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Next City

By: Straw Hut Media
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  • Summary

  • Join Lucas Grindley, executive director at Next City, where we believe journalists have the power to amplify solutions and spread workable ideas. Each week Lucas will sit down with trailblazers to discuss urban issues that get overlooked. At the end of the day, it's all about focusing the world's attention on the good ideas that we hope will grow. Grab a seat from the bus, subway, light-rail, or whatever your transit-love may be and listen on the go as we spread solutions from one city to the Next City .
    2024 Straw Hut Media
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Episodes
  • Revisiting "What If You Give $5,800 To Someone Who Is Homeless?"

    Revisiting "What If You Give $5,800 To Someone Who Is Homeless?"
    May 22 2024
    Just over a year ago, we delved into a groundbreaking initiative by a foundation in Vancouver. Their question was: What if we gave people experiencing homelessness a lump sum of cash, no strings attached? The results were nothing short of remarkable — though they probably shouldn’t be surprising. Now, two years after that experiment ended, the idea is spreading to cities across the United States. So let’s revisit that initial episode — when we asked, what really happens when you give money to people experiencing homelessness?
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    27 mins
  • This ‘Big Town’ Has Solutions for Cities Everywhere

    This ‘Big Town’ Has Solutions for Cities Everywhere
    May 15 2024
    Leaders from Lexington, Kentucky share lessons about what’s working as they foster collaboration and nonpartisanship in a city that’s solving problems like community engagement and closing the racial wealth gap.
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    29 mins
  • The Future of Human Transit

    The Future of Human Transit
    May 8 2024
    We’re going to hear about how looking at transit from the human perspective almost always serves the greatest number of people and how it's really us who should be making decisions about the future of transit.
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    34 mins
Management Economics Political Science
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