Single family homes are expensive, carbon-intensive, and frankly a waste of space. With urban planning having its roots set in inequality, can housing change to become more sustainable and inclusive? Credits: Reporter: Beina Xu Video Editor: Markus Mörtz Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Michael Trobridge We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess. #PlanetA #SingleFamilyHouses #urbanplanning Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/18/upshot/cities-across-america-question-single-family-zoning.html https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rise-of-the-single-family-home/id1200361736?i=1000582267613 https://lboustan.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf4146/files/lboustan/files/research02_whiteflight.pdf https://medium.com/@danielcaesarpratama/jakarta-gated-city-3cf982bacc3 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-12-07/the-missing-link-of-climate-change-single-family-suburban-homes https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/1203/2/022028/pdf Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 01:04 Where did it come from? 04:00 Energy suck 06:05 Zoning woes 08:42 Better examples 10:15 Outro