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Hey Guys, can I go around by bike with you both?? Please Please Please.... getting in Ann Arbor in September! :)

vote NO on consolidating power to ONE person.. If you're councilmembers are not careful, the city/town/ county manager will usually turn into a autocracy form of local government, with the mayor and council only used as a vote to get stuff done.

Great work on this video. I want to point out that the light fixtures chosen do have a nice appearance but they are not good for preventing light pollution. More info darksky.org/

Hey Kirk, are you an urban planner? I really appreciate this video. I've been considering visiting Ann Arbor and, as an urban planner, I am more intrigued now after watching this video. Many thanks.

Bias. Government, whether city, county, state, or federal a business. They are not corporations who's sole purpose is to make a profit regardless of the negative impact on society. Government, at least in this Democratic Republic, is supposed to be ran by citizens: Teachers, soccer moms, the high school gym coach, farmers, veterans, ex-cons, - people. Just plain regular flawed people. That was the purpose of our Founding Fathers; it was the whole idea. "We the People", not "The Corporation personhood", which does not and will never exist. Government of, by, and for the People put the People First. Government ran like a business with people who possess a corporate mind set do not.

Awesome video with great observations.

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I really wish this video had subtitles! I am hard of hearing and interested in urban planning, but it's so hard to find videos with subtitles that I can watch.

الي جاي من كلاس مونيكا يسدحلنا لايك :))

This is great!!

Kirk, if you can make a video of this quality on local government, state, and federal budget process, it would be awesome.

Kirk, thank you for this awesome video. Very, very helpful and insightful. Local governments matter a whole lot. People need to know how their cities are run. Thank you.

yes retail and restaurants, mixed with residential. give the market some choice, when it comes to housing. one thing that pisses me off about michigan, is that, aside from ann arbor, and maybe downtown detroit, there are very limited mixed use housing options. we simply dont have that kind of zoning, in municipal agendas. if an epiphany took place, about how much economic activity and efficient use of public resources, stood to be gained from mx, we would enact such policies imminently.

Agreed, Caleb-thanks for the compliment!

Thank you Kirk for the labor that went into putting this video together. Healthy government ideas don't replicate and spread just because they are have merit. Good governance must be championed. Often the payoff for such energy is not appreciated in the moment. Keep up the good work!

a downtown must be more than a commercial district, it has to have people living in it as well. those people who simply dont want to live in a suburban ranch, rather in a mixed use building that is indistinguishable from the downtown itself. build more mixed use condos and apartments, hotels, senior living, etc. or rather zone for them on those damn parking lots, and people will come.

Thanks for the comment. Agreed! Typically retail and restaurants make downtown living more attractive.

the way to have a lively downtown is to have people live there. a downtown is not suppose to be simply a commercial district...

that's what I'm studying:)

Thank you, Wayne. I'm glad it was helpful for you!

Very impressed with this video, it inspired some ideas for a short documentary on my downtown. Would love to chat about any new ideas you have on the topic. Aan Arbor seems to have some similarities to my hometown, we definitely can learn from these insights on what people like.

Wow thank you for making this video. This video has helped me prepare for my final exam and has interested me in government much more than before.

Go blue. Good job on the video.

Hi, this is great and as a land use planner I see the benefit and I was raised in the old row homes in Louisville. I also design walkable communities as well and have a new 5 minute video at otis31755 or geo-life.org

Very interesting and very well done! Thank you, Kirk!

Im an urban planning student at Florida Atlantic University and just wanted to say good work on the video. I was also wondering if I could see how you formulated your survey questioners.

Good Stuff Man

Dude soo cool!!

I just watched this video AGAIN. I think I've seen it seven or eight times. I really have to thank you for making it. Your film is what gave me the inspiration to make films like this full time. Thanks again and again and again. JC

Awesome job! I loved it! Showcased off our town very well and what makes it special.

cool video. I'm going to college next year, and I'm thinking of being an urban planner too. I just got the book City Building, by John Lunk Kriken, and it talks about those famous urban planners at the beginning: Kevin Lynch, Jane Jacobs, and Daniel Burnham

found your video very interesting thanks!

cool! i enjoyed watching the video. very interesting! reminds me of the things that need to be done in OUR downtown... thanks for posting this!

Any way I could use this video for a research project? It would work so perfectly. Nice film! Please let me know.

nice vid!

interesting . . . . .

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GREAT SHOW! I grew up outside of this city

The parking sucks, still love Ann Arbor, good overview, coffee and the bookstore for me.

Congestion and parking.... Seems interesting how we like to give most of our street space up to the least spatially efficient mode of transportation. Active transportation such as walking and cycling is the best way to enjoy a street-scape. Think about it, every minute you sit in a car is a minute you could have been moving.

Needs more bicycles! Ann Arbor would be an amazing place to visit if they closed its streets to through traffic.

Great Film - the cooperative work of wide sidewalks, outdoor congregational areas, and peoplewindows are things Austinites all wish Guadalupe Street could accomplish. I was wondering what you thought of other architectural motifs like Lapidus' 'curved facade' or Gehrian forms permeating the grid structure...

lol, j4lyfz if you've ever been to a2- they didn't solve problems like congestion and parking. there's costly public parking by 'rebuplic parking' and extremely rare free parking which requires a minimum of 3 blocks of walking. if you are trying to get in or out of the city especially on main street during any sort of slight congestion it's hellish.

Visiting Main street a few yrs in a row on my birthday .. actually prompted me to move to Ann Arbor from Toledo Oh :-)

excellent.

Great video!

What a great video!

Great Video

I work in urban planning in Las Vegas. I really enjoyed your video.

Yes, I do. After living in Michigan for all of my life, five years ago I moved to New Brunswick, NJ, about 30 miles outside NYC. While I love New York, I really miss Michigan.