Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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Episode 374: Who Represents "The Community" Part 1 Mar 17, 2022

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This week we're joined by Jeremy Levine, Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies and Sociology (by courtesy) at the University of Michigan. Jeremy talks about his book Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston and describes how neighborhood groups, elected officials, and public servants all claim the mantle of representing "the community." In Part 1 we discuss how he went about his research in Boston, and how groups coalesced around the idea of the Fairmount Corridor.

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Episode 373: Real Talk on Climate Action and TOD Mar 10, 2022

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This week we're joined by Adie Tomer from Brookings to talk about how transit-oriented development and active transportation play into climate strategies over the long term. We talk about mitigation versus adaptation strategies and what solutions work best for each.

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Episode 372: The Annual Prediction Show with Yonah Freemark Mar 03, 2022

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This week we're joined by Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute. We chat about the impacts of the pandemic on office work, rethinking federal transportation policy, and make our annual predictions on next year's transportation policies and projects.

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Episode 106: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - The Land Use Proxy Fight Mar 01, 2022

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This week we're joined by Han Solo, but that doesn't stop us from having a wonderful conversation about Paris 2024 car free zone, why cities are fighting for a lot of social issues with zoning codes, the nightmare that is the American Dream Mall, why TX Governor Greg Abbott killed a road diet, and the divergence between American and European cities.

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Episode 371: Transit Project Costs and Solutions Feb 24, 2022

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This week we're joined by Paul Lewis, Policy Director at the Eno Center for Transportation. Paul discusses their report on transportation construction costs, Saving Time and Making Cents: A Blueprint for Building Transit Better. We chat about the project database they created for the research, the different level of scrutiny between highway and transit capital projects, and some of the ways agencies can create better governance structures and lower project costs.

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Episode 370: Planning for Underground Cities Feb 17, 2022

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This week we're joined by Dr. Asal Bidarmaghz, lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Dr. Bidarmaghz discusses planning for underground infrastructure and why it's so important for the future of cities.

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Episode 105: Mondays at the Overhead Wire - Seamless Transit Feb 15, 2022

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This week we're joined by Ian Griffiths of Seamless Bay Area to talk about their work in the Bay Area and we talk about a few news items from the weeks before on housing and transportation.

Ann Arbor council divided on zoning investigation - MLive

Slower growth in Colorado - Colorado Public Radio

French slow rail - The Local.fr

Sprawl declines with gas price rise - Anthropocene

Climate promises challenged by highway money - Bloomberg

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Episode 369: Treating Social Media Like a City Feb 10, 2022

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This week we're joined by Sahar Massachi of the Integrity Institute. Sahar discusses his piece in MIT Technology Review connecting cities and social media platforms and how we should be monitoring and managing them properly.

We chat about the similarities between managing social media's bad actors and the urban problems like black box highway modeling, speed management, and city building.

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Episode 368: A Grassroots Bus Network Redesign in Miami Feb 03, 2022

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This week we are featuring a one on one conversation between Carlos Cruz-Casas, Assistant Director, Department of Transportation and Public Works for Miami Dade County, and Grace Perdomo, Executive Director of Transit Alliance in Miami. Grace and Carlos chat about the Better Bus Project, an advocacy-led community driven redesign of the Miami-Dade bus network.

Episode 367: Reimagining Sustainable Cities Jan 27, 2022

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This week we're joined by Tina Rosan, Associate Professor at Temple University and Stephen Wheeler, Professor at UC Davis to talk about their new book Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities. We talk about a broad array of topics including rethinking public meetings, urban power dynamics, and structural change in government systems.

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