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How to Make an Attractive City

The School of Life · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Transit, cities & urban planningVisual arts, photography & architecture

What it is

The School of Life sets out principles for making attractive cities, arguing that the art has been lost in the modern world.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended in urban planning and housing threads as a concise summary of what makes cities livable and beautiful.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2018

What HN commenters said

  1. “This video is really informative in this regard and has changed my opinion on a few things”

    Informative on why some cities are beautiful

    konschubert, 2018-04 · Strong recommendation · in “The Dow of Cities”

  2. “This video captures quite a bit of what I consider important in city planning”

    Captures important principles of city planning

    ZenoArrow, 2015-10 · Recommendation · in “Land-value tax: Why Henry George had a point”

  3. “the same channel offers some more ideas and broader view solutions.”

    Broader ideas and solutions for attractive cities

    matkam, 2016-01 · Recommendation · in “San Francisco's Fog Over Growth”

  4. “made a video that explains that pretty well.”

    Explains why building guidelines make cities beautiful

    cleansy, 2018-06 · Recommendation · in “Future generations will laugh in horror and derision at the folly of facadism”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: urbanism, beautiful cities, architecture, livability, school of life

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