The online urbanist video landscape underrepresents young people, women, and creators of color and therefore does not reflect the diversity of city-dwellers. A skilled creator trained New York City youth to produce urbanist videos and provided them with a public platform to share their perspectives. Those youth-made videos are engaging and showcase distinct viewpoints, including disagreements on topics such as bike safety. Broadening platform access and financial and institutional support for underrepresented creators will expand the range of voices shaping conversations about livability. Greater inclusion in urbanist media can motivate more people from diverse backgrounds to participate in efforts to make communities safer, equitable, and more livable. Open submission channels help surface emerging creators and connect community perspectives with wider audiences.
What would it take for the world of urbanist YouTube to better reflect the actual world of city-dwellers and the movement to make our communities more livable? For today's Friday Video, we're getting a little meta with this great analysis from Banks Rail, who breaks down why it's imperative to give young people, women, and creators of color a bigger platform in the online urbanist conversation.
He went out and trained a group of talented New York City kids to make urbanist videos of their own, and gave them a space to share their creations with the world. They make for a fun watch (even if we may not agree with every single take in the segment on bike safety 😉),
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