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New Suburban Wasteland and Future Videos

🕑 Added 2021-03-23 15:34:33 +0000 UTC

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Misuvva

I'm really excited to hear about the mesopotamia indus river valley one!

Donovan Seymour

This was really good! I can confirm a lot of this having grown up in a post WW2 suburb from the 90's until 2012. I was lucky to have a bit more freedom than some of the kids I knew growing up, but I had a really lonely childhood wrought with depression and other extreme mental health issues, and I believe most of it originated from my environment and lack of interaction, as most of it didn't follow me into adulthood. I struggled to make friends as the only interaction I had with other kids was at school, and when you're also isolated at school because of bullying and stress, it doesn't exactly make for a good social atmosphere . I noticed here in Portland,Oregon, while there are some pretty terrible areas for walking, even in the grid, many kids within the central city and in the older pre-WW2 suburbs with adequate space for pedestrians walk to school or even take the bus. The transit agency even adds buses specifically to their routes to accommodate the influx of kids. On top of that, there are a bunch of outdoor programs here that often bring kids out into nature to teach about the local ecology while socializing with other kids. This is a major contrast to how I grew up in California. It's not perfect, and there's plenty of work to do here, but at least it wouldn't be like starting from scratch in, say, California's central valley. I'm really loving these videos. Keep up the great work.

LegalizeRanch

Those are all really interesting topics for future vids. I'd say the second topic on broken windows, though an anthropological video sounds really great as a runner up.

Nikolas Christen

That was stellar, as with the rest of your videos. The way you transitioned from the problem to the european solution was really effective. I think I'd be interested in a video on the municipal changes that people could champion to move towards those european solutions. My family comes from Freiburg, DE, which I believe is the bicycle capital of Germany - I think the history of how that city stopped it's 'suburbanization' or ones like it would be a great way to highlight the practical changes individuals can champion.

Dori

Awesome Eco-Gecko! Looking forward to seeing this. For the next one, I would be interested in the third topic - cities for children. I grew up in a kind of suburban town, but everything was walking distance though not very shaded, which is a planning crime in a very hot country. I remember walking back home from pre-school, alone, at the age of 5.