Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week we're joined by Professor Andres Sevtsuk, professor of Urban Science at the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning to talk about his book Street Commerce: Creating More Vibrant Urban Sidewalks. We chat the importance of location in urban retail, the city factors that might determine a store's success, and why urban retail should be studied more in planning school.

This week on the podcast Chrissy and I go over initial thoughts on the American Jobs Plan and discuss what we think infrastructure means and how we might pay for it. Check out the White House American Jobs Plan fact sheet.

This week we're joined by Danielle Arigoni, AARP's Director of Livable Communities. Danielle chats with us about how AARP is working in every state to help cities become more age friendly, how the pandemic is affecting older Americans, and how we can think more holistically about aging in place.

This week we're joined again by Yonah Freemark for the annual prediction show! Yonah chats with us about his new job at the Urban Institute, projects added to his transit inventory, and we make predictions about the coming infrastructure bill.

This week on the show we are Solo again but have no fear, we keep it short and fun and topical. FHWA asks TXDOT to halt I-45 work, we need more missing LARGE housing, and we're running out of sand! FHWA Asks Texas to halt I-45 Expansion - Houston Public Media Missing Large Housing - Alfred Twu The urban river swimming renaissance - Pop Up City A crisis of sand - Deutche Welle Should peds wear AV vests? Tree Hugger (NO) Cities could lose Metro status - AP Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show at http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire

This week we're joined by Karel Martens, Associate Professor of Architecture and Town Planning at Technion – Isreal Insitute of Technology. Karel talks with us about the philosophy underpinning the idea of sufficient accessibility and how he got to the idea in his book Transport Justice.

This week, Angie Rivera-Malpiede, Board Chair of the Regional Transportation District in Denver talks with Cindy Chavez, Former Board Chair of the VTA and Current Santa Clara County Supervisor. These Latina leaders chat about getting communities involved in transportation and leadership.

This week on the Mondays show Jeff talks about a big range of topics including the environmental impact of internal combustion and electric vehicles in terms of materials consumed. He also talks about broadband moves and transportation policy. Wastefulness of ICE engines - Guardian US Mining conundrum - Reuters Banning broadband networks? Ars Technica Appalaicha's digital divide - CNET UK tightens screws on Uber - Wired Magazine A new era of transport equity - Politico Climate transportation plan - Rolling Stone A definition of equity - Bloomberg Bonus Heidelberg's move toward a car-less city - New York Times First city to provide reparations - ABC News Berlin's rent cap one year in - Deutsche Welle Here comes the flying taxis - City Monitor Portland, Replica part ways - RedTailMedia

This week we're joined by Tim Fendley, Founder and Creative Director at Applied. Tim chats with us about lessons he's learned from doing wayfinding projects around the world including Legible London. 32

This week we're joined by UC Berkeley PhD candidate Matthew Tarduno. Matt talks to us about his paper comparing congestion and economic impacts of ride hailing companies Uber and Lyft before and after the cessation of service in Austin Texas.

This week Erik Weber of Hip joins the show to talk about federal policy changes at DOT, how federal housing policy is actually real estate policy, the origins of the lawn as the American Dream, and how travel, not just housing, has become more segregated. Dear Colleague Letter - Streetsblog USA Problem with housing policy - Sightline Institute Travel segregation - Brown University Origins of the lawn as American Dream - History Channel Glass Gem Corn - Business Insider Follow us @theoverheadwire on twitter Support us on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire

This week we're joined by Sadie Graham, BART Program Director for Link21, a rail network planning program for the SF Bay Area. Sadie chats about planning for a second bay crossing and the potential for a suite of projects to improve regional connectivity. We also talk about the frustrations of long term capital projects including politics, costs, and getting it done before you retire.

This week on the show Jeff talks about the Amsterdam donut model of economics, how Denver is using medical professionals to respond to some police calls, how Nevada might allow tech companies to create cities and obsession with new towns, expanding I-45 in Houston, and a better way to do for-profit affordable housing in Charlotte.

This week we're joined by Haley Rubinson, Vice President of Business Development at Revel. We talk about why mopeds work for urban mobility, the dominance of automobiles in discussions about transportation, and if land use plays a part in adoption trends.

