Urban Planner Explained covers urban planning concepts, design principles, and city development topics through tutorial-style videos and explainers. Content themes include street patterns, megaprojects, zoning, walkability, public transportation, and urban design critiques, often delivered in structured explainers and city-case studies. The channel publishes new videos from a base in the United States, with an average of roughly 304K views per video across its 33 published videos.
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Discovered competitors: City Beautiful (90% match) and Not Just Bikes (65% match) are the top two. Both share overlapping queries with Urban Planner Explained around principles of urbanism, zoning fundamentals, and public transportation or urban design concepts. TED (62% match) and TEDx Talks (55% match) also align on principles of urbanism and walkability, broadening the competitive landscape. City Beautiful has about 739K subscribers, Not Just Bikes about 1.4M, while Urban Planner Explained has 50.7K subscribers, indicating a substantial size gap between the channel and its leading competitors. Competitors overlap on queries related to urban design principles, walkability analysis, and zoning fundamentals, creating a shared search space for viewers interested in city planning content.
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Which YouTube channels are most similar to Urban Planner Explained?
City Beautiful — 90% match, 739K subscribers; Not Just Bikes — 65% match, 1.4M subscribers; TED — 62% match, 27.2M subscribers. They share a focus on urban design, city planning, and urbanism topics, with clear educational angles and explanatory videos about cities, architecture, and planning concepts.
What type of content does Urban Planner Explained make?
Urban Planner Explained creates explanatory videos about urban design, city planning, and megaprojects, with titles like 'Every WORST Designed City Explained in 9 Minutes' and 'Every Major Street Pattern Explained in 9 Minutes.' The channel uploads frequently, with recent videos around 8–9 minutes long and viewing counts around 454K to 1.3M; average views per video are about 304K.
How do we determine which channels are similar to Urban Planner Explained?
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