YouTuber and Planner Dave Amos on Teaching a Crash Course in Urban Planning, One Video at a Time

The average person on the street may not know what a planning
professional does, but they probably have opinions on traffic,
housing, and the many other elements of daily life that planners
influence. Planner Dave Amos bet on that natural curiosity when
he started his planning-focused YouTube channel “City Beautiful”
10 years ago. Since then, he’s seen the community of planning
content creators grow on social media and says they’re feeding an
appetite that’s been there all along.


This episode, Amos sits down with People Behind the Plans
host Meghan Stromberg at the 2023 National Planning Conference to
talk about his own fortuitous route to the profession, why he’s
telling the planning story in exciting, new ways, and how
planners can lean into social media to connect with their
communities.


Episode URL:
https://planning.org/podcast/youtuber-and-planner-dave-amos-on-teaching-a-crash-course-in-urban-planning-one-video-at-a-time/