Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast The Overhead Wire
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A weekly podcast about the intersection between sustainable transportation, urban planning, and economic development. Hosted by Jeff Wood of The Overhead Wire.
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Episode 152: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Ancient Ways of Water Infrastructure
This week we're Han Solo but have a lot of news to cover including items on skateboarding, new types of segregation, third places, and some ancient ways to cool cities and streets.
Check out the show notes below for more information.
Notes:
Skateboarding - Reasons to be Cheerful
Cityhood - Corner Side Yard
Cleveland rail competitors - NEOtrans
Third Places - Vox
Second Best - Bloomberg CityLab
Access Maps - New Urban Order
Ancient water tunnels - Al Jazeera
Like two mortgages - Moving Day
Brightline to Vegas - Smart Cities Dive
Agglomeration after pandemic - Business Insider
Bonus Items
Harnessing land - Los Angeles Times
Interstate speed limits - Streetsblog USA
Taiwan urban mining - Time Magazine
Zoning rule in CA shut down - Los Angeles Times
Taxes raised for child care - Associated Press
CO gas truce for transit funds - CPR
Cincinnati Solar Array - WVXU
E-bikes reduce VMT - CTV News
CA TX on same path - Real Estate Economics Journal
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Episode 482: Highway Fighting in Texas
This week we’re joined by Megan Kimble to talk about her book City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways. We chat about the folks fighting back against highways, the history behind building big roads, and what the future looks like for advocacy.
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Episode 481: Money is a Lot of Different Things
This week were sharing part 2 of our discussion with Jim Kumon. We chat about the challenges of development, how to crowdfund a building, coming to the end of an 80 year economic cycle, how the built environment is an outcome of how we structure capital, and how more information can make it harder to learn new things.
Some websites of note:
Electric Housing
Incremental Development Alliance
Passive House Crowdfund
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Episode 151: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - It's Been a Minute
This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're joined by Tracy McMillan to talk about aging in place, Nashville's big transit plan, potential Alzheimer's causes in car exhaust, Milan's famous weeks, and the Colorado legislature's search for more housing and TOD.
Articles
Aging in place - New York Times
Nashville's transit plans - Nashville Tennessean
Alzheimer's and car exhaust - Clean Technica
Colorado density laws - Colorado Politics
Milan's commercial weeks - Domus Web
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Episode 480: Details of Development Reform in Minnesota Part 1
This week we’re joined by Jim Kumon, Principal at Electric Housing, to discuss his work as a developer and urban policy educator in the Twin Cities. We chat about his sustainable development project, what St. Paul learned from Minneapolis 2040 and how zoning reform and transportation intersect.
Some websites of note:
Electric Housing
Sundial Building
Incremental Development Alliance
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Episode 479: Charging Up Transportation
This week we’re joined by Gabe Klein, Executive Director of the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. We chat about the Joint Office’s white paper focused on best practices and solutions for electric vehicle charging entitled: Community Charging: Emerging Multifamily, Curbside, and Multimodal Practices.
White Paper Link
The EV Charging Infrastructure Playbook - Link
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