Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

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Episode 71: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Blue Bike Tires Sep 29, 2020

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This week Chrissy Mancini Nichols and Tracy McMillan join the show to talk about climate change, Netflix taxes, and Dutch shared bikes!

Odds and Ends

The great climate migration - New York Times

NCDOT purchases rail ROW - News and Observer

Houston to Dallas HSR - Houston Chronicle

Towns sue streaming companies - Hollywood Reporter

Europe's blue bikes - Fast Company

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Episode 303: A Community Champion Sep 24, 2020

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This week on the podcast we are chatting with Stephanie Gidigbi, Director of Policy and Partnerships for the Natural Resources Defense Council. Stephanie joins us to talk about federal policy, connections between transportation and race, the importance of performance measures, and much more!

Series Preview: Foot Notes Podcast Sep 22, 2020

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Foot Notes is an original new podcast about the intersection of walkability and race. Over the course of five episodes, you'll hear from a variety of transportation planners, researchers, and advocates about the ways in which our current approach to walkability perpetuates racial inequities, and what solutions may be out there.

Lily Linke is the host and creator of Foot Notes. She is an artist, educator, and urban planner with a particular passion for creating equitable public spaces through innovative community engagement. She currently lives in Somerville, MA and has recently completed her Masters degree in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University.

To subscribe to Foot Notes, look for the purple upside down walk sign when you search Foot Notes on Apple Podcasts or go to http://footnotespod.com

Episode 302: Right of Way with Angie Schmitt Sep 17, 2020

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This week we're chatting with Angie Schmitt about her new book Right of Way: Race, Class, and the silent epidemic of pedestrian deaths in America. Angie talks with us about why she wrote the book and what she hopes folks can take away from it.

Episode 70: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Armageddon Layercake Sep 15, 2020

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This week we're joined by Joe DiStefano of Urban Footprint to talk about free transit, innovation in cities, building dams for new water resources in Colorado and their work on COVID-19 resources.

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Odds and Ends

Innovation in time of COVID - Fast Company

Free transit trial in LA - LA Streetsblog

What Can a Body Do - The New Yorker

Colorado water needs - Denver Post

COVID hot spots - Urban Footprint

Episode 301: Bringing Back the Carpool Sep 10, 2020

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This week we're chatting with Dani Simons, Head of Public Sector Partnerships at Waze. Dani chats with us about Waze's focus on carpooling, how the company uses data to support its users, and her impressions of other country's transportation progress.

Episode 300!: Town Planning in Practice and a Celebration Sep 03, 2020

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This week is episode 300!! I can't believe we made it this far! So to celebrate we're sharing chapter one of our recently released audiobook Town Planning in Practice by Raymond Unwin. This classic from 1909 was one of the first to discuss town planning and urban design at the beginning of the 20th century.

Episode 69: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Machinations of Evil Sep 01, 2020

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This week Chrissy Mancini Nichols joins the show to talk about ADUs, heat solutions, curb management and more!

Odds and Ends

Permanently affordable ADUs - Fast Company

Euro cities deal with heatwaves - BBC

Portland's new zoning code - Sightline Institute

Discrimination in appraisals - NY Times

Will curbside pickup last - Stateline

Seattle childcare law - The Urbanist

Puppies and Butterflies

Beer Garden history - Wine Enthusiast

Seinfeld on NY - NY Times

Episode 299: Transit in the Pandemic Aug 27, 2020

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This week we're joined by David Huffaker, Chief Development Officer for the Port Authority of Allegheny County in the Pittsburgh region. David joins us to chat about transit operations during the pandemic, emergency planning, the agency's equity index, and the future of streets.

Episode 298: Ian McHarg and Design with Nature Aug 20, 2020

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This week we're joined by Billy Fleming, Wilks Family Director of the University of Pennsylvania's McHarg Center to talk about the center's book Design with Nature Now. We chat about Ian McHarg's influence and legacy since the original Design with Nature, the influence of his work on GIS and the environmental movement, and how the center seeks to find where design fits into the larger discussion of human life and policy like the Green New Deal.

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