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Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

By: The Overhead Wire
  • Summary

  • Talking Headways is a podcast hosted by Streetsblog USA and Jeff Wood of The Overhead Wire. We explore the intersection of transportation, urban planning, city living, and anything else that piques our interest.
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Episodes
  • Episode 491: IrrePLACEable
    Jul 18 2024

    This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Kevin Kelley, founding partner and principal at Shook Kelley. We talk about his book Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places that Bring People Together. We discuss eliciting emotions, the debate between themes and authenticity, changing the meaning of cities, and embracing density.

    You can purchase the book through our Bookshop affiliate store here.

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    Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire

    Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social

    Follow us on Threads or Instagram @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

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    50 mins
  • Episode 490: Electrify the Rails
    Jul 11 2024

    This week on Talking Headways we're joined by Adriana Rizzo of Californians for Electric Rail. We chat about freight and warehousing growth in California's Inland Empire, the benefits of train electrification and a new California CEQA exemption push for overhead wires, and why hydrogen trains are getting more attention.

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    Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire

    Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social

    Follow us on Threads or Instagram @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

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    48 mins
  • Episode 155: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Four Day Work Week
    Jul 9 2024

    This week on the Mondays show, we're Han Solo but have a lot of interesting items about shorter work weeks, children's brains and the impact of traffic noise, overbuilt retail, and highway expansion and climate change.

    Below are the links and show notes:

    News Items

    Supreme court overturns Chevron - Grist

    Supreme court on homeless - Governing

    Traffic and children's brains - BBC Future

    Retail vacancies - Slate

    Highway expansion and climate - LA Times

    Colorado creating tenant value - Shelterforce

    Four day work week - Barcelona Metropolis

    VMT Place Types - CTOD

    Bonus Items

    Children's play and climate change - Houstonia Magazine

    Stable housing for kids - NPR

    NJ Transit funding - NorthJersey.com

    Listener Questions + Comments

    SBA Small Business resilience - SBA

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    Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire

    Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social

    Follow us on Threads or Instagram @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

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    40 mins

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