Why the dream of a single family home is a nightmare

Single family homes are expensive, carbon-intensive, and frankly a waste of space. With urban planning having its roots set in inequality, can housing change to become more sustainable and inclusive?

Credits:
Reporter: Beina Xu
Video Editor: Markus Mörtz
Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Michael Trobridge

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:04 Where did it come from?
04:00 Energy suck
06:05 Zoning woes
08:42 Better examples
10:15 Outro