This week we're joined once again by Christof Spieler who recently wrote a new book called Trains, Buses, People. Christof talks about how transit isn't a mystery and we all know what makes it work. But ultimately we're not having the right conversations. We also review Christof's time on the Houston Metro board and why it's important to have people who ride the bus and think about it all the time as a part of the agency discussion. You can find the book Trains, Buses, People at IslandPress.org...
Dec 20, 2018•49 min
This week we're joined by Anna Muessig of Gehl to chat about using data and tearing down the BQE in New York. Check out the links below to read along with our discussion. News Dutch reach - CityLab Hiring managers discriminate on distance - HBR Oregon considers four units per parcel - Willamette Week Visit our sponsor - moovel Story of the Week Portland to try Google's Replica data program - Oregon Public Broadcasting The Apps know where you are - NY Times Spotlight New Mobilit y Tear down the B...
Dec 18, 2018•1 hr 5 min
This week we're going back to Episode 27 to bring back an episode I had made just for kicks in 2014. It's Walt Disney the city planner. Hope folks enjoy it again or for the first time if you hadn't heard it before.
Dec 12, 2018•46 min
This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire Chrissy Mancini Nichols joins to talk about bad Muni, holiday cities, and lots of mobility discussions. The News Madrid bans cars from central city - Guardian A new AV Start bill? - The Verge Minneapolis passes 2040 plan - Minneapolis Star Tribune Story of the Week New CA bill for density near transit - LA Times Building slow lanes - Forbes Spotlight New Mobility Should Cincinnati built its own app - CityBeat Puppies and Butterflies The Laughing Room - M...
Dec 11, 2018•1 hr 19 min
This week we chat with Professor Deborah Salon of Arizona State about location value capture. Deborah talks about the difference between location and land value capture and we go over the main points of a research study on the subject she wrote with several colleagues. We also chat about where location value capture shouldn't be used and whether certain mechanisms such as TIF take too much value for individual projects....
Dec 05, 2018•42 min
This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire Anna Muessig of Gehl joins to chat about her trip to Australia, Minneapolis 2040, and we have fun discussing mobility monopolies. Below are links to stories we talked about this week. News Modern Trains - Streetsblog USA New York considers banning cashless business - Guardian Death of Montreal Bagels? Globe and Mail Story of the Week Minneapolis' radical rezoning - Curbed Lina Hidalgo to run Harris County - New York Magazine Spotlight New Mobility Becomi...
Dec 04, 2018•56 min
This week we're joined by Dr. Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California, and Director of USC’s Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) and the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII). We chat about a broad range of topics including the Environmental Justice Screening Method and how that research was turned into California environmental policy. The importance of community organizing in getting agreem...
Nov 28, 2018•33 min
This week on Mondays we talk about closing down the GM plant in Youngstown Ohio, climate change, more on housing, and Virgin Trains USA. We have a bit of a technical issue but hopefully you still enjoy the show. Below are links to the items we discussed. News Three Big Climate Takeaways - Vox All Cash Purchases Must be Disclosed - 6sqft Trump Administration floats sharing census information with law enforcement - Washington Post Story of the Week Why affordable housing is scarce in progressive c...
Nov 27, 2018•53 min
This week we talk about Baby Boomer housing, Amazon, and decriminalization of transit fares. News Decriminalizing Fare Evasion - The Hill Autonomous Delivery Vehicles - Fast Company Amazon Won't Save Your Town - New York Times Story of the Week Baby Boomers Not Buying Homes - MNN Spotlight New Mobility Portland's Little Big Shift - Sightline Puppies and Butterflies Sharing a home with older residents - Guardian...
Nov 20, 2018•1 hr 15 min
This week we're joined by Professor Ralph Buehler of Virginia Tech who talks with us about the German transport concept of Verkehrsverbund (VV). The word translated to English means "transport network". We discuss where the first VV was formed and how more integrated systems could make transport in the United States more efficient and connected. There's also a discussion about docked bike share as well as how we can think about mobility as a service platforms in the future and their relationship...
