Placemakers

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All communities face certain challenges.But some people see challenges as opportunities.On Placemakers, we bring you stories about the spaces we inhabit and the people who shape them. Join us as we criss-cross the country, introducing you to real people in real communities — people who make a difference in how we travel, work, and live.You’ll never look at your community the same way again. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 05/12/2016

    The Quest to Make the Perfect Place

    Imagine a place where you can stroll down the sidewalk, wave to your neighbors on their porch, then pick up your dry cleaning or have lunch at the café. That’s the kind of walkable, compact, mixed-use community envisioned by the founders of New Urbanism—including Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. But some people say there’s a reason one of Plater-Zyberk’s developments played a starring role in a memorable Hollywood film about overly constructed reality. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    33 min

  2. 05/12/2016

    Paid Podcast: Uniting a Neighborhood

    Seattle’s Yesler Terrace was the first racially integrated housing project in the U.S. Today, it remains a multicultural nexus for the city. The Seattle Housing Authority and its partners at JPMorgan Chase have been hard at work rebuilding and rejuvenating this historic community’s infrastructure and investing in its economic sustainability. Join Brian Babylon as he explores how the city has tackled such an enormous revitalization project.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    19 min

  3. 28/11/2016

    When Good Placemakers Go Bad

    George Leonidas Leslie was perhaps the most sensational—and successful!—criminal in American history. An architect by training, he planned and pulled off a series of record-breaking bank robberies throughout the late 1800s and arguably ushered in the modern heist. On this episode of Placemakers, producer Mike Vuolo explores the unholy relationship between burglary and the built environment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    34 min

  4. 21/11/2016

    A City of Blue Ribbons

    Long before the Black Lives Matter movement swept the U.S., Dallas’ police chief tried to diffuse the anger and mistrust between minority communities and police. His reforms made an impact. The number of people killed in confrontations with police fell, just as crime fell. But Dallas was still torn apart by racial hate last summer, leaving five officers dead and the city in shock. It fell on the police chief to bring people back together in the aftermath. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    32 min

  5. 14/11/2016

    Live Free or Die

    How does a small group of people change politics? The Free State Project wants libertarians to concentrate themselves in New Hampshire and promote libertarian causes. Thousands have already moved, and thousands more are on the way. But not everyone is happy to see them coming. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    29 min

  6. 07/11/2016

    The Greatest Misallocation of Resources in the History of the World

    How do you solve a problem like the suburbs? For one man in Arizona, it means creating an agricultural utopia, replete with picket fences and a community garden. He was inspired by one of our era's  most scathing critics of suburban sprawl: James Howard Kunstler. We'll hear from both about what happens when you try to remedy what Kunstler calls “the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    29 min

  7. 31/10/2016

    Fighting Blight in the Gateway City

    Three stories from St. Louis highlight different ways to combat urban blight, from fighting urban decay on MLK Jr. Drive, to turning vacant lots into lush corner gardens. Whether it’s one street, one garden or one tree, it gets easier to imagine change when you literally see it take root. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    31 min

  8. 31/10/2016

    Paid Podcast: Elevating the Neighborhood

    In the 1950s and ‘60s, Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard was a thriving commercial district beloved by New Orleans’ African-American community. After decades of disinvestment, the boulevard has turned a corner and is starting to blossom, once again, into a lively center for commerce and the arts. Down in the Big Easy, we explore how local businesspeople, JPMorgan Chase philanthropists, and creative community thinkers have brought the boulevard back to life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    19 min
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All communities face certain challenges.But some people see challenges as opportunities.On Placemakers, we bring you stories about the spaces we inhabit and the people who shape them. Join us as we criss-cross the country, introducing you to real people in real communities — people who make a difference in how we travel, work, and live.You’ll never look at your community the same way again. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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