Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Not Just Bikes" in English language version.
The narrator, Jason Slaughter, talks of growing up in Ontario, Canada, in what he calls Fake London with no small amount of snark. (He and his young family have relocated to the Netherlands, specifically Amsterdam.)
Speaking of loss, Jason Slaughter reminisces how his city used to be a beautiful place because people could walk from one place to another. Until places were bulldozed to give way to roads and highways, and with them structures like old churches, schools, houses and places of business employing hundreds of people.
While written and delivered in a droll, contemptuous style, Slaughter's well-researched and well-produced videos, often in association with the U.S. non-profit Strong Towns, provide an accessible lesson in what's not working in North American cities and, using his current home in the Netherlands as a counter-example, how North American cities need to change.
"It's much easier to go car free in a place designed for walkability than one designed only for driving," said Jason Slaughter, a popular YouTuber who runs the channel Not Just Bikes.
A few years ago, Jason Slaughter began making YouTube videos to document his family's move from Toronto to Amsterdam. That's how the 45-year-old IT professional became an inadvertent hero of the growing online anti-car movement. Posting to his orange-themed channel, Slaughter focused on the differences between transportation in North America and the Netherlands, which he chose for its car-free lifestyle.
Since 2019, Jason Slaughter has been documenting biking, walking, transportation and urbanism primarily as it relates to his experiences in his home country of Canada and his current home in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
We've pretty extensively covered what's wrong with American streets and American vehicles. Other countries do things very differently, and we're talking now to someone who lives in one of those countries: Jason Slaughter. His YouTube channel Not Just Bikes is about planning and urban design. He lives in the Netherlands.
Not Just Bikes is a unique YouTube channel. It's not about cities per se, but more about Dutch cities, and what a person who grew up in Canada, and now lives in Amsterdam, feels about Dutch cities. Jason Slaughter, the host, gives the videos a personal tone, often talking about his family and their contrasting experiences living in London, Canada (or fake London, as he calls it) and Amsterdam.
Jason Slaughter is the creator of Not Just Bikes, the wildly popular YouTube channel that covers urban design and daily living in the Netherlands. Jason's videos are informative and entertaining, and whether they're about the shaky finances on which the suburbs are built or something as simple as grocery shopping, each one helps viewers understand larger concepts about building cities for people, not cars.
