THE VIDEO SHELF · parking and urban planning
Cities: Skylines | Power, Politics, & Planning: Episode 1: Parking
The first episode of a Cities: Skylines series on urban politics and planning, focused on parking. It uses the game to show how parking minimums shape cities, drawing on Donald Shoup's book The High Cost of Free Parking.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a clear illustration of how parking requirements produce car-centered, unwalkable American urban design.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- donoteat01
- Topic
- parking and urban planning
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Addendum - this video (shared recently in another HN discussion) is a _fantastic_ illustration of the problems of parking minimums, made with Cities: Skylines [VIDEO]
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