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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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 • 25 July 2024 • 52m and 30s
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 he...
Episode • 23 July 2024 • 1h, 4m and 21s
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.
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Episode • 18 July 2024 • 49m and 46s
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 • 11 July 2024 • 48m and 21s
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
...Episode • 9 July 2024 • 39m and 44s
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.<...
Episode • 5 July 2024 • 55m and 56s
This week on Talking Headways we’re chatting with Tracy Hadden Loh of the Brookings Institute about impacts of the pandemic on downtowns, activity centers, and transit usage. We chat about creating activity center cluster maps and a recent report entitled Building Better on Philadelphia.
Articles of note from the discussion:
Mapping America's Activity Centers - Brookings
Ensuring the intertwined post-pandemic recoveries of downtowns and transit systems - Brookings
Building Better - Brookings
This podcast was producted in partnership with Mpact - http://mpactmobility.org
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Episode • 27 June 2024 • 51m and 48s
We're Han Solo this week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire but that doesn't stop us from covering a lot of ground from the last several weeks. We chat about how climate change could impact infrastructure building, the death of Houston's University Line, and Boston's commuter rail ridership success compared to before the pandemic. We cover a lot more but listen in to find out!
Below are links to the items we discussed on today's show!
Banks realize climate risk - Wired Magazine
Risk of property insurance increase - Moving Day
Episode • 25 June 2024 • 47m and 12s
This week on Talking Headways I’m joined by SPUR’s Laura Tolkoff to interview Anna Zivarts about her new book: When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency. We chat about non-drivers, car seats, and the week without driving.
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Episode • 20 June 2024 • 33m and 20s
This week we’re joined by Wes Marshall, Civil Engineering Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver to talk about his book Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System. We chat about writing process, the ideas of risk and exposure, and what he learned from pouring over old transportation engineering journals.
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Episode • 13 June 2024 • 52m and 14s
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