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** The thumbnail image for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIeWLDwnOXM To Improve a STROAD: How One City Is Reimagining an Orphan Highway]] is tilted "Were We're Going We Don't Need Stroads" after the famous line from ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vWW7bHWiA0 "How Seattle Is Becoming an Urbanism Juggernaut (Maybe in Spite of Itself)"]] Ray notes that sidewalks do not extend into the neighborhood were he grew up in North Seattle, and says that he grew up ''Literature/WhereTheSidewalkEnds'' which he calls the poetry for the episode.

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** The thumbnail image for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIeWLDwnOXM To Improve a STROAD: How One City Is Reimagining an Orphan Highway]] is tilted "Were "Where We're Going We Don't Need Stroads" after the famous line from ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vWW7bHWiA0 "How Seattle Is Becoming an Urbanism Juggernaut (Maybe in Spite of Itself)"]] Ray notes that sidewalks do not extend into the neighborhood were where he grew up in North Seattle, and says that he grew up ''Literature/WhereTheSidewalkEnds'' which he calls the poetry for the episode.



** A casual line in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Bw4xRSW3Y Let's Shame the Awful Land Use of America's Ten Worst State Capitals]] is ''"After all, governing is hard, especially with a population as abjectly idiotic as a lot of Americans are."''
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** A casual line in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Bw4xRSW3Y Let's Shame the Awful Land Use of America's Ten Worst State Capitals]] is ''"After "After all, governing is hard, especially with a population as abjectly idiotic as a lot of Americans are."''
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* ShoutOut: The thumbnail image for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIeWLDwnOXM To Improve a STROAD: How One City Is Reimagining an Orphan Highway]] is tilted "Were We're Going We Don't Need Stroads" after the famous line from ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''

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** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vWW7bHWiA0 "How Seattle Is Becoming an Urbanism Juggernaut (Maybe in Spite of Itself)"]] Ray notes that sidewalks do not extend into the neighborhood were he grew up in North Seattle, and says that he grew up ''Literature/WhereTheSidewalkEnds'' which he calls the poetry for the episode.
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* ScareQuotes: The quotations used in the title of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou5xmqgkN9c We "Honored" Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. With These Travesties]]" make Ray's opinion on honoring Dr. King with stroads quite clear.
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** ''"I think theres a business opportunity in consulting with developers and making sure their ideas aren't completely bonkers stupid."''

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* VivaLasVegas: Discusses Vegas tourism and points out the many downsides and hostile engineering traits of the Strip since Ray lived in Vegas. Discusses several plans which might improve the experience for tourists and locals alike by main it less focused on cars instead of the scores of pedestrians.

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* VivaLasVegas: Discusses Vegas tourism and points out the many downsides and hostile engineering traits of the Strip since Ray lived in Vegas. Discusses several plans which might improve the experience for tourists and locals alike by main making it less focused on cars instead of the scores of pedestrians.
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[=CityNerd=] is a Platform/YouTube channel by former city planner Ray Delahanty presenting information about cities, land use and transportation in a dry manner, peppered with sarcasm and running jokes.

In addition to the regular weekly videos the channel also produces the City Visits series and created the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkqErPfC4Ajq1-2GL7caK27NhadpJBFDF Investigating Heinous Land Uses]] series.

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[=CityNerd=] is a Platform/YouTube channel by former city planner Ray Delahanty presenting information about cities, land use and transportation in a dry manner, peppered with sarcasm and running jokes.

jokes. Most of the videos are focused on North American infrastructure and culture as Ray is from the United States.

In addition to the regular weekly videos the channel has also produces the City Visits produced a few series and created the [[https://www.with more specific focuses:
* ''[[https://www.
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkqErPfC4Ajrwq2-lnMN-_gteQ2Z6Zglr Top Tens]]"
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkqErPfC4AjrlsfUiseyItkP7uQg7chJG City Visits]]''
* ''[[https://www.youtube.
com/playlist?list=PLkqErPfC4Ajq1-2GL7caK27NhadpJBFDF Investigating Heinous Land Uses]] series.
Uses]]''

The channel may be located at [[https://www.youtube.com/@CityNerd this link]].
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* {{Satire}}: While many videos on the channel use dry humor and sarcasm to address political choices that have resulted in poor and dangerous city planning the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkqErPfC4Ajq1-2GL7caK27NhadpJBFDF Investigating Heinous Land Uses]] series is dripping with satire on the racism, corruption, cluelessness and greed behind many of the zoning laws that require poor and uses.

