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@realimbored668
7 ай бұрын
Oh god not another royal match ad
@tonyb92681
7 ай бұрын
I live in Levittown, PA. We actually are not a city. We are actually parts of 4 separate municipalities: Bristol, Falls and Middletown Township, as well as Tullytown Borough. Because Levittown was nearly entirely residential, it was decided not to incorporate since there would be no commercial tax base to help carry the costs of a large community
@AndreA-dl5po
7 ай бұрын
This is a massive issue in the Seattle area. Unincorporated suburban areas in King, the largest county are almost entirely residential with much of the housing older postwar suburban development. Though they have city like densities neighboring cities don't want to annex them due to massive costs and none of the areas are feasible to incorporate on their own. The result is that there is poor police coverage and each year more infrastructure funding gets deferred and conditions keep deteriorating.
@SagaciousSilence
7 ай бұрын
Another fun example in California is California City, which is a failed attempt to create the next big city in California. Today, it’s nothing more than a bunch of gridded streets with no buildings.
@stickynorth
7 ай бұрын
Great video! I'd love to see a companion piece on FAILED Pre-planned cities... I.e. Salton City and California City, California to name just a few... Coyote Springs, NV being the most recent one I can think of... Even Canada has its share... Bamberton, BC (never built Italian-hillside neo traditional development N of Victoria), Nordegg, Alberta... I grew up in a town that was expected to house 25,000 by 1990 but never grew beyond 5300 or so, so there are several parts of town where lots were planned, serviced and road were cut but not really built. They were some of my favorite places to play as a kid... In the empty backyards of phantom households that never moved to town...
@ocularpatdown
7 ай бұрын
Oh, that's right: California City. That one went down in flames. I don't remember Salton City.
@YouveBeenMiddled
7 ай бұрын
PBS Did a pretty cool 2-part on the San Luis Valley, CO. HUGE area of pre-plotted land (including _some_ streets) without *any* services. Still selling plots to unsuspecting people. kzitem.info/news/bejne/paimvK6tkayHnpg
@miketackabery7521
7 ай бұрын
@@ocularpatdownI remember Salton City. What a losing idea THAT was.
@billnotice9957
7 ай бұрын
I just wish places like Detroit where there are miles of vacant or abandoned property would be redeveloped into a preprogramed city. Solve the out-of-control crime and allow residents to take school funding with them if they home school or send their child to a charter school. It might work. I forget. Cancel the 4% city income tax.
@MrChilili
7 ай бұрын
Yeah, and it’s easy to raise the land value too because it’s so close to downtown. Not a bad idea
@mynameismaxdowis
7 ай бұрын
How would canceling a city’s income tax lead to redevelopment?
@billnotice9957
7 ай бұрын
@@mynameismaxdowis If you make 50K a year. That is 2K out of check. City income taxes cause many people who have lots of income to FLEE. I live in a house near by Detroit that is paid for. I collect many dividends and income cash from working. If I lived in Detroit. I would be handing over 21K a year to the city! I would sell my place for ZERO to escape that. With me GONE. (My house is only worth 80K.) The local stores and restraunts lose me as a customer. The local car repair, the works. The downward spiral begins. Being post children age. I would love a pre planned city to grow old in.
@RealGJZig
7 ай бұрын
However, @@billnotice9957, there are *MANY* other cities that have high earners who stay. Maybe not because of their paying an extra tax, but because of the services that those taxes provide for the greater population. For example, the NYC income tax kept the subway afloat when GOP President told NYC they weren't going to get help from the Feds. In other places, it's opened libraries, funded schools, kept the essential services going. Now, if you like a low intellect population, if you don't want kids to eat, if you want trash piled up im the streets and the police department disbanded (not an entirely bad thing), by all means, eliminate the city income tax. Eliminate all taxes, period. Remove regulations, too. (Who needs clean water? Let your grandbaby have lead paint chips as a snack, while you wonder why your brakes failed on the new car you bought.) When you look at it, our taxes bring a lot of good to many people, and to quote Theodore & Franklin Roosevelt: "To whom much is given, much is expected."
