Video

Midweek Video: How Eminent Domain Destroys Neighborhoods

https://youtu.be/w0cCF2pG13U From time to time, eminent domain in American has been used in unwise and unjust ways to demolish and remake neighborhoods. In this video,...

Sunday Video: The Buildings “Model Cities” Built

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twnBo5nqUzI&t=1166s Model Cities is a little known chapter in our urban history. It was part of LBJ's War on Poverty, and was the last gasp...

Midweek Video: Rail Plus

https://youtu.be/bVQAfT89hCQ Have you heard of Sound Transit’s Rail Plus program? If not, this video explains how ORCA passholders can use their cards on certain Amtrak...

Sunday Video: Why Your Public Transportation Sucks

https://youtu.be/1Z1KLpf_7tU Hasan Minhaj explains why the state of American public transportation is threatened and leaves a lot to desire.

Midweek Video: An Intro to Urban Wastewater Systems

https://youtu.be/-HkRkCXPjzw Have you ever wondered how urban stormwater and sewer systems in cities work? Dave Amos walks through the history of these systems and the...

Sunday Video: How Norway Designed a More Humane Prison

https://youtu.be/5v13wrVEQ2M Prisons in America are usually designed for efficiency and to reinforce punishment by design, but their outcomes are often very poor for inmates and...

Sunday Video: The Reason Our Streets Switched To Cul-De-Sacs

https://youtu.be/d9vDcfH03gs Dave Amos charts the American change from connected grids to the rise of cul-de-sacs, and what’s now being done to counteract their pitfalls.

Sunday Video: Why So Many Suburbs Look The Same

https://youtu.be/vWhYlu7ZfYM In this Vox episode of Almanac, Phil Edwards explains why so many suburbs look the same. Principally, the advent of federal financing, the cul-de-sac,...