Talking Headways Podcast: A Shared Space Revolution
On the podcast this week is Robert Ping, executive director of the Walkable and Livable Communities Institute, who tells us about Pittsburgh’s plans for the largest shared space in an American city.
By
Jeff Wood
3:52 PM EDT on April 29, 2016
On the podcast this week is Robert Ping, executive director of the Walkable and Livable Communities Institute, who tells us about Pittsburgh’s plans for the largest shared space in an American city.
Robert also discusses why it’s so important to get public officials from different agencies in the same room together to talk about improving conditions for walking and biking. And we wonder why parents are being threatened with arrest just for walking their kids to school, and how getting driven around affects kids’ perceptions of where they live compared to walking.
Jeff Wood is the creator of the Talking Headways podcast and editor of the newsletter The Overhead Wire.
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