@dc2guy2
7 ай бұрын
@billnotice9957 so you think public schools should be shut down and education completely privatized? also.. "If you make 50K a year. That is 2K out of check." just to clarify..you don't mean 2K out of each check right? because even if paid on a monthly basis at 50K/year (~$4,167/month) that would mean Detroit has a 50% state income tax....which it doesn't lol
@ocularpatdown
7 ай бұрын
I still half-curse L'Enfant, as I have yet to master getting around Washington DC, after living for eight years in the area. I live very close to two other planned cities: Columbia, MD and Greenbelt, MD.
@edwardmiessner6502
7 ай бұрын
Is it because of the avenues or is it because of the numbered and lettered streets are duplicated for each quarter? That is, N.E., S.E., N.W., and S.W.?
@typoman1
7 ай бұрын
how is this guy so entertaining to watch? He never disappoints when a new video drops
@marsgal42
7 ай бұрын
Here in B.C. pre-planned and company town often go together. When the company goes away, so does the town. Think Ocean Falls, Tumbler Ridge. Kitimat is still there, trying to reinvent itself.
@gclayton86
7 ай бұрын
Kinda surprised that two of the biggest examples of pre-planned cities didn't make the cut. New York City (Manhattan specifically) and the greater Salt Lake area were both planned from the beginning. The plan of the City of New York for example covered basically the entire island, specifically reserving space for a Central Park, and is why it's almost a perfect grid. Similarly the Plat of Zion planned out the use of the Salt Lake valley which mostly continues to this day with an almost perfect grid and was used extensively in Mormon territories throughout the state and even has influences in Mormon settlements in Nevada and Arizona.
@thebatterymill
7 ай бұрын
Reston, Columbia, The Woodlands are incredible to talk about on their own
@teasy2518
7 ай бұрын
Awesome video Beaver!! Some OLDER planned communities can fall short when it comes to fostering authentic connection and vibrancy. Maybe for a followup video you can look at newer planned commuities that have learned from these examples and maybe offer a hopeful counterpoint to the concerns from the communities shown here? New Urbanist communities like Seaside, Florida could offer an inspiring perspective. These communities were designed with the midset of human connection and placemaking - which showcases how modern urban design is actively striving to create places people adore. Celebration, Florida is another (the counter to Gary) and Kentlands, Maryland!
@dougthebigdp314
7 ай бұрын
My grandparents moved to Cape Coral in 1968 and when we would visit the amount of house building and stuff like strip malls was amazing. I could never have lived there due to humidity although the thunderstorms were amazing.
@carringtonpageiv6210
5 ай бұрын
Being from north New Jersey I’ve always been extremely fascinated with those cookie cutter developments because I’ve never been around them growing up. We have so much history where we are that I’ve never seen these mass developed communities. At least ones that are so recently built that all the houses still look. Cookie cutter and preplanned. This is a really boring vacation idea, but I was actually just considering going to wherever the closest preplanned master community is near me… JUST to see it.
@LyleFrancisDelp
7 ай бұрын
Levitt and Sons built a nice little community in Maryland named after a former governor, Bowie. We lived there for 13 years in from 91-04. All tract homes chosen from about five different floor plans. The company also contributed to a few other communities in Maryland, such as Crofton, and Laurel.
@edwardmiessner6502
7 ай бұрын
Just a small question: is that town name pronounced pronounced "Bow-ey" as in David Bowie, or "Boo-ey" like a buoy?
@LyleFrancisDelp
7 ай бұрын
@@edwardmiessner6502 Boo-Wee. That's how they pronounce it here. Named after a former governor, Oden Bowie. I grew up in Texas, and we pronounced Jim Bowie as "Boh-Wee"
@ChasetheG
7 ай бұрын
I think it’s so funny that Ave Maria is in the center of the thumbnail, but doesn’t give its own segment in the video. I think there should be a whole video about pre-planned communities JUST in Florida.
@TheoWorkman
7 ай бұрын
There really could be. Also in that area are Lehigh Acres, his other videos shows Rotunda, then there's Lake Nona part of Orlando, and there's plans for a Mormon centric city southeast of that.
@ohhgodineedmoore2845
7 ай бұрын
@@TheoWorkmani think Sunbridge, that mormon planned city is a terrible idea. Ive seen the plans.
