Talking Headways Podcast: Color Your City Outside the Lines
This week I'm joined by cartographer Gretchen Peterson to talk about mapmaking and her new book, City Maps: A Coloring Book for Adults. We discuss why she made the book and why she chose the 40 city maps she included in it.
June 24, 2016
Talking Headways Podcast: Sharing (Your Bike, Car, Bus) Is Caring
This week we’re chatting with Sharon Feigon of the Shared Use Mobility Center. Bike-share, car-share, ride-hailing -- we talk about all of that and then some, including how these new services may shape the built environment.
June 9, 2016
Talking Headways Podcast: Moneyball for Transit
Laurel Paget-Seekins joins the podcast this week to talk about her days as a transit activist in Atlanta, what Santiago, Chile, taught her about transit networks, and her current work on data collection and dissemination as the director of strategic initiatives at the MBTA in Boston.
May 26, 2016
Talking Headways Podcast: It Costs More to Drive Til You Qualify
The topic this week is housing affordability and transit, with guests Shima Hamidi, Reid Ewing, and John Renne. They discuss their recent paper in the journal Housing Policy Debate, "How Affordable is HUD Affordable Housing?" As it turns out, a lot of HUD rental assistance is spent in areas with high transportation costs. We talk about the impetus for the study and how they designed it.
May 6, 2016
Talking Headways Podcast: James Rojas – The City Is a Painting You Walk Into
This week I'm joined by James Rojas of Place It! to talk about art in planning and Latino urbanism. James is an award-winning planner and a native Angeleno, and he tells us about how growing up in East LA and visiting his grandmother’s house shaped the way he thinks about urban spaces and design.
April 22, 2016
Talking Headways Podcast: The Essential Link Between Transit and Land Use
Think land use is none of a transit agency's business? Think again. Transit routes serving sprawled-out areas draw fewer riders and cost more to operate than routes serving compact, walkable development.
April 8, 2016
Talking Headways Podcast: Measuring Walkability on the Wasatch Front
Muriel Xochimitl, Jon Larsen, and Cali New of the Wasatch Front Regional Council in Utah join the podcast this week to talk about their new interactive story map tool measuring urban street design.
March 23, 2016
Talking Headways Podcast: 100 Years of Cincinnati’s Incomplete Subway
Jake Mecklenborg, a contributor to Streetsblog Network member Urban Cincy and author of Cincinnati’s Incomplete Subway: The Complete History, joins us this week to talk about Cincinnati’s geography, how a subway would be useful, and why there were numerous attempts to build one.
March 10, 2016
Talking Headways Podcast: The Indian Transportation Context
This week I'm chatting with Akshay Mani, a sustainable transportation planner who has worked for Cambridge Systematics in the United States and the World Resources Institute’s EMBARQ program in India. Akshay joined us from Chennai to talk about transportation and the growth of Indian cities.
March 3, 2016
Talking Headways Podcast: Trinidad, Transit Dates, and Dive Bars
This week I chat with my good friend and Bay Area affordable housing developer Ed Parillon. We talk about transportation in Ed’s original home of Trinidad (which has an early busway) and the American influence on the island starting during the second World War.
February 26, 2016