Starting Monday we will be at the NACTO Designing Cities Conference in Seattle. We'll be live streaming some of the sessions in audio. If you'd like to listen in, check my twitter feed for times and come back here to listen using the player below.
ALERT: The 11:45 session will start at 12:10 unless you want to hear everyone eating lunch.
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Friday, September 23, 2016
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Podcast: A Different Look at Transportation with Rob Puentes
Our guest this week is Rob Puentes of the Eno Center for Transportation,
an organization that has focused on better transportation outcomes for
95 years. Rob touches on a number of topics that we don’t usually
explore in-depth, like aviation, freight, and coordinating automated
vehicle policy.
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Podcast: The Vancouver Model with Brent Toderian
Former chief planner for Vancouver BC Brent Toderian joins the podcast to talk about cities and urbanism. We have a fun discussion about city rankings as well as talk about planning for the Olympics. Check it out!
Thursday, August 25, 2016
Podcast: Putting Dallas Back Together Again
Patrick Kennedy comes on the podcast this week to talk about what’s going on in Dallas. We discuss the highway removal campaign known as A New Dallas and the recent Texas DOT CityMap Plan to re-imagine the freeways and roads in the city’s downtown. We also discuss downtown subways, urban politics, why existing walkable neighborhoods matter to new walkable neighborhoods, and what’s going on with plans for the Trinity River.
Monday, August 22, 2016
Transit Trends Episode #6 with Lukas Neckermann
It’s safe to say the creation and rollout of autonomous vehicles is the hot topic of the transportation industry now. Each major car company has plans to move forward with these vehicles in the next five or so years. But how long will it actually takes us to adapt to the fact we may eventually ride around in vehicles that we only control the 5-10% of the time?
Podcast: Columbus, the Smartest City in the Land
Josh Lapp, a board member at the advocacy organization Transit Columbus, joins us this week to talk about Ohio’s capital city — how it’s becoming more urban, how its stadiums have been situated to support downtown growth and walkability, and how transportation options like light rail and bike-share are developing. And of course, you’ll hear about Columbus’s winning bid in U.S. DOT’s Smart City Challenge.
Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Podcast: Future Shared Mobility in Cities
This week we’ve got a fascinating discussion from the Live.Ride.Share conference in Denver earlier this year. Hear what representatives from NRDC, Uber, Lyft, and U.S. DOT think about the future of shared-use mobility systems, carpooling services, autonomous vehicles, and their impact on cities and greenhouse gases.
Speakers include:
Also check out the archives at Streetsblog USA.
Speakers include:
- Mark Dowd, deputy assistant secretary for research and technology at U.S. DOT
- Amanda Eaken, deputy director of the Urban Solutions Program at NRDC
- Emily Castor, director of transportation policy at Lyft
- Jonathan Hall, head of economic research for public policy and litigation at Uber
Also check out the archives at Streetsblog USA.
Friday, July 29, 2016
Podcast: Mapping the Smells and Sounds of the Sensory City
This week we're joined by Daniele Quercia and Luca Aiello to talk about mapping the smells and sounds of cities. I visited Cambridge UK to record this one so you'll want to check it out.
Labels:
City Planning,
Podcast,
Smells,
Sounds
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Podcast: Cincinnati's Incomplete Subway
This week we're chatting with Jake Mecklenborg about his book Cincinnati's Incomplete Subway. It's a good one so check it out.
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