# City Beautiful: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-10-29, City Beautiful has 740,000 subscribers, 92,715,952 total views, and 211 videos. It ranks #101,938 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [City Beautiful](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for City Beautiful is “How to Be the Best Trick or Treat Neighborhood”, a long-form video published Oct 28, 2026.
- These are City Beautiful’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Feb 28, 2024 and Oct 28, 2026 (45 long-form videos and 3 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 124,704. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Should Cities be Circles?” (599,601 views, Feb 28, 2024). Least viewed: “The Power Broker Read-Along: Part 1, The Idealist #booktube #readalong” (4,245 views, Sep 11, 2026).
- Median length: 12:35 for 45 long-form videos; 2:56 for 3 Shorts.
- In this sample, City Beautiful’s consecutive uploads were a median of 21 days apart (shortest gap 1 day, longest 49 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 30, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [How to Be the Best Trick or Treat Neighborhood](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/zJnQE9O58nc/) | 2026-10-28 | Long-form | 21,177 | 12:00 | - |
| [The Power Broker Read Along: Part 2 #booktube #booktok #readalong](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/pjuVfp17xLQ/) | 2026-10-17 | Short | 5,988 | 2:58 | - |
| [How a NIMBY Suburb Screwed Themselves Over](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/0By4M6a-r3w/) | 2026-09-28 | Long-form | 209,606 | 12:40 | 2.47x |
| [The Power Broker Read-Along: Part 1, The Idealist #booktube #readalong](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/g0RdAXZlOgk/) | 2026-09-11 | Short | 4,245 | 2:56 | - |
| [Can I Design the Perfect Neighborhood Street?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/WGeuoUDQDxM/) | 2026-08-28 | Long-form | 123,758 | 11:57 | 1.46x |
| [Join in for a "The Power Broker" read along! #readalong #booktube](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/HqHt7VdusAI/) | 2026-08-15 | Short | 7,209 | 1:34 | - |
| [How Data Centers Avoid Local Planning](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/UdxiyQAcwfM/) | 2026-07-29 | Long-form | 44,181 | 15:04 | - |
| [What is the BEST Density for Cities?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/hkACy-kAzvs/) | 2026-06-25 | Long-form | 95,472 | 11:51 | 1.04x |
| [What’s it like to live next to a highway?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/tP941ne-dug/) | 2026-05-25 | Long-form | 62,423 | 13:58 | - |
| [How Frank Lloyd Wright Predicted Modern Suburbs (Broadacre City)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/blmkN1PaP1w/) | 2026-04-28 | Long-form | 36,581 | 13:06 | - |
| [Are Streets Too Complicated Now?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/u1Xs5EA5_uU/) | 2026-03-27 | Long-form | 74,441 | 12:08 | 2.01x |
| [Why Can Two Cities Host the Olympics Now?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/-uXX7_9KoDA/) | 2026-02-06 | Long-form | 295,710 | 13:37 | 3.61x |
| [Why Are City Boundaries So Weird?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/smWArwVNq6k/) | 2026-01-16 | Long-form | 105,265 | 12:26 | 1.62x |
| [Can Churches End the Housing Crisis? (YIGBY)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/pYZLblsAzGA/) | 2025-12-23 | Long-form | 58,596 | 12:40 | - |
| [Why did NYC Build a Park in the Middle of a River?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/2v29lyX2gqY/) | 2025-11-28 | Long-form | 125,650 | 16:32 | 1.45x |
| [How to Get Involved in City Planning — City Beautiful Basics](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/9OxEpRqY6b8/) | 2025-11-05 | Long-form | 18,317 | 11:35 | - |
| [Why Do Some Countries Only Have One Big City?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/C97K8gPjGpk/) | 2025-10-28 | Long-form | 346,574 | 11:49 | 3.23x |
| [Introduction to Sustainability - City Beautiful Basics](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/MlIeMfTITsw/) | 2025-10-20 | Long-form | 36,253 | 11:30 | - |
| [Introduction to Housing - City Beautiful Basics](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/m5oa6PMI8k8/) | 2025-10-09 | Long-form | 47,574 | 9:40 | - |
| [How NYC Is Banning Cars on Broadway](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/PzlO6kmF4u8/) | 2025-09-30 | Long-form | 219,323 | 12:04 | 1.42x |
