This week we’re joined by Alix Gould-Werth of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and Alex Murphy Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Department of Sociology to talk about their work on the topic of transportation insecurity. We chat about what went in to the creation of the transportation security index and why we haven’t yet created a federal program for individuals like food stamps or housing vouchers for transportation. You can find their paper Developing a New Measure o...
May 12, 2022•56 min
This week we’re joined by Harriet Tregoning, Director at NUMO, and Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute to talk about their report , Charting Out a Next-Generation, Place-Based Federal Transportation Policy. We talk what needs to change about federal policy and the entities that need to pursue it. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!...
May 05, 2022•51 min
This week we’re joined by Travis Norvell, Minister at Judson Memorial Baptist Church in Minneapolis to talk about his book Church on the Move . We talk about transforming church parking lots, creating bike commute reports for local radio, and how church has changed after the advent of the automobile. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!...
Apr 28, 2022•38 min
This week we're talking about smart homes, the metaverse, and kids running errands in Japan! We also chat indoor air quality and teen brains on driving. Smart home company disappears - Ars Technica How governments can use the metaverse - American City and County Thinking indoor air quality - GQ Americans believe suburbs are greener than cities - YouGov Science of reckless driving - Discover Magazine Teen Brains - National Geographic Urban design for toddlers - Slate Follow us on twitter @theover...
Apr 26, 2022•29 min
This week we’re joined by Frank Markowitz and Leni Schwendinger to talk about the new book Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians . We chat about creating legible nighttime spaces, what planners should focus on when programming lighted spaces, and the future of lighting and transportation. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!...
Apr 21, 2022•50 min
This week we're joined by Jenny Schuetz, a senior fellow at Brookings Metro to talk about her new book Fixer Upper . We chat about making housing decisions at the wrong scale, where housing reform would make the most sense around the United States, and how we could use MPOs to better organize regional housing. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!...
Apr 14, 2022•43 min
This week we’re featuring a 1 to 1 conversation produced in partnership with Railvolution between Aidil Ortiz, Principal at Aidilisms and Mary Kate Morookian, a transit planner at Kimley Horn. Aidil and Mary Kate discuss the Durham Transit Plan and how they approached public engagement while centering the community in the process. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!...
Apr 07, 2022•55 min
This week on Mondays we talk a lot of different subjects including Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language and how where you grow up impacts how good you are at directions. Join us for an Idaho Stop won't you? Where you grow up determines your directions - NYT Omaha Plans for the future of Downtown - Omaha World Herald Colorado Could Soon Allow Idaho Stops - Colorado Politics Boomers Tell Millennials there's No Crisis - New Statesman Tire Chemicals are killing fish - Toronto Star Why Christop...
Apr 05, 2022•38 min
This week we’re joined by Kevin Krizek, Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and David King, Assistant Professor at Arizona State University, to talk about their book , Advanced Introduction to Urban Transport Planning. We chat about access, justice, and why this book is perfect for changing the conversation around transportation. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy the book on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!...
Mar 31, 2022•53 min
This week we’re joined again by Jeremy Levine, Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies and Sociology at the University of Michigan. In part 2 of our conversation Jeremy talks more about his book Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston. In Part 2 we discuss how people talk about “the community” and what public outreach and participation could look like in the future. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/...
Mar 24, 2022•41 min
This week on the show we talk about the impact of gas prices and have some studies on urbanization's impact on getting to net zero! We also talk about insurance and wild fires. Lots of different topics! The NIMBY King - The Atlantic Americans struggle with vehicle costs - Guardian San Diego road pricing - Time Magazine Is mass urbanization good for the climate - Anthropocene Disaster Insurance - The Atlantic Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire...
Mar 22, 2022•27 min
This week we’re joined by Jeremy Levine , Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies and Sociology (by courtesy) at the University of Michigan. Jeremy talks about his book Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston and describes how neighborhood groups, elected officials, and public servants all claim the mantle of representing “the community.” In Part 1 we discuss how he went about his research in Boston, and how groups coalesced around the idea of the Fa...
Mar 17, 2022•36 min
This week we’re joined by Adie Tomer from Brookings to talk about how transit-oriented development and active transportation play into climate strategies over the long term. We talk about mitigation versus adaptation strategies and what solutions work best for each. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Visit The Overhead Wire on Bookshop ....
Mar 10, 2022•56 min
This week we’re joined by Yonah Freemark , a senior research associate at the Urban Institute. We chat about the impacts of the pandemic on office work, rethinking federal transportation policy, and make our annual predictions on next year’s transportation policies and projects. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Shop authors at our Bookshop shop . Support the show at http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire...
Mar 03, 2022•1 hr 2 min
This week we're joined by Han Solo, but that doesn't stop us from having a wonderful conversation about Paris 2024 car free zone , why cities are fighting for a lot of social issues with zoning codes , the nightmare that is the American Dream Mall, why TX Governor Greg Abbott killed a road diet , and the divergence between American and European cities. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Purchase books from our store ! Support us on Patreon !...
