Parksify Podcast Parksify
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- Society & Culture
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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.
Customer Reviews
A great addition to urbanism podcasts
I'm so glad that Ash is adding a new focus to urbanism issues to the growing world of city-related podcasts. As a guest and listener I highly recommend it!
4.5 Stars
Great for the landscape architect, planning, urbanism nerd in all of us. Interviews are well selected, with very knowledgeable guests. Hopefully, the host will get better with time. Keep it up!