Driving Downtown - Birmingham Alabama USA

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Published 2015-08-24

Driving Downtown - Birmingham Alabama USA - Season 1 Episode 7.
Starting Point: 20th St goo.gl/maps/A9rz55ggvuD2?entry=yt
Highlights include 20th St - 6th Ave - 17th St - 1st Ave - 23rd St - 2nd Ave - 3rd Ave - 4th Ave - 5th Ave - 6th Ave - 19th St - 18th St - Rev Abraham Woods Jr Blvd - 22nd St.
Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. The city's population was 212,237 according to the 2010 United States Census.[3] The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of about 1,128,047 according to the 2010 Census, which is approximately one quarter of Alabama's population.

Birmingham was founded in 1871, during the post-Civil War Reconstruction period, through the merger of three pre-existing farm towns, notably, former Elyton. It grew from there, annexing many more of its smaller neighbors, into an industrial and railroad transportation center with a focus on mining, the iron and steel industry, and railroading. Birmingham was named for Birmingham, England, UK; one of that nation's major industrial cities. Most of the original settlers who founded Birmingham were of English ancestry.[4] In one writer's view, the city was planned as a place where cheap, non-unionized, and African-American labor from rural Alabama could be employed in the city's steel mills and blast furnaces, giving it a competitive advantage over industrial cities in the Midwest and Northeast.[5]

From its founding through the end of the 1960s, Birmingham was a primary industrial center of the South. The pace of Birmingham's growth during the period from 1881 through 1920 earned its nicknames The Magic City and The Pittsburgh of the South. Much like Pittsburgh, Birmingham's major industries were iron and steel production, plus a major component of the railroading industry, where rails and railroad cars were both manufactured in Birmingham. In the field of railroading, the two primary hubs of railroading in the Deep South were nearby Atlanta and Birmingham, beginning in the 1860s and continuing through to the present day. The economy diversified during the later half of the twentieth century. Though the manufacturing industry maintains a strong presence in Birmingham, other businesses and industries such as banking, telecommunications, transportation, electrical power transmission, medical care, college education, and insurance have risen in stature. Mining in the Birmingham area is no longer a major industry with the exception of coal mining. Birmingham ranks as one of the most important business centers in the Southeastern United States and is also one of the largest banking centers in the United States. In addition, the Birmingham area serves as headquarters to one Fortune 500 company: Regions Financial, along with five other Fortune 1000 companies.

In higher education, Birmingham has been the location of the University of Alabama School of Medicine (formerly the Medical College of Alabama) and the University of Alabama School of Dentistry since 1947. Since that time it has also obtained a campus of the University of Alabama, University of Alabama at Birmingham (founded circa 1969), one of three main campuses of the University of Alabama System. It is also home to three private institutions: Samford University, Birmingham-Southern College, and Miles College. Between these colleges and universities, the Birmingham area has major colleges of medicine, dentistry, optometry, pharmacy, law, engineering, and nursing. The city has three of the state's five law schools: Cumberland School of Law, Birmingham School of Law, and Miles Law School. Birmingham is also the headquarters of the Southeastern Conference, one of the major U.S. collegiate athletic conferences.

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All Comments (21)

@jutah 6 years ago

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@capri4682 4 years ago

Much love from Birmingham, England
@cminer2008 5 years ago

S W E E T H O M E A L A B A M A
@onewomanandsomesongs 7 years ago

I've lived here all my life. Traveled to many places, Italy, San Fran, New Orleans, Boston, Martha's Vinyard and many other points unknown. Birmingham is still the place I always want to be. No city is perfect, bad things have gone on and will continue to go on, but once you live in B'ham, you never want to leave. The people are wonderful, the city clean....great restaurants and things to do, everythIng. Yeah, some naysayers will come on and slam the city, but there is just something about the place. No wonder they call it, "The Magic City."
@helenedewit6105 5 years ago

Wow!! I must say the streets are so clean!
@tommyjones9882 6 years ago

That's my hometown never going to forget Alabama someday I'm going back
@robyntaratu4977 8 years ago

Thanks for the share. I have Birmingham on my US bucket list along with many other places of historical significance.
@michaelwtm 7 years ago

I live here. It's really interesting seeing another point of view on places I'm familiar with. Love your channel!
@westlake3737 4 years ago

Im moving back.I cant wait.Im really excited.
@MoneyComethToshelia 4 years ago

if Larry Langford was still here we would have been catching up with Atlanta by now! he was this city best mayor
@ibnusighabdulah1612 7 years ago

I like your video. I like to see cities in all USA. Thank! Keep on making video about cities in USA. Be Spirit!
@pyotrtchaikovsky9097 4 years ago

Now that is a city i can live in, quiet not overcrowded and clean
@eddieclark5930 3 years ago

For the people who live in Alabama, I bet they don't never get bored because Alabama will keep them busy.
@toptaemin1278 5 years ago

I think I'm in love with Alabama. Very nice city to live
@meerar8787 3 years ago

Very nice video. Roads are so clean.
@Mike14x 5 years ago

Being in 29 Palms, CA. I watched this a dozen times wishing I could go back home... Thank you for this. I love my city.
@16yroldCHOSENONEProphet_ 3 years ago

So glad I live in Birmingham Alabama 😎😎😎
@makenzieb576 4 years ago

I live in moody but I love going down town the aesthetic is so pleasing
@DaleyWhaley91 3 years ago

For those asking why no one is walking around. For one, It's a car city, a lot of sunbelt cities are like this... Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, LA, Miami, etc.. a lot of urban sprawl causes this. Hence why the interstates are usually bumper to bumper. If you want to see people walking you have to go to the shopping areas of these cities. Downtown is usually just business districts. Can't compare this type of city to places like NYC, Boston, Philly, etc. built totally different. Also, depends on the time of the day, as mentioned the only time you'll see a lot of people moving about downtown is lunchtime, or when people are going home. Just a totally different city.
@dukeroyal8158 7 years ago

Excellent. Its like actually being there. A great look at Birmingham.