Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast The Overhead Wire

This week we’re joined once again by author Chuck Wolfe to talk about his book Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character.  We talk about sustainable travel and the “character” and “authenticity” of places.  We also talk in detail about the importance of context when considering planning for the future.
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This week we’re joined by Ben Holland, Senior Associate at the Rocky Mountain Institute to talk about important strategies for reducing emissions in the transportation and land use sectors.  We talk about the disconnect between techno-optimists and urbanists in climate change approach, RMI’s new Colorado induced travel calculator, and the hard choices regions have on transportation and development.
 
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This week on Talking Headways we're joined by Sharon Roerty, Senior Program Officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Maki Kawaguchi, a Director at Gehl to talk about the Inclusive Healthy Places Framework.  Sharon and Maki talk about the importance of creating spaces that bring dignity to all users, the importance of evaluating existing spaces, and creating a data driven and people first approach to creating inclusive healthy places.
 
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This week Tracy joins to talk about the surface transportation bill put forward by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in addition to architecture and capitalism, the COMMUTE bill, lumber prices, and Dallas' new transportation plan. Oh, and SHARKS!
News
New transportation bill planned - Senate EPW
A response from T4 - Transportation for America
Capitalism shaping architecture - Fast Company
The COMMUTE bill - Streetsblog USA
Lumber prices - Vox
Dallas approves transportation plan - Dallas Morning News
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The Battle of SHARKS! - CGP Grey on YouTube

This week we're joined by L'erin Jensen and Josh Cohen, hosts of The Movement Podcast at Transloc. We chat about why they got into podcasting as a way to talk about transportation, some of their favorite guests, and what's vexing them about current policy.
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This week we're joined by Laura Schewel, Co-founder and CEO of Streetlight Data and Carlo Ratti, Director of MIT's SENSEible City Lab to talk about what we've learned from data during the pandemic. They also chat about what it would mean for infrastructure to be optimized if we rescheduled cities in a way that works for everyone at all times of day. 
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