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I come from Romania and i was absolutely mindblown when i saw Poland. I often hear people saying that Poland and Romania become Europe's next big powers which i totally believe when it comes to Poland. But Poland seems far more advanced than Romania. Sadly Romania barely even has a central square where people hang out in. Bucharest is just made out of big communist towers surrounding the Palace of the Parliament. We Romanians need to be more open minded and look at what Polands doing.

4:19 trees growing out of concrete look strange, they should introduce some grass instead

I love how diverse the architecture of Warsaw's center has developed. You have traditional low-mid rise buildings, modern high rise buildings, and the hulking palace of culture acting as a focal point. Because the tall buildings are spaced out throughout an existing dense urban fabric, the street level pedestrian experience is bright, vibrant, and diverse. The urban fabric feels like a midpoint between Paris and Frankfurt in this way. I honestly have no issue with high rise buildings as long as they're spaced out between dense areas of 4-12 story mixed use buildings with vibrant, walkable streets.

Warsaw is becoming more beautiful and people-friendly... only a loud group of car enthusiasts are dissatisfied 😅

Getting rid of parkings lots hmm... I don't think people who drive cars like it.. We have so little parking lots already....

8:11 I was going to say before the narrator said it. This building sucks and doesn't belong in the city. Absolutely obnoxious.

Akruas takes notes for Altengrad

The museum of modern fart should be torn down. Ugly boring building and modern "art" is scam any way.

Perfect pronunciation. A rare thing to hear from a non-native speaker 👌 That pedestrian-bike bridge is rather controversial. Bike lanes were not marked so bikes run into pedestrians and there's also no crossing over the busy street on the left bank

Just one comment: the museum next to the Palace of Culture and Science is not "of Contemporary Art", but "of Modern Art". Contemporary and modern art are two different movements. There is another museum in Warsaw that is dedicated to contemporary art: The Centre of Contemporary Art at the Ujazdowski Castle.

Lets say its look good for: 1) Tourist 2) Leftist activst who either ride a bike only or have wealthy parents who bought them a flat directly in city center. Baiscly it looks nice that its walkable but combined with degradation of city public transport network and hevy redevelopment with incresing density you cant get there to work. And 90% of well paying jobs demands form you to travel to Mordor (Domaniwska Street area) or New Mordor (over Rondo ONZ and Rondo Daszyńskisgo Metro stations). Getting there in rush hours is nearly imposible if you don't bike like 99,8% of people. Funniest thing was adding a buspas on Pułaska street. Buses were already overcrowded before, now they romove a line of trafic without adding aditional buses so now from southern part of aglomeratio your ride work ekstended by 1/3 or 1/2. Oh and if you still like Warsaws style of Urbanism i would highly advice you to read about Warsaw's HongKong (new development by J.W. Construction near Katsprzaka. Prisons have more greean and sunlight in Poland 😉

It's great to see Eastern European countries finally getting on board with good urbanism. They have a long way to go, but this is a very promising start.

This is a great video! I'm a student in Warsaw University just next to the city center and as someone who lives outside of Warsaw and has long daily commute of over the hour. Pedestrian city center and Vistula bank projects are the greatest fun to me. The only ability to walk outside in my village are forests walks which are fine, but a fully pine forest gets really dull after few years of exploring it all your life, the city center which I can visit after my studies is much more of an attraction. I used to walk all over Chmielna for years when I was in high school. It it also in the city center so my commute has been 1h 30 min since like 5 years, some Amercians may think it's nothing but for European standards it's a really long one. Currently, Chmielna is being redeveloped under the project for new city center and I am so hyped about it. Chmielna is a street next to Złota mentioned in the video. And a capital of bubble tea stores in Warsaw! You gotta give Plac Trzech Krzyży more love tho, It became my favorite change for now. The cars lost lanes and the whole elipse shape gained like 20 more traffic lights slowing downs the deadly machines. There's a memorial for a pre WW2 tramtracks, a lot of greenery with fully developed trees providing great shade, the bike lanes are marvelous I showed it to my friend from Portland US and they couldn't believe it. I am really fond of it since I include this intersection in my daily commute and the rework made it became safe, less noisy, and fun to stroll. The church isn't a point of interest for me, but from what I heard it didn't get reworked due to church owning the land and not wanting to participate in the rework. If I remember correctly during the whole construction process there was always access to it, thanks to hard work of construction crew and city council (who probably did it so they wouldn't get sued by the church.) While Plac Pięciu Rogów is a greater pedestrain redevelopment, the full stone plates have a tendency to make place pretty steamy in hot summer and wet if it's raining. The trees are still in early stages of growing when in 10 years they will get bigger and provide shade over the benches installed during the project. It will surely gain in my personal tierlist. I understand that the city had no choice they couldn't install grass patches because of amount of foot traffic there. :C

