The World's Most Well Planned Cities
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I am from Chandigarh, glad that it got mentioned. Designed for half million people, the population now stands at 1.2 million and still doesn't feel crowded at all. Nice designing 👍
I changed trains there once at one in the morning in 1992. I woke up from a deep sleep of the train from New Delhi and thinking that I was running late jumped on a strangely empty train that was pulling away from the platform while simultaneously wondering why hundreds of people started laughing at me. The train then moved approximately 300 metres up to the shunting yard, changed tracks, then pulled back up to the platform exactly opposite from where I had jumped onto it, where I sheepishly disembarked to much ensuing hilarity and witty comments yelled at me in Hindi. I still get the giggles to this day when I think about. Travelled round India for nearly two years. Loved the place. Hope you guys are all ok and would love to go there again one day. Namaste from Australia mate.... 👍
@@planetdisco4821 😄😄...... thankfully situation getting better now. Sure buddy, do visit again. Cheers👍
Not a big fan of Paris, but when you're at the top of the Eiffel Tower, and actually take in the symmetry of the city.. it truly is breathtaking.
Lived in Amsterdam for a year. What a well run city, and almost everyone cycles everywhere.
I've been to Paris; not an easy feet if you're in a wheelchair! Saw the Eiffel Tower; was unimpressed with the height! My highlight of Paris was the day trip I took to Normandy!
@@rwfan2u Sounds like you had a great time despite its unimpresiveness. I actually thought that the Atomium was better(from the outside at least).
Many have noted that Paris looks best from the Eiffel Tower because then you do not have the Eiffel Tower marring your view.
@@stevengordon3271 excuse, just interesting, why didn't you say "...because then the Eiffel Tower doesn't mar your view" ?
@@botsynth Must have been feeling verbose at the time.
I only realised about 7 mins in that Simon was saying 'road and highway network' and not 'rodent highway' 😂
😂😂😂
Surprised to see Brasilia. Planned, yes, but definitely terrible flaws in the plan, making the results less than ideal...
yes, it's well planned on map, but not for living
Vai se ferrar parça
Yes
Could we actually get a Megaprojects series of these 10 cities, possibly focused on what they excel at? I think that could really be an intriguing recurring series of stories. I know I would love to check them out and learn more about how these cities came to be designed while I'm doing my daily chores about the house (which is when I usually am watching)
I visited Zurich way back in early 2001 and even then it was a gorgeous, easy to navigate city with few cars. In fact, all three cities I visited (Champery, Zurich, and Zermatt) were fantastic.
Most cities on this list are praised for abundant greenery and effective public transport.
Muricans: Parks and buses are for hobos! Boo!
public transport is nothing to do with planning though. Planning is layout, not how many buses you've got.
@@lazyishardwork Nice attempt to trigger. :)
Notice a cute word "effective" in my comment? It's impossible without proper planning.
And btw, my comment was just an observation, and a harmless attempt to ridicule.
Stay lazy, lazyis ;)
@@lazyishardwork Wrong just wrong, there is an entire subsection of planning know as transportation planning and even area-based planning requires special consideration of the placement of transit links.
I’m surprised Tokyo isn’t on the list. Biggest city in the world, very clean, and probably the best metro system in the world.
It's a bit over capacity... Not saying it's bad, but unlike some others on this list, they need pushers to fit everyone on the subway.
Yeah, I was seriously impressed by how clean and beautiful Tokyo is. Kyoto and Hiroshima are quite lovely as well. I'm blessed to have been able to have visited those cities.
Chongqing in China is the largest city in the world.
Seoul is beautiful and pedestrian-friendly. I lived in Gwangju for 7 years, I was always amazed on my forays up to the capital. Fastest WiFi and Internet, too! I live in Thailand, where the cities are poorly-planned.
And their subway system is one of the easiest to navigate....I haven't been back to Korea in years and I could still navigate my way from Gangnam to Itaewon to Dongdaemun sand in between
if you plan to do another list on classical planned cities or cities founded with a plan in mind, please don't forget Savannah Ga. It is both beautiful and has been planned from the beginning
My wife and I recently went to Savannah and I really enjoyed it. Great vibe and really liked all the historic buildings.
Slight mistake on Singapore. The British colony was granted self governing status in 1959. It then became independent as a state of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963. It then became fully independent in 1965.
