Abundance - A Metropolitan Abundance Project Podcast Nolan Gray

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray and Ned Resnikoff chat with Megan Kimble.  Megan is an investigative journalist and the author of Unprocessed. A former executive editor at The Texas Observer, Kimble has written about housing, transportation, and urban development for The New York Times, Texas Monthly, The Guardian, and Bloomberg CityLab. She lives in Austin, Texas. In this episode, they discuss her new book, City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways.

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In this episode, Ned Resnikoff chats with Alexander Sahn. He is a Thomas J. Pearsall Fellow and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he studies inequality in political participation, representation, and public policy, especially subnational governments in the United States. He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University and received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. They discuss public engagement, exclusionary zoning, and civil service reform.

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This week, Nolan Gray and Ned Resnikoff chat with Stan Oklobdzija.

Stan is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tulane University and the Director of the Center for Public Policy Research at the Murphy Institute. His research focuses on housing policy, specifically how voters conceive of housing markets and how these perceptions influence the policies that local governments pursue. He previously served as Research Director for California YIMBY. Oklobdzija holds a PhD in Political Science from the He of California, San Diego and a Master's Degree in Public Policy from the University of Southern California. Find him on Twitter.

In this episode, they chat about the politics of YIMBY, the folk economics and housing, and New Orleans.

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This week, Nolan Gray chats with Ben Raderstorf. Ben is vice president of House Sacramento, an all volunteer grassroots pro-housing group in the California Capital region. In his day job, he's a pro-democracy advocate, but on nights and weekends he works to make his adopted hometown more affordable, liveable, walkable, bikeable and resilient. Find him on twitter at @braderstorf.

In this episode, they chat about the exciting new land use reforms recently adopted for Sacramento.

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In this episode, Nolan Gray and Ned Resnikoff chat with Danielle Allen. Allen is a professor of political philosophy, ethics, and public policy at Harvard University, and director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation. She is also the author of the recent book, Justice By Means of Democracy.

In this episode, they discuss power-sharing liberalism, abundance progressivism, and what it all means for the future of metropolitan governance.

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In this episode, California YIMBY research director Nolan Gray chats with Henry Grabar. Henry is a journalist at Slate, where he writes about cities, and a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

In this episode, they discuss Grabar's brand new book, Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, including why parking drives people nuts, the curious case of parking privatization in Chicago, and the future of parking reform.

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