Channels Like City Beautiful

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City Beautiful
Subscribers 739K
Videos 200
Views 91.3M

City Beautiful covers cities and city planning topics, including transportation, land use planning, and urban design. Its content mixes educational deep-dives and explainers, with tutorials and thoughtful discussions, posted regularly and averaging about 2.8 million views per video from 200 videos and 91.3 million total views since joining in 2016.

Content Landscape

Top competitors by match strength are Vox (53% match) and Not Just Bikes (53% match). Vox aligns on overlapping queries such as public housing policy, street design history, and housing and zoning, while Not Just Bikes overlaps on urban planning, city planning basics, and urban design principles. Planetizen (53% match) also competes with similar queries like urban planning, transportation planning, and land use planning. Urban Planner Explained (90% match) is the closest competitor, focusing on urban planning basics and transportation planning. City Beautiful has 739K subscribers, which is smaller than Vox (12.7M) and Not Just Bikes (1.4M), Planetizen (28.2K) is smaller, and Urban Planner Explained (50.7K) is smaller still, indicating City Beautiful sits between boutique educational channels and larger, general-interest outlets. All highlighted competitors share a focus on urban planning topics and related design and policy queries.

Similar Channels

We found 36 YouTube channels similar to City Beautiful

Urban Planner Explained YouTube channel thumbnail
#1 Urban Planner Explained

90% relevance

Subscribers 50.7K
Videos 33
Views 4.4M
Appearances 43
SERP 100%
Similarity 84%
urban planning city planning basics transportation planning

Both target audiences curious about city design and planning basics (queries: urban planning, city planning basics, transportation planning) and share strong search overlap, with City Beautiful's content style aligning closely to foundational planning concepts (84% content match).

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#2 Streetscapes

55% relevance

Subscribers 10.9K
Videos 20
Views 927.9K
Appearances 6
SERP 12%
Similarity 84%
civic architecture planning mixed-use neighborhoods green infrastructure urbanism

Shares focus on how urban spaces are designed and implemented (queries: civic architecture planning, mixed-use neighborhoods, green infrastructure urbanism) and attracts a related audience, though Streetscapes differentiates with a more design-focused, architecture-driven presentation (84% content match).

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#3 Planetizen

53% relevance

Subscribers 28.2K
Videos 203
Views 1.9M
Appearances 9
SERP 18%
Similarity 77%
urban planning transportation planning land use planning

Competes on core planning topics (queries: urban planning, transportation planning, land use planning) and serves a similar professional-leaning audience, with Planetizen’s content aligning moderately well with City Beautiful’s planning principles (77% content match).

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#4 Vox

53% relevance

Subscribers 12.7M
Videos 2K
Views 3.8B
Appearances 13
SERP 23%
Similarity 74%
public housing policy street design history housing and zoning

Delivers policy-oriented urban issues (queries: public housing policy, street design history, housing and zoning) that intersect with City Beautiful’s city planning interests, but Vox uses broader policy storytelling with a different tone (74% content match).

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#5 Not Just Bikes

53% relevance

Subscribers 1.4M
Videos 139
Views 198.3M
Appearances 9
SERP 8%
Similarity 83%
urban planning city planning basics urban design principles

Covers urban planning basics and design principles (queries: urban planning, city planning basics, urban design principles) to a similar audience, though Not Just Bikes emphasizes cycling and street-life perspectives, creating a distinct stylistic angle (83% content match).

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#6 Versed

53% relevance

Subscribers 185K
Videos 136
Views 36.8M
Appearances 6
SERP 6%
Similarity 85%
street design history historical urban design urban design history

Focuses on street and urban design history, appealing to viewers interested in the evolution of planning, with substantial overlap in queries like street design history and urban design history, while maintaining a unique historical emphasis (85% content match).

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#24 44% Grim Dream 71% 10.9K 5% 2
#25 44% Byron Tang 70% 4.3K 5% 1
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Frequently Asked Questions

Which YouTube channels are most similar to City Beautiful?

Urban Planner Explained — 90% match, 50.7K subscribers; Streetscapes — 55% match, 10.9K subscribers; Planetizen — 53% match, 28.2K subscribers. They share a focus on city planning, urban design, and planning concepts, similar to City Beautiful.

What type of content does City Beautiful make?

City Beautiful creates educational videos about city planning and urban design, including topics like how planners design cities, street layouts, and urban policy. They upload infrequently (average ~0.1 uploads per week) and videos average about 2.8M views each, with recent titles ranging from about 2.4M to 9.7M views.

How do we determine which channels are similar to City Beautiful?

We analyze City Beautiful's recent videos, generate topic-relevant search queries, check YouTube search results, and compare the meaning of each channel's content to measure similarity. The result is a ranked list sorted by SERP overlap, semantic similarity, and search appearances.

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