Hi NotJustBikes,

I just left a comment on your Switzerland video, but I’m not sure if you’ll ever see it. I’m wondering if you’d be willing to consider taking a trip to China and checking out their walkable/cyclable infrastructure & their accessibility to trams/metros/trains?? I really, really think you’d fall in love with every city you could possibly go to there.

I recommended 3 youtube channels to you in the comment I left: Walk East, CN Walking, and Colorful World. Watch just the first minute or so of these videos & you’re going to fall madly in love with these cities!!! Zhuhai, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Nanning, Nanjing, Harbin, Shanghai, Chengdu, Chongqing, … the list goes on and on; these cities are BEAUTIFUL!!!

I’d love to see a video or two on China if you ever decide to go. If you go, I recommend cities like Shanghai, Zhuhai, and Suzhou. I say these cities because of the size: Shanghai, with respect to their population, is HUGE, (24.8 million) Suzhou is in between these two countries (~8.4 million), and comparatively speaking, Zhuhai is very small (2.5 million).

The thing that’s fascinating to me about all of these cities though is that they are all so well taken care of; they’re all so clean, so sleek, so modern, robust, efficient, and cutting edge in just about every way. Their train lines, walkability, & accessibility are truly unheard of to me as an American who’s not had a chance to leave the country yet.

I really hope you see this post & consider taking a trip. Godspeed!

EDIT: This is a photo of the Zhuhai Opera House!!

The candidate supported by NJB and RM Transit on NJB’s podcast, The Urbanist Agenda, won!

Was wondering what urbanism-related books people might have read or heard about. I've personally read Walkable City by Jeff Speck, which I found enjoyable and informative. I've also heard of the books written by Charles Marohn (Confessions of a Recovering Engineer and Strong Towns). What others are notable?

You can read Walkable City for free here: http://www.petkovstudio.com/bg/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Walkable-City.pdf , though it's missing anniversary edition content. Don't be scared by the page count, it's only actually like 200.

And wow; being able to walk places is amazing 😍! It's so freeing to not need a car for everything. I the US I live close enough to work to walk, but the terrible design of the stroads makes it very unpleasant. I want to stay here, I don't want to go back to the car dependent suburbs 🙁.

Unfortunately the trip was planned by my parents and we've spent a lot of time in a car traveling to places. I don't mind pretty scenery, but multiple 6 hours days of car travel is boring. And really I wanted to see the urban design, not the country side.