Title:سیری عمیق در تاریخ برنامه ریزی شهری در سن خوزه، کالیفرنیا

آیا می دانستید سن خوزه دهمین شهر بزرگ آمریکاست؟ یا اینکه سیستم ریل سبک آن نیاز به درمان دارد؟ این ویدیو را تماشا کنید تا درباره تاریخچه عجیب و غریب چگونگی تبدیل شدن سن خوزه به عنوان بزرگترین حومه جهان بیشتر بدانید!

قسمتي از متن فيلم: What if I were to tell you that there is a city in America with a population of over 1 million people and an economy of over 100 billion dollars but it has minimal cultural relevance sprawl like no tomorrow and a light rail networks so bad its last mayor proposed

Tearing the tracks out of the ground you’d probably call it a disaster of biblical proportions and if you had to guess you’d probably guess it’s Houston you’d be wrong let me introduce you to the Lost opportunity of a City San Jose California and where it went wrong

Before doing a deep dive we should do some general history because San Jose is so out of the national Consciousness I imagine you know next to nothing about it San Jose exists at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay area in Northern California properly called the South Bay

For obvious reasons it was inhabited by the timing group of the Ohlone people the indigenous people of much of the Bay Area for thousands of years before Spaniards arrived in the mid-1700s and claimed it as part of New Spain San Jose was founded in 1777 as a zuzic point on

El Camino Real or the Rural Road and is a site for Spain’s growing missionary Network jumping ahead a bit after Mexico’s independence Mexico and Equity policy of land grants on the theory that giving away large swaths of Lambda ranchers and Farmers would help protect their Frontier and the secularized land

To take it from the missions 15 of these land grants lie within the present-day boundaries of San Jose San Jose quickly developed from cattle ranching to fruit trees becoming among the largest fruit growing regions on Earth thanks to its mild climate that’s right San Jose and the Silicon Valley

Occupy land that is considered some of the most agriculturally productive land in the world I wonder if they plan to build a dense walkable City to help grow the city’s wealth while protecting these incredibly valuable farmlands spoiler alert they didn’t heal a manifest destiny and a hundred years later it’s

The 1940s during the second world war companies like IBM and various defense contractors moved to San Jose and laid the groundwork for San Jose’s prominence in the tech sector after the second world war San Jose City Council elected a city planner named Anthony P Hammond commonly called Dutch despite his name

He was neither from the Netherlands nor did he take any inspiration from European city planning While most sources use the term pro-growth to Define his term in office from 1950 to 1969 nice a more modern term would be referring to him as pro-sprall he worked heavily to Annex neighboring towns and

Make San Jose bigger which when paired with the Federal Highway Act of 1956 and FHA housing policy basically just built a giant suburb with half a million people up from just one hundred thousand at the start of his tenure his argument for his policies was his desire to make San Jose the regional

City of the South Bay and avoid a situation where the South Bay had several competing cities because reasons well he largely succeeded it was not without consequences and with various expansions unpaid he was kicked out in 1969. San Jose today faces the consequences of being such a large wealthy city that has

Historically been planned as a large suburb where much of the city is dominated by single-family homes and a disproportionately small downtown with the growth of the semiconductor industry came white-collar workers who preferred this led to the city and county government going all in on single-family housing developments and lots of

Freeways it’s somewhat ironic the city that started the Innovative Silicon Valley when IBM first opened a facility in Downtown San Jose in 1943 has such abundant wealth but is burned with the Dual problems of an identity crisis as a city and a massive affordability crisis

The reason I would argue San Jose is if not the worst planned city in America at least the most squandered opportunity is because they went all in on being a giant suburb at the cost of actually being a city let me present to the court exhibit a

San Jose as seen from Google Earth this is unbelievably bad you can see how tiny its downtown is since it’s been sliced by freeways on all sides it’s crisscrossed with elevated freeways with little sense of direction this is the same amount of freeway real estate gives way to insane amounts of

Parking which in turn prevents the type of denser makes use development that is the norm in most the world or even a lot of major U.S cities and replaces it with asphalt asphalt that pays no rent no taxes creates next to zero jobs increase literal divides between neighborhoods

This makes a city for lack of a better word one giant blob and able to form a more defined City characteristics like Philadelphia Chicago or even its neighbors Oakland and San Francisco for the record I’m not saying San Jose should look like Barcelona or utrich but

