@uytaelee.bsky.social
I make videos about our cities! https://www.youtube.com/@AboutHere
My latest video with @hubcycling pulls back the curtain on how these services work, and why cities can’t seem to agree about how to treat this emerging form of transportation.
05.02.2026 15:16 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1In cities like Montréal, bikeshare is fully owned and subsidized by the local government, while in other cities like Seattle, it’s operated by private startups like Lime and Bird that pay significant fees to the city.
05.02.2026 15:16 — 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
NEW VIDEO: The Bikeshare Dilemma
Bikeshares and scootershares (also known as “Shared Micromobility) is one of the fastest growing forms of transportation on the planet today, but cities appear deeply divided on how to manage them. youtu.be/qfz6AsYycA8
Beyond honoured to get a shoutout from the legendary Tom Scott for my latest video on elevators with @sightline.org!
www.tomscott.com/newsletter/2...
@andersem.bsky.social wrote a wonderful companion piece to our recent elevator video! It digs deeper into how elevator costs affect smaller apartments and explores even more ideas for reforming N America's elevator codes
12.01.2026 20:29 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0A huge honour to have you share it!
12.01.2026 06:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🥰🥰🥰🥰 aw I love our urbanist youtuber community
11.01.2026 23:18 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For such a complicated topic, he does an amazing job making it understandable, interesting, and relevant. You may become as elevator-pilled as I am....
11.01.2026 23:09 — 👍 23 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This video draws heavily on research by @stephenjacobsmith.com and the Centre for Building in North America. There’s a ton in his report that I couldn’t fit into this story, so I highly encourage you to check it out: www.centerforbuilding.org/publication/...
11.01.2026 23:08 — 👍 34 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1NEW VIDEO: North America’s Elevator’s Problem
Elevators are absolutely essential to modern cities..... and it turns out North America kind of sucks at them. We partnered with @sightline.org to look into the many issues plaguing our elevator industry, and what it might take to fix it.
It’ll be uploaded to YouTube!
10.01.2026 22:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0100% of the ticket proceeds go towards HUB Cycling and their costs for organizing this event, however if the ticket price is a barrier for you, there are a limited number of tickets available at 50% off and you can use the code “ABOUTHERE” to redeem them.
09.01.2026 22:41 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The first screening will be on Feb 3, 2026 at the Museum of North Vancouver and will include a panel discussion with Kevin Quinn (TransLink CEO), Mia Kohout (Mobi CEO), and Linda Buchanan (City of North Vancouver Mayor). Here's the ticket link: www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-bike-s...
09.01.2026 22:40 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
I’ve been working on this video with HUB Cycling since last summer and I’m incredibly excited to share it with you soon! It looks at the growing divide in how cities approach bikeshare and scootershare, and the messy history of how we got to this point.
09.01.2026 22:40 — 👍 65 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 1Awe thanks Brendan!
16.12.2025 03:07 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of my first jobs growing up was helping my friend deliver the Langley Advance around our neighbourhood. Sort-of felt like a full-circle moment to be interviewed by them for this story!
11.12.2025 19:25 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Dang thank you so much!
01.12.2025 01:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to share a new video I produced with Urbanarium on their Decoding Timber Towers competition, which challenged teams to design 8–20+ storey buildings out of wood!
Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ42...
Wow I LOVE the data visualization! It's cool how we landed on a similar idea for mapping the stations. I originally included a bunch of other features but thought it created too much clutter for something that ultimately just needed to show the difference in the size/quantity of both systems.
21.10.2025 17:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes!!
21.10.2025 17:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Working on a new video... any guesses?
21.10.2025 16:03 — 👍 36 🔁 1 💬 7 📌 1
Why tf does North America allow right turns on red? Was this ever a good idea? So proud of @ardenenglish.bsky.social for his first collaboration with the CBC!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqDV...
When: Oct 7th, 5:30 -7:30pm
Where: QUT Gardens Point campus P-Block 5th level room P-506
What: A short presentation by me on About Here + a chance to geek out about urban planning for an evening.
Who: Anyone!
I'll be in Brisbane next week! As part of my trip, I'll be hosting a more informal event open to anyone at the Queensland University of Technology on Tuesday, October 7th. Details below:
03.10.2025 02:28 — 👍 25 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0I'm going to Brisbane! Who wants to come with me? Tickets to the Future of Suburbia VI can be found here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-future...
14.08.2025 14:28 — 👍 27 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
After decades of staying pretty much the same, Granville Island's infrastructure is decaying, with no internal funding mechanism to pay for all the upgrades.
Here's my story on how we got here, and why all options — including housing — seem to be on the table.
An absolute FEAST of great urbanism content these days 😊
09.06.2025 19:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I had to reupload it! The new link is
youtu.be/STsu3NA1W_k
New link because you could see my banking information in a few frames of the last upload 🥲. Check out "The Uncertain Future of Granville Island" here: youtu.be/STsu3NA1W_k
08.06.2025 22:10 — 👍 49 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 1Yes, I'm re-uploading now with better blurring!
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