path planning
13:11Utrecht: Planning for People & Bikes, Not for Cars
756K views • 7 years ago
Streetfilms®
Streetfilms shows how Utrecht reduced car traffic in its center by removing roadways, building huge bike parking near the train station, and making cycling transitions safer and easier.
44:07Pandora's Box, E1: The Engineers' Plot
325K views • 14 years ago
nagualdesign
The first episode of Adam Curtis's 1992 BBC series Pandora's Box, on the engineers' plot, examining communism in the Soviet Union and the rise and limits of technocratic central planning.
51:44The End of Suburbia - 52 minute documentary on peak oil
580K views • 20 years ago
endofsuburbia
A 52-minute short version of the documentary The End of Suburbia, about peak oil and the end of cheap energy. It argues that American suburbs depend on cheap oil and may become the slums of the future.
25:49Walt Disney's E.P.C.O.T film (1966)
961K views • 13 years ago
The Original EPCOT
The 1966 film Walt Disney recorded weeks before his death, laying out his plans for the Florida Project and especially EPCOT, a planned city of the future. It uses models, concept art and animation to describe the circular city, monorails and people movers.
15:21URBEX | Abandoned Soviet Space Shuttles (Buran) in Baikonur
4.3M views • 9 years ago
Exploring the Unbeaten Path
Urban explorers break into the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to film the abandoned Soviet Buran space shuttles. The video shows the decaying orbiters and the dangerous trip to reach them.
13:37Internet of food: Arduino-based, urban aquaponics in Oakland
995K views • 14 years ago
Kirsten Dirksen
A short documentary about Eric Maundu's Arduino-controlled aquaponics setup in West Oakland, where contaminated soil rules out ordinary farming. Fish and circulating water grow plants without soil.