I think that the fact that the city has only made tepid discussions on evolving and has made very limited efforts to become more pedestrian or bike friendly is disappointing given how wealthy the city is my exhibit B is a San Jose Wikipedia article collage Wikipedia’s attempt to

Show the most important parts of San Jose it consists mostly of historic hotels I visited San Jose dozens of times in my life and I don’t recognize any of these minus one Santana Row a very wealthy mixed-use development built in the 2000s which going off just the buildings is

Pretty generic in mixed use man we second mixed use in the US so bad we call building apartments on top of shops a luxury that means that on that tiny sliver of the remaining six percent are mixed-use places like the Santana Row from earlier which due to the principles of supply

And demand end up prohibitively expensive this overall ends up reinforcing the idea that mixed use walkable neighborhoods are only for the rich or people in other countries when in reality the problem is overwhelmingly a question of zoning causing Supply constraints because when you subtract all the single-family housing roads and

Freeways the amount of area San Jose has for shops and businesses is very tiny this artificially creates scarcity and drives up the costs for both housing and businesses which is great in boom ears when you go bust you get hit hard we normally think of nimbies as people

Against anything in their backyard but San Jose somehow got infected with a bad case of nim not in my downtown despite allowing for many city annexations and lots of new housing and freeways the city seemingly decided at random to spend almost 50 years fighting its own downtown this has led to an extremely

Underwhelming downtown for what is allegedly the 10th biggest city in America and the largest in the northern California this goes all the way back to our friend A.B Hammond who annexed unincorporated County Land to help IBM move out of downtown on top of bulldozing historic buildings in the 1960s and weirdly

Putting their City Hall away from downtown until 2005. to give contacts for how underwhelming San Jose downtown is let’s go on a Google Maps walking tour starting from Veridian station one of the main Transit hubs of San Jose in the future it will have stops for both Bart and California High-Speed Rail and

Currently connects to multiple transit systems the first thing you’ll notice is there’s very little around it Beyond parking lots and I honestly wonder how they plan to handle all the traffic from Barton high speed rail is everyone just supposed to drive here you can walk a couple blocks and make it

To the sap Center home of the San Jose Sharks making a right down Santa Clara Boulevard so far we’re more or less following the future path of Bart the only thing of note so far is another freeway overpass Let’s ignore that and push through clearly a much denser area and I

Recognize some names on these towers so we must be in downtown but so far I don’t see any place I’d actually want to go to after 14 minutes of walking we find a pho place called duck four the first non-hotel bar restaurant forgive me for the pronunciation as we

Keep going I can’t help but notice there’s no bike lanes and where do these buses even stop the only physical bus stop I could find not just to Painted pole is one in front of a dentist 20-minute walk from druding station on the more positive side we just passed

The VTA Light Rail stop we’ll get to the horrors of those later we’re finally at the big payoff look familiar it’s City Hall and we just watched from one future bus stop to the next did that look like the core of a city with a million people do you my point in

Showing you this exercise is that without good walkability good bike infrastructure and reliable buses instead of San Jose building a fleshed out transportation system through Bart high speed rail pleasure fight Caltrain ACE train and VTA Light Rail we might just end up with lots of Transit but

Nowhere to go I’m not saying San Jose doesn’t have attractions but because of its sprawl it’s really hard to find a day trip itinerary without a car even factoring future Transit if someone wants to throw me ideas in the comments I’ll take a look and report back

There are so many examples of public transportation transforming cities but it feels like San Jose isn’t taking the right steps to take this golden opportunity to make something of it for perspective the sun Town Mall in San Francisco adjacent to one light rail line is converting most of its parking

Lots into housing over the next decade and a model I think a lot of malls near any Transit show look into I don’t see anything that San Jose trying this despite there being ample opportunity with three existing light rails and the aforementioned Bart line in the future

I hope I’m just wrong in the seven years when Bart is projected to open are farther than I imagined and I’m proven wrong and we just see a ton of Transit oriented developments pop up at the end of the decade this downtown problem has led to probably the most bizarre aspect of San

Jose’s horrendous planning its black hole of cultural relevance before going into this topic I want to be very clear San Jose is home to a diverse population of people who bring their own cultures and I know plenty of great people from San Jose this is nothing against any

