City Beautiful

Subscribers 739K

Videos 200

Views 91.3M

Channels Like City Beautiful

City Beautiful educates viewers about cities and city planning with a focus on transportation, land use planning, and urban design. The channel presents tutorials and deep-dives in a video style, sharing topics on city planning basics, urban design principles, and housing zoning, with new videos posted regularly and an average of about 2.8M views per video.

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#1

Urban Planner Explained view on YouTube ▶

90% relevance

Subscribers 50.7K

Videos 33

Views 4.4M

Appearances 43

SERP 100%

Similarity 84%

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Both target audiences interested in urban planning concepts and basics (queries like urban planning, city planning basics) and share a high search similarity (100%), with a strong content alignment (84%), showing City Beautiful-like focus on planning fundamentals.

#2

Streetscapes view on YouTube ▶

55% relevance

Subscribers 10.9K

Videos 20

Views 927.9K

Appearances 6

SERP 12%

Similarity 84%

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They overlap with City Beautiful on urbanism-oriented topics (queries include green infrastructure urbanism and mixed-use neighborhoods), but the low overall search match (12%) suggests a different emphasis or audience despite strong content alignment (84%).

#3

Planetizen view on YouTube ▶

53% relevance

Subscribers 28.2K

Videos 203

Views 1.9M

Appearances 9

SERP 18%

Similarity 77%

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Both cover urban planning topics (urban planning, land use planning) with substantial search overlap (18%) and solid content similarity (77%), aligning with City Beautiful’s planning-focused discourse.

#4

Vox view on YouTube ▶

53% relevance

Subscribers 12.7M

Videos 2K

Views 3.8B

Appearances 13

SERP 23%

Similarity 74%

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Vox shares interest in housing policy and street design history (queries like public housing policy, street design history) and urban policy discourse, yielding moderate search overlap (23%) but notable content similarity (74%), indicating broader policy angles rather than City Beautiful’s design tutorials.

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#5

Not Just Bikes view on YouTube ▶

53% relevance

Subscribers 1.4M

Videos 139

Views 198.3M

Appearances 9

SERP 8%

Similarity 83%

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Both address urban planning basics and design principles (queries: urban planning, city planning basics, urban design principles) with strong content alignment (83%), though search overlap is modest (8%), suggesting a similar topic space but different discovery pattern.

#6

Versed

53% relevance

Subscribers 185K

Videos 136

Views 36.8M

Appearances 6

SERP 6%

Similarity 85%

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They share an interest in historical and design-history aspects of urban design (queries like street design history, urban design history) and exhibit high content similarity (85%), while search overlap is low (6%), indicating thematic similarity with distinct audience reach.

Content Landscape

Discovered competitors include Urban Planner Explained (90% match) and Planetizen (53% match) as top matches. Both share overlapping queries with City Beautiful such as urban planning, city planning basics, and transportation planning. Vox (53% match) also overlaps on public housing policy, street design history, and housing and zoning, but has a much larger subscriber base. Not Just Bikes (53% match) aligns on urban planning, city planning basics, and urban design principles. City Beautiful has 739K subscribers, while Urban Planner Explained has 50.7K, Planetizen 28.2K, Vox 12.7M, and Not Just Bikes 1.4M, indicating City Beautiful sits between smaller education-focused competitors and larger general-interest channels.

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#7	53%	TED ▶	71%	27.2M	25%	14
#8	52%	imperatur	85%	334K	3%	3
#9	52%	Justine Underhill	83%	14.8K	5%	1
#10	51%	Arkive	80%	61.1K	9%	6
#11	51%	Dover Kohl	79%	3.7K	7%	6
#12	50%	Streetcraft	80%	145K	5%	2
#13	50%	Mind The Map ▶	77%	46.8K	10%	8
#14	50%	The Aesthetic City	81%	212K	4%	4
#15	50%	UrbanNous	78%	8.6K	7%	7
#16	50%	Haussmann	80%	25.8K	4%	4
#17	47%	LSE	74%	275K	8%	4
#18	46%	PolyMatter ▶	74%	1.9M	4%	2
#19	46%	RMTransit ▶	74%	346K	3%	3
#20	46%	Bloomberg Originals ▶	68%	5.0M	12%	5
#21	45%	Real Prague Guides	73%	63.1K	4%	1
#22	45%	Going Green	69%	72.5K	7%	2
#23	45%	WIRED ▶	67%	12.8M	10%	9
#24	44%	Grim Dream	71%	10.9K	5%	2
#25	44%	Byron Tang	70%	4.3K	5%	1
#26	44%	Manuel Bravo	72%	680K	3%	3
#27	44%	Explained with Dom	71%	236K	4%	3
#28	43%	TEDx Talks ▶	65%	44.2M	10%	9
#29	43%	KhAnubis	69%	283K	4%	2
#30	43%	CrashCourse ▶	67%	16.9M	7%	6
#31	43%	Bipartisan Policy Center	69%	5.7K	3%	2
#32	42%	Flatland	67%	6.9K	4%	1
#33	42%	WIA - What is architecture?	67%	5.0K	4%	1
#34	41%	Arup	65%	14K	6%	2
#35	39%	Natural England	63%	3.2K	3%	2
#36	39%	World Heritage Journey	60%	9.3K	7%	6

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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. All three share a focus on urban planning, city design, and related policy topics, aligning with City Beautiful's city planning and urban design content.

What type of content does City Beautiful make?

City Beautiful creates educational videos about city planning and urban design, with topics like why streets switch to cul-de-sacs, how Soviet cities were designed, and how to split a city in half. Uploads occur at an average rate of ~0.1 per week, and videos average about 2.8M 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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