This week we’re joined by Lily Bernheimer of Space Works Consulting. Lily, a Streetsblog/Open Plans Alum, talks to us about her book The Shaping of Us: How Every Day Spaces Structure our Lives, Behavior, and Well-Being. She talks about her research in Environmental Psychology and how humans have evolved to respond to the spaces where we live. Listen in to learn about ninja proof seats, mystery novel models of building, and more on biophilia and human connections to nature. For more information a...
Sep 12, 2019•43 min
This week on the podcast we're joined by Adie Tomer a fellow at The Brookings Institution and Noah Siegel, Interim Deputy Director at the Portland Bureau of Transportation to talk about their new collaboration on a project called the Economic Value Atlas . The EVA is a new data and mapping tool developed to think about regional investments in a more coordinated way, pulling away from the race to the bottom of incentive based economic development. For more information about the podcast or The Ove...
Sep 05, 2019•58 min
This week we're joined by Gordon Price , former Vancouver City Council member and former director of The City Program at Simon Fraser University. Gordon talks about Vancouver's historical importance as well as its future. We chat about transport, the great west coast melting pot, and what folks should check out if they go visit the city. For more information about The Overhead Wire or Talking Headways, visit http://theoverheadwire.com...
Aug 29, 2019•50 min
Chrissy Mancini Nichols joins the show this week to talk about land value taxes, cities using fines as revenue, and waze's effects on LA. Two jobs! BART and Capital Corridor Transbay Tube 2 Project. News Addicted to fines - Governing Vancouver widening sidewalks - Globe and Mail Ride hailing data sought in England - CityLab Odds and Ends Architect must pay Venice - New York Times Cities and ransomware attacks - New York Times Bird shuts down infrastructure pay plan - Smart Cities Dive Story of t...
Aug 27, 2019•1 hr 16 min
This week we're joined by Dan Imhoff to talk about his book called The Farm Bill . Dan chats with us about how he became interested in the Farm Bill, how initially he was excited about protecting wild habitat but got pulled down a rabbit hole of subsidies and perverse incentives. Dan also talks about how the Farm Bill as it’s currently put together is a reflection of our broken legislative system and how we incentivize farmers that get bigger and produce more while the smaller farmers suffer. Bu...
Aug 22, 2019•37 min
This week Tracy McMillan joins to talk about safe streets, that pink emoji house, and public and institutional engagement. News Moody's credit ratings on climate and transit Denver Mayor calls for safer streets - Streetsblog Denver The hot pink emoji house - Guardian Odds and Ends Small businesses at core of growth - ICIC Salt Lake for free transit - SL Tribune Ignore livable city rankings - The Conversation News PA Secretary of Transportation changing conversation - Governing Rethinking public ...
Aug 20, 2019•1 hr 4 min
This week we're joined by Camron Gorguinpour, Global Senior Manager for Electric Vehicles at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities. We talk about Shenzhen's 16,000 electric buses and what world cities can learn positive and negative from their implementation. We talk about infrastructure needs for electric bus operations at a fleet level, the impact of street maintenance, and procurement and implementation issues. This podcast is a project of The Overhead Wire, to find out more head to http://t...
Aug 15, 2019•39 min
This week we are joined By Andrew Owen, Director of the Accessibility Observatory at the University of Minnesota. Andrew chats with us about how to measure accessibility and their work on mapping access to jobs by transit and bikes. Access is a way to measure how easy it is to get places – often jobs – in how much time. Taking into account both transportation and land use, access as a metric can be a powerful tool. On the podcast, Andrew describes the evolution of the metric and how it has been ...
Aug 08, 2019•37 min
Tracy McMillan joins this week to talk about Burning Man, 3D sidewalks, telecommuting, and whether GPS affects our brains. News Mass telecommuting tax break - Curbed Boston Feds could help remove freeways - D Magazine Lessons from Burning Man - Governing Odds and Ends Wuppertal hanging rail is back - Guardian Cities need chief data officer - Dallas Morning News Homes fastest in flood prone industries - New York Times Story of the Week 3D crosswalks - Smart Cities Dive Is GPS ruining our brains? ...
Aug 06, 2019•1 hr 6 min
This week we're joined by Fred Dock, the former Transportation Director for the City of Pasadena California. Fred talks about his work over the past 30 years, Pasadena's move to measuring VMT and other metrics over level of service, innovation in smaller cities and more!
