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The grid plan is good though

Where is the Volvnick clip?!!!!!! In the park, PLEASE THE WORLD NEEDS IT

The alternative to the grid plan is Queens. Think about that

lol superman

Doesn’t get old

I met him in Santa Cruz many years ago. I still love this riff on the NYC grid plan. He inspired me to start speaking my mind

God DAMN this video is old

If you get it you get it ❤

I would give my right arm to see the world like speed does and to have his words

I like his voice.

the masculine right turn!!! by the very phallic Chrysler building. :o)

This man talks in poetry

Saying Hello! Much love, always, to Speed. You taught me a lot...transformed me in a day. Down here in Philly producing, as best I can on a budget, walking videos...but not the drug ones of Kensington (very sad), doing the flip side, the healthy-ish and wealthy side of this great city. Philadelphia. Go Blue!

"Look man, I'm just trying to find the Bus stop. Either you know the direction or you don't."

I saw his show "up to speed" on Hulu... I couldn't watch more than 5 minutes

@3:18 “mysAlf”

This is from the documentary "the cruise"

"Everybody likes the grid plan" - Now it's "everyone" when "everyone" is in your echo chamber. And your echo chamber has a max capacity of one.

Might I suggest Boston or Pittsburgh as alternatives.

Can you imagine Speed Levitch and Duncan Trussell sitting down in a café?

It’s 2020 , this film is still very relevant. Saying something of our human nature.

i love this human being so much

Remembering the future. Sublime.

utter stupidity disguised with ten dollar words, i live in brisbane there's no grid plan it's been built on the go, it's a bitch to find your way, i lived here for 3 years and i always get lost, gotta get my fuckin phone all the time and google that shit, when i was in melbourne , which is grid plan i'd just write down the street intersections or remember it or something

Beware, and, beware, and, beware.

Tim is a gift to NYC. He is an amazing human being.

All I heard is "waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!" "The ability to speak does not make you intelligent." - Qui Gon Jinn The grid exists in the large downtown areas of a bunch of cities. It's more efficient. And those people that owned that land made it how they liked it. Buy it from who ever owns it now and do the same. If the code doesn't allow you to do something, vote to change that. Use your thinker more than your talker bruh. :{h

Heres the thing. This guy sounds really pretentious. Its like he doesnt understand he could just move to a place thats less structured. I mean its New York for Petes sake.

Perfect. He said the unsayable, it's not even about the Grid Plan.

Only know about this guy from Xavier: Renegade Angel

I don't understand what all the fuss is about. It's a fucking grid. Ever been somewhere like Boston that doesn't have a grid plan? It's hell on Earth!

The grid plan rocks. Ever been to Boston?

Whatever happened to this guy? Where is he in 2017?

"take a right turn, a right turn, a right turn", a right turn.. and suddenly, hopefully, you'll come to realize the tiny little boxes your "cells" are repackaged into. once you buy into the idea though what some of might refer to as a home it becomes nothing more than a traditional casket.

I cannot expressing words how much I love this.

I think NYC is a great city and NOT monotonous DESPITE the grid. Certainly it makes things more orderly and convenient, but is that the raison d'etre of a city? Are not cities even more exciting, the less predictable they are. Nevertheless, I love New York. It is the greatest city in the world

Dewitt Clinton believed the grid plan was democratic in a sense. I see it as more totalitarian.

From a post on the Ric Burns NYC Documentary: "I wonder if the grid as laid out very early in the 19th century, and it's inability to foresee the massive immigration and settlement of New York, contributed to the awful slum conditions later in the century? The grid took away the ability to be creative in housing and business and streets, and thus may have to bear some of the responsibility of the resulting squalor later in some parts of NYC. Frank Lloyd Wright unambiguously condemns "the overgrown city" which he likens to a "malignant tumor" grown "far out of human scale." He is equally censorious of the skyscraper and the grid, which together formed a "man-trap of gigantic dimensions," creating a constant "roar of congestion, confusion... [and] spasmodic movement." It all seems to lead back to the city fathers thinking in 1811 what the city would need in 1911. A living, growing organism like a city, suffers from this hierarchical planning.

there is a blueprint to our DNA. every THING has structure and form. so here we have a human being who is talking about freedom but he can only do so by virtue of being a self contained system exhibiting high complexity and organization. to even have a notion of freedom you require being bound in a physical static form. the grid evolved with the people living there and like evolution shaping humans and all life forms, it took the simplest and most efficient route towards BEING and continues to do so as it BECOMES. davinci could have painted an arm growing out of mona lisa's head but why the fuck would he? does this guy want Escher-esque streets channeling people up to the heavens or other people's assholes or what? why is the earth a sphere? let's all use our imagination to force it into becoming a cube, yeah that is productive. that is liberation. let's do that.

Hence is Mr. Norton's #1 favourite film ever.

It's been some time my friend, but this is the moment where you help me find the audio of this beautifull clip. Can You please please help me?! this is sincerely one of the most beautifull, calming pieces of music I ever heard. I agree though, Satie would have had a similar if not more powerfull impact, but it's familiarity to some people would have missed the effect this song has

Allright!! Anyone got this song on a computer or adress where I can pay cold hard cash to hear the whole beautifull song??? I need this people, its so beautifull and i can't stand the internets letting me down on this one. Anyone? this is my final cry of desperation. please help a lost soul

His voice is grating.

Come to Detroit & experience your dream of total chaos & absurdity incarnate. It's quite a reflection of our personal confusion. You will miss the grid plan sir.

This is a great video, and I love hearing opinions like this in the urban planning discussion. I'd be extremely keen on meeting Speed and having him visit and critique my city someday, since I already pick it apart on a daily basis I think it would be a great discussion.

Fucking brilliant. This is the perfect explanation as to my views on by-passers, leading me to severe misanthropy, though I'm trying to have the view of letting people do their thang. It just sucks when I can't talk about my ideas because everyone around me is too christian to understand physical logic and abstract.

@mjamesharding So the only way to bring people down to the same level is to exclude them from the picture?

this is by far one of my fav topics in this movie. i have 3 copies of this film.

@CohibasEsplenditos What are you talking about it's available on amazon at very cheap price.

Is it weird that I 'disliked' this video but still added it to my favorites?