It's annoying when people complain that my content is "too eurocentric". And after making my Shinjuku station video a lot of people are saying that "finally" there's some "non-eurocentric" content. 🙄
I make videos about MY experiences in cities. I don't summarize a bunch of facts you could easily find on Wikipedia, Twitter, or news articles, and then lazily recite it over stock footage.
I actually GO to places, experience them in person, and over 90% of my videos is footage I filmed myself.
@notjustbikes I love the channel, great content based on personal experiences, backed by academic knowledge and very well explained. Keep on trucking! 😉
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I went with "Finally some inclusion of the other part of the world doing it right."
The comparison of Asian vs European urbanism is really interesting and valuable for the rest of us. It almost seems like two models.
You hit on what I see as the big differences. Cool video.
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I'll throw out some suggestions of non-eurocentric urbanist or adjacent video creators that I have enjoyed, and would love other suggestions:
Many years ago I was one of the many people who suggested to Robert Llewellyn's fully charged show that partnering with other presenters in other countries was worth a punt. They seemed to take that on board.
It's a open source mindset to decentralise.
BUT; I don't see your channel the same, it's more personal and your opinions and thoughts are valuable without having to be a worldwide empire.
@notjustbikes and that is why your videos are so successful. Plus the fact that what to claim is always backdrop up by proper research. Thank you for all videos, past, present and future.😘
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One thing I always appreciated about your channel is that you never pretend to be an expert in urban planning, which you are not (there are other channels for that). Instead, you formulate the daily experiences so many of us have into a more cohesive story than most of us ever could.
@notjustbikes I need to do something that's a stereotype but, well, come visit Brazil. My city's planning is horrible, the BRT line construction never finishes, but it's a huge country, there is a lot to see, maybe there is something good to find.
@notjustbikes Oh, the "eurocentric" sayers, who should not be allowed near any ballot box in the first place.
Those people declare that "X is eurocentric" all over the place, be it the general declaration of human rights, that we should treat everybody equal, that there are human needs which are shared by all members of humanity, #Esperanto or any idea which ever touched european soil.
I begin to see a pattern here. Maybe this phrase is a psyop to discredit any progressive idea.
@notjustbikes I for one really appreciate that the content you make is based from your POV where you live and travel in continental Europe. Otherwise, a large amount of content is otherwise available in the native local language (which I likely don't understand) or if it is in English, it is US focused and might as well be from another planet, lol.
@notjustbikes I hope I'm wrong, but it seems like outside of Europe and specific parts of Asia, there's not really a whole lot of non-carcentric infrastructure. If I'm right then it literally wouldn't be your fault even if you had unlimited time and money to see every single city in the world.
@notjustbikes How is the Shinjuku video "non-eurocentric"? You approach it from the exact same North Atlantic (for want of a better word) perspective as all your other content.
@notjustbikes I’m sure you got (partially) immune to the critic but it’s nice to have a video artisan. Listing video ideas for myself, I realized they are so much topics anyone can cover. It shows on the Shinjuku video, It was packed with information and the video was long already.
Shinjuku is well done. And the new passage (with all the TV with commercials) is helping a lot. Definitely the new south with the deck is a great addition.
@notjustbikes your videos are great. I don't understand the complaints. I like your lived experience videos. Perhaps when you get a big TV network contract and can afford to jet around the world with a film crew they'll be happy.