Aug 01, 2019•42 min
This week Anna Muessig returns and we're joined by Laura Bliss of CityLab. Laura's CityLab News NIMBYs vs YIMBYs - CityLab Should EVs pay per mile? - CityLab News CA bypasses fuel standards - Route Fifty Madrid keeps central car ban - CityLab Neighborways built to connect slow transport - Indianapolis Star Odds and Ends Curb cuts for all of New York - 6sqft Facial recognition banned from HUD housing - CNet Story of the Week Digital Twins - CityLab Was the automobile a terrible mistake? New Yorke...
Jul 30, 2019•1 hr 25 min
This week we’re joined by Monica Holmes, Placemaking Manager for the City of Charlotte and the project manager for the rewrite of the TOD zoning ordinance. Monica talks about why the transit oriented development part of the zoning ordinance was the first part of the code rewrite as well as all of the details about the new point system created to promote economic mobility, the environment, and new transportation. She also shares how TOD was built in the past and what will be happening along all t...
Jul 25, 2019•43 min
This week we are going solo. We talk about using cars for housing, childless cities, and federal transportation funding. News Where have all the children gone? - The Atlantic SF to open homeless navigation center for car dwellers - Hoodline Affordable housing in RVs - Yes! Magazine The Vanlord of Santa Monica - Santa Monica Daily Press Capital improvement grant hearings - Curbed Federal transit funding delays cause harm - T4 America Odds and Ends A vision for bike highways in Seoul - Korea BizWi...
Jul 23, 2019•1 hr 2 min
This week we are joined By Bowinn Ma, Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for North Vancouver-Lonsdale BC. Bowinn talks about creating better transportation options for her constituents, new transportation technologies, and the importance of political engagement.
Jul 18, 2019•35 min
This week we're joined by Tracy McMillan and Avery Trufelman! Avery talks about her new podcast in association with Curbed called Nice Try ! And the gang talks about utopian cities, new transportation bills, and Pokemon Go! For any of the stories we covered click on the links below. News GREEN Streets Act introduced in the Senate - T4 America Seattle's best in nation ADU reform - Urbanist ICE mining data from DMV photos - NY Times Odds and Ends Berlin could do euro a day transit pass - Guardian ...
Jul 16, 2019•1 hr 27 min
This week on the podcast we are joined at the Michelin Movin On conference by Dr. Anita Sengupta , an aerospace engineer who has worked for Hyperloop and is the co-founder of Airspace Experience Technologies , a company looking to produce vehicles for passenger flight. Dr. Sengupta talks with us about her work on the Mars Curiosity Mission during her time at NASA, her hopes for her new company in the VTOL space (vertical take off and landing) and her hopes for the future of transportation....
Jul 11, 2019•20 min
This week we review some of the news from the previous few weeks. News Oregon votes to legalize duplexes: Sightline Institute California to sue cities that don't plan for housing: Curbed Considering a subway for Portland: Portland Oregonian Odds and Ends EVs in Europe required to make noise: Smart Cities Dive Volkswagen worries about traffic collapse: Forbes 100 years of planning trees could reduce emission: National Geographic Story of the Week Supreme Court could consider inclusionary zoning -...
Jul 09, 2019•34 min
This week we're joined by Amy Silbermann, Director of Planning for Port Authority of Allegheny County, the transit agency in Pittsburgh, and Steven Higashide and Mary Buchanan of TransitCenter. They are here to talk about a report called Who’s On Board 2019 which discusses transit ridership trends around the country. They talk about what we should understand about understanding riders, Pittsburgh’s work to improve routes (downtown and to suburban communities) and the need for political and publi...
Jul 04, 2019•47 min
This week we're joined by freelance urban issue writer Nate Berg . Nate talks to us about his love of writing about highways for good or bad, his piece for Curbed on the history of the Bauhaus , our collaborative piece on urban transportation data , writing about housing in Japan , and his process for writing articles....
Jun 27, 2019•43 min
This week on the podcast we’re joined by Candace Brakewood a Civil Engineering Professor of the University of Tennessee and Jonny Simkin of Co-Founder and CEO of Swiftly. We talk about real time transit information including its history, benefits, shortcomings, and potential futures.