| [Introduction to Transportation - City Beautiful Basics](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/Tj1gvY5l7-o/) | 2025-09-29 | Long-form | 45,042 | 8:46 | - |
| [Where Is the Best Place to Locate a Theme Park?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/IsSdgvqhyPc/) | 2025-08-30 | Long-form | 71,426 | 14:46 | - |
| [I Rode the Longest Waterfront Path in the World](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/sM7B8JmKGpI/) | 2025-08-27 | Long-form | 101,402 | 21:49 | - |
| [The Case AGAINST One-Way Streets](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/eNslRSeP7Cw/) | 2025-07-29 | Long-form | 113,457 | 10:32 | 0.52x |
| [Why U.S. Cities Don't Build Metro Systems](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/aMbG6RwYy-Q/) | 2025-06-20 | Long-form | 456,237 | 12:53 | 2x |
| [How Did We Create the Housing Crisis?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/7HQXQR76jUg/) | 2025-05-30 | Long-form | 220,529 | 19:31 | 0.97x |
| [How Can Cities Fix Big Box Stores?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/5MfuYYgqDAQ/) | 2025-04-29 | Long-form | 235,880 | 19:22 | 1.05x |
| [Can ADUs Solve the Housing Crisis?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/ZSfZUq1aKqU/) | 2025-03-28 | Long-form | 119,620 | 19:53 | - |
| [How to Punish Bad Drivers](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/g2Gi_I3wHvQ/) | 2025-02-28 | Long-form | 189,204 | 19:44 | 0.78x |
| [Introduction to Land Use — City Beautiful Basics](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/cnah9JGVR9Q/) | 2025-02-12 | Long-form | 74,237 | 10:40 | - |
| [Why U.S. Roads are Spaced One Mile Apart](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/k7vQaZG4OoY/) | 2025-01-25 | Long-form | 347,427 | 12:22 | 1.2x |
| [Did Seattle Build the Best Pedestrian Bridge Ever?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/X6C2hSSUqhw/) | 2024-12-29 | Long-form | 307,820 | 6:05 | 1.27x |
| [Can Trains Save Seattle?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/12RnUzSGrkw/) | 2024-12-20 | Long-form | 214,164 | 21:11 | 1.13x |
| [Why Dallas Is Growing Insanely Fast](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/Z8Qp6dUDEeU/) | 2024-11-23 | Long-form | 401,577 | 11:03 | 2.09x |
| [Should Cities Ban Drive Thrus?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/vuXyG5gcA_M/) | 2024-10-16 | Long-form | 270,455 | 10:38 | 1.41x |
| [Rome's Geography, Explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/UczZqPI2iDU/) | 2024-09-30 | Long-form | 97,971 | 13:59 | - |
| [Is San Francisco's New Transit Center a Waste?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/5o3YX9SS2MU/) | 2024-09-19 | Long-form | 347,666 | 13:42 | 1.6x |
| [Kyoto's Geography, Explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/y8AO98bkjQ0/) | 2024-08-31 | Long-form | 119,442 | 13:09 | 0.55x |
| [I Visited the Busiest Crossing in the World](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/Y2W0TrFZuzI/) | 2024-08-23 | Long-form | 137,055 | 14:23 | 0.63x |
| [Why Tokyo Has the BEST Streets in the World](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/bnsqSgMFzNE/) | 2024-07-31 | Long-form | 492,597 | 10:06 | 2.27x |
| [Can Paths Save America's Suburbs?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/RQp7w0c_o5Y/) | 2024-07-12 | Long-form | 127,920 | 12:35 | 0.67x |
| [Tuesday Q&A Livestream: because why not?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/9zI61-duqcw/) | 2024-07-10 | Long-form | 6,352 | 1:00:49 | - |
| [How to Fix America's Worst Streets](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/1V679pkDl6k/) | 2024-06-14 | Long-form | 166,078 | 10:39 | 0.76x |
| [Are the Suburbs Getting Worse?*](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/s9oympJvfmI/) | 2024-05-31 | Long-form | 218,970 | 14:01 | 1x |
| [Is Europe Sprawling?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/w9LtFqFBsxw/) | 2024-04-27 | Long-form | 255,947 | 11:02 | 1.18x |
| [How to Remove a Highway](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/XOpjDSUmPtU/) | 2024-04-15 | Long-form | 219,278 | 11:57 | 1.01x |
| [Why Shopping Malls Refuse to Die](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/mEBQPpSHQME/) | 2024-03-22 | Long-form | 214,800 | 11:00 | 0.86x |
| [Should Cities be Circles?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@citybeautiful/videos/tt_zIzDWOEc/) | 2024-02-28 | Long-form | 599,601 | 12:36 | 2.79x |

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