Oh The Urbanity!: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "What People Get Wrong About Dense Urban Living", hN users repeatedly post it to rebut the idea that urban living means Manhattan or Hong Kong apartment blocks.
- 4 HN recommenders 7 months 2022–2024explainerHN users repeatedly post it to rebut the idea that urban living means Manhattan or Hong Kong apartment blocks.
- 4 HN recommenders 4 months 2022–2024explainerHN recommends it as a clear treatment of induced demand across transport modes whenever threads debate road expansion versus transit.
- 4 HN recommenders 4 months 2021–2024commentaryCited in urbanism threads as a clear argument that car-dependent suburbs impose traffic on everyone.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2022–2023explainerLinked in threads on the Idaho and Colorado safety stop as evidence that drivers already roll stop signs.
- cited 3× 0 months 2023–2024explainerCited as a real-world experiment showing that banning investors did not lower purchase prices and may have raised rents.
Questions
Which Oh The Urbanity! video does Hacker News recommend most?
What People Get Wrong About Dense Urban Living: recommended in 7 different months by 4 HN users between 2022 and 2024.
Is this every Oh The Urbanity! video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.
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