Mar 01, 2022•33 min
This week we’re joined by Paul Lewis, Policy Director at the Eno Center for Transportation. Paul discusses their report on transportation construction costs, Saving Time and Making Cents: A Blueprint for Building Transit Better . We chat about the project database they created for the research, the different level of scrutiny between highway and transit capital projects, and some of the ways agencies can create better governance structures and lower project costs. Follow us on twitter @theoverhe...
Feb 24, 2022•47 min
This week we’re joined by Dr. Asal Bidarmaghz , lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Dr. Bidarmaghz discusses planning for underground infrastructure and why it’s so important for the future of cities. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon: http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire
Feb 17, 2022•33 min
This week we're joined by Ian Griffiths of Seamless Bay Area to talk about their work in the Bay Area and we talk about a few news items from the weeks before on housing and transportation. Ann Arbor council divided on zoning investigation - MLive Slower growth in Colorado - Colorado Public Radio French slow rail - The Local.fr Sprawl declines with gas price rise - Anthropocene Climate promises challenged by highway money - Bloomberg Follow us @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon. http:/...
Feb 15, 2022•1 hr 6 min
This week we’re joined by Sahar Massachi of the Integrity Institute . Sahar discusses his piece in MIT Technology Review connecting cities and social media platforms and how we should be monitoring and managing them properly. We chat about the similarities between managing social media’s bad actors and the urban problems like black box highway modeling, speed management, and city building. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon! http://Patreon.com/theoverheadwire...
Feb 10, 2022•1 hr 1 min
This week we are featuring a one on one conversation between Carlos Cruz-Casas, Assistant Director, Department of Transportation and Public Works for Miami Dade County, and Grace Perdomo, Executive Director of Transit Alliance in Miami. Grace and Carlos chat about the Better Bus Project, an advocacy-led community driven redesign of the Miami-Dade bus network.
Feb 03, 2022•52 min
This week we’re joined by Tina Rosan, Associate Professor at Temple University and Stephen Wheeler, Professor at UC Davis to talk about their new book Reimagining Sustainable Cities : Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities. We talk about a broad array of topics including rethinking public meetings, urban power dynamics, and structural change in government systems. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire...
Jan 27, 2022•43 min
We're Han Solo this week on Mondays at the Overhead Wire! We talk about Jennifer Homendy and the 94% rule , the need to stop fetishizing old buildings, Donald Shoup's sidewalk fix , and how some non-profits and foundations are taking a greater governmental role as governments atrophy. We also talk about moving the capital of Indonesia away from Jakarta , the future of underground cities , concrete block alternatives , and Fort Worth's river redevelopment plan. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwi...
Jan 25, 2022•34 min•Ep. 104
This week we’re joined by Anna Zivarts from Disability Rights Washington and Paulo Nunes-Ueno from Front and Centered. They join us to talk about the Disability Mobility Initiative and story map , as well as the Mobility Bill of Rights . We also chat about why mobility experiments might make travel harder for disabled travelers and why a core part of anyone’s civil rights should be the ability to be safe on the road. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon. http://Patre...
Jan 20, 2022•46 min
This week we’re joined by Shannon Mattern, professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research. Shannon talks with us about her new book A City is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences . We discuss the ideas of smartness versus wisdom, the idea of maintenance as a way of absorbing information, and the city as a processing machine, just not in the ways you might automatically think. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon: Http://patreon.com/theoverheadwi...
Jan 13, 2022•43 min
This week we're on our own talking about empty storefronts ( NYT ), whether transit should be run like a business ( Laurel in Transit ), the ethics of building multifamily housing on arterial streets ( Slate ), and Tri-Rail's problems pulling into the station ( Miami Herald ). All that right here on Mondays at The Overhead Wire.
Jan 11, 2022•25 min
This week on the podcast, we’re back at last fall’s virtual Railvolution conference. Former BART GM Grace Crunican moderates a panel discussing the role of board members in transit agencies with Former MBTA board member Monica Tibbits-Nutt and former Houston Metro board member Christof Spieler. They talk about how to deal with board members with opposite ideas, how to help agency staff, and using the budget as a policy document. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon. ...
Jan 06, 2022•59 min
This week we’re flashing back to an episode in March where we were joined by Karel Martens, Professor of Architecture and Town Planning at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and head of the Fair Transport Lab at Technion. Karel talks with us about the philosophy underpinning the idea of sufficient accessibility and how he got to the idea in his book Transport Justice.
Dec 23, 2021•55 min
This week we’re joined by Michael Spotts, a senior visiting research fellow at ULI’s Terwiliger Center for Housing and head of Neighborhood Fundamentals. Michael chats with us about takeaways from the Shaw Symposium on Urban Community Issues , the definition of infrastructure, and the importance of taking a systems approach to important interconnected topics like transportation, education, and health care. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire...
Dec 16, 2021•54 min
Our last show of the year! Chrissy Mancini Nichols and Tracy McMillan join the show with an overarching theme of public health. We talk LA street vending carts, climate impacts of shipping, transportation insecurity , drought and water shortages , and Christmas markets in Germany. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire...
Dec 14, 2021•1 hr 1 min
This week we’re joined by University of Virginia Associate Professor Peter Norton, to talk about his new book Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving . Peter discusses the false promises of auto makers and technologists and the mobility solutions that are already in front of us. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire...
Dec 09, 2021•48 min
