Talking Headways Podcast: The City Is a Painting You Walk Into
This week I'm joined by James Rojas of Place It! to talk about art in planning and Latino urbanism. James is an award-winning planner and a native Angeleno, and he tells us about how growing up in East LA and visiting his grandmother’s house shaped the way he thinks about urban spaces and design.
April 21, 2016
Talking Headways Podcast: The Essential Link Between Transit and Land Use
Think land use is none of a transit agency's business? Think again. Transit routes serving sprawled-out areas draw fewer riders and cost more to operate than routes serving compact, walkable development.
April 7, 2016
Talking Headways Podcast: Biking and Walking Trends, Benchmarked
Christy Kwan, interim director of the Alliance for Biking and Walking, joins us this week to talk about the alliance's bi-annual national Benchmarking Report. It's full of great information and Christy shares how local activists might put it to good use in their communities (and why they might not want their cities to score too well in the rankings).
March 31, 2016
Talking Headways Podcast: Measuring Walkability on the Wasatch Front
Muriel Xochimitl, Jon Larsen, and Callie New of the Wasatch Front Regional Council in Utah join the podcast this week to talk about their new interactive story map tool measuring urban street design.
March 22, 2016
Talking Headways Podcast: 100 Years of Cincinnati’s Incomplete Subway
Jake Mecklenborg, a contributor to Streetsblog Network member Urban Cincy and author of Cincinnati’s Incomplete Subway: The Complete History, joins us this week to talk about Cincinnati’s geography, how a subway would be useful, and why there were numerous attempts to build one.
March 10, 2016
Talking Headways Podcast: The Indian Transportation Context
This week I'm chatting with Akshay Mani, a sustainable transportation planner who has worked for Cambridge Systematics in the United States and the World Resources Institute’s EMBARQ program in India. Akshay joined us from Chennai to talk about transportation and the growth of Indian cities.
March 3, 2016
Talking Headways Podcast: Trinidad, Transit Dates, and Dive Bars
This week I chat with my good friend and Bay Area affordable housing developer Ed Parillon. We talk about transportation in Ed’s original home of Trinidad (which has an early busway) and the American influence on the island starting during the second World War.
February 25, 2016
Talking Headways Podcast: New Tactics for Transportation Ballot Measures
This week we’re chatting with Jason Jordan, director of the Center for Transportation Excellence (CFTE) and policy director at the American Planning Association. Jason tells us how CFTE got started and why ballot measures for transportation have been so successful compared to other types of spending. He also describes scenarios where transportation ballot measures tend to do well and those where they tend to fail.
February 12, 2016
Talking Headways: Food Culture, Regional Urban Form, and Mall Memories
This week we’re joined by Kristen Jeffers, communications and membership manager for Bike Walk KC and author of The Black Urbanist blog. Kristen tells me how she got started blogging, what got her interested in urbanism, and how she hopes to inspire others.
February 4, 2016
Talking Headways: The Year in Transit Expansion With Yonah Freemark
This week Yonah Freemark is back on the podcast to talk about his annual transit project list. He and Steven Vance of Streetsblog Chicago made a new way to visualize the transit projects in various stages of planning and construction -- an interactive, open source map called Transit Explorer, for which he kindly asks for your assistance.
January 28, 2016