An urban planner reviews Minecraft cities

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    Cities reviewed in this video:
    #1: Mattupolis - www.planetminecraft.com/proje...
    #2: Greenfield - www.planetminecraft.com/proje...
    #3: The GDMC Competition - gendesignmc.engineering.nyu.edu
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  • @CityBeautiful
    @CityBeautiful  Před 5 lety +4774

    I hope my lack of Minecraft experience doesn't make you cringe too bad! Should I do a video reviewing the most realistic Cities: Skylines cities?

    • @ankurh6100
      @ankurh6100 Před 5 lety +82

      Yes, please.

    • @citiesskyscrapers4561
      @citiesskyscrapers4561 Před 5 lety +37

      Yes, I think it would be great.

    • @tannerturben8754
      @tannerturben8754 Před 5 lety +33

      If you do more Minecraft, you should definitely check out this project! The level of detail is immense: www.realismsociety.com/

    • @awesomelyshorticles
      @awesomelyshorticles Před 5 lety +20

      I'd like to see you build your own!

    • @CityBeautiful
      @CityBeautiful  Před 5 lety +75

      Yes! If I do another Minecraft video I'll include this one.

  • @royalpillows7716
    @royalpillows7716 Před 4 lety +527

    “Cities aren’t built in one era”
    Dubai: *You dare oppose me mortal*

    • @nagatouzumaki3589
      @nagatouzumaki3589 Před 3 lety +5

      Yo I saw you in Dubai 4k video❤️❤️

    • @memexpert
      @memexpert Před 3 lety +13

      @Luis Muñoz I swear in China what looked like blueprint concepts, 5 years later, I guarantee it has already been built

    • @iaaf_nw2367
      @iaaf_nw2367 Před 3 lety +3

      @@memexpert china likes to build build build. Other countries are already fine with what they have

    • @e-u-r-o-p-l-o-v
      @e-u-r-o-p-l-o-v Před 3 lety +10

      @@iaaf_nw2367 Most other countries don't have 1.5 billion people

    • @iaaf_nw2367
      @iaaf_nw2367 Před 3 lety +1

      @@e-u-r-o-p-l-o-v yeah, thats pretty much what i said

  • @ivymoorechild3290
    @ivymoorechild3290 Před 4 lety +568

    “Lots of Pigs” ten seconds later “Oh they make sounds!” The innocent wonder of this man makes me so god damn happy

    • @mochamakos159
      @mochamakos159 Před 4 lety +31

      i audibly went "awWW!!!" his fascination with basic minecraft stuff is the absolute best wholesome content. when he asked about "people" in these worlds i was so excited in hopes he finds villagers someday. my favorite thing is people discovering things like pigs making noises or being curious about what more the game holds, literally the purest fricking thing ever.

  • @basilb4524
    @basilb4524 Před 5 lety +251

    one thing that really impressed me was how much you did your research beforehand. You didn't just download a bunch of maps and reviewed them, you actually took the time to look up the background and context behind them, so props for that!

    • @codykrueger796
      @codykrueger796 Před 4 lety +8

      Oh he like does this for his job so he knows all this stuff!

    • @267cal
      @267cal Před 4 lety +2

      @@codykrueger796 exactly

  • @RedFireRex
    @RedFireRex Před 5 lety +6180

    👏 👏 *CITY REVIEW*

  • @letsdosomething806
    @letsdosomething806 Před 5 lety +3142

    Getting mugged in a parking garage in a Chicago inspired city is surprisingly appropriate.

    • @CityBeautiful
      @CityBeautiful  Před 5 lety +248

      Greenfield didn't give me a strong Chicago vibe. BTW Chicago is awesome.

    • @moonshadow1795
      @moonshadow1795 Před 5 lety +67

      City Beautiful he was commenting on the fact that right before you said that you said some thing gave you a Chicago vibe

    • @skogib4846
      @skogib4846 Před 5 lety +33

      ​@@CityBeautiful Man we're two sides of the coin.
      Parts of Chicago and other American cities, if they were their own detached nations, would have literally the highest murder rates in the world, and they're just a few blocks away from some of the safest streets in the world. It's an insane dichotomy, and your opinion of a city like Chicago is entirely dependent on whether or not you're hanging around in the places that are as violent as mankind can really be.
      It's a nightmare, and these places are human meat grinders nestled up against bustling, modern, lively urban areas that are very comfortable.
      I can't stand cities because of this. Often not more than a few blocks away from being mugged. I'm never happier than when I'm as far from other people as possible.
      But I gotta say, the passion in the video was really endearing. It's fun to watch someone talk about things they enjoy and are really into. Someone's gotta do it and you enjoy it a lot, which is always wonderful to see.

    • @tappajaav
      @tappajaav Před 5 lety +7

      That's quite interesting piece of knowledge mister Skogi B.

    • @Minsajang
      @Minsajang Před 5 lety +17

      @@skogib4846 Let me guess you're a burb

  • @Brad-vy4nc
    @Brad-vy4nc Před 5 lety +1647

    I never thought a city planner would review a Minecraft city

    • @faith4disney
      @faith4disney Před 5 lety +12

      I thought they already did that.