Największą głupotą władz Warszawy jest wydawanie miliardów rocznie na drążenie tuneli metra, które jest w dodatku bardzo słabo zintegrowane z innymi środkami transportu publicznego. Po co to Bizancjum i drążenie tuneli na blokowiskach, pod szerokimi na kilka pasów arteriami? To bogaty Rotterdam schował metro jedynie w Centrum, ale warszawka idzie na zastaw się, a postaw się, podatnik zapłaci. Gdyby to zostało rozsądnie przemyślane, to po I już dawno byłoby 5 ;linii metra i kilkukrotnie więcej sieci, a po II Centralny byłby połączony z metrem. To wszystko powinno iść po estakadach na takim Bemowie czy Ursynowie, a linie powinny się kończyć na przedmieściach/ miasteczkach satelickich.

As a Pole i would like to point out that this new pedestrian bridge has become a meme. Because it was presented as a great national success in the time when the same political party is stopping the construction of plane - rail hub Central Communication Hub

Wow! You pronounced Rondo Czterdziestolatka just like a Pole! Awesome video about my city. Keep up the good work!

Good to have you back! So nice from the city official to take this time to explain, and in English. He doesn't ignore that not everyone in on board but he's super optimistic. Good to see. @02:37 Some of the completed projects are veeeery shy. From 3 to 4 lanes and a few benches? Do pedestrians want to hang out there? @03:50 YES, that's bold! @09:45 Wow is Warsaw always so foggy? It looked like a North American skyline for a second! OFF TOPIC: Also as a French speaker, it's funny to read people congratulating you on your pronunciation of Polish words as a Czech. How mutually intelligible are Polish and Czech, and how hard is it to pronounce? Sorry I love linguistics and all the similarities between neighbours but also what makes them unique.

I'm not going to visit Warsaw when I go to Poland this year (sticking to Southern Poland), but I'd like to visit it eventually.

They want to do something, but they are afraid of drivers. Recently, when drivers heard that the city wanted to make 2 lanes from the current 3 lanes (i.e. 6 in both directions), there was great outrage. Fighting with drivers is not easy, they are aggressive creatures. Those American cities that are now full of cars and want to transform into more bike-friendly cities should look to Warsaw and see how it handles them. There are 2 million registered cars in Warsaw for 1,800,000 people.

5:54 proper allocation of public space: Public transportation = 13.5 meters Pedestrians = 12.1 m Cars (including parking) = 11 m Greenery/trees = 6.4 m Cyclists = 6 m Hopefully eventually they will remove the parking for wider cycling lanes/sidewalks/more greenery.

Always great to see videos about urban planning in Central/Eastern European cities, as they often don't get as much coverage.

i love poland 🇵🇱

Thank you for this video! I love hearing urbanist news from less talked about cities, and especially for ones I have visited :) I want to visit Warsaw again soon and I'll make sure to visit some of the places talked about here

Interesting overview. I see a lot of great improvements. But how on earth did they approve the new Museum of Modern Art? It's one of the worst designs I've ever seen, especially considering it's prominent location next to one of the old icons of the city. It feels out of place.

Great video as usual, keep up the good work!

Interveiwing Paris' mayor Anne Hidalgo would be very interesting!

These videos from local authorities are awesome! Also, the pronunciation of Polish words was amazing.

Damn you're pronouncing Polish like a local. Very impressive! My favourite part of this renovation so far is the giant blue egg on Plac Pięciu Rogów, I always love such random goofy stuff 😆

How about super capacitor busses? They could recharge quickly at every stop.

Stagecoach trolly bus were the best, little slower but were more frequent alot cheaper and wouldnt need to catch 3 busses to get to 1 point to the other like with the new buses

Aaron Freeman is pure evil.

Scott Walker is pure evil.

Cheap af transportation exist Politicians : i can't see it im blind

Hope you feel better ! I'm not sure that the AI voice is the way to go. If you're sick, just skip one week.

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