Why Everywhere in the US is Starting to Look the Same

Wendover Productions February 23, 2022
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Wendover Productions is all about explaining how our world works. From travel, to economics, to geography, to marketing and more, every video will leave you with a little better understanding of our world. New videos go out every other Tuesday.

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Sign up for the stock footage provider that we use: http://storyblocks.com/wendover Watch Extremities at http://youtube.com/extremities Buy a Wendover Productions t-shirt: https://standard.tv/collections/wendover-productions/products/wendover-productions-shirt Subscribe to Half as Interesting (The other channel from Wendover Productions): https://www.youtube.com/halfasinteresting Youtube: http://www.YouTube.com/WendoverProductions Instagram: http://Instagram.com/sam.from.wendover Twitter: http://www.Twitter.com/WendoverPro Sponsorship Enquiries: [email protected] Other emails: [email protected] Reddit: http://Reddit.com/r/WendoverProductions Writing by Sam Denby and Tristan Purdy Editing by Alexander Williard Animation led by Josh Sherrington Sound by Graham Haerther Thumbnail by Simon Buckmaster References [1] https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2020/04/05/david-ross-scheer-why-do/?fbclid=IwAR0ZjsIiK-aAvJqlI9xZiwE0hqyKG1dp4iHAMArWxXFEYtGtvja975ih0OI [2] https://marker.medium.com/why-everywhere-looks-the-same-248940f12c4 [3] https://www.bbsr.bund.de/BBSR/EN/publications/IzR/2010/Download/DL_KnoxPain.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=1 [4] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-13/why-america-s-new-apartment-buildings-all-look-the-same Select footage courtesy Getty and AP; Select imagery courtesy Geolayers; Select music courtesy Epidemic sound

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