Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week we're joined by Dr. Nadia Anderson, former Director of Federal Affairs at INRIX. Dr. Anderson joins us to talk about what lobbyists actually do, the one year anniversary of IIJA, and how it leads to Justice 40 and equity action. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon [email protected] Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week we're joined by Ron Milam of Fehr and Peers to talk about some of his thoughts on this year's Transportation Research Board Conference. We also talk about VMT and highway expansions, commute times and distances in China, and why certain sounds from your neighbors might put you on edge. Follow along below the jump for the show notes. Notes Why do we keep expanding highways? - New York Times MIT finds Chinese commute times pretty standard - Archinect Why neighbor noises annoy us - Nautilus Puppies and Butterflies Doggie bus stops - The Drive OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon [email protected] Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week we're joined by Michiel Huijsman, Managing Director of Soundtrackcity in the Netherlands. We chat about how to think about the positive aspect of urban soundscapes, designing how a place sounds, and how thinking was changed by the pandemic. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon [email protected] Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week we're joined by Johanna Hoffman to talk about her book Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-Create the Cities We Need. We chat about thinking longer term about planning problems, people's emotional reactions to the future, and ways to imagine a different way of interacting in cities. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon [email protected] Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week we're joined by Jacob Graham, a Program Manager for MoGo Bike Share in Detroit. Jacob chats with us about how the system works in Detroit, how bike share riders and bus riders coincide, the benefits of E-Bikes, and coordination with other organizations. This podcast was produced in partnership with MPact (fmrly Railvolution) OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon [email protected] Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week for the holidays we're going back in time to listen to one of the most popular episodes of 2022! In Talking Headways 376, Kevin Krizek, Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and David King, Assistant Professor at Arizona State University talk about their book, Advanced Introduction to Urban Transport Planning. We chat about access, justice, and why this book is perfect for changing the conversation around transportation. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon [email protected] Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week we're Han Solo but we've got a lot to share from ideas we have for next year's podcasts as well as a lot of really interesting news items you probably won't hear about anywhere else. Check out the show notes below for more and have a great finish to 2022! Show Notes Buses shouldn't be free - The Atlantic 7 ways we perceive architecture - The Conversation Rush to EVs an expensive mistake - CBC Owner occupancy requirements - Smart Cities Dive $100B lesson how not to do transit - Motherboard AirBnB running riot in small towns - WIred Bonus Content EU approves French flight bans - Politico EU Health care and housing crisis - KALW Hertz to pay for locking people up - New York Times Berlin's bike car parking duel - CityLab Congress new city reporting requirements - Route Fifty EPA finds no progress on fuel economy - ACEEE Zero emissions buses could make transit popular - Traffic Technology Today Fairfax county equitable transport metrics - Reston Now OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon [email protected] Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week we're joined by Sarah Kaufman of the NYU Rudin Center for Transportation. Sarah joined us in Miami at the RailVolution conference to talk about autonomous vehicle policy, acceptable safety levels, what happens to the NYC Taxis and the lessons from Superstorm Sandy for transportation infrastructure. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week we're joined by Jarred Johnson, Executive Director of TransitMatters in Boston. Jarred talks about making the case for the MBTA, the Orange Line shutdown, regional rail and electrification, overhead wires versus batteries, and fare policy. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week we're talking about the big stories of the last few weeks! Why LED lights suddenly turn purple, what walking does to our brains, and the strange city of Lusail in Qatar. News Items LED lights turning purple - Business Insider How walking helps us think - New Yorker The strange city of Lusail Qatar - Guardian The urban drug store decline - Slate European cities getting crowded - Wired Magazine Amsterdam circular economy - Fast Company South Korea zero food waste - Guardian Great Salt Lake collapse - Salt Lake Tribune Solarpunk - Public Books Will casual carpool come back? - Berkeleyside OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public!

This week we're joined once again by Stephanie Gidigbi Jenkins and Helen Chin to talk about the one year anniversary of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. They chat about what they liked, the issue with capacity for applying for and implementing grants, transformative justice, and what states are actually doing well. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public!