This week we're again joined by Shared Use Mobility Center Founder in Residence Sharon Feigon. Sharon talks with us about what she hopes the focus will be for the next administration, how shared mobility has fared during the pandemic, and her plans for the future.

This week we're joined by Scott Bernstein, Founder and Director Emeritus of the Center for Neighborhood Technology. Scott joins the show to chat with us about some of the ways cities and public agencies can work to reduce poverty. A penny saved is a penny earned. This is Mondays with Scott #1

This week we're joined by Erica Eggleton, a PhD Candidate at the University of Washington to chat about her work on Route Dynamics, an open source program that estimates the energy demand for electric bus routes run by King County Metro. We talk about how Route Dynamics calculates electric bus energy consumption and how it might be useful to transit agencies.

This week on the Mondays show Dawn Miller, VP for Policy and Partnerships at Coord and Chrissy Mancini Nichols join the show. We chat about Mayor Pete's Senate hearing, Sacramento's move away from single family zoning, and Dallas' new mobility plan. We also talk a bit about DOT political appointments and Bernie's Wild Ride. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support us at http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Get a Bus Only Scarf at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week we're headed back to the Iowa Law Review's Symposium The Future of Law and Transportation. In Part 2 of this series, Professor Jonathan Levine moderates a panel of four including Professor David Prytherch, Professor Jamila Jefferson-Jones, Professor Tara Goddard, and Professor Vanessa Casado Perez on the topic of Rights of Way and Public Space.

This week Tracy McMillan joins the show to chat about what a Biden Administration can do for localities, climate change in the Great Lakes, Paris' participatory budget, and what the commute means to everyone. Odds and Ends Using Federal Power to liberate localities - Washington Monthly Stop lines don't stop traffic - Route Fifty Paris' participatory budget - City Monitor Climate change and winter festivals - Detroit Free Press | National Geographic Did the pandemic kill the commute? - City Lab Support us on Patreon - http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire

This week we're joined by Professor Sean Benesh to talk about his new book Intro to the City. We chat about his love of Pre-Colombian cities, how being an ordained pastor connects to his urban thinking, and some thoughts about opening your mind when it comes to place. Follow us @theoverheadwire on twitter Support the pod on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire

This week we're going back to the 2020 Rail~Volution conference where Peter Calthorpe gave the keynote speech with Allison Brooks of the Bay Area Regional Collaborative. They discuss the next generation of TOD and housing on major arterials.

This week we're replaying one of our most popular episodes in the last few years. Patrick Siegman of Siegman & Associates joins the podcast for spirited discussion about parking. We chat about the etymology of the word parking, the legend that is Donald Shoup, and why the topic of parking gets so personal.

This week Chrissy Mancini Nichols and Jerome Horne join the show to talk about the nomination of former South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg to the post of Transportation Secretary. That's it, that's the topic on this end of the year Mondays at The Overhead Wire. For those interested in some of the items I mentioned in the show to check out, the links are below. Mexico's Right to Mobility Amendment - City Fix Oil Companies and Car Companies Turn - The Atlantic Climate Warnings on Gas Pumps - Earther Email us [email protected] Follow us @theoverheadwire on twitter

This week we're talking with Katy Knight, Executive Director of the Siegel Family Endowment. We chat about the endowment's recent Infrastructure report entitled Rebuilding America: The Road Ahead which discusses a future where digital, physical, and social infrastructure connect. Katy talks with us about the importance of governance, the two way conversations we should be having with elected officials, distributing investments intelligently, and the importance of greater thinking about social infrastructure.

This week we're joined by Carrie Makarewicz, Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver, Prentiss Dantzler, Assistant Professor at Georgia State University, and Arlie Adkins, Associate Professor at The University of Arizona to talk about their paper in Housing Policy Debate: Another Look at Location Affordability: Understanding the Detailed Effects of Income and Urban Form on Housing and Transportation Expenditures. The paper looks at how households with varied incomes spend on housing and transportation based on location and it's the most recent iteration of a debate about whether location impacts people's transportation spending. We also chat about the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, a continuously collected household dataset started in 1968, the idea of housing as critical infrastructure, and the equity implications of access to jobs and destinations. You can read the paper by emailing Carrie or downloading from the journal site.