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* {{Satire}}: While many videos on the channel use dry humor and sarcasm to address political choices that have resulted in poor and dangerous city planning the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkqErPfC4Ajq1-2GL7caK27NhadpJBFDF Investigating Heinous Land Uses]] series is dripping with satire on the racism, corruption, cluelessness and greed behind many of the zoning laws that require poor and land uses.
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* MoneyToBurn: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXblFO4_YQY CityNerd Responds to Truck-splainers]]" makes a deadpan comparison between spending tons of money on rapidly depreciating oversized trucks to piling your money in the street and setting it on fire, and says he's happy to support your right to do both but that people should have a choice not to.
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** ''"I think theres a business opportunity in consulting with developers and making sure their ideas aren't completely bonkers stupid."'

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** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v537SEfDag Stroad vs. Stroad: Land Use, Traffic Engineering, and What Happens When Suburban Arterials Intersect]] Ray says that while he loves to do top ten lists of bad infrastructure he doesn't even now were he'd start on such a list of the "Ten Most Offensively Large Intersections" after a viewer pointed him to the intersection of [=SR7=] and Forest Hill Ave in West Palm Beach, then says maybe they're all in Florida.

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** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v537SEfDag Stroad vs. Stroad: Land Use, Traffic Engineering, and What Happens When Suburban Arterials Intersect]] Ray says that while he loves to do top ten lists of bad infrastructure he doesn't even now were know where he'd start on such a list of the "Ten Most Offensively Large Intersections" after a viewer pointed him to the intersection of [=SR7=] and Forest Hill Ave in West Palm Beach, then says maybe they're all in Florida.
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** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v537SEfDag Stroad vs. Stroad: Land Use, Traffic Engineering, and What Happens When Suburban Arterials Intersect]] Ray says that while he loves to do top ten lists of bad infrastructure he doesn't even now were he'd start on such a list of the "Ten Most Offensively Large Intersections" after a viewer pointed him to the intersection of SR7 and Forest Hill Ave in West Palm Beach, then says maybe they're all in Florida.

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** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v537SEfDag Stroad vs. Stroad: Land Use, Traffic Engineering, and What Happens When Suburban Arterials Intersect]] Ray says that while he loves to do top ten lists of bad infrastructure he doesn't even now were he'd start on such a list of the "Ten Most Offensively Large Intersections" after a viewer pointed him to the intersection of SR7 [=SR7=] and Forest Hill Ave in West Palm Beach, then says maybe they're all in Florida.
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* {{Documentary}}: The City Visit series are documentaries focusing on the transit and pedestrian development of various cities.
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->''"This is [=CityNerd=], weekly content on cities and transportation. Viewer suggested topics always welcome."''

[=CityNerd=] is a Platform/YouTube channel by former city planner Ray Delahanty presenting information about cities, land use and transportation in a dry manner, peppered with sarcasm and running jokes.

In addition to the regular weekly videos the channel also produces the City Visits series and created the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkqErPfC4Ajq1-2GL7caK27NhadpJBFDF Investigating Heinous Land Uses]] series.

