7 episodes
Parksify Podcast Parksify
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The Parksify Podcast interviews planners, urbanists, and authors about our cities' public spaces and their impacts on the communities we live in.
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Brent Toderian on His Former Role as Vancouver's Chief Planner
Brent Toderian joins us to discuss his former role as Vancouver's Chief Planner and some of the challenges facing cities.
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Patrick Duggan and Stuart Andrews on Art and City Resilience
Patrick Duggan and Stuart Andrews discuss a research project in New Orleans to study how arts and culture contribute to the resiliency of cities.
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Ryan Undercoffer on the Government-Citizen Relationship
When it comes to the government-citizen relationship, there's often a disconnect between the voices and desires of residents and the actions taking place on a municipal level. Ryan Undercoffer, the founder of Citizen Guidebook discusses methods that can be used to help heal the divide between residents and officials.
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Walter Clapp on Biomimicry and the Power Grid
Walter Clapp, the founder and Director of Community Adaptation, LLC discusses the challenges facing our power grid & how we can better design our cities through the use of biomimicry.
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Jeff Speck on Shared Space Street Design
Jeff Speck, planner and author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America One Step at a Time, joins me to discuss the benefits and challenges of shared space street design, which is a concept developed by Dutch traffic engineer Hans Monderman.
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Josh Graham on Affordable Housing
Josh Graham, the founder and CEO of Ehab, discusses the benefits of using blockchain to promote the development of affordable housing.