    • @aprilgaudette7327
      @aprilgaudette7327 Před 5 lety +14

      TAKE ME DOWN TO THE CZcams CITY WHERE THE MONETIZATION IS GREEN AND PRETTY, OH WONT YOU PLEASE TAKE ME HOME, YEAH

    • @Chris6d
      @Chris6d Před 2 lety +1

      @@aprilgaudette7327 Ha

    • @willporter1716
      @willporter1716 Před 2 lety

      @@aprilgaudette7327 LOL

  • @gabriellisi7349
    @gabriellisi7349 Před 4 lety +1281

    "it transitions very quickly from forest to downtown" **laughs in Toronto**

    • @isdbisdb
      @isdbisdb Před 4 lety +49

      Say the same to pretty much all of the cities and towns of the East coast of Australia
      10 minutes and your already into farms, remote buildings (kinda), dirt roads and isolated roads.

    • @user-eo6ou6rh1v
      @user-eo6ou6rh1v Před 4 lety +47

      _laughs in Hong Kong_

    • @Mouseymouse678
      @Mouseymouse678 Před 4 lety +5

      InSane DropBear can confirm!

    • @user-eo6ou6rh1v
      @user-eo6ou6rh1v Před 4 lety +3

      @@Mouseymouse678 would you like another sausage on the barbie?

    • @sarakhatib3633
      @sarakhatib3633 Před 4 lety +8

      Laughs in Dubai

  • @someoneyouusedtoknow142
    @someoneyouusedtoknow142 Před 5 lety +1707

    They made city’s from Minecraft a real thing!

    • @corndoghead1
      @corndoghead1 Před 5 lety +37

      commenting in case someone......

    • @casualdoggo4224
      @casualdoggo4224 Před 5 lety +9

      Sharp Harpoon same xd

    • @akelly9528
      @akelly9528 Před 5 lety +52

      I'm praying someone falls for this

    • @shady725
      @shady725 Před 5 lety +49

      oMG lIKE HoW DuMB YoU BeEF FarT NoODlE

    • @andrewmitchell5807
      @andrewmitchell5807 Před 5 lety +39

      What!!!??? Are you kidding me sir? Do you really think that cities were not a real thing before minecraft was invented? WHAT THE HECK MAN!!!

  • @Holobrine
    @Holobrine Před 5 lety +2392

    There are villagers, but if they had that many, the game would lag quite a bit.

  • @kale8133
    @kale8133 Před 5 lety +1089

    Even thought it's been a long time since I've played minecraft, I still think it's one of the greatest games ever made. There's simply no other sandbox game like it. As someone who grew up playing with legos, minecraft was kind of like a huge lego set, but there were no instructions or correct/wrong way to build anything. I have such fond memories of this game and I'm glad people still have an appreciation for it.

    • @faz_6067
      @faz_6067 Před 5 lety +68

      I think of it as a drawing board for people who can't draw. I love drawing but I'm complete trash at it, and instead I can bring my creations to life in Minecraft

    • @WyhattMP4
      @WyhattMP4 Před 5 lety +30

      I also like it because I can build without needing a piece remover..

    • @baker7280
      @baker7280 Před 5 lety +18

      PolygonFruits teeth*

    • @prometheanrebel3838
      @prometheanrebel3838 Před 5 lety +13

      Infinite Legos on steroids.

    • @furryexterminator1280
      @furryexterminator1280 Před 5 lety +17

      Ok still play it.. Been playing for 6yrs... Imma be 60 and be playing mine raft and my kids are gonna question my existence.

  •  Před 5 lety +252

    This dude really went a whole ass decade never playing Minecraft or knowing people made cities in it. Lmao

  • @nesstafer
    @nesstafer Před 5 lety +287

    me: hey that looks like vancouver
    guy: "inspired by vancouver-"
    yOOOOOOOOOOO

    • @kodo1232
      @kodo1232 Před 3 lety

      pog

    • @mrfreezegames1021
      @mrfreezegames1021 Před 2 lety

      @@kodo1232 youtube has a new feature and theres a translate button on the bottom of the comment soo uhhh Pog: CH

    • @kodo1232
      @kodo1232 Před 2 lety

      @@mrfreezegames1021it doesnt show up for me lol

  • @jag3596
    @jag3596 Před 5 lety +906

    "There are animals in Minecraft!" I mean, I get you don't know much about Minecraft, but this quote just takes the cake!

    • @CityBeautiful
      @CityBeautiful  Před 5 lety +101

      I knew I would do/say cringe-y stuff!

    • @JinHuangHello
      @JinHuangHello Před 5 lety +57

      ​@@CityBeautiful Actually Minecraft has people, or say, sort of NPCs in its mechanisms. But these people are far from modern human. The game is initially not designed for creating a modern city so I guess that's why they don't have those "citizens" as in the SimCitys.

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon Před 5 lety +30

      @@JinHuangHello also it would be too laggy for thousands of villagers to be running around in a wrold.

    • @pepearown4968
      @pepearown4968 Před 5 lety +1

      City Beautiful *Cringeworthy

    • @jauxro
      @jauxro Před 5 lety +4

      @@CityBeautiful it wasn't cringy! Just a funny moment

  • @chasesublette3917
    @chasesublette3917 Před 5 lety +766

    Minecraft has had Villagers for many years now, since you're in Creative Mode you can find their spawn eggs in the item menu. You also mentioned at some point in the video that you encountered some enemies in the buildings during the night, you can change that by going to the settings and changing your difficulty to Peaceful.

