CityNerd | I Visited the World Capital of Sprawl, and I Have Thoughts @CityNerd | Uploaded June 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
I went on location in Charlotte, North Carolina to find out what makes this the most car-centric major city in the U.S., and, by some accounts, the most sprawling city on the planet. What I found was not what I was expecting!

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Previous CityNerd Videos Referenced:
- The Sheer Traffic Engineering Genius and Brilliant Land Use Impacts of Beltways: youtu.be/ELxhswMvrhc
- North American Cities Urbanism Tier List: youtu.be/yOGIXGTYYJ4
- Unexpectedly Walkable Neighborhoods in Otherwise Unwalkable Cities: youtu.be/C1hUR5v4aok

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Resources:
- The University of Richmond's incredible Mapping Inequality project: https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=13/35.222/-80.86&city=charlotte-nc
- Demographia's 2022 World Urban Areas Report: demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf
- Charlotte's long-range transit plan: charlottenc.gov/CATS/Transit-Planning
- walkscore.com/NC/Charlotte

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Images
- Thanks to the NBA for being extremely cool about sharing highlights youtube.com/watch?v=HQeMhYJe5JA
- Uptown Charlotte Thumbnail By Precisionviews - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83229785

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Music:
CityNerd background: Caipirinha in Hawaii by Carmen María and Edu Espinal (YouTube music library)

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