Talking Headways: Richard Jackson on City Environments and Public Health
How do the places we inhabit lead to systemic public health problems?
November 5, 2015
Talking Headways Podcast: Pattern Cities and the Bellbottoms of Urbanism
This week we talk to Mike Lydon of The Street Plans Collaborative and co-author of the recent book Tactical Urbanism. Based on his experience with tactical urbanism, Mike says you know an idea has "made it" when it gets co-opted for things that don’t fit the actual definition. We also discuss how to take a small planning idea and make it bigger, and whether urbanism goes through cycles like fashion, with ideas from the past coming back into style.
October 22, 2015
Talking Headways Podcast: Measuring Carbon Emissions at Street Level
Dr. Kevin Gurney is a carbon cycle scientist at Arizona State University. I recently came across an article in Nature about his work measuring carbon emissions from mobile sources at street level, and I wanted to find out more.
October 15, 2015
Talking Headways Podcast: 3 Weeks in the Mountain West Without a Car
This week I chat with author and city planner Tim Sullivan about his new book, Ways to the West. The book documents his attempt to take a three week road trip without a car, and his encounters with various planners, city officials, and other characters along the way.
October 8, 2015
Talking Headways Podcast: Louisville’s Urbanism Derby
This week's guest is Branden Klayko, founder of Streetsblog Network member site Broken Sidewalk, which covers transportation and urbanist issues in Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville is one of the oldest American cities west of the Appalachians, and we discuss the history of the city and its urban heritage. (Is it southern? Is it in the Midwest?) While many may know Louisville for bourbon, the Kentucky Derby, or college basketball rivalries, Branden gives us another view of the arts and culture that make the city great.
October 2, 2015
Talking Headways Podcast: The Transportation Innovation Revolution
Shin-pei Tsay of Transit Center joins me this week to delve into her new report, A People’s History of Recent Urban Transportation Innovation, which examines how advocacy and political leadership have combined in several American cities to produce a more multi-modal transportation network.
September 17, 2015
Talking Headways Podcast: Your Brain on Two Legs
Antonia Malchik’s recent piece in Aeon Magazine, The End of Walking, went viral in urbanist circles, touching on several themes related to our "right to walk."
September 10, 2015
Talking Headways Podcast: The Urban Displacement Project
This week my guest is Miriam Zuk of UC Berkeley's Center for Community Innovation, who discusses how the team at the Urban Displacement Project has studied and mapped out gentrification and displacement risk in the Bay Area. We talk about the relationship between transit and rising property values, as well as the widespread portrayal of gentrification in the media as a rapidly occurring short-term process.
September 3, 2015
Talking Headways Podcast: Remaking California Transportation
This week on Talking Headways I'm joined by a big roster of guests to talk about California's climate legislation and how it will change transportation policy.
August 27, 2015
Talking Headways Podcast: Indexing Livability for All Ages
This week we chat with Rodney Harrell of the AARP Public Policy Institute about their new Livability Index Tool. I ask him who the tool was created for and tell him why it should be regarded as more than just magazine clickbait. We talk about the robust policy tools that were included for each section and how the data was collected and at what geographic scale.
August 13, 2015