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Talking Headways Podcast: Treating Social Media Like a City

By Jeff Wood | Feb 10, 2022 | No Comments

This week, Sahar Massachi of the Integrity Institute talks about his MIT Technology Review piece, “How to Save Our Social Media by Treating it Like a City.” Who knew that managing social media’s bad actors is like dealing with urban problems such as black-box highway modeling, speed management, and city building?

Talking Headways Podcast: Why a City Is Not a Computer

By Jeff Wood | Jan 13, 2022 | No Comments

This week we’re joined by Shannon Mattern, professor of anthropology at the New School for Social Research, who talks with us about her new book, "A City is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences." We discuss the ideas of smartness versus wisdom, maintenance as a way of absorbing information, and the city as a processing machine.

Talking Headways Podcast: The Traffic War Is Never Won

By Jeff Wood | Dec 9, 2021 | No Comments

This week we’re joined by University of Virginia Associate Professor Peter Norton, to talk about his new book "Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving." Norton discusses the false promises of automakers and technologists and the mobility solutions that are already in front of us.

Talking Headways Podcast: Open Mobility as a Service

By Jeff Wood | Jul 8, 2021 | No Comments

This week we’re joined by Andrew Salzberg, head of policy at Transit App. Salzberg talks with us about Transit’s "Guide to Open Mobility as a Service" and discusses how policy can create a better travel experience for everyone.

Let's Get Beyond the 94% Crash Myth

By Don Kostelec | Oct 14, 2020 | No Comments

You’ve heard the claim that 94 percent of crashes are due to human error. Traffic safety campaigns are grounded in it. Agencies are using it to advocate for autonomous vehicles. But simply put: It’s not true.

Bike Easy celebrates a tactical urbanism "small win" — a protected bike lane on Marconi Drive in New Orleans. Photo: Bike Easy

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There is Structural Racism in Transport: Report

By Aaron Short | Dec 18, 2019 | No Comments

Smart Growth America: include community members in planning, hire more diverse staff, and stop displacing residents to combat generations of structural racism

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