    • @CityBeautiful
      @CityBeautiful  Před 5 lety +119

      Thanks! That's really good to know.

    • @marthachampagne316
      @marthachampagne316 Před 5 lety +35

      "i kinda got mugged in a parking garage so this city needs to work on its crime prevention" lol 16:00

    • @unitedstates4912
      @unitedstates4912 Před 5 lety +1

      @@CityBeautiful theres also evil villagers
      specifically called vindicators dont challenge them to a fight

    • @faggoteditor9297
      @faggoteditor9297 Před 5 lety +1

      @@unitedstates4912 isn't there another one?
      there's the vindicators, which are the guys with the axes
      and then there's like two more.

    • @SupersuMC
      @SupersuMC Před 5 lety

      Qwerty Gaming And illusioners, which currently can only be spawned with commands.

  • @jarkiiv
    @jarkiiv Před 4 lety +47

    City beautiful: it’s okay
    Minecraft veterans: I can barely build a mansion

  • @konsta4648
    @konsta4648 Před 5 lety +302

    Its 4am, i have a exam in 5 hours and i'm watching this...

  • @CraftyFoxe
    @CraftyFoxe Před 5 lety +1923

    You should definitely check out Huntington City Project, they are more realistic building than Greenfield.

    • @notcarrotnose258
      @notcarrotnose258 Před 5 lety +112

      CraftyFoxe but they’re off scale and they don’t recognize the changes in land value. In that city, everything’s modern. Greenfield has so much variety and realism!

    • @DangItshere
      @DangItshere Před 5 lety +6

      Ayy crafty

    • @andrewnixon1855
      @andrewnixon1855 Před 5 lety +37

      Neel Marathe they literally plan the land value which decides if it's going to be rich mansions with higher class shops or poorer areas with large minimalls

    • @MineshaftSparky
      @MineshaftSparky Před 5 lety +4

      Wrong.

    • @nealingtypeshi
      @nealingtypeshi Před 5 lety +1

      @@notcarrotnose258 Hello, Carrot.

  • @robertskitch
    @robertskitch Před 5 lety +305

    Minecraft does have some NPC villagers in the game, but they're not all that intelligent and are more for trading with in survival games than anything else. The next Minecraft update is actually going to concentrate on villages and villagers, so we will apparently be able to see the villagers have a routine over the course of the day and move between their homes and workplaces.
    Another option is something called 'armour stands' which are basically mannequins which you can pose and stage around the place to set the scene, but that can be a pretty painstaking process, so I don't know that large scale city builds would use it all that often.
    ...
    Whenever I play 'Minecraft' my basic goal is always to build some nice little villages, but I'm not sure that I really know all that much about realistic medieval village design, so I end up puttering around more than anything.

    • @jambie
      @jambie Před 5 lety +11

      Also, too many armor stands would cause a lot of lag.

    • @TGFlashera
      @TGFlashera Před 5 lety +2

      MessyMedieval may be of interest to you.

    • @fly672
      @fly672 Před 5 lety

      There's also MCA mod and Custom NPC's mod

    • @furryexterminator1280
      @furryexterminator1280 Před 5 lety

      I'm working on a it u right now..yea I just started so I only have a bank and a gas station..yet I've been playing the game for 6yrs lol.

    • @kloiten
      @kloiten Před 5 lety +2

      I've been working on making a small medieval-style country in my Minecraft world for about two years now and boy is it difficult to force myself to build anything! But it's worth it because I love exploring what I've built because I don't really think about how it all fits together, so I have a bunch of weird alleys and awkward buildings that try to take advantage of the limited space.

  • @robertonome2448
    @robertonome2448 Před 5 lety +130

    22:04
    Subtitles: "Hitler's a review"
    *Nazi urban planner confirmed*

    • @skeptic781
      @skeptic781 Před 5 lety +5

      Auf der heide blüht ein kleines blümelein, und das heißt, Erika.

    • @rayhib
      @rayhib Před 4 lety +8

      @@skeptic781 ich bin gay

    • @alexanderfee2910
      @alexanderfee2910 Před 4 lety

      Nice pfp, ajfa is great

    • @harperburgess9769
      @harperburgess9769 Před 4 lety +2

      Rahib I take German as my language in school and... 🤣 your comment just got me lmao

  • @privateryan5671
    @privateryan5671 Před 4 lety +28

    There is a 1:1 scale NYC recreation going on. I want to see his reaction to it once it's done.

  • @patrickjspoon
    @patrickjspoon Před 5 lety +181

    I know nothing about Minecraft, but the application of real planning principles/circumstances to it does in turn teach me more about urban spaces and their dynamics. Great stuff!

    • @williamsmith6921
      @williamsmith6921 Před 5 lety +12

      Have you ever heard of block by block. It's a charity using Minecraft to design cities

  • @Deleted1
    @Deleted1 Před 5 lety +1097

    CZcams recommendations has done it again
    Edit: tip to get likes comment on recommended videos

  • @aprilgaudette7327
    @aprilgaudette7327 Před 5 lety +51

    *TAKE ME DOWN TO THE CZcams CITY WHERE THE MONETIZATION IS GREEN AND PRETTY, OH WONT YOU PLEASE TAKE ME HOME, YEAH*

  • @explosivemodesonicmauricet1597

    "I basically got mugged in the parking garrage.So this city needs to work on it's crime prevention."
    He nailed it.

