The Armchair Urbanist
64 videos • 214,336 views • by Alan Fisher
A series focused on Urban Planning, transportation and history (mainly in a North American Context).
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The Philadelphia Politicians that indirectly Killed a Doctor
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New York's Governor Just Stupidly Killed all Future Transit Expansion in NYC
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The Ben Franklin Parkway is Frustratingly Broken
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The American Government's Massive Plan to Build more Passenger Rail: Corridor ID
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America's Oldest Neighborhood is Problematic
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Cincinnati's Terrible Billion Dollar Sale of its Railroad
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High Speed Rail in Florida and the History of Brightline
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The Worst Type of Train Station
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The Philadelphia Project that's TOO Successful /// Hovcart Ebike
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Which Affordable American City is Better Planned?
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What Happened to Amtrak's New Acela Trains?
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i95 Collapsed, What do we do now?
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The You Don't need a Car for the American Lifestyle /// HovCart Ebike
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Economics Explained is Misled about Induced Demand
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Denver’s Transit System is Problematic
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The Worst Transit Project in the US is Cancelled
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A Train Derailed in East Palestine, Ohio; Why did that Happen?
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Why Rails to Trails are Problematic /// HovCity Ebike
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Philadelphia's Ghost Subway Line that's Rising from the Dead
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Why Amtrak isn't building High Speed Rail (And that's okay for now)
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Philadelphia's Painful Trolley Problem
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California High Speed Rail is Fine; And the Wild Scrutiny of Transit Projects in the US
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The 3 Amtrak Routes that can be Electrified Tomorrow
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How America's Largest Railroads are Ruining our Supply Chains
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25
The Weird City Planning of Maps in World of Tanks
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Why Burying your Highways Underground Doesn't Work
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PATCO: The First Modern Metro Line in North America
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28
Rural Towns don't have to Suck
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Grid Cities are Fine, and OBF is a Copycat
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30
The Worst Transit Project in America and the Flawed Agency that's Building it
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Are Monorails good? What Housing should we build? The 100k AMA Special; With a Guest...
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California High Speed Rail has not Failed and RealLifeLore is wrong
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Why Philadelphia's Streets are better than other North American Cities
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34
Real Solar Punk is Smart Land Use, Not Gimmick Skyscaper Farms
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Ranking the 12 Largest American Cities on Urban Planning
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36
Parking Garages Represent Lazy and Terrible Planning
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37
You Deserve Better Transit #shorts
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Parallel Systems Autonomous Pod Train is an Obvious Grift
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39
Your Two-Day Shipping Needs to Change
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40
The Real People behind the future for E-Mobility
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Metra Exemplifies Everything Wrong with American Passenger Rail
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Why the best place to live in the US will be the Rust Belt
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43
Electric Cars are Not Sustainable and they're Terrible
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Roasting Other Urban Planning and Transit Channels | The 20k sub special
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Suburbs that don't Suck - Colonial Suburbs (Bordentown, New Jersey)
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What the Appalachian Trail can teach us about Sustainable Infrastructure
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47
Americans don’t Understand Passenger Trains
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48
A Bike Ride Along the D&R Canal and through New Brunswick, NJ [No Commentary]
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Why Pete Buttigieg's Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax is Necessary
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The Shortest Rail line in the US is Fantastic
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Why Strip Malls are Trash for Walkability
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The Full Interview with Chuck Walsh about the Lackawanna Cutoff - The Armchair Urbanist
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The Abandoned Lackawanna Cutoff will be Brought back to Life
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How Different Road Surfaces affect Street Lighting
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55
US Railroads should be Nationalized
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Why US Railroads should Electrify their Mainlines
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A Car-Free Neighborhood in an Old New Jersey Town
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58
Above, Below, and At Grade Separation for Trains explained!
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59
Why TrolleyBuses are vastly Superior to Battery Electric Buses!
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60
Where did all of the American Canals go?
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Fixing Philadelphia's Regional Rail!
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The NYC Penn Station Rant
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Why are US Cities all Car Based?
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Why Light Rail is better than Bus Rapid Transit
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