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New Videos and Credits

Hello Patreon supporters!

I just sent my latest video off to the editors. Normally it takes them a week or two to edit a video, but this will be my longest one ever (about SUVs and pickup tru...

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New NJB: Amsterdam's Underwater Parking Garage

Hello everyone!

You may have heard about this already, because it was all over the urbanist interwebs over the past week: Amsterdam just opened an underwater parking garage for 7,000 bicycles...

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New NJB: Reacting to 1950s Automobile Industry Propaganda

Hello wonderful Patreon supporters, and happy New Year!

After a short vacation and some travel over the holidays to see family, my latest video is now available. It's something a bit differe...

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New NJB: Removing 10,000 Parking Spaces

Hello Patreon supporters!

This is a video I wanted to make for a while, as we were blown away that "remove 10,000 parking spaces" was an election promise of one of the political parties ... a...

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New NJB: The "Third Place"

Hey everyone! My latest video is now ready, and it's about the concept of the "Third Place". This is a place that isn't home (the "First Place"), and it isn't work (the "Second Place") but another ...

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New NJB: 10-Minute Grocery Delivery

Hello everyone! My latest video is finally complete, and it's about those new delivery services that promise (or used to promise) to deliver groceries in 10 minutes.

These are really interest...

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New NJB: How Toronto Got Addicted to Cars

Hey everyone!

I've wanted to make this video for a while: the sad story of how Toronto became such a car-friendly city. 

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New NJB: Crossing the Street Shouldn't be Deadly

Hello Patreon supporters! 

My latest video is finally completed! It's all about crossing the street, and includes footage from multiple videographers across multiple cities to show the r...

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New NJB: The Car-Replacement Bicycle

When we were moving back to Canada, we knew we'd need a car, but we couldn't afford one after the move. Thankfully, we found an electric bakfiets, and not only did it take the place of a car, it al...

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New NJB: The Best Trains in Europe

Hey Patreon supporters! 

My latest video is now ready, about the train system in Switzerland. I spent a week there back in May, and I rode a LOT of trains in order to get a really good u...

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New NJB: Cycling in Switzerland

Does anybody actually cycle in Switzerland? Well, yes! I went to Switzerland a few weeks ago (mostly to ride trains) but I took lots of footage of cycling, too. 

Here is the first video ...

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New NJB: How America Builds Transit Wrong

Hello Patreon supporters! My latest video is now up on the YouTubes:

https://youtu.be/MnyeRlMsTgI

I was talking to ...

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New NJB: Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia [Remastered]

Hello Patreons!

Of all the reasons why we moved to the Netherlands, the independence of children is probably the most important one. 

You've probably seen this video before. Or thi...

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The Orange Pill

Some of my fans online have talked about getting "orange pilled" - where they learn about the stuff I talk about in my videos, and they can't unlearn it: they never see their city the same way agai...

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New NJB: the Gym of Life

Hello Patreon supporters! My latest video is now up, about how walkable and bikeable cities are healthier, by providing cheap and easy exercise opportunities to everyone.

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New NJB: Business Parks

Hello everyone! My newest video is releasing on Monday, but I have it ready early for Patreon supporters.

This video came from an appointment I had in a business park by the airport in the Ne...

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New NJB: The Car-Free Neighbourhood in Toronto

Hello everyone! My latest video is now up on YouTube, and it's about the only* car-free neighbourhood in Canada: the Toronto Islands.

The Toronto Islands community is really bizarre, and it ...

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Changes to NJB Patreon - Bonus Videos & New Tier

Hello Patreon supporters! I hope you're having a good day.

I wanted to let you know that I'll be making some changes to the Patreon, and you may want to remove or change your pledge as a resu...

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New NJB: Urban3 & The Math of Suburbia

Hey Everyone!

My latest video is ready, and it's the 7th episode in my "Strong Towns" series.

I wanted to make this video for a while: it's based off of the excellent analysis by the co...

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New NJB: Climate-Friendly Cities featuring Climate Town

Hello Patreon supporters!

I'm back from holiday and my first full-length public video is now ready: a collab with the exceptionally great climate change channel, Climate Town!

In this v...

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NJB Bonus: Buying a Bag of Milk - Extended Edition

When I was visiting family in Fake London over the holidays, I decided to walk to buy a bag of milk.

I had this idea for a while to make a YouTube Shorts/TikTok video of walking to buy a bag ...

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NJB Bonus: Paris GoPro Footage

Hey everyone!

As you know, I went to Paris recently, and while I was there I filmed a lot with the GoPro as we were cycling. 

I didn't use too much of this in the public video (I m...

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Paris is Becoming Bicycle Friendly!

Hello Patreon supporters!

If you follow urban planning, you may have heard about all of the changes happening in Paris. There is a huge push to reduce car use and provide more space for walk...

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Not Just Bikes is now on Nebula

Hello everyone!

I have recently joined Standard, the company behind the streaming service Nebula, which means that my content is now available there.

Nebula is not a normal streaming se...

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The Trains that Killed an Airline

Hey everyone!

This video is about high-speed rail in Italy. I had heard a lot about how great the trains were in Italy. And after hearing about Alitalia (the Italian national airline) going b...

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Not Just Bikes Merch Now Available!

Hey Patrons!

I've had some people ask about merch, so I've decided to do a trial run of a merch shop!

The products in the shop are all printed when you order them, and shipped as locall...

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New NJB: Driving in the Netherlands

Here's a video you weren't expecting: how much I love driving in the Netherlands! :)

Despite the Netherlands doing so much for walking, cycling, and public transit, it's actually the best pl...

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Happy Halloween! 🎃

Since I have about 10x the number of Patreon supporters I had this time last year, I figured that most of you have not seen my Halloween bonus video from last year, so I'm linking to it here again....

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New NJB: A Cancelled Road Widening in Fake London

Hello Patrons!

My home town of Fake London was about to begin their largest infrastructure project in history! Turning 8 km of a 5 lane stroad into a 7 lane stroad! However last month, they d...

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NJB Bonus: Samsung Digital City

Hello Patreon supporters!

When I was making my Houston video, I briefly talked about the business travel I did, but one of the things that was cut from that script was my discussion about vis...

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