DC suffers from a way too expensive and overcrowded metro system that doesn’t run when you need it most (late night, early morning) thus forcing people to rely on the worst cab drivers in the world and often stranding third shift workers.
You aren’t joking about them being the worst drivers lol
I heard the people who planned Boston hated themselves and everyone who was ever born. Hahaha
And bury everyone in the big dig.
Can't argue with you, what the hell is the north end all about ?
No, it was designed by a legitimate psychopath. Which is why I have no issue navigating it, and I don't even live there lmao.
@@dudepool7530
Hahahaha
Planned? LOL
Awesome video!!
Zurich also impressed me that the major road arteries connecting it with other Swiss cities mostly run through tunnels within the urban center.
Excellent and interesting list!
Brasilia so screws with my head I'm 43 years old and when I was in school we still learned it was Rio de Janeiro just insane
In a word, Canberra...
No, it's a country town, remote, elitist and it really small.
piss a billion down the tubes for a dysfunctional tram....havin' a laugh.
@@owenshebbeare2999 It's not a country town - not by Australian standards. And it's FAR from elitist - that's what the media wants you to believe so that other Australians can blame Canberrans for the decisions of Federal Parliament...
And the tram system isnt dysfunctional - I live in Canberra and know people who use it all the time - it's unfinished... I live Southside - it's far from near me but I can admit that it does work.
@@raylouis7013 Rubbish....it'll cost a billion by the time it is 'finished'....and what key services has it/will it connect? Hospitals? Universities? What could a billion have done to electrifying existing(or eroded) public transport?
Amsterdam is one of the best cities I've been too,
Too bad it will be a real life Atlantis in 100 years
@@jeremyscungio16 lol not true. Us Dutch are masters at water management and redirection. By that time we will already have come with a solution.. in fact, due to our extensive experience and expertise in water management, we will probably be the last country to sink in the case of a global flood. But thank you for your pessimism ☺️
Amsterdam!?
Try Rotterdam. After World War 2 they got a complete do-over, making it an extremely old, modern city
Ah, yes, DC. You might be the victim of a violent crime, but at least you can easily find the police station.
Great vid
Zurich is prohibitively expensive for most common folks. That in itself lends itself to a lack of urban congestion. While central Brazilia itself is well planned, the suburbs surrounding it are a mishmash of over-populated enclaves. Washington D.C has all sorts of traffic problems resulting from streets near various federal buildings be barricaded to through traffic. This makes detours a constant headache.
Nice to see chandigarh my city on the list
I you want to see more about the planning of Amsterdam compared to other city’s for example Copenhagen or many American tows I recommend not just bikes
Singapore is an awesome place to visit. Went twice during my time in the navy. So damn clean.
Im glad you didnt pollute it with bombs
It’s clean because of the heavy fines! The law is enforced there.
Everyone after seeing their own city:
"i've seen enough. I'm satisfied."
I knew my city wasn't gonna be here, it was founded by vikings 1000 years ago. Rivers were their roads
What are the criteria of a well-planned city? From this video, I gather it is public transport and bicycle lanes.
One of the most Well-Planned videos on CZcams 👍
Lol
Phoenix arizona. Just one big grid....great city
I lived in Phoenix 21 years ago, it was easy to get around. I don’t understand why the newer cities at the time, changes the grid to the curved streets that every city has? The streets and avenues center lane, changing direction in the morning and afternoon was brilliant.
Well-planned evidently means "livable without a car".
The first time I ever thought about city planning was the first time I visited Phoenix. It's just so obviously cohesive.
I was hoping to see Phoenix on the list. Easy as hell to understand road numbering system plus it is a giant city in the middle of a desert the mere thought of water supply out there deserves talking about.
As an Arizonan, I kind of love/hate Phoenix. The way it's connected to every suburb or nearby town is convenient. However driving in Phoenix is downright dangerous. It was laid out well, but the more and more people that flood in only make it more and more annoying to get around. Plus, it's in the Desert. Phoenix is very car reliant, probably why it didn't make the list.
I thought Benjamin Banneker designed DC after the French architect failed to complete it?
Simon needs to add a correction to the video and state that Benjamin Banneker designed Washington DC.
you have inspired me to go to seoul :D to visit anyway
home "ownership" in Singapore is a controversial hot-button issue...XD
What about the super blocks in Barcelona?
It's funny that this points to Brasilia as one of the most well planned cities when I just watched a video that trashes Brasilia, which I found from the same search I used to find this one.