Nov 15, 2018•47 min
This week we're joined by Chrissy Mancini Nichols to talk about the election, scooter data, and cities from scratch. Below are some of the pieces we covered... News Clickwork in Nairobi - BoingBoing Rep. Peter DeFazio sees a bill - Washington Post Scooter corrals in Santa Monica - LA Streetsblog Atlanta approves the gulch - Curbed Atlanta Story of the Week Cities and scooter data - Wired Nevada and the bitcoin city - NY Times Cities from scratch - Bloomberg...
Nov 13, 2018•1 hr 14 min
This week on the podcast, Kate Sofis, CEO of SFMade joins us to talk about the resurgence in urban manufacturing. We talk about what types of goods are manufactured in cities like San Francisco, the zoning codes that allow manufacturing to thrive in strong housing markets, and how cities have changed the narrative on manufacturing in more urban locales.
Nov 08, 2018•50 min
This week the team talks about voting and San Francisco's fight between billionaire's over homelessness measures. We chat about how in Estonia you can keep your data and more about MIT's Moral Machine experiment asking people around the world about the trolley problem. Here are the articles we covered... Moral Machine - MIT Technology Review Billionaire War - Wired Magazine Own Your Own Data - Smart Cities World Platform Urbanism and Walled Gardens - Fast Company Also visit our sponsor - moovel ...
Nov 06, 2018•1 hr 9 min
This week California State Senator Scott Wiener joins us to talk about a number of issues near and dear to our heart including housing and transportation. We talk about what's holding California housing back and several of his bills that address this in the Senate including SB35 as well as the potential return next year of SB827 which would upzone housing near frequent transit. We also chat about the potential for state level discussions on congestion pricing as well as a far future idea of gett...
Oct 31, 2018•42 min
This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Eric Singer and Andrej Micovic, Associates at Bilzin Sumberg in Miami who talk about the creation of the RTZ ordinance. They also talk about how the recent TIF districts and the county’s Strategic Miami Area Rapid Transit (SMART) Plan interact with the RTZ and what’s important in writing planning code.
Oct 18, 2018•37 min
This week we're joined by Dr. Kari Watkins, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech and co-founder and "Chief Motivator" of OneBusAway, an open source platform for real time transit info. Kari talks about her research into the role of technology in the evolving transit experience, possible "dangerous futures ahead" - such as zero-passenger vehicles - and the "best future" of high capacity transit on dedicated right of way, fed by robust bike and sidewalk networ...
Oct 18, 2018•51 min
Welcome to our NEW SHOW on the Talking Headways Podcast Network called Mondays at The Overhead Wire where Jeff and a rotating band of amazing co-hosts talk about the top stories from TheOverheadWire.com. This week Anna Muessig of Gehl joins to talk about her trip to Copenhagen, AVs, and Uber's move into congestion pricing advocacy. And don't forget to visit our sponsor moovel . Featured Discussion Articles This Week NEWS London Reducing Vehicles in the Core - Weekly Standard Anthony Foxx joins L...
Oct 16, 2018•1 hr 4 min
This week we're joined by Carol Kuester and Lysa Hale of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's Electronic Payments Department. Carol and Lysa talk about the Clipper transit fare payment card and how it works along with coming updates to the system. We also chat about fare simplification and what it means to different people, whether Clipper can be a first step towards mobility as a service, and what happens to all the money that floats through the system on any given day....
Oct 11, 2018•45 min
Welcome to our NEW SHOW on the Talking Headways Podcast Network called Mondays at The Overhead Wire where Jeff and a rotating band of amazing co-hosts talk about the top stories from TheOverheadWire.com. This week Chrissy Mancini Nichols of Walker Consultants joins to talk about developers and parking, bike share data, and we go through the week's news. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire @ManciniChrissy...
Oct 09, 2018•1 hr 9 min
This week we’re chatting with Dr. Melody Hoffman, professor of communications studies at Anoka Ramsey Community College at the American Planning Association Midwest Conference about her book Bike Lanes are White Lanes . We discuss how bike lanes are flashpoints for neighborhood gentrification fights, bicycle advocacy history and the women’s movement, and how bikes can be seen as rolling signifiers. Take the Talking Headways listener survey ....