This week we sit down with US Congressman Earl Blumenauer of Oregon's 3rd District at the Rail~Volution conference in Miami. We chat about the one year anniversary of the infrastructure bill, where we're at with vision zero, the coming Farm Bill discussion, and the important connections between housing, transportation, and health. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public!

This week we're joined by The Greater Marin's David Edmondson! We talk about the importance of Time, whether freight railroad tracks should be publicly owned and managed, and the boom in ridership on Van Ness. We also talk a bit of Andor and the hill slums of Sierra Leone Show Links: Van Ness BRT ridership bump - San Francisco Chronicle Publicly owned railroad infrastructure - Freight Waves The importance of "Time" - Eurocities 100 years of autocentricity - Forbes Shenzhen's electric buses - Smart Cities World OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public!

This week we're joined by Northern California Director for High Speed Rail Boris Lipkin and Streetsblog San Francisco editor Roger Rudick to talk about high speed rail's progress in California. Boris discusses what's next for the High Speed Rail program, funding, and station design and Roger pushes back on recent negative media. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public! Updated on 11.10.22 for audio clarity

This week we're joined by Tien-Tien Chan of Nelson Nygaard and Jessica Roberts of Alta Planning and Design to talk about Transportation Demand Management or TDM. Tien-Tien and Jessica discuss how TDM acts as the soft side of transportation and the flip side of infrastructure and they dive deep into the different types of programs are employed. This podcast was produced in partnership with MPact, formerly Rail~Volution. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public!

This week we're joined by Amanda Howell of Urbanism Next at The University of Oregon to talk about Sidewalk Robots. We chat about their study on sidewalk delivery robots with the Knight Autonomous Vehicle Initiative and what they learned about community engagement and small delivery vehicles on city sidewalks. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public!

Happy Mondays! This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we dive into a number of topics including the hype around self driving cars, the monetary benefits of using parking spaces for more than just cars, recycling whole buildings, and thinking about community input. We also throw in a little highway talk and parks on top of a Costco. News Items No self driving cars after $100B invested - Bloomberg Businesweek New spin on parking spaces during pandemic - Globe and Mail Recycle a 14-Story Office Tower - New York Times Office building's biggest emissions: commuters - Commercial Observer Calamity of I-277 in Charlotte - Charlotte Magazine (Overhead Wire Blog on I-277) Not Everyone Should Have a Say - The Atlantic The Hidden Costco - Fast Company Cold seawater to heat Helsinki - Bloomberg CityLab Bonus Items LA Overcrowding - Los Angeles Times Colorado Prop 123 - Next City Aztec floating farms - BBC Future Global tax on frequent fliers - Washington Post OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public!

This week we're joined by Max Holleran to talk about his book Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing. We talk about the rise of YIMBY vs NIMBY housing politics, the changes in housing activism, and how housing fights are going global. ~~~ Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public!

This week we're joined by Diana Ramirez, Executive Director of the Harris County Department of Economic Equity and Opportunity, former Salt Lake County Mayor and Congressman Ben McAdams, Matt Prewitt, President of RadicalxChange and Joel Rogers, Director of COWS at the University of Wisconsin Madison to talk about how cities can understand the public wealth owned by our cities. We talk about how cities can create inventories of existing assets to generate public wealth and how economic value can be harnessed for public good. Two articles referenced in this show: How To Harness Cities' Hidden Public Wealth - NOEMA Magazine Harris County putting billions of assets to public use - Urban Edge Putting Assets to Work - Government Finance Officers Association ~~~ Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public!

