wendover Productions
6 HN recommender · 2017–2022
6 mo on HNWhy Electric Bikes are More Dangerous than Motorcycles
FortNine
5 HN recommender · 2021–2025
5 mo on HNParking Laws Are Strangling America | Climate Town
Climate Town
6 HN recommender · 2023–2025
5 mo on HNTraffic Waves
wbeaty
5 HN recommender · 2013–2022
4 mo on HNCities: Skylines | Power, Politics, & Planning: Episode 1: Parking
donoteat01
3 HN recommender · 2019–2021
5 mo on HNSuburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math [ST07]
Not Just Bikes
5 HN recommender · 2022–2026
4 mo on HNThe Insane Battle To Sabotage a New Apartment Building Explains San Francisco's Housing Crisis
ReasonTV
3 HN recommender · 2019–2025
5 mo on HNThe End of Suburbia - 52 minute documentary on peak oil
endofsuburbia
3 HN recommender · 2011–2021
5 mo on HNThe Grille Trend that Kills 509 People per Year
FortNine
5 HN recommender · 2024–2026
5 mo on HNThe Lively & Liveable Neighbourhoods that are Illegal in Most of North America
Not Just Bikes
5 HN recommender · 2021–2024
4 mo on HNWhat People Get Wrong About Induced Demand
Oh The Urbanity!
4 HN recommender · 2022–2024
4 mo on HNNeom - The Line - The Rise and Fall of Saudi Arabia's Linear City.
Patrick Boyle
2 HN recommender · 2024–2025
4 mo on HNThe Houses that Can't be Built in America - The Missing Middle
Not Just Bikes
4 HN recommender · 2021–2023
4 mo on HNHow to Make an Attractive City
The School of Life
4 HN recommender · 2015–2018
4 mo on HNThe Gym of Life
Not Just Bikes
4 HN recommender · 2022–2026
4 mo on HNDo Your Buses Get Stuck in Traffic? (The Downs-Thomson Paradox)
Not Just Bikes
4 HN recommender · 2021–2023