  • @blomakranz
    @blomakranz Před 5 lety +230

    I'm amazed how the actually have recreated the whole of Denmark in Minecraft, that's like over 40 thousand Square kilometres

    • @CityBeautiful
      @CityBeautiful  Před 5 lety +43

      I did not know that. Amazing.

    • @blomakranz
      @blomakranz Před 5 lety +27

      @@CityBeautiful just don't expect Greenland anytime soon tho 😂

    • @CityBeautiful
      @CityBeautiful  Před 5 lety +30

      But it would be so easy... just repetitive.

    • @blomakranz
      @blomakranz Před 5 lety +15

      @@CityBeautiful true, but not all mountains are equally as large. Tho to be fair that'd be easy to do if you programme the game with an existing map... hmmm I must rethink this

    • @theebs1
      @theebs1 Před 5 lety +14

      Denmark? You mean Noth Germany?

  • @SD-ud5rn
    @SD-ud5rn Před 4 lety +15

    "I got attacked by creatures?" made me smile. Also your pleasure at hearing the pigs make sounds, I like the pig sounds too. This was a great watch, thanks :)

  • @ahizzy5566
    @ahizzy5566 Před 4 lety +30

    You'd have to add a mod to put people in the cities, even then having that many entities would lag badly. Then you'd have to accommodate logistics of them living there with beds and stuff.
    Too complex

    • @jayayerson8819
      @jayayerson8819 Před 3 lety +2

      No mods required, but villagers will add so much lag it will be unplayable

    • @insert_username_here
      @insert_username_here Před 3 lety

      I guess setting up a server with a city for roleplay could be a good solution.

  • @oPHILOSORAPTORo
    @oPHILOSORAPTORo Před 5 lety +41

    lol, got mugged in a parking garage.
    Yeah, you gotta watch out for those skeleton gangs downtown.

  • @jolo7
    @jolo7 Před 5 lety +63

    When your recommended list doesn't let you down

  • @CaptainSNES
    @CaptainSNES Před 5 lety +15

    “I don’t play Minecraft” “I think I’m missing a texture pack”

    • @uhohhotdog
      @uhohhotdog Před 4 lety +5

      Captain SNES he probably watched someone and found it that way

  • @russia1327
    @russia1327 Před 5 lety +53

    Now do, a mincraft builder reviews an actual city.

    • @TheLucas9d
      @TheLucas9d Před 3 lety +4

      The render distance is too high the framerate wouldnt be good tbh

    • @MilkIsTheOne
      @MilkIsTheOne Před 3 lety +3

      @@TheLucas9d
      Isn't Real Life performs better than Minecraft in Rtx?

  • @uss_04
    @uss_04 Před 5 lety +110

    I honestly got into infrastructure and civil engineering when planning out Minecraft city builds. Go figure.
    Especially roadway widths when it came to bi directional minecraft carts, or that awkward moment, only in minecraft when you need to move an entire building 1’ block’ over to make the setbacks right.

    • @tutsdws8666
      @tutsdws8666 Před 5 lety

      I think you can use commands or mods to move that building without rebuilding it

  • @runodyssey9866
    @runodyssey9866 Před 5 lety +40

    I love how this reviewer jokes about the city having a crime problem, and then goes on to praise the city's similarities to Detroit

  • @zacharyhebert6423
    @zacharyhebert6423 Před 5 lety +18

    7:27 "I was a little high" yea me too bro

  • @nealingtypeshi
    @nealingtypeshi Před 5 lety +2

    I'm actually a builder on Greenfield! I've been following your channel for a while now, it's very surreal for you to review a project I've contributed to and pass by some of the things I've built. Keep at it with those great videos, man.

  • @proudhonintop4952
    @proudhonintop4952 Před 5 lety +133

    You should look at a game like GTA 5. Review a fictional city by game developers with no city planning experience. A few GTAs have even been perfectly replicated in Cities Skylines.

    • @Deleted1
      @Deleted1 Před 5 lety +23

      Is this a joke? Its LA I think

    • @DingoXBX
      @DingoXBX Před 5 lety +47

      Its litteraly los Angeles though..

    • @justmovedin
      @justmovedin Před 5 lety +22

      Technically the devs still have no city planning experience, they just copy pasted from real life

    • @Utonian21
      @Utonian21 Před 5 lety +12

      Los Santos' city structure was based off of Los Angeles. They just had to shrink everything down.

    • @cupriferouscatalyst3708
      @cupriferouscatalyst3708 Před 4 lety +8

      @@DingoXBX It's inspired by LA but doesn't really look like it at all if you compare the maps. Rockstar always cleverly captures the "feel" of a city while the actual level design is kept very small, varied, and not that much inspired by real-world streets.

  • @robokast
    @robokast Před 5 lety +5

    Great video as always! One of my favorite channels on CZcams for a reason.