This week on the Mondays show we're back on Election Night! Danny Katz of Colorado PIRG learns live on the air that his ballot measure won and Missoula Montana Mountain Line GM Corey Aldridge tells us all about their zero fare program, their coming zero emissions buses, and what an election win (they won!) would mean for the transit agency.

This week on the podcast, Nilda Ruiz and Rose Gray of Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha (APM) join the show to talk about how they've been able to build community through TOD while promoting health, wellness, and a green future.

This week on the Mondays show we're back to our election night YouTube show chatting with our friends about federal transportation policy! We're also joined by our co-hosts Chrissy Mancini Nichols and Jerome Horne! Hope you enjoy it.

This week we're joined by Roger Duncan to talk about his new book with Co-Author Michael Webber called The Future of Transportation, Buildings, and Power. We chat about buildings can get to net zero energy, the changing structure of public utilities, and the energy efficiency megatrend.

Again our friends from election night! That's right, we're sharing some of our election night shenanigans from the live stream we did on YouTube. You can still find the original 7 hour video there to see everyone's backgrounds and setups but we're cutting it down here into some more bite size bits. On this Mondays we're sharing our discussions with Odetta Macleish White from the Transformation Alliance in Atlanta, Robin Hutcheson of the City of Minneapolis, and Darnell Grisby from Transform. And hosting we've got Jerome Horne, Chrissy Mancini Nichols, Houstonians Christof and James and of course myself! I hope you all are enjoying these discussions if you missed them. The full video and backgrounds are on our YouTube channel with a timeline so that you can skip to your favorite speaker if you're so inclined.

This week we're headed to the Iowa Law Review's Symposium "The Future of Law and Transportation". In this episode, we are sharing a panel on transportation and land use featuring Jonathan Levine, Audrey McFarlane, and Sara Bronin. Jonathan Levine of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan discusses his paper 'Transportation Policy Entrenchment: Institutional Barriers to Accessibility Based Planning" Audrey McFarlane, Associate Dean of Faculty Research & Development at the University of Baltimore School of Law, discusses her paper "Black Mobility and the Refusal of Funds: Structural Racism and Mass Transportation Decision-Making" which she wrote with Dean Julius Isaacson, also of the University of Baltimore School of Law. And Sara Bronin, Thomas F. Gallivan Chair in Real Property Law and Faculty Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Law, University of Connecticut School of Law discusses "The Failed Federalism of Street and Vehicle Design Standards" We hope you enjoy this episode and will be back with a few more through the end of the year. Thanks to Greg Shill and the Iowa College of Law for allowing us to rebroadcast the audio.

This week on Mondays we're taking some audio from our election night live stream and sharing it with folks. Chrissy Mancini Nichols and Jerome Horne join us on election night as we talked with local agency folks in Texas about their ballot measures.

This week we're joined by Kyle Rowe, Global Head of Government Partnerships at SPIN. We chat with Kyle about his work with Seattle DOT transitioning from docked to dockless bike share, the impact of ride hailing on micromobility adoption, and the future of his industry. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire

This week we're doing another series preview sharing a podcast we enjoy here at The Overhead Wire. Densely Speaking is a podcast by Jeffrey Lin and Greg Shill discussing cities, economics and law. You can subscribe to Densely Speaking wherever you get your podcasts. On this episode! Professor Leah Brooks, economist and Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the George Washington University's Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Affairs, joins the show to discuss Infrastructure Costs, her working paper (joint with Prof. Zachary Liscow, Yale Law School). Jenny Schuetz, a fellow at the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, joins as a guest co-host. Note: The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.

This week we're joined by Sara Hendren, author of the book What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World. Sara chats with us about how we think and talk about disability, reframing independent living, and designing a humane world for everyone.

This week we're on our own as we prepare for our election night extravaganza! We cover Charlotte's City Council squabbles, take a trip to Helsinki, and think about how pollution causes neurodegenerative diseases. Odds and Ends Charlotte council can't get along - Charlotte Agenda Personal sustainability in Helsinki - New York Times Air pollution and children's brains - Guardian A path to progressive transport - Transport Politic Elon's tunnel in Vegas won't hit targets - Tech Crunch Puppies and Butterflies Garfield's Halloween Adventure - YouTube And join us for the Election Live Stream my YouTube channel. Follow us @theoverheadwire on twitter Support us on Patreon

This week we're chatting with Anthony Townsend about his book Ghost Road: Beyond The Driverless Car. We talk about the potential scary future financialization of transportation could create, how the pandemic has shot delivery automation into the future, and what the potential future of self driving vehicles could mean for urban form.

