Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

Episode 77: Three Weeks in the Mountain West without a Car

Tim Sullivan joins us to talk about his new book Ways to the West

Episode 76: Louisville's Urbanism Derby

Episode 75: A Transportation Innovation Revolution

Episode 74: Your Brain on Two Legs

Episode 73: The Urban Displacement Project

Episode 72: Remaking California's Transportation System

Episode 71: Indexing Livability for All Ages

Episode 70: The Missions of San Antonio

Episode 69: Tanya's Back! Platers Gonna Plate

Episode 68: The Freeway That Never Was

Episode 67: High Speed Rail Lessons from Germany and France

Episode 66: An Applied Urban Anthropologist

Episode 65: Charlotte's Urban Web

Episode 64: The Sharing Economy, Robots, and You

Episode 63: St. Louis is Awesome, You Just Don't Know It Yet

Episode 62: Metro Areas: The True Laboratories of Democracy

Episode 61: A Positive Vibe for Chicago TOD

Episode 60: The Missing Middle Housing

Episode 59: Milwaukee - The Fresh Coast

Episode 58: Oklahoma City Shapes Up

Episode 57: These Roads Won't Pay for Themselves

Episode 56: We Built This City on Transit and Roads

Episode 55: The City Lighting Revolution

Clifton Lemon and Steve Lawton of LightPlace Advisors join me this week to talk about how lighting is going to change in cities with the advent of the LED.

Episode 54: Urban Cowboys on Light Rail

Christof Spieler joins me again to chat about Houston. This time we chat transportation and all the great things Houston is working on.

Episode 53: Growing Up and Out in Houston Texas Part 1

Episode 52: They Took Our Jobs!! ...Downtown

This week on the Talking Headways Podcast I’m joined by Joe Cortright of City Observatory to nerd out on employment data and discuss their most recent report Surging City Center Job Growth.We learn how employment cores for many cities are growing and why this looks like a longer term shift in growth.

Episode 51: The Peking Order

This week on the podcast I’m joined by Dr. Mariela Alfonzo to discuss walkability in China. We talk about her recent paper, Walkability, obesity and urban design in Chinese neighborhoods in the journal Preventative Medicine as well as the lack of data availability for researchers, the obstacles to walking such as poles and poorly designed ramps, and the huge issue of air quality indoors and out.

Episode 50: Green Tripping

This week Ann Cheng of the California Transportation Advocacy Group Transform joins me to talk about their Green Trip program. Ann, a planner, the former Mayor of El Cerrito California, as well as one of San Francisco Business Times “40 Under Forty” in 2014 discusses how housing developers can build less parking and more housing by giving residents better travel options through Green Trip Certification.

Episode 49: They Know Where the Bodies Are Buried

Mariia Zimmerman of MZ Strategies joins me to chat about her new report on local advocacy for transportation reform called Transportation Transformation.<> Mariia, former Deputy Director for the Office of Sustainable Communities at HUD as well as former Chief of Staff to Congressman Earl Blumenauer, spent a year probing the local transportation advocacy landscape to see what issues people were working on, which regions were the most innovative, and case studies that look at the San Francis...

Episode 48: Urbanism in the Style of Gangnam

Guest host Randy Simes, Headline writer for the Streetsblog Ohio Network Blog and owner of UrbanCincy.com, joins me from South Korea to give his thoughts on his current home in the Gangnam district of Seoul and his previous one in Atlanta. We cover Keith Parker’s turnaround of Atlanta’s transit agency MARTA, talk about the belt line and the types of people that won’t leave the cozy boundary it creates, and Randy shares the best place to get southern hospitality in town. From there we swerve from...