An Urban Odyssey - A YouTube series about cities

<p>&nbsp;</p> <h2><strong>The Project</strong></h2> <p>A few&nbsp;months&nbsp;ago I left France to <strong>travel the world in order to study cities</strong>. Why cities? Because we live in them.&nbsp;Today, more&nbsp;than <strong>4 billion people</strong> live in&nbsp;cites which is 50 percent of the world population.&nbsp;As we all know cities are facing major issues:&nbsp;pollution, overcrowding, poverty, security, floods, and so much more.</p> <p><br /> <strong>But let&#39;s</strong> <strong>forget about&nbsp;problems and focus on solutions</strong>! All over the world, individuals, NGOs, associations, governments&nbsp;are working very hard to solve those challenges.&nbsp;My goal this year&nbsp;is to travel to&nbsp;<strong>12&nbsp;countries </strong>around the world, in Latin America, North America, Asia, Middle East, Africa and Europe, to&nbsp;<strong>study problems</strong> cities are facing,<strong>&nbsp;solutions </strong>to solve them, and<strong> share it with you!</strong></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/599498/worldmap-1559403697.png" width="100%" /></p> <h2><strong>Why YouTube?</strong></h2> <p><strong>Free for me, free for you.</strong> YouTube is the largest online video sharing platform and it is used by millions of people everyday. I chose to share my videos on YouTube because I wanted them to be <strong>accessible to everyone for free!&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>Every week (when I travel I don&#39;t post for one week)&nbsp;I am sharing with you my adventures, studies, stories, encounters on <strong>my channel</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjvCuQIaVg6-f6plCN54eNQ" target="_blank">&quot;AN URBAN ODYSSEY&quot;</a>.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/599499/Capture-1559403962.JPG" width="100%" /></p> <h2><strong>What have I done until now?</strong></h2> <p>As this project is very meaningful&nbsp;to me (and I hope for you as well)<strong> I didn&#39;t wait for you to start.&nbsp;</strong>Until&nbsp;now I have done <strong>15 videos</strong> in France, Colombia, Mexico and The United States. I have studied&nbsp;various topics such as:&nbsp;<strong>gender equality, urban security, housing, homelessness, and urban&nbsp;mobility</strong>.</p> <p><br /> These past four months have been<strong> full of encounters</strong>, <strong>with locals</strong> (former gang members in Colombian ghetto, homeless people in Los Angeles, people living in slums in Mexico), but also <strong>with professionals&nbsp;</strong>(the NGO&nbsp;Techo, Casa y Ciudad, Camino al Barrio, the INVI, Designing Hong Kong, the C2D Bordeaux). These people are the ones who make things change and my role is to <strong>share their work with you.</strong><br /> <img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/599511/Capture3-1559405803.JPG" width="100%" /></p> <h2><strong>What is Next?</strong></h2> <p>I&nbsp;left <strong>Hong Kong</strong> a few days ago and I just arrived in <strong>Dhaka, Bangladesh</strong>&nbsp;to study the <strong>adaptation of cities to climate change</strong>.&nbsp;Then I will travel to India, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana&nbsp;and Turkey. I will study topics such as, the energy&nbsp;transition, water and sanitation management, social segregation, migrant&nbsp;integration, rebuilding of cities, waste management.</p> <p>In every place I travel&nbsp;I meet people, I discover places&nbsp;and histories that <strong>inspire me</strong>,&nbsp;and I feel the<strong> need to share them</strong>. Therefore, since last month I also decided that apart from my initial study I will also produce videos about other subjects.&nbsp;It will&nbsp;vary the kind of content I am doing and make it <strong>more enjoyable for you.</strong></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/599509/Capture2-1559405491.JPG" width="100%" /></p> <h2><strong>Who am I?</strong></h2> <p>I am <strong>passionate, adventurous, hardworking&nbsp;and&nbsp;a bit reckless</strong>. I am a freshly graduated <strong>urban engineer</strong> from France, 25 years old, from a&nbsp;town named Rambouillet.&nbsp;These past years I have traveled in more than <strong>40 countries</strong> in Europe, South and North America, Asia, Oceania and Africa. I crossed Argentina, Iceland and Australia <strong>hitch hiking</strong>, I worked in Colombia, Brazil, South Korea and Argentina, I hiked mountains in Patagonia, Morocco, Mexico and&nbsp;Norway, I survived sauna with Russians in Moscow (that&#39;s a challenge).&nbsp;Anyway what I want to tell you is that <strong>I have experience travelling </strong>and<strong>&nbsp;I won&#39;t let you down!&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/599515/me-1559406598.JPG" width="100%" /></p> <h2><strong>The final documentary</strong></h2> <p>After travelling for a year in the world&#39;s&nbsp;<strong>most challenged cities,</strong> I will have a global vision of the current situation. And I think it is important for me and useful for you to <strong>share what I learned</strong> during this trip.</p> <p>I therefore decided to realize a<strong> long documentary</strong> (30 - 45mn) about this year.&nbsp;The point is <strong>not to repeat</strong>&nbsp;what I shared in my weekly videos, but to<strong> look back on</strong>&nbsp;this whole experience, problems cities are facing, what we are doing about it and <strong>what&nbsp;hopes we have&nbsp;for the future.</strong></p>