Cities: Skylines | Power, Politics, & Planning: Episode 1: Parking

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CalRobert · 2020-01 · Strong recommendation

"everything is just closer together over here." It's not "just" close together like it happened. The US has made it illegal to build human-scale dense neighbourhoods for 50% years. Parking minimums, density restrictions, street width minimums, LOS (level of service) planning, etc. all combined to make the US an unwalkable, uncyclable, unenjoyable place to be a human. As a reward the US gets about 35,000 people a year killed by drivers, and many many more indirectly through lung disease, cancer, obesity, etc. as well as parents terrified to let their kids ride a bike. Lots of free parking though. This is a fantastic series illustrating the effect of urban design policy in the US [VIDEO]

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CalRobert · 2019-08 · Strong recommendation

Addendum - this video (shared recently in another HN discussion) is a _fantastic_ illustration of the problems of parking minimums, made with Cities: Skylines [VIDEO]

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q_andrew · 2021-06 · Recommendation

For those who are interested in similar discourse, I recommend these cities skylines videos from youtube user donoteat01: [VIDEO] They are sarcastic tutorials on how to worsen your Skylines cities enough to qualify as a realistic North American metro area. If the mic quality bothers you, skip to the newer videos.

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