# The Life-Sized City

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly), 2017-09-14

alex-feldman, architecture, cities, colombia, design, development, economic-development, guest-post, life-sized-city, medellin, tvo, uncategorized, urban, urbanism, urbanist, video, video-series, vlog, vlogging

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I just discovered a new video series by TVO called, [The Life-Sized City](http://tvo.org/programs/the-life-sized-city). It’s all about the “anatomy of the modern metropolis.” The first episode – which was released on Sep 13 – is on [Medellin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medell%C3%ADn) and is just under an hour long. I have a feeling that many of you will like this video series.

Whenever I watch videos like this, it makes me think that I should be starting a city building-focused [vlog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_blog). I am a big fan of this format. I follow a handful of vloggers. And I think it could be a lot of fun. But sometimes you just have [to say no](http://brandondonnelly.com/post/142714240518/the-value-of-saying-no).

For those of you who aren’t longtime readers, I would also like to point out that my good friend [Alex Feldman](https://twitter.com/alexpfeldman) wrote a guest post on this blog over 3 years ago following a trip to Medellin. It’s about what cities could learn from Medellin’s extraordinary turnaround. If you missed it, [click here](http://brandondonnelly.com/post/83405074575/what-cities-could-learn-from-medellin).

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