Journey With Purpose Expedition Works

In this episode we speak with parking expert Graham Rossmore, who helped Los Angeles shift their temporary outdoor dining program to a permanent feature, allowing a greater use of curb and parking space than just car storage. His work found that areas with Al Fresco dining generated an increase of $12 million in gross sales in 2022 compared to 2019. We also speak about new ways to use the city, which just so happens to be how we used to use the city before cars became the dominant form of transportation.

Architecture professor Karen Kubey speaks about housing justice, how we need to design for abundance, we don't live in policy, and how housing supply is part of a larger toolbox to provide housing for all.

Cities are sites of aspirations and identities, and ‘play’ can be a means for fostering community engagement. Architect and urbanist Joanne Cheung critiques the prevailing forms of community engagement, suggesting that they are often paternalistic and fail to adequately consider the agency of individuals and communities. Joanne further discuss the implications of power imbalances, the need for co-creation, and how play can act as a ‘scaffolding’ for discussing democratic representation. Play has often become commodified causing an unequal power dynamics in society. Joanne suggests the Cities for Play is but a scaffold in tackling very hard problems democratically, and calls for meaningful engagement through more community-oriented spaces for collective action and creativity.



















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“Why would you want to be engaged for engagement’s sake? It makes no sense. You can only be engaged when you’re doing something meaningful.”























Show Notes









* Joanne Cheung & New Economy Workshop







* Cities Book of Play download & toolkit



















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005 Graham Rossmore – Curbs for People







004 Karen Kubey – Cities of Imagination







003 Joanne Cheung – Cities Book of Play







002 Tom Badley – Offline Cash







001 Cincinnati’s West End with Josh Junker























Pamphlets, Please

Graphic designer and artist Tom Badley shares with us his journey practicing as both a designer and artist, banknote design, digital art, his design of Offline Cash, and his book, Art & Money.

Urbanist and activist Josh Junker talks with us about the destruction of Cincinnati's West End.



"Cincinnati was incredibly crowded, outside of New York we had the most densely populated urban core in the country."