Jeff Wood
Jeff Wood is the creator of the Talking Headways podcast and editor of the newsletter The Overhead Wire.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Have Cities Run Out of Land?
Chris Redfearn of USC and Anthony Orlando of Cal Poly Pomona on why "pro-business" Texas housing markets are catching up to "pro-regulation" California and what it might mean for future city growth.
Talking Headways Podcast: IrrePLACEable
Kevin Kelley on his book Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places that Bring People Together, and the future of downtowns.
Talking Headways Podcast: Electrify the Rails
Adrianna Rizzo of Californians for Electric Rail on California's looming lobbyist-fueled hydrogen train mistake: "We’re locking in low service for potentially decades."
Talking Headways Podcast: Post-Peaky Transit
Tracy Hadden Loh of the Brookings Institute on the impacts of the pandemic on downtowns, "activity centers" and transit usage.
Talking Headways Podcast: When Driving is Not an Option
Talking with the great Anna Zivarts about non-drivers, car seats, and the week without driving.
Talking Headways Podcast: Killed by a Traffic Engineer
Author Wes Marshall on writing process, the ideas of risk and exposure and what he learned from pouring over old transportation engineering journals.
‘Talking Headways’ Special: Let’s Understand This Congestion Pricing Debacle
Why did New York Gov. Kathy Hochul kill the first-in-the-nation toll? We talk to a New York-based transit expert to see what is going on?
Talking Headways Podcast: The Computable City
Michael Batty on histories of computing, smart city critiques, what the discourse on AI should really be about, and discussions on the future of urban forms.
Talking Headways Podcast: Amtrak vs. Brightline in Ohio
Cleveland journalist Ken Prendergast on intercity passenger rail in greater Ohio and the competing interests of Brightline and Amtrak.
Talking Headways Podcast: Rethinking Denver Along the South Platte River
Who even knew there was a river in Denver?