Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-the-lively-liveable-neighbourhoods-that-are-illegal-in-most-of-north-america The pockets of retail & restaurants dotted throughout residential neighbourhoods in the Netherlands bring a liveliness and utility to the neighbourhood - and even help solve traffic congestion. Learn how this kind of urban design has been illegal in most of the US and Canada for a century, and why it should be brought back. Want to support Not Just Bikes? Check out my Patreon. Sign up to Nebula and watch ad-free and sponsor-free: https://go.nebula.tv/notjustbikes Patreon: https://patreon.com/notjustbikes Twitter: https://twitter.com/notjustbikes Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/notjustbikes One-time donations: https://notjustbikes.com/donate NJB Live (my bicycle livestream channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9v57F4xz46KaDsvWfCv8yw --- Image & Video Credits: Video of walking Taipei courtesy of Taiwan4K: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkfBrSh2-Nc City Beautiful - An Introduction to Zoning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kVWDWMcLT4 Photograph of Widnes in the late 19th century showing the effects of industrial pollution (public domain): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Widnes_Smoke.jp Zoning map of London, Ontario © 2003-2020 City Of London: https://london.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=20327d3bcfb34bb488a7c3f74c05d2d3 City Beautiful - The Case Against Single-Family Zoning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajSEIdjkU8E Canadian Shows Milk in Bags by DeadVoidStudios (YouTube) (Creative Commons Attribution licence (reuse allowed)): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f90_WksXi60 That one little pocket of commercial within a residential neighbourhood on the London, Ontario zoing map is this conveniece store and haircutters: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.0092242,-81.3111312,3a,75y,300.41h,73.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1saHEY1TlETYpmGmZ-WO2wHA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=yt Map of the "Yellow Belt" in Toronto, MapTO: http://www.mapto.ca/maps/2017/3/4/the-yellow-belt The "Yellow Belt" concept comes originally from urban planner Gil Meslin: https://twitter.com/g_meslin #urbanplanning #mixedusedevelopment #liveablecities