@ohhgodineedmoore2845
7 ай бұрын
I can think of Port Saint Lucie and Tradition, the western expansion of the city
@SofaSpy
7 ай бұрын
Technically speaking, The majority of American cities are planned. Because a lot of them are car oriented, and largely suburbia and came out of nothing. Natural cities are walkable with everything nearby. If you have to drive it means it was planned. A lot of the unplanned walkable areas were demolished for plan car oriented infrastructure
@edwardmiessner6502
7 ай бұрын
Which is a shame because they would add to the cities' tax base as pleasant walkable neighborhoods. So many urban planning abominations committed in the 1950s and 60s!
@brcurlee
7 ай бұрын
I grew up in what is now Centennial, Co. It was unincorporated county that formed a new city in the early 2000s. Not a pre planned city like Highlands Ranch. Just wanted to clarify. Cool video, I really enjoy the channel
@BeaverGeography
7 ай бұрын
Thanks for the clarification and the support!
@colormedubious4747
7 ай бұрын
Most of these examples aren't really cities. Cities have centers and edges. These don't. They're merely placeless suburban bedroom developments, especially the original abomination of Levittown, Long Island, that spurred the horrific "de-place-ification" of America's suburban and exurban communities.
@BeaverGeography
7 ай бұрын
It has to do with the government designation, not just the definition.
@colormedubious4747
7 ай бұрын
@@BeaverGeography So it's based on metro areas/MSAs? Fair enough.
@colinberry4992
7 ай бұрын
Richland Washington is an interesting example of this sort of pre planned community. It was built during ww2 in what was then the middle of knowhere to house workers for the Manhattan project building nuclear weapons.
@jeffcoleman9139
7 ай бұрын
You forgot the first planned city in the U.S. Savannah, Ga.
@revinhatol
7 ай бұрын
Whoa, what about South Bend? Even after the "Toledo War" over in Ohio, the dispute somehow pushed west to include Indiana cities like South Bend and Elkhart.
@raymondlyons361
7 ай бұрын
It may be good to look at other preplanned cities that were themed or designed for specific purposes. A good example would be Sun City (now City of Menifee) in Riverside California, which was designed as a retirement community in the 1960s. Other retirement communities in the area could include Leisure World (now Laguna Woods) in Orange County California and Leisure World Rossmoor (near Seal Beach, CA and also in Orange County).
@daveassanowicz186
7 ай бұрын
We need to talk! I have experiences! I'm originally from Bensalem, Bucks County, PA, and I am quite familiar with Levittown. I now live in Landfill.. er, I mean Lehigh Acres, Floriduh. 😢 My family is from different parts of Philadelphia. You need to check out Bristol Borough Pennsylvania, which is also in Bucks County. It was on a TV show and stuff.
@Dhi_Bee
7 ай бұрын
The Levittown in Puerto Rico is interesting considering that historically the neighborhoods & developers were notorious for being super racist (look it up if you have doubts), especially not allowing non-white & non-Christian residents (they wouldn’t let Jews live there either even though ironically Levitt was Jewish) until the civil rights movement
@LucasFernandez-fk8se
7 ай бұрын
They weren’t racists. They wanted FHA home loans. Roosevelt set forward FHA guidelines in 1935 that created redlining and stricter lending standards. The levitts weren’t racist they were just trying to maximize profit and produce enough housing for post war america. I will say Puerto Rico is an odd choice considering it’s not in the US but Levitts didn’t have any animosity towards brown people personally
@nathanweiss5174
7 ай бұрын
Surprised The Villages, FL did not make the video... a modern and ongoing planned development. They aren't as rigidly planned in road layout, but they are planned in how much space is set aside for commercial and recreational uses, not just residential. They seem to have gotten it right, at least as a relocating when you retire designed 'city' area.
@ChristianoOwen
7 ай бұрын
Columbia, Maryland
@robertcoren7318
7 ай бұрын
Have lived here since 1981. At least Jim Rouse had an ideal in mind, even if the city has changed from its original purpose. My children love that they grew up here, even if they decided to live elsewhere.
@SagaciousSilence
7 ай бұрын
Another amazing video! I love your content!
@ddrdanganvloger2187
7 ай бұрын
Well, Levittown,NY will just be part of the City of Hempstead if the town of Hempstead becomes its own city. That or the 6th borough of NYC.
@philipmiller8462
7 ай бұрын
Raleigh, NC was a planned capital and city in 1788. So, two years before DC. I believe inspiration was taken from Savannah.
