I changed the title to be a little less clickbaity.
I debated posting this, since, while it says guerilla urbanizing is useful, there are expensive solutions to making cities more friendly to public transit and bicycles that simply require the city itself getting onboard with to fix, and the solution he proposes is to become more involved in your local city council, which on the face of it doesn’t sound super Anarchist.
I believe Murray Bookchin advocated for something along these lines, and that got him a lot of flak from the Anarchist community at in the 80’s, Though I’m struggling to find where he said that now (please post it if you happen to know!),
I’d like to know your thoughts on the proposal in the video. It does seem like since so few people participate in these areas, it would be possible to overwhelm the NIMBY’s if you got enough people involved in your local city council, or ran in local elections for positions that could influence your city’s urbanization.
@ProdigalFrog I think YouTube urban planning is great for onboarding people, and getting them aware of the issues. But yea, involvement is left at the whim of the viewer. You are the one that needs to inform yourself regarding this.
OTOH, these channels have an international audience, and local administrations work differently from country to country. They couldn’t have such great success if they focused on how to involve yourselves in local decision-making in the US, for example. Car-centric infrastructure exists and is being developed in lots of places around the world and takes different forms.
I’d recommend you this latest episode of The Urbanist Agenda podcast, for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chxbljx1k4Q