Urban Design
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This Artificial Intelligence Bot is Designing Better Streets Than Some Engineers
A New York artist is breaking through Americans' willful inability to imagine how their communities could be designed around people instead of automobiles.
July 28, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: Who Represents ‘The Community’ — Part II
In Part 2 of our conversation with Jeremy Levine, assistant professor of organizational studies and sociology at the University of Michigan, we discuss how people talk about “the community” and what public outreach and participation could look like.
March 24, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: The Annual Prediction Show with Yonah Freemark
Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute, chats about the effects of the pandemic on office work and makes predictions about next year’s transportation policies and projects.
March 3, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: Planning for Underground Cities
We talk to a geotechnical engineer about underground infrastructure and its importance for the future of cities.
February 17, 2022
Why Neighborhood Social Life Starts At the Street Corner
When street corners are built to accommodate people instead of vehicles, you have the makings of a strong, interconnected community.
February 14, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: Civil Rights on the Road
This week we’re joined by Anna Zivarts from Disability Rights Washington and Paulo Nunes-Ueno from Front and Centered. They join us to talk about the Disability Mobility Initiative and the Mobility Bill of Rights. We also chat about why mobility experiments might make travel harder for disabled travelers and why road safety is a core part of civil rights.
January 20, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: Why a City Is Not a Computer
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.
January 13, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: Not Just Wires, Pipes, and Roads
This week, we’re talking about the importance a systems approach in interconnected topics like transportation, education, and health care (yes, they're interconnected!).
December 16, 2021
Seattle Strongly Supports Street Safety: Poll
Pedestrian streets, protected bike lanes, and bus lanes are popular.
November 22, 2021
Talking Headways Podcast: Streets are Not Just Pipes
This week we’re joined by Miami of Ohio Geography Professor David Prytherch. Prytherch chats with us about his recent journal article in Urban Geography: "Reimagining the physical/social infrastructure of the American street." We talk about businesses' newfound interest in the street, equity and ethical discussions about rights to the street, and the new pandemic paradigm of "open streets."
November 11, 2021