This week on Mondays Jeff talks about a whole host of articles from whether your commute makes you happy to if our economies are becoming less dynamic as they age. Also what's keeping you from returning to your office? I bet childcare would help! All that and more this week on Mondays! Show Links Commute happiness - MPR Raleigh vs Charlotte downtowns - The Assembly Development made Ian worse - WaPo Latin America's pink housing - Architectural Digest Return to the office - WaPo | Slate Omaha rips out bike lane - The Reader Economies less dynamic - Harvard Business Review BONUS ITEMS London's reduced footfall - City Matters Heavy Trucks - CNN Smart loading zones - WHYY Airplane emissions - Journal of Transport Geography Teacher shortage - Texas Tribune San Diego scraps road charge - San Diego Union Tribune Cars vanishing from Paris - Reasons to be Cheerful Puppies and Butterflies DIY Freight Train skateboard - The Drive Love You Gramma. ~~~ Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public!

This week on Talking Headways we're joined by journalist Megan Kimble to talk about housing and highway fights in Texas. We chat about TXDOT's political pressure, the organizations fighting back, and how throughput remains king. ~~~ Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public!

This week we're joined by Broward MPO Executive Director Greg Stuart to talk about the history of Broward County, it's connections to the rest of South Florida, the historic MAPS transportation plan, and how they are dealing with potential sea level rise and impacts of the pandemic. This episode was produced in partnership with Railvolution! ~~~ Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public!

This week on Mondays we cover a ton of ground including Transportation Insecurity, putting retail away from arterial streets, pattern book building, bad intersections, forced flood buyouts and much more! Check out links in the show notes below: Show Links Transportation insecurity - Washington Center for Equitable Growth Flood buyouts - Grist Nashville retail away from arterials - Nashville Scene Fayetteville pattern books - NW Arkansas Democrat Gazette KC's worst intersections - KCUR Warehouses in the fields - The Guardian Good luck playing Sim NIMBY - Motherboard Bonus Articles Denver storefronts - Colorado Public Radio Ship it Zero resolution - Grist Window urbanism - Winnepeg Free Press Puppies and Butterflies BART essay contest - Short-Edition ~~~ Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public!

This week we're joined by Billie Giles-Corti, Director of the Healthy Livable Cities Lab at RMIT, Melanie Lowe of the University of Melbourne, and Geoff Boeing of USC to talk about their papers in The Lancet Global Health series on Urban Design, Transport, and Health. They chat about the importance of walkability to public health, why Sao Paulo Brazil connects policy and outcomes so well, and how cities can use the detailed indicators they've created including bus stop and intersection density to fill policy gaps that lead to positive health outcomes. You can find the papers at The Lancet Global Health or visit The Global Observatory of Healthy and Sustainable Cities Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public!

We're at 400 episodes and I want to thank the listeners for letting us come into their podcatchers each week. We've got 13 clips from shows in the first 399 episodes. We share clips on microtransit, urban delivery systems, city fiber networks, 3D urban design, transit value capture, zoning reform, walking, and community togetherness. Join us for a fun trip down memory lane. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public!

This week on the show I'm Han Solo again, but that won't stop us from covering interesting news about cities from around the world! We chat about Phoenix's ancient canals, some of California's potential new laws, Black migration, and making friends in sprawl. Check out the show links and notes below: Phoenix canal history - BBC Travel Capitalism and gentrification - Guardian Black migration - The Atlantic Making friends in sprawl - Vox Trees a secret weapon - Time Magazine Small cargo vans - The Drive Bonus coverage: French e-bike subsidies - The Verge 300 mile range needed? - NYT Tredges protect kids from particulates - New Atlas Zero down payment mortgage - NBC Banning meat adverts - Guardian Banning fossil fuel adverts - Euronews California laws Public meetings - CityLab Reapealing Article 34, anti-public housing - LA Times Housing on strip malls, commercial - Smart Cities Dive Car free tax breaks - Washington Post Parking requirements near transit - San Diego Union Tribune Comments and Questions Castro bath house dispute - SFist Why city planning? - Thomas Bardenett Puppies and Butterflies Pulling the Streetcar Out - Dallas Morning News Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public!

This week we're joined by Michael E. Smith, Professor of Anthropology and Archeologist at Arizona State's School of Human Evolution and Social Change. We talk with Michael about his article in Aeon Magazine entitled Energized Crowding about life in early cities and neighborhoods. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public!

