TLDR: Watching Not Just Bike and other urbanist YouTube videos alone isn’t going to do anything. We actually need to advocate for this in our local communities and city councils to get stuff done.

  • misk@sopuli.xyz
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    9 months ago

    Isn’t it the point that urban planning media raise awareness so that people go into local governments to implement those ideas? I’m not expecting content creator to run for my city council but they convinced me to contribute to local initiatives.

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      9 months ago

      Agreed, and the process of actually getting things to change can vary a lot depending on which city we’re talking about. Why should these content creator know how things work in YOUR city?

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        9 months ago

        Not these content creators specifically. This guy’s just pointing at the lack of local level content creators who promote organization of such things. As he showed, it is not as easy as getting into council meetings and “doing stuff”. There are many complexities associated with this process, that could be made much easier if there were videos on this topic.

        Also, the video mildly criticizes NJB for his recent doomerism. That is all.

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      9 months ago

      Even people in those local governments might see some of the videos and start thinking.

      A lot of people are not corrupted evil politicians, they often just don’t know any better.

      I have learned a lot from those video, examples, good and bad, from around the world that I share with people around me. I hope they will share and at some point someone that has power will hear it too.