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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 486: The Computable City
This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Michael Batty, Professor of Planning at the University College London. We chat about his book The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions which includes histories of computing, smart city critiques, what the discourse on AI should really be about, and discussions on the future of urban forms.
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Episode 485: Amtrak vs Brightline in Ohio
This week we’re joined by Cleveland journalist Ken Prendergast to talk about intercity passenger rail in greater Ohio. We chat about the competing interests of Brightline and Amtrak and the history of passenger rail planning in the region.
Check out Ken's NEO-trans Blog
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Mondays Flashback: Verkehrsverbund with Ralph Buehler
We’re Han Solo today but no fear we’re flashing back to Episode 211 of the Talking Headways podcast where we chatted with Ralph Buehler about the topic of the German transport concept of Verkehrsverbund. With a lot of talk of regional transportation networks and planning, I thought it might be worth a listen again five years later.
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Episode 484: Rethinking Denver Along the South Platte River
This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Erin Clark, Chief Real Estate Investment Officer of the Denver Housing Authority. We chat about the redevelopment of Sun Valley, a public housing project built in the 1950s that is being reinvigorated by new investments in public housing, parks, and community.
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Episode 483: An Update to Human Transit
This week we’re joined once again by Jarrett Walker to talk about the release of the revised edition of his influential book Human Transit. We chat about Ursula Le Guin, expanding access to opportunity, how to think about transit riders, the free transit movement and thoughts on anger as a response to change.
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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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Customer Reviews
One of my favorite urban planning pods
I love the mix of expert interviews and weekly news review on Mondays (plus links to said articles in the show notes!). Keep up the great work.
Good content, bad audio
The show has good perspective and great guests, but the audio is intolerable. Jeff seems to fade into mumbling frequently, and the interstitial audio is often much louder than the talking. It’s painful to listen.
New to the Show
I’m new to the show and I’m loving it so far. Particularly interesting in what midsize cities are doing to improve equity.