  • @miegieeee8914
    @miegieeee8914 Před 4 lety +17

    "there should be humans in Minecraft"
    *Herobrine has entered the chat*

  • @h.cschannel
    @h.cschannel Před 5 lety +17

    don't know how much your knowledge of minecraft has grown since this was up loaded but minecraft has cities with villagers naturally spawn through out the world. but because these are fan/man made villagers don't naturally spawn.
    that last city is based on the vilages that naturally spawn in minecraft, plains biome. they are ment to be small farming towns, not really cities so that's why there are farms everywhere.
    minecraft has recently updated their villages and villagers so the buildings and villagers take on appearances based on what biome they're in.
    minecraft has many natural mobs, like villagers and animals, each having their own conditions needed to spawn.

    • @ninenezumi
      @ninenezumi Před 4 lety

      Yeah and not vehicles like cars and stuff that triggered me so much when he was talking about Minecraft based on the creative/building side of it and not survival

  • @remyclark3616
    @remyclark3616 Před 5 lety +35

    I'm currently in school for urban planning, just wanted to say I love your channel and it's great getting videos like this from an actual planner. Keep up the great content, gets me super excited about my future in planning and I'm sure that applies to many others too :)

  • @DukeDukeGo
    @DukeDukeGo Před 5 lety +3

    Refering to a brick-street as cobblestone, not knowing that cobblestone is a different block in Minecraft

    • @howtubeable
      @howtubeable Před 5 lety

      Cobblestone is different from bricks in real life too!

    • @DukeDukeGo
      @DukeDukeGo Před 5 lety

      @@howtubeable
      Yeah but a cobblestone street can look more like minecraft bricks too

  • @alexanderl8794
    @alexanderl8794 Před 5 lety +2

    I love how despite not having a lot of knowledge on the game you try to use the right words for things. It shows a lot of effort on your part

  • @shanghainese7198
    @shanghainese7198 Před 4 lety +14

    When he said the city needs to work on the crime prevention because mobs “mugged” him hahhahahahaha

  • @Tadpole1612
    @Tadpole1612 Před 5 lety +16

    I haven't played Minecraft in a while, but if you go onto creative city build servers the rules are usually at the spawn. Check out the World of Keralis Server as this was the best one I played on.
    Some of these places are fairly master planned. Roads and rail are built, large areas are reserved, and some are subdivided by different coloured blocks to dictate zones, and how tall these buildings can be. Other players build on it, and the moderators of the server, act as a sort of a planning compliance team making sure buildings are up to code.
    As a trained but unemployed planner, I'd say this is a fairly decent representation of the planning process within the limitations of Minecraft, and without all the NIMBY's.

  • @elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770

    That “city” looks alot like a minecraft village

    • @bigeboye6000
      @bigeboye6000 Před 5 lety +3

      Ikr it must be a zombie village though because I see no villagers.

    • @bearofthewoods123-8
      @bearofthewoods123-8 Před 5 lety +3

      @@bigeboye6000 There are actually Zombie Villages in Minecraft

    • @iliketrains839
      @iliketrains839 Před 4 lety

      @@bearofthewoods123-8 really? I've never seen them

    • @bearofthewoods123-8
      @bearofthewoods123-8 Před 4 lety

      @@iliketrains839 Probably because you play on Java. They have a ridiculously low rate to generate on Java edition

    • @pignna
      @pignna Před 4 lety

      BearoftheWoods123 - haha lol true, I encountered one like two or three months ago

  • @ragellejean
    @ragellejean Před 4 lety +6

    1:56 Empire Landmark Hotel in the background (Recently demolished). 4:40 The Qube and Trump Tower, Vancouver.

  • @phoonboi7572
    @phoonboi7572 Před 5 lety +2

    I live in Vancouver and the reason the park transitions straight into high rises is because that forested area is Stanley park and in real life the transition is just as sudden.

  • @jabsjabsjabsjabsjabs
    @jabsjabsjabsjabsjabs Před 5 lety +38

    Answering your question: Review cities of Cities Skylines is a YES.
    I really enjoy your videos. You explain a lot of things that I usually ignore even if I am indeed interested in Urban planning myself.
    Maybe you could further explain the idea of having suburbs (or big wealthy single family housing in the outskirts of the city) as a positive thing for the city. Is it just for it to be more realistic? Or maybe you could explain the social benefits of actually having them in real cities. I understand in the US suburbs was like their bible when cities started to grow due to the car popularization. But in other parts of the world I really think suburbs are more in the innefficient side of living. IDK you tell me. :)

    • @tutsdws8666
      @tutsdws8666 Před 5 lety

      The US isn't the only country that has cars lol

    • @joehernandez5214
      @joehernandez5214 Před 2 lety

      @@tutsdws8666he means cuz every American has a car pretty much while that isn’t the same for some other countries

  • @EllaGrant
    @EllaGrant Před 5 lety +231

    Do imperial city!

  • @CAG2
    @CAG2 Před 5 lety +9

    10:47 Um. That's an airport to the right... you missed an entire airport...

  • @deekay1306
    @deekay1306 Před 4 lety +7

    When he said they were using Vancouver BC as the inspiration I was caught of so Guard lol.