This week we're joined by Nolan Gray to talk about his new book Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. We talk about how cities were regulated before zoning, why state and national reforms are important and why zoning abolition should be the ultimate goal. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week on Mondays we're playing catch up with stories from the last five weeks of The Overhead Wire newsletter. Dangerous roads, TXDOT skirts environmental rules, young adults stay close to home, Stuttgart's green corridor and much more. You can find all the links to the stories in the notes below: News Items The most dangerous road in America - Vox Texas skirts enviro laws on highways - Grist Colorado changes transportation course - CPR Young adults not moving far from home - AP Job sprawl spillover - Crain's Cleveland Business Code snitching - Nashville Scene Car free pioneer - Politico EU Office building midlife crisis - Commercial Observer Billionaires gonna NIMBY - The Atlantic California Megaflood - CNN Bathhouse comeback - Mic Stuttgart's green corridors - Reasons to be Cheerful Spanish city fire sprinklers - Wired Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by Kim Cella of Citizens for Modern Transit and Sheila Holm of AARP. to discuss how they are transforming transit stops in St. Louis. We chat about how they involve the community, engage transit operators, and bring life to grey spaces. Today's podcast was produced in partnership with RailVolution. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by author Paris Marx to talk about their book Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation. We talk about Technologists and the stories they tell themselves, Ursula K Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory, and Uber's impact on labor laws. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week Chrissy and Jeff talk about the Inflation Reduction Act and all the things in the bill from an urban issue standpoint. We talk tax breaks for electric vehicles, tax credits for electric appliances, environmental services and much more! A few articles below we used as sources: Need to Know about IRA - T4America $3B for reconnecting communities - Route Fifty Hurdles for highway removal - Governing Real estate industry and IRA - ULI Low tech solutions: Nature - WaPo Tweet - Georgetown Climate Center IRA and electric bills - CNN IRA and low carbon building materials - Construction Dive Efficiency upgrades and parks in IRA - Smart Cities Dive Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by David Andersson, part of the Art and Culture team at Bloomberg Associates. David chats about the implementation and safety characteristics of asphalt art, how communities work on these projects, and the character of public art. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by architecture writer and journalist Alexandra Lange to talk about her book: Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall. We chat about the evolution of the mall, equity and legal implications, and of course pop culture. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week on Talking Headways, we're listening in on a 1 to 1 conversation between City of Phoenix planner Elias Valencia, and community champion Victor Vidales. Elias and Victor talk about the process of creating the South Central TOD Community Plan and what it takes to create strategies that empower neighborhoods and reduce displacement. This episode was produced in partnership with Railvolution. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're Han Solo, but don't let that stop you from listening to the news! We chat about DOT's emissions monitoring plan as well as Charlotte's ridership drop. News Links: Charlotte's dropping ridership - WFAE Oregonians fought sprawl - Oregon Public Broadcasting Hoboken shows way on Vision Zero - Streetsblog USA Cities prepare for heat waves - Politico EU Administration floats emissions monitoring - Smart Cities Dive Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by Professor Michael Neuman to talk about his book Sustainable Infrastructure for Cities and Societies. We chat about why trees are important models for infrastructure development, the important lessons of Barcelona for the world, and why infrastructure is lately seen as a monetary asset instead of a public good.