Jun 20, 2019•58 min
This week Chrissy joins the show and we have a blast chatting about the definition of suburbs, electric buses, and Ian McHarg's Design with Nature. News Portland considers bus lanes - Willamette Week Ian McHarg's Design with Nature turns 50 - CityLab Money laundering pilot surprising in its effect - Quartz Odds and Ends Transbay Terminal opening again? Curbed SF Riyahd opens transit system - Cision Sagrada Familia gets building permit - Fast Company Story of the Week How do we define suburbs? - ...
Jun 18, 2019•1 hr 6 min
This week we're joined by Shailen Bhatt, President and CEO of ITS America . He talks about how we can use technology to reduce collisions, how we should spend infrastructure money, and what policy should focus on and change from a transportation and technology standpoint. He also talks about the problems with the communications spectrum and how conflicts are arising as technology improves vehicle communications.
Jun 13, 2019•43 min
This week we're joined by Chrissy Mancini Nichols to talk about drones, zero passenger vehicles, CAFE standards and more! Enjoy the podcast? Support us on Patreon ! Your help keeps us able to put out the podcasts we do each week. News New York's new payment systems - Wired Magazine 6/10 Californians want upzoning near transit - LA Times Seattle looks at pricing - Seattle Transit Blog Odds and Ends Plans to take federal USDA workers out of DC - McClatchy Auto companies send letter to Trump Admin ...
Jun 11, 2019•1 hr 12 min
This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Maritza Pechin, a planner with AECOM who works with city staff in Richmond on long-range planning . On the podcast, Maritza talks about the Pulse BRT and the broader bus network redesign that was rolled out at the same time. She also discusses how the new system is bringing people back to transit, how the city might tackle housing affordability, and what big ideas the city is considering for the future....
Jun 06, 2019•46 min
This week we chat with Kendra Freeman of the Chicago Metropolitan Planning Council, an independent non-profit focused on shaping the Chicago region. Kendra talks about her work with Elevated Chicago and how they are trying to bring equitable TOD to rail and bus corridors around the region as well as the original impact of the city's TOD ordinance. She also chats about next steps in pushing the city to consider equity in its update of the ordinance and how they can support entrepreneurs with stra...
May 30, 2019•38 min
This week we're joined by Maurice Jones, President and CEO of LISC (Local Initiatives Support Corporation) . Maurice talks about working with communities and existing businesses to develop talent in the workforce, breaking down barriers to entry in certain professions such as property development, and the history of policies and practices that intentionally excluded certain populations from opportunity.
May 23, 2019•36 min
Chrissy Mancini Nichols joins the show again and we chat a lot about SB50! We also talk about infrastructure and bike lanes. News SB 50 Tabled until January - Los Angeles Times SB50 Urban Footprint Analysis - UF Kim-Mai Cutler tweet thread - KMC Twitter Infrastructure Week PIRG releases report - Frontier Group Repair Priorities - T4America Odds and Ends CA HSR Funding Dropped by FRA- Reuters IM Pei passes away - NPR Facial recognition banned in SF - Vox Thanks to our Patreon supporters! Patreon....
May 21, 2019•1 hr 11 min
This week we're joined by Stephen Smyth, Co-Founder and CEO of Coord . He talks about the need for digital infrastructure to be a new layer on top of physical infrastructure in order to inventory our existing assets including curb space. We chat about the tools Coord has created to measure and document curbs, how they work, and how this seemingly innocuous space will change over time with regulation. We also have a little futurist discussion about street space and learn how regulations might cha...
May 16, 2019•38 min
This week we're joined by Tracy McMillan and we talk about alll kinds of stuff! Surveillance and city fortifications and aging in place! The show discussion links are below... News I-405 traffic gets worse after widening - Curbed LA Campo dedicates money for I-35 expansion - Austin Monitor Facial recognition data leak - TechCrunch Denver homeless camping initiative - Pew Trusts Visit our sponsor Moovel.com Odds and Ends Uber IPO - NY Magazine Germany testing an e-highway - DW Story of the Week D...
May 14, 2019•1 hr 13 min
This week we chat with Colin Parent, Executive Director of Circulate San Diego , an advocacy organization that promotes public and active transportation in tandem with sustainable growth. Colin is also a city council member for the City of La Mesa. As Colin notes, much of the renewed interest and support for transit and transit-oriented development is being driven by one thing: the housing crisis. We learn how the mayor of San Diego is pushing more housing and less parking, and the long term ben...
May 08, 2019•32 min