I’ve visited Copenhagen. I loved it, and would totally go again if given the opportunity, but if you’re on foot beware of bicyclists. They make no noise and they will run you over.
No mention of Canberra which was a capital city planned from scratch, midway between Sydney and Melbourne
proud of changdiagrh being in the list
Thanks fact boi
thought Chicago would represent the USA not DC
Worlds most well planned cities? There's a topic that's going to make you really popular at a party
I lived near DC for years. Dc is well planned but don't go to Dulles or Centerville... That is why I moved to Warrenton. Centerville makes Atlanta look like an immaculate utopia road wise. 😆 potholes that can swallow buses are the norm.
According to the infographic at the end the Subway in Seoul runs until 12pm
So much if research has gone into the video,----- how much planning goes into cities!
I’m surprised that Tokyo is not here
I live outside of Portland, Oregon, a city put together in such a haphazard fashion that it's even hard to travel within it on mass transit.
I was born and raised in Portland and love its eccentricities and how eclectic it is.
In what respect? I lived in Portland for some months, I agree it is by no stretch the best-planned city, but I would never characterize it as haphazard, far from it. I think it probably one of the better designed American cities, its current politics and management maybe not so much
tokyo? I am surprised
Hull is quite nice. And Newport.
That shirt is trippy
Woot woot
I was hoping to see Canberra on here. Brasilia is designed on the same concept of open planning that Canberra was designed on, the Garden City Movement designed by Ebenezer Howard.
Definitely not Houston 😅
Boston is also a mess lol, especially the north end
You mean you don’t like the lack of zoning laws, the downtown “grid” not being oriented to compass points, the streets that change names for no reason, the lack of public transportation, having the most congested freeway in Texas (610 West), it being built on basically a swamp so the ground is mushy and the roads are covered with potholes, mosquitoes so big they can fly away with a small child, flooding, hurricanes,
do one about the WORST-planned cities
Ottawa is likely among them
a PORTRAIT of bad urban planning
Dallas. Ugg. very few street other than interstate highways that run east west
Auckland is a stupid one. They decided to make the bridge connecting north and south smaller because they didn't want the other cities to get jealous.
A single car crash can cause delays to the entire region.
Sounds like there are just no "do it yourselfers" over seas.
Well looks like Simon was never in shanghai, the south part was developed from the 80s, the Northern part by Europeans in the 30s. The Northern part from Bund and surrounds yes planed. However further north not so. I would say in comparison Shenzhen is much better laid out. Many US cities also been designed from ground up, for simple fact they are new in comparison. Medellin was improved, not planned. If you talk about planned you could say Canberra is a much better example
I forgot that I want to go to Medellin.
Mr. Pierre L'Enfant would not have been able to do it without the assistance of Mr. Benjamin Bannecker. Give credit where credit is due.
Blackhawk, CA located near Alamo/Danville.
no, that list wasn't crap at all. Colonel Light planned my city perfectly. It's globally acclaimed for it's layout. The title of this vid is well planned cities, not cities with the least traffic or stupidest location with arduously complicated engineering to keep them from sinking. The title does not represent the content.
I feel like singapore and amsterdam should be ranked much higher in the list, shanghai and DC out, and add paris and tokyo as well.
Agreed except for replace DC with Brazilia
You've obviously never been stuck in traffic in DC.
Who would have thought that the song " I ride my bicycle " Queen would be so popular.
Surprised to see Chandigarh in this list. Though initially planning was successful, nowadays the city is crumbling under the weight of population and climate change.
DC has wide sidewalks which is nice, but it's got the worst traffic in the nation by far. Road quality, traffic density, and proximity of neighborhoods to the highways all contribute to traffic all over its neighboring states.
Shanghai is NOT planned well my guy. 😂
Totally diggin it till you mentioned DC. . .almost blew mac and cheese out my nose at that one.
Why does everyone who’s ever lived or spent much time in DC hate it though? It’s not just the traffic and politics, right? Right? 😆
I'm surprised Melbourne Australia wasn't on the list as that place looks pretty cool and well run. 🏴🇬🇧👍🇦🇺
Maybe not top 10 but Stuttgart, Germany is very well designed, we a re-do after being bombed to hell during WWII, public trains run through all the neighborhoods
Amsterdam is great but it did literally destroy the wheel of my wheelchair. On the plus side their public transport is wheelchair friendly which is more than you can say for most public transport in the UK.
