Jeff Wood
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Talking Headways Podcast: Valuing Black Lives and Property
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This week, we talk to an expert in Black wealth about why development and placemaking always leaves out the community. Obviously, just because a big company comes to town does not mean everyone will benefit.
Talking Headways Podcast: The Social Determinants of Health
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A prominent doctor talks about why systemic racism in development leads to bad health outcomes in low-income communities.
Talking Headway Podcast: Scenario Planning for Cities and Regions
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This week, we're joined by Rob Goodspeed, assistant professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan. Goodspeed joins us to talk about the origins of scenario planning, planning vs. forecasting, and the metrics used to compare scenario effectiveness.
Talking Headways Podcast: The Urban Mystique, Part II
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So why does Josh Stephens hate the Olympics?
Talking Headways Podcast: The Urban Mystique (Part 1)
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This week, a special episode: The good, the bad, the L.A.
Talking Headways Podcast: Resiliency in South Florida
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Talking about climate change, sea level rise, and how South Florida is responding with policy and planning.
Talking Headways Podcast: Congestion Pricing in the United States
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Brianne Eby of the Eno Center for Transportation talks about the group's new report on congestion pricing.
Talking Headways Podcast: Designing the Megaregion
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Talking to Jonathan Barnett about where the idea of megaregions came from, environmental planning within the landscape, the importance of transit connections in these regions, and how we can coordinate megaregions administratively.
Talking Headways Podcast: The Biggest Real Estate Manager
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The person who runs a city's Department of Transportation controls around 30 percent of the city's public space — and needs to think that way.
Talking Headways Podcast: Portland’s ‘Rose Lanes’ Busways
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April Bertelsen of the Portland Bureau of Transportation talks about the Rose Lanes project, which are transit priority treatments that aim to get buses and streetcars out of traffic.
Talking Headways Podcast: The Digital City
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It's a special edition of the podcast this week, as we talk to an expert in how residents of a city interact with — and are sometimes exploited by — all our digital doodads.
Talking Headways Podcast: California High-Speed Rail’s Next Steps
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A top official at the California High-Speed Rail Authority gives us an update on that mega-project — and also offers lessons on what engineers and planners have learned.