  • @alexjenkins1079
    @alexjenkins1079 Před 5 lety +32

    I'm not sure if you'd be impressed with a city that I would make in Minecraft, especially when it would be more of a European city that is like this:
    City planning:
    -most buildings, except in a few select areas are max. 6 stories/ 150ft high
    -the newest architectural style allowed, also except in a few areas (mainly ex-warehouse/port/heavy industrial areas) is streamline moderne
    -most areas, except for the outer regions are mixed-use, or made up of terraced houses or 5-6 story blocks of flats with retail units below the flats or on street corners
    Getting around
    -Has a very large metro and S-Bahn system, plus an extremely large suburban mainline rail network)
    -Has a huge tram and trolleybus network
    -very little on-street parking (and any that is on street is almost always for residents only, or metred)
    -Most streets are 1 or 2 lanes wide in each direction, and those that are 3 or more lanes wide have a bus and/or tram lane in the middle or on the side, or trams on grassed track in the middle of the road (the last one especially further away from the city centre)
    -Trams (and occasionally buses and trolleybuses) stop at some stops in the middle of the road, and other traffic must wait behind them, and at some stops, there are either full traffic lights, or traffic lights with only an amber and red lamp, as well as the road being raised to just below the level of the doors at some on-street stops, the rest have islands
    -A large number of newer housing estates are directly connected to the tram network, or are accessible to it with a bus ride to an interchange point, such as a shopping centre or suburban high street

    • @CityBeautiful
      @CityBeautiful  Před 5 lety +15

      I think it would be cool to review a more Euro-style city. The only difficulty is that many of those cities aren't built on a grid, and Minecraft really works best with right angles.

    • @christianknuchel
      @christianknuchel Před 5 lety

      Especially when you go complete Lisbon style, and have trams that are practically *flying* through streets they barely fit through. xD

    • @jaycreate7701
      @jaycreate7701 Před 4 lety

      The trick is, some people specialize in creating organic angles. Check out some other town maps.

  • @georgel9409
    @georgel9409 Před 5 lety +11

    2:08 The skyscraper on the top right has one of the two revolving restaurants in Vancouver. So sad that they are demolishing it now.

  • @rewrose2838
    @rewrose2838 Před 5 lety

    I loved this. The genuine commentary over someone's efforts made my day~

  • @BlackSephtis
    @BlackSephtis Před 5 lety +1

    This is the kind of wholesome content I rarely watch, but greatly enjoy on occasions in which I do.

  • @andersonr.9636
    @andersonr.9636 Před 5 lety +43

    Can you talk more about the difference style and identity of ethnic/racial parts of buildings such as Chinatown or little Italy?

    • @tutsdws8666
      @tutsdws8666 Před 5 lety +3

      It's more about culture than race

    • @howtubeable
      @howtubeable Před 5 lety

      @@tutsdws8666 Seriously? You got triggered over the word "racial"?

    • @kewubi8237
      @kewubi8237 Před 2 lety

      @@howtubeable he’s not
      ‘Triggered’ he was just using the correct term. You’re the one who seems triggered

  • @nannerz1994
    @nannerz1994 Před 5 lety +8

    This was fantastic! Thanks!

  • @eldmusic
    @eldmusic Před 5 lety

    This was an entertaining video! I don’t know much about city planning or architecture, but hearing you talk about this was really cool!

  • @ethangilchrist3534
    @ethangilchrist3534 Před 5 lety

    I live in the Pacific Northwest and was not expecting to learn so much about the architecture of my own region. Love the video!

  • @zaired
    @zaired Před 5 lety +27

    I think that AI can replace humans in planning new cities. AI learning could also help. But I still think that humans would still be better at changing existing cities

    • @jankansi5679
      @jankansi5679 Před 5 lety +3

      If the AI thinks your business is NSFA it removes your on street parking. 3 strikes and your house is bulldozed.

    • @Subbie-the-1st
      @Subbie-the-1st Před 5 lety +1

      *Detroit: Become Human*

    • @singingsun04
      @singingsun04 Před 5 lety +1

      ZAIRED *two buildings glitching through eachother*

  • @warrenlemay8134
    @warrenlemay8134 Před 5 lety +62

    I’ve built up a whole continent with several civilizations and even some ruins in Minecraft, but I cheated a bit with my cities and kept them at the size and scale of those during the Classical, Renaissance, or Medieval period, with roads, farms, outposts, monasteries, wilderness, and villages in between. It’s nowhere near done, and I don’t have a lot of time to work on it.
    Most of my cities have walls around them, and the tallest buildings tend to be religious structures and palaces, with most of the housing being tightly packed buildings. The scale is meant to be one that works with the mechanics of the game, rather than being 1:1 fully realistic re-creations of actual urban landscapes.
    I don’t know what to do with my world, it would be nice to share, though not all of the buildings or places were made originally by me, though all of them have been altered by my hand, or with an external editor like WorldPaint or MCEdit.

    • @pedroocm
      @pedroocm Před 5 lety +6

      Sounds like a really cool map! I hope you can complete it and share it with us

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon Před 5 lety +1

      Sounds like something really cool to explore. A map download would be nice.

    • @4our31
      @4our31 Před 5 lety

      i wanna see that one day

    • @vmckenzie3160
      @vmckenzie3160 Před 5 lety

      Warren LeMay That’d be really cool to see! Do you furnish the buildings or leave them empty?

    • @stavinaircaeruleum2275
      @stavinaircaeruleum2275 Před 5 lety

      Map download would be awesome!