This week we're joined by Jonathon Stalls, author of a new book: Walk: Slow Down, Wake Up, and Connect at 1-3 Miles Per Hour. We talk about his work on social media with Pedestrian Dignity and his walk across the United States in 2010. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week on Mondays we're joined by Sophia Li, the editor of the Talking Headways podcast and Landscape Architecture Masters Candidate at the Harvard GSD. We chat about Doug Gordon's piece on the phrase 'Ban Cars', Bogota's GPS pricing scheme, sounds of cities, and how Germany is coping with the 9 Euro pass. Join the fun! Links from the show: Bogota's congestion pricing plan - Government Technology "Ban Cars" - Jalopnik Sound and the city - Noema Magazine Also sound related - MIT Technology Review Germany's 9 euro pass - Deutsche Welle Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week on Talking Headways we're joined by staff from MARTA in Atlanta for a 1 on 1 conversation. Collie Greenwood, Deputy General Manager, and Jacob Vallo, Senior Director of TOD, Real Estate, and Art in Transit talk with each other about the agency's bus network redesign and their TOD program. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by Reece Martin, who discusses transit systems around the world on his YouTube channel RM Transit. Reece joins us to take an audio tour of Canadian Transit as well as discuss his recent visit to London to ride the Elizabeth Line. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by Catie Gould of the Sightline Institute, to talk about Oregon's plans for reducing parking regulations in cities. We chat about case studies from Portland OR and Fayetteville AR and the impact of parking lots on the urban heat island. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by University of Pennsylvania's Fritz Steiner and Bob Yaro and University of Texas' Ming Zhang to talk about their new book, Megaregions and America's Future. We discuss the idea of Megaregions and why they are so important for the future of our society and the planet. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by writer Dan Moore to talk about his piece in The Ringer entitled "What Do Cities Lose When they Lose Pro Sports?" Dan chats about why stadium deals are A bigger story about cities and how they can be harmful or potentially beneficial. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're solo but that doesn't mean we don't have some interesting news for you! San Diego billboards and Rotterdam roof parks coming at you! News Learning about Chinese Metros - That's Magazine Rotterdam's roof parks - Surface Magazine TXDOT wants to bury I345 - D Magazine San Diego's billboard rules - San Diego Union Tribune Texas activists battle billboard companies - NPR Germany's 9 euro pass - The Mayor.eu Regulating particulates - Euractiv Tire particles 2000x worse than exhaust - Guardian Puppies and Butterflies Lego Lisbon Tram - The Brick Fan Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're joined by Regional Plan Association President and CEO Tom Wright. Tom looks back at the history of the RPA, the current process for congestion pricing in New York City, and how the Triborough transit line got traction. We also talk about the organization's thinking on climate change and more! Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week we're listening to a one to one conversation between St. Paul Developer Johnny Opara of JO Companies and Lea Hargett, Principal of Jog Associates. They talk about LISC's Capacity Building programs that support developers of color, why Johnny got into development, and barriers people of color face in the market which includes the many different types of capital. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

This week on Mondays we're joined by Jerome Horne of TransitCenter to share thoughts on Amazon deliveries, new bus networks in Boston, Segregation by Design's visualizations, and new infrastructure technical assistance and housing plans from the White House. The News Visualizing the legacy of America's racist urbanism - Fast Company Ethics of next day delivery - Guardian Boston's bus plan - WBUR Housing supply action plan - White House Infrastructure Technical Assistance Guide - White House Safe Streets for All Grant Program - USDOT Puppies and Butterflies Bee Bus Stops - BBC

This week we're listening in on a one-on-one conversation between Stephanie Gidigbi Jenkins of NRDC and North Star Strategies and Helen Chin, President of the Communities First Fund. Stephanie and Helen discuss why this is an important moment for infrastructure equity and the creation of the Communities First Infrastructure Alliance and its principles. You can find the White House's Technical Assistance Guide linked here and Communities First Infrastructure Alliance Principles and organizations here. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!

We are Han Solo this week but wanted to clear the pallet for next week's guest. We chat about Oslo's environmental progress, LA's Universal Basic Mobility plans, and how people walking slowly increases perceived crowding. The links the all the stories are in the show notes below! Money for mergers in Flemish Belgium - The Mayor.eu Who rules transit? - TransitCenter Oslo and Climate Change - The New Yorker Norway may scale back EV perks - Bloomberg Universal basic mobility pilot - LA Times Car filters and particles - Reuters Open JFK drive - SF Examiner Rural criteria changes for Census - Associated Press Denmark to label food for climate change - Food Policy Center Green walls in offices - Medical XPress Testing a full size autonomous bus - BBC A perception of people congestion - Science Daily Puppies and Butterflies! Shop Pets! - Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!