The Urbanist Agenda
The Urbanist Agenda
Not Just Bikes
A podcast by the creator of the popular YouTube channel Not Just Bikes, The Urbanist Agenda is an exploration of the latest topics in urban planning and urban mobility from your favourite urbanist YouTubers.Each month we'll put another important topic on the agenda and pull back the curtain to discover how online urbanists plot and scheme to make cities work better for everyone.
Why I'm Ebike-pilled (with American Fietser)
"If it weren't for ebikes, I'd be driving a car" says American Fietser.
Jul 4
1 hr 16 min
Why I Quit YouTube (with RMTransit)
RMTransit has been making YouTube videos about cities and public transit for over 5 years. Now with over 750 videos on his YouTube channel, it's time to call it quits.
Jun 6
1 hr 18 min
Let's Send our Pickup Trucks to Ukraine (with Build the Lanes)
Pickup trucks don't belong in European cities, so let's send them to help out in Ukraine! Stef from Build the Lanes tells us about why he's driving pickup trucks from the EU to Ukraine. Berr Battalion - https://www.help99.co/patches/nafo-berr-battalion Berr Battalion Announcement Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7tZdrGU_2c Help99 - https://www.help99.co/ 69th Sniffing Brigade (YouTube) - https://www.youtube.com/@69thSniffingBrigade 69th Sniffing Brigade (Instagram) - https://www.instagram.com/69thsniffingbrigade/ The 30th convoy (Stef's second time) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQIaSHKRAtI& Stef's Instagram - ttps://www.instagram.com/the_modern_engineer/ NAFO 2.0 Truck - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nso3YKbdp4M NAFO Casevac - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJXHov1cXDQ NAFO Drone Bus Example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLUFbtut6Z4 Want to support this podcast? Sign up to Nebula and get every episode early (with an RSS feed, too!) - https://nebula.tv/agenda Not Just Bikes: https://nebula.tv/notjustbikes Build the Lanes: https://youtube.com/@buildthelanes See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Apr 11
38 min
The Sociology of Car-Brained Planning (with We're in Hell)
Sam from the YouTube channel "We're in Hell" normally makes video essays about sociology, but he recently went down the urban planning rabbit hole after Doug Ford threatened to take away his bike lanes.
Mar 14
56 min
When Transit isn't Built to be Transit (with RMTransit)
In an attempt to copy of the success of Portland, several US cities kicked off streetcar projects. But are they actually good transit?
Jan 24
47 min
Los Angeles Deserves Better (with Ellory Smith)
Los Angeles is (in)famous for its car-dependent sprawl, but there are pockets of good urbanism, and there are people working hard to build more of them.
Dec 27, 2024
39 min
The Insanity of Canadian Housing Prices (with Mike Moffatt)
Canada's housing crisis is one of the worst in the world. But why? In this episode I talk to Mike Moffatt, Canadian economist and housing expert.
Oct 11, 2024
52 min
Trams are Great so why are Toronto Streetcars so Terrible!? (with RM Transit)
Trams are great. They create and enable some of the best urbanism around. And yet the streetcars in Toronto are slow and unreliable and painful to take. What is Toronto doing wrong, and what could other "streetcar" cities learn from their mistakes?
Sep 20, 2024
1 hr 7 min
What to do When Your City Won't Fix Things (with Bike Curious)
What should you do when your city won't fix things, even after years of advocacy? The answer might be guerrilla urbanism, aka tactical urbanism.
Aug 9, 2024
47 min
NYC REALLY Screwed Up Congestion Pricing (with Doug Gordon)
New York City was about to roll out congestion charging. The cameras were up, the staff were hired, the metro projects were financed, and thousands of people were lined up to make public transit better ... and then the governor cancelled it on vibes.
Jul 12, 2024
50 min
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