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Quarantine, tracking COVID-19, and toilet paper triumph Mar 20, 2020

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In the first segment [1:10-16:00], hosts Eric Jaffe and Vanessa Quirk discuss this week's top stories:

Could location data slow Covid-19? (WaPo) https://wapo.st/2U3ZrZo and (Sara Morrison, Recode) https://bit.ly/2xfowYs
The toll of quarantine on mental health (Eric Jaffe, Sidewalk Talk) https://bit.ly/2QxhaGo / Toll on older Americans (Lindsay Ullman, Medium) https://bit.ly/2Wt2dZL / Neighbors Mobilize Over Facebook (Arielle Pardes, Wired) https://bit.ly/3bkdKyR
Designing cities in a new age of pandemics (Diana Budds, Curbed) https://bit.ly/395lu67 / Pandemics as an urban planning problem (Ian Klaus, CityLab) https://bit.ly/3dfTdgt

In the second segment [15:00-22:00], the hosts interview reporter Jennifer O'Mahony, who gives us a sense of life on lockdown in Madrid, Spain. [16:30 - 22:10] https://nyti.ms/2wsinrJ

And in the final segment [22:20-24:40], the hosts share what made them smile this week.

Drive-in theaters make a comeback (Daniel Miller, LA Times) https://lat.ms/2Ua80lv
Care-mongering in Canada (Tom Gerken, BBC) https://bbc.in/33zE1q0

Outbreaks, vacuum waste, and puppy buckets (to keep us sane) Mar 13, 2020

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In the first segment [1:00-15:00], hosts Eric Jaffe and Vanessa Quirk discuss this week's top stories:

Lessons for cities from 1918 (Eric Jaffe, Sidewalk Talk) http://bit.ly/2wSSLE2 and Singapore (Adam Rogers, Wired) http://bit.ly/2IX1qsd
Eviction embargos in CA (Sarah Holder, CityLab) http://bit.ly/3cVHbc1
U.S. transit lags behind (Aaron Gordon, Vice) http://bit.ly/2wRgfcQ

In the second segment [15:00-22:00], the hosts interview Journalist Philip Preville about a technology whose time may finally have come: vacuum waste. (Sidewalk Talk) http://bit.ly/2vT0tOo

And in the final segment [22:00-24:00], the hosts share what made them smile this week.

Cat tracking https://on.natgeo.com/2vSpauB
Puppies in a bucket http://bit.ly/39SrPTG

Tulsa, Tesla, and Purell Mar 06, 2020

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In the first segment [1:05-15:05], hosts Eric Jaffe and Vanessa Quirk discuss this week's three must-reads:

Compost http://bit.ly/2xiwgc3 (Rivka Galchen, New Yorker)
Tulsa http://bit.ly/2wEpIE4 (Sarah Holder, CityLab)
Quarantine http://bit.ly/2VPTUXv (Ian Bogost, Atlantic)

In the second segment [15:10-20:15], the hosts play a game called "Taking the Local," focusing on the story of Reno's Tesla-led tech transformation, and its impact on housing affordability: http://bit.ly/2vzkPfH (Patrick Sisson, Curbed)

And in the final segment [20:20-22:40], the hosts share what made them smile this week.

Eric's Pick: Secrets of slow walking http://bit.ly/2TtBk5R (Lisa Wood Shapiro, Wired)
Vanessa's Pick: The rogue plaque maker http://bit.ly/3cCgaKm (Aaron Gordon, Vice)

Prefab, privacy, and avocados (Pilot: Feb 28) Mar 05, 2020

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The Sidewalk Weekly is a show for people who are big on cities but short on time.

In the first segment [1:20-15:20], hosts Eric Jaffe and Vanessa Quirk discuss this week's three top stories:

Los Angeles and new mobility companies fight over trip data (Laura Bliss, CityLab)
The challenges of mapping gentrification — and why it matters (Eric Jaffe, Sidewalk Talk)
The Sustainability Potential and Pitfalls of Prefabrication (Shaun Kuo, Urbanist)

In the second segment [15:40-22:40], the hosts interview reporter Alan Greenblatt, who just wrote about the only city in the U.S. to have established a Privacy Commission. (Governing)

And in the final segment, Last Smile [22:40-25:00], the hosts share what made them smile this week.

Eric's Pick: Barcelona pilots real-time occupancy screens in its subway cars (Intelligent Transport)
Vanessa's Pick: The MTA vs. John Tauranac (New Yorker)

Introducing the Sidewalk Weekly! Feb 28, 2020

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Welcome to the Sidewalk Weekly, a show from Sidewalk Labs for people who are big on cities but short on time.

Each Friday your hosts — Vanessa Quirk and Eric Jaffe — will discuss the biggest stories from the urban tech world that week. We'll do interviews, we'll play games, we'll make some bad jokes, and set you off into your weekend smiling.

If this sounds like the show for you, then subscribe today! You can expect shows dropping in your feed on a Friday coming soon.

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