Oct 03, 2018•44 min
Welcome to our NEW SHOW on the Talking Headways Podcast Network called Mondays at The Overhead Wire where Jeff and a rotating band of amazing co-hosts talk about the top stories from TheOverheadWire.com. This week Chrissy Mancini Nichols of Walker Consultants joins to talk about TNC regulations and neighborhoods. We also play the game WikiCity and discuss why October is the best month. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire @ManciniChrissy Featured Links This Week America’s Middle Neighborhoods -...
Oct 02, 2018•1 hr 1 min
This week we're joined by Chloe Spano, Vice President of Business Development and Innovation at Cityway. She discusses how Paris has reduced driving in the city using data and the importance of data in putting together mobility services of the future.
Sep 26, 2018•38 min
Welcome to our NEW SHOW on the Talking Headways Podcast Network called Mondays at The Overhead Wire where Jeff and a rotating band of amazing co-hosts talk about the top stories from TheOverheadWire.com. This week Anna Muessig of Gehl joins to talk about her trip to Detroit. We also play the game WikiCity and discuss Paris' car free day in October. Featured Articles This Week Things I Learned on Foot - Guardian How Connected Is Your Community - NY Times Paris Going Car Free for a Day - Fast Comp...
Sep 25, 2018•52 min
Bill Sirois, Senior Manager for Transit-Oriented Communities with Denver’s Regional Transportation District (RTD), joins us this week to talk about the success of the transit agency’s TOD program. The Union Station redevelopment—the unique funding, extensive planning, and successful execution—is the focus of the conversation. But Denver has done so much more. Bill also discusses the construction of over 38,000 housing units near transit since 2005, other interesting examples of TOD in the region...
Sep 19, 2018•40 min
Welcome to our NEW SHOW on the Talking Headways Podcast Network called Mondays at The Overhead Wire where Jeff Wood and a rotating band of amazing co-hosts talk about the top stories from TheOverheadWire.com. This week Anna Muessig of Gehl joins to talk about why autonomous vehicles should focus on pedestrians and Domino's Pizza as a pothole filling enterprise. We also play the game WikiCity and wonder who should be the voice transit in a city. Featured Articles This Week Left Behind America - F...
Sep 18, 2018•54 min
This week we're joined by planner and author Robin Renner. We talk about his wonderful book Urban Being: Anatomy and Identity of the City . Robin talks about how living in a number of places around the world got him to think differently about cities and how that led to his categorization of urban clusters. I ask how his work can be used by cities and he gives us a look into his thought process and the different geographies of the city. Don't forget to Subscribe to Talking Headways on iTunes, Sti...
Sep 13, 2018•34 min
This week we're joined by Melissa and Chris Bruntlett to talk about their new book Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality. They chat about their trip to the Netherlands and their experiences in a number of different cities and how they relate to the North American context. We also chat about overflowing bike parking, why bikes are often left behind, and how street design is better than signs. To purchase the book, visit Island Press...
Sep 06, 2018•43 min
This week on the podcast it's our 200th episode!!!! We have a bit of a dance party in the intro before getting to the good stuff. We read in full "Urbanism as a Way of Life" by Louis Wirth from the Journal of Sociology in 1938. The piece is introduced by Dr. Lisa Schweitzer, a professor at USC Sol Price School of Public Policy who believes this piece and others sometimes get overshadowed by Jane Jacobs. So let us change that shall we? I really hope you enjoy this episode. If you do please send u...
Aug 30, 2018•55 min
This week we're joined by former President and CEO of the Low Income Investment Fund (Liif) Nancy Andrews. Nancy and I chat about community development, poverty reduction strategies, and the Bay Area Transit Oriented Housing Fund.
Aug 22, 2018•38 min
This week we're joined by Doug Farr, President of Farr Associates and author of the new book Sustainable Nation. Doug chats about the arrangement of the book by different patterns of urbanism and how we can take a bottom up approach to change our cities. He also chats about the forced boredom of the Burning Man festival and why Alexis de Tocqueville's 1835 work Democracy in America is still relevant today.
Aug 16, 2018•46 min
