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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 492: Have Cities Run Out of Land?
This week we’re joined by Chris Redfearn of USC and Anthony Orlando of Cal Poly Pomona to discuss their paper - Houston, you have a problem: How large cities accommodate more housing. We talk about why "pro-business" Texas housing markets are catching up to "pro-regulation" California and what it might mean for future city growth.
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Episode 156: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Universal Basic Livability
This week on Mondays Chrissy Mancini-Nichols is back! We talk about universal basic mobility, cool corridors, Japan's idea for a massive underground freight conveyor belt and freight's first mile last mile problem, health problems caused by a Texas bitcoin mine, and USDOT's push for emissions reductions.
Chrissy also mentioned commenting on the PROWAG regulations
Also the Fresno transit microgrid
News Items
Universal Basic Mobility Oakland - LA Times
Cooling corridors - DW | Reasons to be Cheerful
Japan's freight mover - Fast Company
Bitcoin mining and health - Time Magazine
USDOT Decarbonization strategies - Smart Cities Dive
Minnesota e-bike rebate - Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Episode 491: IrrePLACEable
This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Kevin Kelley, founding partner and principal at Shook Kelley. We talk about his book Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places that Bring People Together. We discuss eliciting emotions, the debate between themes and authenticity, changing the meaning of cities, and embracing density.
You can purchase the book through our Bookshop affiliate store here.
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Episode 490: Electrify the Rails
This week on Talking Headways we're joined by Adriana Rizzo of Californians for Electric Rail. We chat about freight and warehousing growth in California's Inland Empire, the benefits of train electrification and a new California CEQA exemption push for overhead wires, and why hydrogen trains are getting more attention.
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Episode 155: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Four Day Work Week
This week on the Mondays show, we're Han Solo but have a lot of interesting items about shorter work weeks, children's brains and the impact of traffic noise, overbuilt retail, and highway expansion and climate change.
Below are the links and show notes:
News Items
Supreme court overturns Chevron - Grist
Supreme court on homeless - Governing
Traffic and children's brains - BBC Future
Retail vacancies - Slate
Highway expansion and climate - LA Times
Colorado creating tenant value - Shelterforce
Four day work week - Barcelona Metropolis
VMT Place Types - CTOD
Bonus Items
Children's play and climate change - Houstonia Magazine
Stable housing for kids - NPR
NJ Transit funding - NorthJersey.com
Listener Questions + Comments
SBA Small Business resilience - SBA
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Replay: Measuring Transportation Insecurity
On this fourth of July special replay of Talking Headways we’re going back to Episode 382 with Alix Gould-Werth and Alex Murphy discussing their work on transportation insecurity. Anna Zivarts mentioned this work in her book and recently on the podcast and I think it’s really important to share it again. Hope everyone has a great holiday and we’ll see you with a new episode next week.
This week, Alix Gould-Werth of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and Alex Murphy, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Michigan, talk about their transportation security index.
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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.