Simon I swear you're everywhere on CZcams.
America when traffic problem: make grid road system
Such planned, wow! 'o'
You look like my friend, Kyle.
No Vienna?
Brasilia - WELL planned??? I've head otherwise by people who grew up and lived there...
My thoughts and prayers are with many of the people in colombia, including my fiancée and her two children.
Sadly Colombia is a western backed narco state, little to nothing will change.
@@JayVee53 idgaf. i have a bride to be and two children in the country that i'm awaiting to hear from. you might wanna speak ill of the country, but i refuse.
@@0fficialdregs Loser
@@jyrkijyrki9392 meh. The only loser here is you for bringing negativity when no one else has. That's the quality of someone who doesn't have much going for them so I'll pray you to get better.
K
@@0fficialdregs I'll ask teletubbies to give you head trauma for simping.
Washington’s Four Quarters are anything but equal- NW (all that north of The Mall and East Capitol and west of North Capitol) is multiple times the size of SW
Sir what is reference to this vedio.
dublin in ireland has the worst bus system ,if you cycle your bike will be stolen , there is no train from the airport into the city centre . it generates a lot of money clamping and fining motorists . it is pure hell to commute to or to commute in
Horribly designed buildings for a video? One of the major stores in town has installed a facade that looks great, but creates a wall of water for customers to walk through if it rains and since it is Alaska, you can imagine the falling ice hazard half of the year
Where's Milton Keynes???
Not Canberra?
For the algorithm!
Give me some examples of what differentiates them …
You can't have planning! That goes against the free market!
Another note about D.C.: the complete lack of skyscrapers. This is due to the "Height of Buildings Act" of 1910, which has yet to be amended in any major way. Dee Cee people like being able to see the sky, no matter where they are.
Why isn't Portland on this list? Oregon's largest city is an excellent example of a well planned city.
Because there are 10 orher cities who did it better
@@JHinDAmix Well, I guess.
Lol chandigar
From a person whose visited there : Definitely Not Melbourne Australia was ever going to be on this list . 🤦 Regards from Sydney Australia 👨💻🇦🇺
Melbourne is far better planned than the ramshackle mess that is Sydney, but decades of bad state governments have done a lit of damage, and the public transpirt system is extremely inner-focused, meaning the bulk of the population are quite poorly serviced. Proof that bad government really plays a role in urban decline.
@@owenshebbeare2999 - right? Sydney is a mess. It started a mess and grew like a cancer. I'm from Sydney. I lived there for most of my life. Currently in Canberra, which is planned, but it's not a very logical plan. Two left turns and you could easily be on the other side of the city. It's definitely a weird place.
Simon please do a BIO on Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Karelin (kah-RE-lin, Russian: Александр Александрович Карелин, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ kəˈrʲelʲɪn]; born 19 September 1967) is a retired Greco-Roman wrestler for the Soviet Union and Russia. Nicknamed the "Russian Bear",[2] "Russian King Kong",[3] "Alexander the Great" and "The Experiment", he is widely considered to be the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all time.[1][4][5][6] Karelin won gold medals at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games under a different flag each time (Soviet Union, Unified Team and Russia respectively), and a silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games. His wrestling record is 887 wins and two losses, both by a single point.[7][8][9] Prior to his farewell match versus Rulon Gardner in September 2000, a point had not been scored on him within the previous six years.[10] Karelin was the national flag bearer at three consecutive Olympics: in 1988 for the Soviet Union, in 1992 for the Unified Team, and in 1996 for Russia.
Tokyo??
Wow no shout out to Benjamin Banneker? Yikes
Honestly this host should be up to MKBHD known status on YT. Google should make this channel one of it's originals for education alone.
no Barcelona?
Brasilia? Really? 😨
Bike cities, that sounds like a dream come true to me. Don't get me wrong, I love driving, but it's not as thrilling to me. Can't "thread the needle" in a car. Well, not safely at least.
And No. 1 - Definitely not New York
meanwhile, in my city they have put plenty of rental bike stations and made plenty of bike paths and proudly announce how friendly they are to bikes but u know what? Total BS, like there is the bike rental station but 50 meters away there is a no bikes sign so you can literally bike around some apartment buildings and not much else or like all the bike paths are these disconnected straight streatches going nowhere usually ended by no bikes sign so that you will be reminded you can't use bikes to get to your destinations, bikes can only be used for recreation apparently.
Wth... nevrer heard of Brasilia