@TheCriminalViolin
7 ай бұрын
It's interesting to me you didn't mentioned Longview, Washington, since usually people mention it whenever talking about "successful" large planned cities.
@AndreA-dl5po
7 ай бұрын
It would be interesting to see you do a video on the new urbanist communities planned beginning in the 90s in Washington state that DID NOT start out as purely suburban style plans like the type in Florida. They were planned for medium to high density from the very beginning. These have mostly come to fruition and have been built out in the last thirty years. Examples include Issaquah Highlands, Snoqualmie Ridge and Lakeland. On one hand, the neighborhoods are quite walkable and well kept. Polished even. On the other hand affordable housing was a glaring omission and they are not affordable areas in the slightest. Definitely not for almost anyone who isn't upper middle class.
@elwoodblues9613
7 ай бұрын
I thought about that a few years ago. Companies that do house construction need to earn a profit to stay in business, and affordable housing tends to cost more to build than it can be sold for to be considered "affordable". It's better to take older housing and refurbish it, and then it would be more possible to both provide low-cost housing and earn back the funds spent on refurbishment.
@kyleraine2395
7 ай бұрын
How did Irvine, CA not make this video?
@ahaririguy
7 ай бұрын
Like the video, just surprised Savannah, GA isn’t in this video unless it’s getting it’s own video altogether
@carnakthemagnificent336
7 ай бұрын
So I hear the position that "pre planned" cities often do not succeed. Although Gary, for decades was a place people chose to move to, and worked before economic changes, affecting multiple States impaired its viability.
@FatManWalking18
7 ай бұрын
semantic hat on: when you "pre-plan" aren't you just really "planning"? /hat off interesting factoid- Aaronsburg, PA was a planned city with the hope/ intent of being at least the county seat or possibly the state capital. in 1779
@bjdon99
7 ай бұрын
One of the best Pre-planned cities in the country is Reston VA.
@miketackabery7521
7 ай бұрын
A great success from its very beginning.
@markpickering4873
7 ай бұрын
You forgot Hershey, Pennsylvania.
@jeffking4176
7 ай бұрын
THE VILLAGES‼️ Central Florida - now runs through 3 Counties , and stretches from Ocala, to South of Leesburg‼️😮
@DMETS519
7 ай бұрын
Appreciate the video but pictures @6:00, @6:14, and @6:18 are not of Levittown NY. Somehow these pictures are always included as automatic "B roll" shots in several videos of what is supposed to be Levittown NY but 2 of which are probably of Levittown PA. And the picture @6:18 is clearly a home with a basement and of course the NY Levitt homes did not have basements.
@charlieplett
7 ай бұрын
I thought he would mention Philadelphia and William Penn.
@CodyRushDriving
7 ай бұрын
How could you not even mention America's first planned city: Savannah!
@treyhazard7318
7 ай бұрын
3:31 not the Royal Match sponsorship 💀
@EdzTech7
7 ай бұрын
Cool areas, I wish we would get a LOT more of them, then maybe my generation could afford a home. It’s the American dream our parents got that we will probably never get
@marcoszamora479
7 ай бұрын
California city
@RFE812
7 ай бұрын
I thought Lelydorp & Rosario would have been given a nod.
@yossarian6799
7 ай бұрын
No love for Hershey, PA ?
@carlwilkerson9722
7 ай бұрын
First to comment (the channel owner doesn't count)!
@BeaverGeography
7 ай бұрын
be nice
@PDXLibertarian
7 ай бұрын
1791 .... that explains the magic numbers.
@LucasLima-qi7wu
7 ай бұрын
The solution for the actual Housing crisis its already known, however the government instead of embrace it, its does what all governments do… Make everything possible to disrupt it through Over regulation, Taxation and laws disguised as “Environmental concerns”.
@mattl6948
7 ай бұрын
Look at Mariemont and Greenhills in Ohio!
@johngould6424
7 ай бұрын
Great video, but Gary, Indiana was/is not a company town…
@zarathustra7974
7 ай бұрын
How so?
@mr.oblivious1
7 ай бұрын
Indianapolis
@voidzy7
7 ай бұрын
Canberra Australia is the greatest planned city in the world
@archimedesxxicentury
7 ай бұрын
🧐 Project "The bee honeycomb model of the conglomerates"Will Solve the Problem of urbanization🐝. Archimedes XXI century 😇.
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