Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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Episode 402: Broward County Transportation Sep 29, 2022

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This week we're joined by Broward MPO Executive Director Greg Stuart to talk about the history of Broward County, it's connections to the rest of South Florida, the historic MAPS transportation plan, and how they are dealing with potential sea level rise and impacts of the pandemic.

This episode was produced in partnership with Railvolution!

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Episode 118: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Interior Block Urbanism Sep 27, 2022

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This week on Mondays we cover a ton of ground including Transportation Insecurity, putting retail away from arterial streets, pattern book building, bad intersections, forced flood buyouts and much more!

Check out links in the show notes below:

Show Links

Transportation insecurity - Washington Center for Equitable Growth

Flood buyouts - Grist

Nashville retail away from arterials - Nashville Scene

Fayetteville pattern books - NW Arkansas Democrat Gazette

KC's worst intersections - KCUR

Warehouses in the fields - The Guardian

Good luck playing Sim NIMBY - Motherboard

Bonus Articles

Denver storefronts - Colorado Public Radio

Ship it Zero resolution - Grist

Window urbanism - Winnepeg Free Press

Puppies and Butterflies

BART essay contest - Short-Edition

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Episode 401: Health Gains for the Compact Walkable City Sep 22, 2022

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This week we're joined by Billie Giles-Corti, Director of the Healthy Livable Cities Lab at RMIT, Melanie Lowe of the University of Melbourne, and Geoff Boeing of USC to talk about their papers in The Lancet Global Health series on Urban Design, Transport, and Health. They chat about the importance of walkability to public health, why Sao Paulo Brazil connects policy and outcomes so well, and how cities can use the detailed indicators they've created including bus stop and intersection density to fill policy gaps that lead to positive health outcomes.

You can find the papers at The Lancet Global Health

or visit The Global Observatory of Healthy and Sustainable Cities

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Episode 400: Talking Headways Back in Time Sep 15, 2022

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We're at 400 episodes and I want to thank the listeners for letting us come into their podcatchers each week. We've got 13 clips from shows in the first 399 episodes. We share clips on microtransit, urban delivery systems, city fiber networks, 3D urban design, transit value capture, zoning reform, walking, and community togetherness. Join us for a fun trip down memory lane.

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Episode 117: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - Convening with the Ancients Sep 13, 2022

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This week on the show I'm Han Solo again, but that won't stop us from covering interesting news about cities from around the world! We chat about Phoenix's ancient canals, some of California's potential new laws, Black migration, and making friends in sprawl.

Check out the show links and notes below:

Phoenix canal history - BBC Travel

Capitalism and gentrification - Guardian

Black migration - The Atlantic

Making friends in sprawl - Vox

Trees a secret weapon - Time Magazine

Small cargo vans - The Drive

Bonus coverage:

French e-bike subsidies - The Verge

300 mile range needed? - NYT

Tredges protect kids from particulates - New Atlas

Zero down payment mortgage - NBC

Banning meat adverts - Guardian

Banning fossil fuel adverts - Euronews

California laws

Public meetings - CityLab

Reapealing Article 34, anti-public housing - LA Times

Housing on strip malls, commercial - Smart Cities Dive

Car free tax breaks - Washington Post

Parking requirements near transit - San Diego Union Tribune

Comments and Questions

Castro bath house dispute - SFist

Why city planning? - Thomas Bardenett

Puppies and Butterflies

Pulling the Streetcar Out - Dallas Morning News

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Episode 399: Ancient Cities and Energised Crowding Sep 08, 2022

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This week we're joined by Michael E. Smith, Professor of Anthropology and Archeologist at Arizona State's School of Human Evolution and Social Change. We talk with Michael about his article in Aeon Magazine entitled Energized Crowding about life in early cities and neighborhoods.

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Episode 398: The Arbitrary Lines of Zoning Sep 01, 2022

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This week we're joined by Nolan Gray to talk about his new book Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. We talk about how cities were regulated before zoning, why state and national reforms are important and why zoning abolition should be the ultimate goal.

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Episode 116: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Dangerous Roads and City Wildfire Sprinklers Aug 30, 2022

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This week on Mondays we're playing catch up with stories from the last five weeks of The Overhead Wire newsletter. Dangerous roads, TXDOT skirts environmental rules, young adults stay close to home, Stuttgart's green corridor and much more. You can find all the links to the stories in the notes below:

News Items

The most dangerous road in America - Vox

Texas skirts enviro laws on highways - Grist

Colorado changes transportation course - CPR

Young adults not moving far from home - AP

Job sprawl spillover - Crain's Cleveland Business

Code snitching - Nashville Scene

Car free pioneer - Politico EU

Office building midlife crisis - Commercial Observer

Billionaires gonna NIMBY - The Atlantic

California Megaflood - CNN

Bathhouse comeback - Mic

Stuttgart's green corridors - Reasons to be Cheerful

Spanish city fire sprinklers - Wired

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Episode 397: Transit Stop Transformation Aug 25, 2022

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This week we're joined by Kim Cella of Citizens for Modern Transit and Sheila Holm of AARP. to discuss how they are transforming transit stops in St. Louis. We chat about how they involve the community, engage transit operators, and bring life to grey spaces.

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Episode 396: Tech Won't Save Transportation Aug 18, 2022

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This week we're joined by author Paris Marx to talk about their book Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation. We talk about Technologists and the stories they tell themselves, Ursula K Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory, and Uber's impact on labor laws.

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