!!Tropes in [=CityNerd=] videos:
* BigEater: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Pj6TcNP6Y&t=759s What Makes POWER CENTERS Bad for Cities: Investigating Heinous Land Uses, Episode 1]] Ray contemplates the type of person who would need to use the dedicated walkway between a Texas Roadhouse and a Golden Coral, concluding that anyone going to both on one trip should get a gold star and a free consultation with a gastroenterologist.
* TheComicallySerious: A huge part of the appeal and humor of the channel comes from Ray's deadpan dry delivery of utterly ridiculous lines mixed in with the factoids and research.
* CuteKitten: Videos recorded at home tend to end with a clip of the cat while credits run off to the side, were they won't cross over the cute feline.
* FlatJoy: When acknowledging subscription milestones in videos Ray maintains his deadpan delivery and says thanks, while superimposing a very basic confetti effect over the video.
* HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure: The subscriber count was always done using the biggest stadium they could fill, up until [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHbcRQc1E6Q What Makes Lifestyle Centers Bad for Cities: Investigating Heinous Land Uses, Episode 3]] which used Michigan Stadium and was the final video including subscriber count because it was the biggest stadium for which good satellite imagery was available.
* HummerDinger: Several videos address the dangers and costs of oversized vehicles and the staggering rate at which the size of persona trucks in the US has increased. The second such video also addresses the mindset of some owners of such vehicles since they attacked his first video on the subject in mass defending their choices and threatening harm to other road users.
* NumberOfObjectsTitle: The TopTenList videos all include the list name in the title, there are also other videos such as ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE5G1kTndI4 56 High Speed Rail Links We Should've Built Already]]'' which fit the format.
* RunningGag: Calling the Cheesecake Factory the finest of dining establishments, and using it as a destination when graphing travel data. He also regularly acts confused by bad Cheesecake Factory reviews.
* SarcasticTitle: The subtitle for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v537SEfDag Stroad vs. Stroad: Land Use, Traffic Engineering, and What Happens When Suburban Arterials Intersect]], a video focusing on the dangers and unattractiveness of stroads, is "The Joy of Suburban Intersections".
* {{Satire}}: While many videos on the channel use dry humor and sarcasm to address political choices that have resulted in poor and dangerous city planning the [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkqErPfC4Ajq1-2GL7caK27NhadpJBFDF Investigating Heinous Land Uses]] series is dripping with satire on the racism, corruption, cluelessness and greed behind many of the zoning laws that require poor and uses.
* SelfDeprecation: Frequent during calls for likes and subscriptions on videos, such as "Drop a like on the video if you enjoy detailed explorations of intersection ops, and really who doesn't".
* ShoutOut: The thumbnail image for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIeWLDwnOXM To Improve a STROAD: How One City Is Reimagining an Orphan Highway]] is tilted "Were We're Going We Don't Need Stroads" after the famous line from ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''
* ShownTheirWork: Any video including graphs or statistics includes an explanation of how things were calculated and sources of information.
* TakeThat:
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v537SEfDag Stroad vs. Stroad: Land Use, Traffic Engineering, and What Happens When Suburban Arterials Intersect]] Ray says that while he loves to do top ten lists of bad infrastructure he doesn't even now were he'd start on such a list of the "Ten Most Offensively Large Intersections" after a viewer pointed him to the intersection of SR7 and Forest Hill Ave in West Palm Beach, then says maybe they're all in Florida.
** Calls mattress stores money laundering operations.
** Every city and state DOT featured in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln5oTdi8CNM Traffic Engineers Gone Wild: Why Interchanges and Intersections are Getting Worse, Not Better]]'' is given all the snide commentary their featured planning deserves.
** A casual line in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Bw4xRSW3Y Let's Shame the Awful Land Use of America's Ten Worst State Capitals]] is ''"After all, governing is hard, especially with a population as abjectly idiotic as a lot of Americans are."''
** ''"I think theres a business opportunity in consulting with developers and making sure their ideas aren't completely bonkers stupid."'
* TopTenList: Many videos are top ten lists of cities rated by affordability, transit or other things such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mh1UctlSOg On the Right Track: The 10 Most Improved Cities In the U.S. for Transit, Walking, and Biking ]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qzePci2N6E Affordable Cities: 10 US Metro Areas With Underrated Livability, Walkability and Transit]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQRqvfqpPe4 Is "Small City Urbanism" an Oxymoron? 10 Undervalued Cities to Ponder]]
* TheThemeParkVersion: Mocks Lifestyle Centers, especially those that don't include any housing, as near dystopian artificial imitations of the longed for main streets the same type of car centric development helped to destroy in much of North America.
* VerbalBackspace: When describing typical businesses on stroads one is money laundering operations, which is quickly corrected to mattress stores.
* VivaLasVegas: Discusses Vegas tourism and points out the many downsides and hostile engineering traits of the Strip since Ray lived in Vegas. Discusses several plans which might improve the experience for tourists and locals alike by main it less focused on cars instead of the scores of pedestrians.
* YouTuberApologyParody: In response to the negative response to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIy5uv5-VrE Problems with Pickup Trucks: Why the Growing Share of Large Vehicles is Bad for Everyone]] Ray released [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXblFO4_YQY Inside the Mind of the Pickup Truck Owner: CityNerd Responds to Truck-splainers]] in which he responds to several of the individual comments with sarcastic apologies. The video does not try to actually paint itself as a true apology video though, since it merely doubles down on the things stated in the first one.

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