This week we're joined by Matthew Lipka, Head of Policy at Nuro. We chat about how autonomous delivery can help get people goods they need, the difference between transporting goods and people, and whether people can still pick their own produce.

This week we're solo as we bring you some news from the last couple of weeks. Small business suffering, zero emissions neighborhoods, and a Venice that doesn't flood. Odds and Ends Self driving years away - ReCode Connecticut zoning challenged - CT Mirror Zero emissions neighborhood - Fast Company A dry Venice - AP Electric bike subsidies - Kinder Institute Small business losses - Salon

This week we're chatting with Brian O'Looney about his new book Increments of Neighborhood: A Compendium of Built Types for Walkable and Vibrant Communities. We chat about the housing types in the book, whether big data has a role in housing, and why the basic economics of building matters.

This week on Mondays we bring you an episode of the Land Matters podcast from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy hosted by Anthony Flint. On this episode: The Coronavirus pandemic and growing outrage about racial injustice have underscored the centrality of healthy, well-located, and affordable housing in society. Author Kim Vermeer and smart growth advocate Andre Leroux assess efforts to create more housing options to address longstanding economic and racial disparities. From the Land Matters show notes: A behind the scenes look at what makes cities tick. Whether financing infrastructure, adapting to climate change, or building more affordable housing, a big part of innovative solutions can be traced back to land.

This week on the podcast we're joined by Chris Pangilinan, Head of Global Policy for Public Transportation at Uber. He talks with us about walled gardens, Uber's partnerships with transit agencies, accessibility on transit and much more.

This week Chrissy Mancini Nichols and Tracy McMillan join the show to talk about climate change, Netflix taxes, and Dutch shared bikes! Odds and Ends The great climate migration - New York Times NCDOT purchases rail ROW - News and Observer Houston to Dallas HSR - Houston Chronicle Towns sue streaming companies - Hollywood Reporter Europe's blue bikes - Fast Company Support the show on Patreon Follow us @theoverheadwire on twitter

This week on the podcast we are chatting with Stephanie Gidigbi, Director of Policy and Partnerships for the Natural Resources Defense Council. Stephanie joins us to talk about federal policy, connections between transportation and race, the importance of performance measures, and much more!

Foot Notes is an original new podcast about the intersection of walkability and race. Over the course of five episodes, you'll hear from a variety of transportation planners, researchers, and advocates about the ways in which our current approach to walkability perpetuates racial inequities, and what solutions may be out there. Lily Linke is the host and creator of Foot Notes. She is an artist, educator, and urban planner with a particular passion for creating equitable public spaces through innovative community engagement. She currently lives in Somerville, MA and has recently completed her Masters degree in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. To subscribe to Foot Notes, look for the purple upside down walk sign when you search Foot Notes on Apple Podcasts or go to http://footnotespod.com

This week we're chatting with Angie Schmitt about her new book Right of Way: Race, Class, and the silent epidemic of pedestrian deaths in America. Angie talks with us about why she wrote the book and what she hopes folks can take away from it.

This week we're joined by Joe DiStefano of Urban Footprint to talk about free transit, innovation in cities, building dams for new water resources in Colorado and their work on COVID-19 resources. Talking Headways 183 with Joe Odds and Ends Innovation in time of COVID - Fast Company Free transit trial in LA - LA Streetsblog What Can a Body Do - The New Yorker Colorado water needs - Denver Post COVID hot spots - Urban Footprint

This week we're chatting with Dani Simons, Head of Public Sector Partnerships at Waze. Dani chats with us about Waze's focus on carpooling, how the company uses data to support its users, and her impressions of other country's transportation progress.

This week is episode 300!! I can't believe we made it this far! So to celebrate we're sharing chapter one of our recently released audiobook Town Planning in Practice by Raymond Unwin. This classic from 1909 was one of the first to discuss town planning and urban design at the beginning of the 20th century.