  • @BONESTORM2501
    @BONESTORM2501 Před 5 lety

    Interesting and informative. Your insights and terminology make the video awesome. Thumbs up!

  • @jv7x
    @jv7x Před 5 lety

    That line about getting jumped in a parking garage was gold! Thank you for taking the time to do this!

  • @seanstwocents8249
    @seanstwocents8249 Před 5 lety +3

    This was a really cool video, I have been telling my peers and my drafting teacher that Minecraft is a valuable tool in designing and building concepts such as building and cities for years, thanks for proving this.

  • @tildesofie1533
    @tildesofie1533 Před 5 lety +35

    "It's very difficult to move those later" *cough* world edit *cough*

  • @AuraBOI
    @AuraBOI Před 5 lety +1

    It's really cool seeing the Vancouver inspiration in the first map as someone who lives in vancouver myself! Even right from the beginning, the bridge to forest to lake on right and ocean with docks on left to buildings is straight out of Vancouver! It's Lions Gate bridge to Stanley Park to Lost Lagoon on the left with the ocean and docks on the right to directly into downtown! Also the tower that was under construction is a really good recreation Vancouver's Trump Tower! plus all the other things you said about the point towers, which I never even noticed was a thing until you pointed it out. probably was a bunch of other things I missed too.
    Also, we got an Ikea, but it ain't downtown though!

  • @about19wookiees14
    @about19wookiees14 Před 4 lety +3

    19:35 that building is beautiful!

  • @joshsera
    @joshsera Před 5 lety +5

    People on the Seattle city council have actually made that remark about preserving the skyline! I thought the same thing, the city isn't about buildings, it's about people, so if we can alleviate housing scarcity, it'll help the people, which is way more important than the skyline!

    • @nobrang5146
      @nobrang5146 Před 5 lety

      And is more important than houses and jobs

  • @marcrugani326
    @marcrugani326 Před 5 lety +8

    The idea of "point towers" could be a real great asset in Washington, DC, whose building height restrictions date back to the 1910 law that seeks to avoid shadows over the urban landscape. This could help to increase the residential density and create more moderately priced units if implemented with affordable-unit mandates for developers.

    • @CityBeautiful
      @CityBeautiful  Před 5 lety +7

      That's true, but there is something about the height restrictions in DC that give it a unique character. And the density is still high enough to make rapid mass transit viable.

  • @ez-8238
    @ez-8238 Před 5 lety +4

    For amyone starting a city heres some advice: a one-way street should be 11 blocks wide, this allows for parked cars with 1 block clearance to traffic.
    For a two-way street it should be 15 blocks wide, this allows for parked cars with 1 block clearance to traffic on both sides.
    Hope this help and good building. :)
    Side note: he right about the streets. I have seen many nice to great citys builds but they all shared the same mistake, narrow streets.

  • @senyaiv
    @senyaiv Před 5 lety +4

    0:28 Mattupolis
    11:38 Greenfield
    22:08 GDMC Comp.

  • @deathbygrapes5
    @deathbygrapes5 Před 5 lety +5

    From my experience of Vancouver, this accurately depicts the city

    • @deathbygrapes5
      @deathbygrapes5 Před 5 lety +2

      Especially the style of road and building style, also, Vancouver has parks, the forest was a park

  • @apexbrachydios5385
    @apexbrachydios5385 Před 5 lety +4

    "I basically got mugged in a parking lot" laughed so hard

  • @usernamexax8384
    @usernamexax8384 Před 5 lety

    Probably the best video I seen this year!

  • @trevinbeattie4888
    @trevinbeattie4888 Před 4 lety

    Having recently gotten myself into Minecraft as well, it was fun seeing your reaction to monsters and animals. :D

  • @Megan-hu5is
    @Megan-hu5is Před 5 lety +22

    In the auto-generated city, the "aquaponics" are simply small farms in the way that minecraft manages them. Blocks with crops on them have to be within a certain range of water, so you'll see stripes of water and crops.

  • @TheTimader
    @TheTimader Před 4 lety +3

    In my experience Austin has this steep density curve at the moment. I would love to see a video critiquing Austins infrastructure, and city planning over the past 30 years.

  • @richh7647
    @richh7647 Před 4 lety +2

    Wait till this guy heard about the 1:1 scaling of Earth into Minecraft.

    • @richh7647
      @richh7647 Před 4 lety

      @Matt B czcams.com/video/0eyyuNvKNzw/video.html
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  • @thatquietbuilder3550
    @thatquietbuilder3550 Před 5 lety

    Nice city I really liked the bridge. that turned out to be my favorite part of this build

  • @TheKnightXavier
    @TheKnightXavier Před 5 lety +17

    More informative than I would have imagined coming into the video! Thanks dude, really enjoyed this.

    • @CityBeautiful
      @CityBeautiful  Před 5 lety +3

      Glad you enjoyed it!

    • @TheKnightXavier
      @TheKnightXavier Před 5 lety +2

      @@CityBeautiful Oh yo, as I have your attention. I'm curious, are there any pointers you could give a student interested in working in urban planning and sustainability? As in what sort of roadmap through education and into the workforce one might follow to end up working in urban planning?

