Justine Underhill

Subscribers 33.6K

Videos 59

Views 7.4M

Channels Like Justine Underhill

Justine Underhill covers urban design, housing policy, and city planning topics through in-depth explorations and analyses, often referenced by video titles like The High Cost of "Low-Density" Zoning and How Cars Took Over American Streets. The channel blends journalistic perspective with economics and urban design insights, delivering long-form discussions and thoughtful dives rather than quick tutorials, with recent uploads spanning topics from housing affordability to environmental implications of housing. Uploads appear to be relatively steady, with an average of about 100.1K views per video and content length around 2 minutes, and the channel has been active since Sep 30, 2011, accumulating 7.4M total views across 59 videos and 33.6K subscribers.

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86% relevance

Subscribers 50.7K

Videos 33

Views 4.4M

Appearances 19

SERP 100%

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Shares an audience around urban design theory and city planning policy (high search overlap 100% but content overlap 76%), explaining urban concepts in depth with policy and ethics focus similar to Justine Underhill.

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82% relevance

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Videos 200

Views 91.3M

Appearances 15

SERP 80%

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Strong alignment on city planning policy, density, zoning, and housing policy topics (high search 80% and content 83%), targeting viewers interested in how cities are shaped.

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68% relevance

Subscribers 44.2M

Videos 255K

Views 8.8B

Appearances 20

SERP 68%

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63% relevance

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Subscribers 5.0M

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Views 1.1B

Appearances 8

SERP 38%

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Covers housing affordability and public housing policy with substantial content overlap (74%) and moderate search overlap (38%), appealing to policy-focused viewers similar to Justine.

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Videos 1.5K

Views 2.0M

Appearances 4

SERP 36%

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Top competitors by match strength: 1) City Beautiful — 82% match, 739K subscribers. They overlap on city planning policy, density and zoning effects, and public housing policy. 2) Urban Planner Explained — 86% match, 50.7K subscribers. They overlap on urban design theory, city planning policy, and neighborhood design ethics. 3) TEDx Talks — 68% match, 44.2M subscribers, overlapping on urban design theory, city planning policy, and housing affordability studies. These channels compete around topics like urban design theory, zoning, and housing policy; City Beautiful and TEDx Talks have notably larger subscriber bases, which highlights the scale difference relative to Justine Underhill (33.6K subscribers). Shared queries include urban design theory, city planning policy, density/zoning effects, and housing affordability studies, indicating a common audience interested in how cities are planned, regulated, and financed.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Justine Underhill?

Justine Underhill's biggest competitors on YouTube are Urban Planner Explained (50.7K subscribers, 86% match) and City Beautiful (739K subscribers, 82% match). TEDx Talks (44.2M subscribers, 68% match) is also a competitor. All three channels cover urban planning, city design, and policy topics related to how cities function, which overlaps with Justine's focus on economic and zoning issues.

What type of content does Justine Underhill make?

Justine Underhill creates content about urban planning, zoning, and economic policy, as suggested by video titles such as Why the economy is so broken, The Genius (and Horror) of Avatar's Urban Design, The High Cost of 'Low-Density' Zoning, and Why speed limits don't matter. Her videos have diverse topics and several high-view pieces; average views per video are about 100.1K, with recent uploads including videos like Why the economy is so broken (81.8K views) and Why speed limits don't matter (392.3K views).

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