Jeff Wood
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Talking Headways Podcast: What It Takes To Be a Developer
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Why people of color who try to build affordable housing face many different kinds of barriers.
Talking Headways Podcast: A ‘Communities First’ Infrastructure Alliance
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Why this is an important moment for infrastructure equity.
Talking Headways Podcast: Measuring Transportation Insecurity
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This week, Alix Gould-Werth of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and Alex Murphy, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Michigan, talk about their transportation security index.
Talking Headways Podcast: A Next-Generation Transportion Policy
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What's next? Harriet Tregoning, director at NUMO, and Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute, talk about their report, "Charting Out a Next-Generation, Place-Based Federal Transportation Policy."
Talking Headways Podcast: The 15 Minute Church
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We chat with Travis Norvell, minister at Judson Memorial Baptist Church in Minneapolis and author of "Church on the Move," about the future of church parking lots and how cars have changed communities.
Talking Headways Podcast: Lighting the Way for Pedestrians
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In their new book, "Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians," Frank Markowitz and Leni Schwendinger talk about creating legible nighttime spaces, programming those spaces, and the future of lighting and transportation.
Talking Headways Podcast: Repairing America’s Broken Housing System
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Jenny Schuetz, a senior fellow at Brookings Metro and author of the new book "Fixer Upper," talks about making housing decisions at the wrong scale, where housing reform would make the most sense, and how to better organize regional housing.
Talking Headways Podcast: A New Way of Public Engagement in Durham
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This week, Aidil Ortiz, principal at Aidilisms, and Mary Kate Morookian, a transit planner at Kimley Horn, speak one-on-one about the Durham Transit Plan and how they approached public engagement.
Talking Headways Podcast: ‘Ctrl Alt Delete’ for Transportation
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We talk to Kevin Krizek of the University of Colorado, and David King, of Arizona State University about access, justice, and why their new book is perfect for changing the conversation around transportation.
Talking Headways Podcast: Who Represents ‘The Community’ — Part II
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In Part 2 of our conversation with Jeremy Levine, assistant professor of organizational studies and sociology at the University of Michigan, we discuss how people talk about “the community” and what public outreach and participation could look like.
Talking Headways Podcast: Who Represents “The Community” Part 1
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Jeremy Levine, an assistant professor of organizational studies and sociology at the University of Michigan, talks about his book "Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston." How do neighborhood groups, elected officials, and public servants claim the mantle of representing “the community”? Part 1 of 2.
Talking Headways Podcast: Real Talk on Development and Climate Action
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This week, Adie Tomer from Brookings talks about how transit-oriented development and active transportation play into climate strategies. We talk about mitigation versus adaptation strategies and what solutions work best for each.