Talking Headways Podcast: Saving Cities One Picture at a Time

This week I talk with Chuck Wolfe about his new book, Seeing the Better City. Chuck shares how he makes urban diaries with images, and weighs in on the best ways for bloggers and urbanists to use pictures in their work and advocacy.

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Podcast: Putting City Character in Context

By Jeff Wood |
This week we’re joined once again by author Chuck Wolfe to talk about his book “Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character.”  We talk about sustainable travel and the “character” and “authenticity” of places.  We also talk in detail about the importance of context when considering planning for the future. For those of you who prefer […]

The Urbanist Case Against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

By Elana Schor |
The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), an advocacy group working to reform local development practices, is seizing on House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank’s (D-MA) recent call for a new system of housing finance to replace government-controlled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Mixed-use developments, such as Atlanta’s Atlantic Station (above), are often incompatible […]

Talking Headways Podcast: I’m Not a Scientist

By Tanya Snyder |
Do you ever think about the ecology of the city you live in? Not just the parks and the smog. Scientists are starting to examine urban ecosystems more holistically: the trees and the concrete, natural gas lines and soil, water pipes and rivers. The natural and the synthetic feed off each other in surprising ways. […]