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How to Make an Attractive City

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

Why HN readers recommended it

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

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
The School of Life
Topic
city planning
Format
explainer
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
4
HN mentions in dataset
6
Recommendation years in dataset
2015–2018

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

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

  • Because there are ugly cities and there are beautiful cities. And they are so for a reason. This video is really informative in this regard and has changed my opinion on a few things: [VIDEO]

    konschubert on Hacker News · 2018-04
    In The Dow of Cities
  • This video captures quite a bit of what I consider important in city planning, would be interested to hear your thoughts on it: [VIDEO]

    ZenoArrow on Hacker News · 2015-10
    In Land-value tax: Why Henry George had a point
  • What do you think of the ideas in this video: [VIDEO] I believe it captures most of what is important in making a livable city that people enjoy living in.

    ZenoArrow on Hacker News · 2015-10
    In Land-value tax: Why Henry George had a point

Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.