Individuals living in San Jose who can I only imagine bring as much to the table as any other city in America if not more honestly as a whole however because the city is one giant bedroom community the people of San Jose are severely handicapped in creating almost any

Impact on America’s or even California’s popular culture sure some companies are based there but the most famous one said to be further up the peninsula and I don’t know if facebook slash meta accounts as part of California’s culture the one colossal exception is the band Smash Mouth being from there in fact you

Will find in any list of things San Jose is known for so frame this in YouTube terms the only videos related to San Jose I could find with more than 250 000 views were there about the San Jose Sharks the only professional sports team that plays

Within the city of San Jose and this one video from feed Maymay in San Jose’s defense feed me a barrier food vlogger is a goat content machine this leads me to the biggest disappointment I have with San Jose it’s light rail system the VTA or the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority Light Rail

Began operation in 1987 after the success of second generation Light Rail systems such as the much better plan San Diego Trolley which has an order of magnitude more ridership despite also being a three-line light rail network in a similarly sized sprawley city I cannot stress this enough this isn’t one of

Those oh look how the city in America or its hat does worse than this Village in Europe kind of situation this is freedom Apple to Freedom Apple comparison San Jose built among the worst Light Rail networks in America and by extension the planet largely because the city threw a

Lot of money building a network but doing the worst type of zoning around stations its last mayor wanted to tear up the tracks and replace the system with buses which would have made San Jose the biggest city to stray Network since GM ripped out all the streetcar

Networks in America through the 40s and 50s we really are going full circle to put hard figures to it the VT light rail system had a combined 26 700 daily weekday writers Q4 of 2018 almost exactly the same figures as the M line of San Francisco’s Muni Metro its system-wide ridership was even

Comparable to some bus lines in San Francisco and was beaten individually by the a c e and l lines of the alley Metro a city famous for its high Transit usage and comparing it to present-day numbers are so bad it’s easily at the bottom of code recovery it’s also worth noting it

Is unbelievably slow and has at times been described as running at a crawl due to a lack of signal priority and virtually nothing separating it from car traffic or pedestrians despite all of this I don’t actually think the problem is the light rail system I mean it kind of is because they

Probably should have started with a brt but nobody American knew about those in the 1980s the real culprit is the Way San Jose was planned even if frequency and other issues were fixed building a sustainable ridership model for VTA Light Rail is just not possible because there aren’t enough people living within

Walking distance compelled not to drive because everything is so spread out on top of this the VTA faces a rough maintenance backlog so it’s kind of a vicious cycle at this point you might be asked to get this point okay great the city is kind of mid but how would you

Fix San Jose great question I’d honestly say just build density along Transit stops and try more up zoning and creating more walkable neighborhoods San Jose could easily convert streets to be more bike friendly thanks to its many already wide roads and flat topography currently the projected bike lane

Infrastructure is trashy at best with only a handful of streets having anything I consider human friendly several recent state laws or forced cities in California to move this way so hopefully I’m just preaching the illegally inevitable San Jose also just became the biggest city in the United States to remove

Parking minimums so even as I record this things are changing unfortunately last year was also the worst year for pedestrians in San Jose so hard to be too optimistic Additionally the city is getting a three-stop subway line thanks to Barton High-Speed Rail I would hope they use

That as a focal point for improving the City by upsoning those areas and trying to attract more destinations as well as increase walkability maybe I’m missing something but it generally comes across like the city doesn’t realize that they are paying 9 billion dollars for a new Subway and a stop on the California

High-Speed Rail Network like what does the average person do once they get off the train how does the average salesian get from their car Centric neighborhoods to these fancy new trains I don’t see any obvious answers I want to end this video by saying I don’t hate San Jose

I’m actually a little hopeful but also very confused I’m just saying maybe we shouldn’t have built almost exclusively detached single-family homes in the place with very agriculturally productive land and great climate and by the ocean and flat and in the middle of a giant job Nexus where tons of people

Would want to live despite being a global leader in Tech Innovation it is currently falling behind in the realm of innovative human-centric City Planning and I challenge it to do better thanks for watching

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Time: 1683125947
Date: 2023-05-03 19:29:07
Duration: 00:14:07

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