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How Fake Cities Are Designed to Deceive
How Fake Cities Are Designed to Deceive
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“Stewart Hicks”
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More liminal spaces???
I wondered if you'd touch on the Sphere of Venus…..err, that is…Vegas! đ
Looking forward to YT and Nebula versions…cheers.
After last October in Israel, I'm not as impressed with technological security as I once was…
Is this not Cop City where they blocked a butt ton of affordable housing to build a worker oppression training complex?
Imagine a foreign policy that doesn't make the rest of the world have the Americans and would make this completely unnecessary
No mention of my favorite fake cities, Safety Towns, used to teach kids bicycle safety. Those have always fascinated me.
I heard that L.A is super fake.
"Most historians believe the story [of the original Potemkin villages] is fake." Hard to understand how historians might have different opinions about whether such a thing ever existed, given that this is relatively recent history that one would expect to be well documented. This is fascinating, though, and deserves a whole episode of its own.
So theyâre the back rooms got it
Was Kobani a fake city?
LOVED this episode. So informative and educational. All the best!
Wow Stewart, you included Las Vegas as an example of a fake city and not China's ghost city's ? What kind of clown show are you running ? I know grade school children who could have done a better job. And that's just one example. But probably the most glaring one though. I'm no fan of Vegas, in fact I've never been. But how is that giant ball thing they have a fake monument? It's a really there and it does what it was designed to do and people attend it en masse quite regularly. It seems like your grasp on the definition of fake is tenuous. And speaking of grade school children, if this was prepared by one I'd give it a c+ at best. However for an adult who claims this as a profession it's a little more from I'm afraid đđ
Copehill Down and Sennybridge in the UK send their greetings!
Brisbane in Australia has a pedestrian mall with a lot of fake fronts/facades. They've kept the original building fronts but combined the spaces behind into big shopping centres.
Fascinating topic, thanks for the video!
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Why these, brought " Dubai " to my mind…
Disney Land, for people whom "wanting" to think & feel "exceptional"..
True "Potemkin village" in 21 century's scale!!
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A big component of the bland design without aesthetics is also that it's useful for not training inappropriate information. Human training isn't too different from AI training on that front: if in a training scenario the bad guy is always in front of a fountain, people are going to end up getting programmed subconsciously to look extra hard at fountains in the real world, and in turn look less quickly at other things.
Crazy how many of these cities are used by the Israeli offensive force in order to train their war criminals on how to execute genocide, all the the dime of the tax payer
Thank you.
If you march in favor of universal healthcare, this is what awaits you.
Do the ghost cities of China count? The developers will even build units not meant to be lived in, just meant to be bought/sold as investments.
Ugh, fascist playground.
0:04 fin.
0:34 is that a dense walkable urban area? So we can build it in the US! Yeah they're not simulating a US city there. Show me cops training at a simulated big box store and parking lot.
I've seen this city before. It was in the Atari 2600 Superman game.
So they basically just built homes like europeans mostly do.
Potemkin cities are "ma and pa kettle " in america.
There's a sport shooting complex in the Southern Illinois town of Sparta. They have a "fake town" of building fronts that are used for cowboy action target shooting competitions. Fake saloons, barns, etc. are set up so a competitor dressed in full cowboy cosplay regalia, can be timed in their reactions firing actual antique six-shooters and rifles. The decor adds to the simulated realism of their 1800's setting.
Another fake town I've seen is at a hospital rehabilitation unit in Springfield, IL; They have a floor full of essentially movie sets of common home and village settings, to help recovering patients practice their adaptations and coping skills in a simulated and safe space. You can go to the bank, the post office, the movie theater, a restaurant, as well as a garage workshop and farm equipment barn, and practice the mobility and manipulation skills you need in everyday life. It really helps them hit the ground running when they get home after something like an amputation or augmentation surgery.
Then there's also the fake villages made for memory care facilities.
More solid treatment of yet another fascinating theme. Maybe the most ambiguous of all. From nightmare "terrorist" enclaves and company towns to leisure time funscapes. But besides fake fronts and forced perspective, theme parks' biggest accomplishment is walkable urban density: Disneyland is a virtual pedestrian auto fatality- free zone. What a concept!
This was a really interesting topic. Not something you think about everyday. I would also add that firemen use fake buildings for their training.
What about the fake cities built for Airbnb?
Here in Calgary, we have Heritage Park. Functionally, itâs set up more like a theme park, but its purpose is to be more of a history museum. It has a mix of real and recreated historical buildings, a lot of real artifacts, and demonstrations of all kinds of old technologies or otherwise old ways of doing things. The sidewalks are wooden, the roads are dirt (with regular âdepositsâ from the horse-drawn carriages), and they even have a working steam locomotive and paddleboat. A lot of the staff are in historic costume too. Itâs fake in the sense of being a curated experience, but in many ways itâs quite real.
This video was disappointingly uncritical of the false cities used for police training. There is a lot to explore when it comes to the way police militarization impacts our daily lives. It seems like a huge oversight to ignore this topic entirely, especially compared to the thoughtful analysis typically featured on this channel.
My grandfather worked on Disneylandâs Main Street when it was first built in 1955.
The term Potemkin gets new meaning within mariupol (Ukraine) where the occupying forces "refurb" neightborhoods to show the supposed might of russia and lie about the fact daily life has returned.
Its a definite shitshow for the citizens overthere, I mean its people and their livelihoods we are talking about. Yet it all balances with facades kinda like it did in The Truman Show.
PS. Do favella's fall under the definition of a fake city? Or is it in some kind of purgatory when trying to define those neightborhoods (im not judging just sincerely curious).
If the President gets a 3AM phone call in DC about a 5AM protest, that would put the besieged consulate in Greenland.
Since our politicians regularly condemn millions of people to suffering and/or death with their policies anyway, they should just do these tests on real people in real cities.
That way our political system would be more honest and training would be better. 1 person could be saved for every 1000000 civilian casualties in the training.
This strategy was safe and effective for COVID, so I don't understand why we need to bother with these fake cities.
I'm surprised there was no mention of the incredible replica city of Rock ridge. It was exact right down to the orange roof on Howard Johnson's outhouse
I'm left wondering why some countries don't need to make their embassies as impenetrable compounds.
You could have mentioned the fake cities saudis and dubai is building.(more useless staff built to satisfy the hunger of the uncivilized for showing off.)
This is where genocidal maniacs train…
No thank you,i d rather try my chances without militarized police.
I find it uniquely disgusting that the US builds fake cities to train cops but "can't afford" to house its citizens. It's just gross.
It is interesting that Potemkin's villages are still a thing today in russia. They just cover up the buildings with printed banners before the visits of the authority representative. Nothing changed.
Also, in the occupied Ukrainian city Mariupol they wrapped the destroyed theater in a banner to hide the atrocities. You have probably heard about building new houses in place of burned down districts. A small block of "new shiny homes" to offer a picture of "liberation" to the media
I was waiting for a Westworld reference. đ
There's also museum cities or villages as a crossover between leisure, education and science. Some of them developed from collections of real old houses that were relocated and over time formed village or city like complexes of buildings. Others are newly built, often with old techniques, to reassemble our state of knowledge about real old cities, for example from ancient Rome