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It’s Thursday, which means we have a brand new episode of Talking Headways hitting your feeds. This week, we’re joined by Adele Houghton of the Harvard School of Public Health and Carlos Castillo-Salgado of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to discuss their new book, Architectural Epidemiology: Architecture as a Mechanism for Designing a Healthier, More Sustainable, and Resilient World. We chat about how to architecture itself can create more healthy neighborhoods — and why it’s not just checking off boxes on a LEED checklist.
Plus: Seattle Bike Blog’s Tom Fuculoro challenged himself to experience his city through the eyes of someone who can’t operate a personal vehicle — including a bike. He wrote about his experience, which you can read here.
How did parking lots swallow one of America’s hottest cities — and make it even hotter?
Centennial events downplay the violent history of one of America’s most “iconic” highways, and obscure how that violence persists to this day.
The U.S. is becoming a dying petrostate, while China leads the world in renewable energy.
“Affordable travel is not a fallback. It is what makes broad mobility possible.”
Dabney Sanders explains how Greensboro’s Downtown Greenway came together.