    • @CityBeautiful
      @CityBeautiful  Před 5 lety +4

      Are you in high school or university? The shortest way to get into planning is major in urban studies/geography, do some internships, and get a low-level planning position, either with a municipality or private firm. If you already have a degree (or are too far along in a major to switch), it might make sense to get a Masters degree in planning, then enter the workforce.

    • @TheKnightXavier
      @TheKnightXavier Před 5 lety +1

      @@CityBeautiful Great, thanks for the response. Currently I'm in university majoring in Resource and Environmental Management. Was looking to get a certificate in sustainable planning alongside this. Internship and co-op are things I've wondered about. Seems like experience while studying is key to getting desirable work placement post graduation.

    • @CityBeautiful
      @CityBeautiful  Před 5 lety

      Yep, very helpful!

  • @hpsauce1078
    @hpsauce1078 Před 5 lety +22

    Ahhh Green field gives me nightmares of the Suzhou Industrial Park in China, just a thought, you could do a video on that or Chinese style urbanisation which would be really interesting

  • @mysteria_1305
    @mysteria_1305 Před 4 lety +2

    It usually takes about a hour to make small homes more depending on the detail. So I’m guessing it would take a while to break all the blocks then build a new building.
    They have villagers yet no vehicles

  • @vaevictus4637
    @vaevictus4637 Před 5 lety +1

    This was an absolutely insightful and fun to watch video!

  • @presidentcyanats4005
    @presidentcyanats4005 Před 5 lety +37

    Yay, a new episode, and my favorite game. Is this heaven?

  • @Oddity2994
    @Oddity2994 Před 4 lety +5

    "why can't we get more people in the cities" people who make skyscrapers in minecraft don't tend to decorate the inside. also randomly generated villages do have villagers.

    • @mastertrams
      @mastertrams Před 4 lety +1

      Pfffff... Have you never been to Flush City???

    • @Oddity2994
      @Oddity2994 Před 3 lety

      @@mastertrams no

    • @insert_username_here
      @insert_username_here Před 3 lety

      @@Oddity2994 Greenfield actually does furnish the insides of all buildings.

  • @boylogan1011
    @boylogan1011 Před 5 lety

    The only thing I thought was off was the colour palette in the second one. The buildings were so impressive it must have taken so long.
    You explain a lot of things that I never would have even considered, nice video.

  • @michaelipsen3667
    @michaelipsen3667 Před 5 lety

    Loved the video, entertaining and informative at the same time!
    A quick few tips for any future Minecraft map reviews...
    In settings:
    1: turn off clouds.
    2: Turn up render distance as high as your PC can handle smoothly.
    During gameplay:
    Remember to fly down near the road to give a more immersive look to the city. Fly down by pressing left shift.
    Great work! Thank you for the video :)

  • @raresnandra2145
    @raresnandra2145 Před 5 lety +5

    Do a ctities skylines one

  • @Brandon-qr8zz
    @Brandon-qr8zz Před 5 lety +10

    Wait a minute that’s Detroit’s street and highway map on the title slide.

  • @sebbies
    @sebbies Před 5 lety

    6:00 reminds me of the little area around Pike Place in Seattle. The little roads filled with old houses/buildings

  • @drycleanonly
    @drycleanonly Před 5 lety +1

    Really interesting idea you bought up near the end about algorithims being able to plan and develop real life cities. Loved this video man.

  • @alicegonzalez8234
    @alicegonzalez8234 Před 5 lety +5

    Muse, The Second Law album cover at 6:44

  • @prada6357
    @prada6357 Před 5 lety +3

    Do more videos like this 😁

  • @loganbaileysfunwithtrains606

    Minecraft cities are always fun to build, really is interesting to see how they turn out and I even enjoy the redevelopment of areas where I tear down buildings and rebuild roadways. A lot of people think it’s a hassle but I enjoy it and I take screen shots to have before and after pictures like when I changed the streets from cobblestone and brick to concrete and asphalt

  • @EchoHeo
    @EchoHeo Před 5 lety

    Well... I've never thought I'd be interested in like city planning stuff..but oh well you got a new subscriber :D

  • @unclestarwarssatchmo9848
    @unclestarwarssatchmo9848 Před 5 lety +5

    I think Minecart Rapid Transit might be of interest to you

  • @AlexandPedro
    @AlexandPedro Před 5 lety +5

    Wow! New intro!

  • @TheCentralTexasRailfan

    18:29 talks about sign ordinances. *RoboTech sign in upper right*
    Love your videos!

  • @RyuuTenno
    @RyuuTenno Před 5 lety

    I love the remark in the video about "lack of people" in these cities. Classic Minecraft, has randomly generated towns, which tend to come with villagers, but, honestly, I'm sure that, attempting to spawn in villagers into these cities would likely crash the systems.
    As for the lack of vehicles, I've got an older version of Greenfield that I downloaded sometime back. And, in there, they've got loads of trains, cars, trucks, etc. in various places, and even a spot with a fire engine putting out a fire.
    However, I'd love to see the kind of city you would make in Minecraft. Though, I would like to suggest sticking either with the Java Edition, or the newer cross platform version. This one would allow just about anyone to join and help you build a really good city.
    And, yes, do go over the Cities: Skylines cities, because, I've seen a few videos from people playing, and that game looks spectacular, would love to see what you can find on it. :)