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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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1 mo on HNGuerrilla Public Service 2011
Richard Ankrom
1 HN recommend · 2018–2025
1 mo on HNThrowing Good Money After Bad Car Infrastructure - Wonderland Road
Not Just Bikes
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HNIntersection design, the Dutch - cycle friendly - way
BicycleDutch
1 HN recommend · 2012–2022
1 mo on HNBBC How They Dug the Victoria Line
Graham W
1 HN recommend · 2017–2024
1 mo on HNIdaho Stop for Cyclists? Drivers Already Do It!
Oh The Urbanity!
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HNShockwave traffic jams recreated for first time
New Scientist
1 HN recommend · 2009–2026
1 mo on HNHow does Houston plan without zoning?
City Beautiful
2 HN recommender · 2021–2026
1 mo on HNWhat keeps a train on the track?
BoreMeScience
1 HN recommend · 2019–2022
1 mo on HNJunction design in the Netherlands
BicycleDutch
1 HN recommend · 2015–2020
1 mo on HNCrossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (but it is)
Not Just Bikes
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
1 mo on HNDutch Cities are Better for the Environment (and my sanity)
Not Just Bikes
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HNInside Hong Kong’s cage homes
Vox
1 HN recommend · 2019–2022
1 mo on HNLiberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion
New York Times Opinion
2 HN recommender · 2021–2024
1 mo on HNNew York Subway Signs
Yosef Lerner
1 HN recommend · 2017–2020
1 mo on HNThis Tiny Island has Insane Traffic
Not Just Bikes
1 HN recommend · 2023–2025
1 mo on HNBicycle Rush Hour Utrecht (Netherlands)
BicycleDutch
1 HN recommend · 2010–2017
1 mo on HNThis LA Musician Built $1,200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then the City Seized Them.
ReasonTV
1 HN recommend · 2019–2021
1 mo on HNAll Tube Stations Have Fifteen Floors
Geoff Marshall
1 HN recommend · 2018–2023
1 mo on HNThe city of golf carts
Tom Scott
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNThe Best-Designed Town in the Netherlands (and therefore, the world)
Not Just Bikes
1 HN recommend · 2025–2025
1 mo on HNHow to (Quickly) Build a Cycling City - Paris
Not Just Bikes
1 HN recommend · 2022–2022
1 mo on HNWalt Disney's E.P.C.O.T film (1966)
The Original EPCOT
1 HN recommend · 2014–2019
1 mo on HNWhy is India so filthy? | The Ugly Indian | TEDxBangalore
TEDx Talks
1 HN recommend · 2014–2025
1 mo on HNThe Trains that Subsidize Suburbia - GO Transit Commuter Rail
Not Just Bikes
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HNFeynman: How the train stays on the track FUN TO IMAGINE 7
Christopher Sykes
1 HN recommend · 2013–2022
1 mo on HNWhy Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints
Practical Engineering
1 HN recommend · 2024–2026
1 mo on HNEven Small Towns are Great Here (5 Years in the Netherlands)
Not Just Bikes
1 HN recommend · 2023–2026
0 mo on HNElon Musk's "Loop" - It's bad, folks
donoteat01
0 HN recommender · 2019–2023
0 mo on HNAutonomous Intersection Management: Traffic Control for the Future
csatc2002
0 HN recommender · 2015–2023
0 mo on HNDutch junction design - safer for cyclists
BicycleDutch
0 HN recommender · 2016–2022
0 mo on HNRailroad thermite welding
Wolfgang Lendner
0 HN recommender · 2017–2024
0 mo on HNBlasting down bad track Doubleheader on the ND&W Railway (Maumee and Western)
Scott Taipale
0 HN recommender · 2023–2026
0 mo on HNThe high cost of free parking
Vox
0 HN recommender · 2017–2018
0 mo on HNWhat Happened When This City Banned Housing Investors
Oh The Urbanity!
0 HN recommender · 2023–2024
0 mo on HNThe HYPERLOOP Will Never Work, Here's Why
Adam Something
0 HN recommender · 2021–2022
0 mo on HNPeople stuffed onto a train in Tokyo, Japan (train stuffing Tokyo)
train stuffing tokyo
0 HN recommender · 2017–2021