• 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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    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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    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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    40 mins
  • Replay: Measuring Transportation Insecurity
    Jul 5 2024

    On this fourth of July special replay of Talking Headways we’re going back to Episode 382 with Alix Gould-Werth and Alex Murphy discussing their work on transportation insecurity. Anna Zivarts mentioned this work in her book and recently on the podcast and I think it’s really important to share it again. Hope everyone has a great holiday and we’ll see you with a new episode next week.

    This week, Alix Gould-Werth of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and Alex Murphy, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Michigan, talk about their transportation security index.

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    56 mins
  • Episode 489: Post-Peaky Transit
    Jun 27 2024

    This week on Talking Headways we’re chatting with Tracy Hadden Loh of the Brookings Institute about impacts of the pandemic on downtowns, activity centers, and transit usage. We chat about creating activity center cluster maps and a recent report entitled Building Better on Philadelphia.

    Articles of note from the discussion:

    Mapping America's Activity Centers - Brookings

    Ensuring the intertwined post-pandemic recoveries of downtowns and transit systems - Brookings

    Building Better - Brookings

    This podcast was producted in partnership with Mpact - http://mpactmobility.org

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    52 mins
  • Episode 154: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Dead University Line
    Jun 25 2024
    We're Han Solo this week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire but that doesn't stop us from covering a lot of ground from the last several weeks. We chat about how climate change could impact infrastructure building, the death of Houston's University Line, and Boston's commuter rail ridership success compared to before the pandemic. We cover a lot more but listen in to find out! Below are links to the items we discussed on today's show! Banks realize climate risk - Wired Magazine Risk of property insurance increase - Moving Day Talking Headways Podcast - In a Bad State Metro shelves University Corridor - Houston Public Media Mexico city running under water - New York Times Bogota water restrictions - Bloomberg CityLab Boston commuter rail comeback - Route Fifty Small future of housing - Fast Company Cities come alive after hours - Washington Post Medical insurer pledges for housing - Yahoo News Denmark's fix for mortgage rate jumps - Business Insider Colorado's new approach to highways - New York Times Wyoming road failure opens housing discussion - Whitehall Ledger Bonus Items Health impacts of station areas - MedicalXpress Put lazy money to work - Governing Curbing costs from "betterments" - The Urbanist Bike lanes reduce traffic speeds - Rutgers Homeless Angelino takes over previous house - Los Angeles Times Homeowners want prices to go up - The American Prospect A conditional contract - Equipment World $100K for every new Canadian home - Toronto Star Connecting North and South Stations - Boston Globe Deep sea mining not necessary - Frontier Group Self driving, but not at dusk or dawn - Australian Broadcasting News *** Join our Happy Hour with Seamless Bay Area by RSVPing. *** 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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    47 mins
  • Episode 488: When Driving is Not An Option
    Jun 20 2024

    This week on Talking Headways I’m joined by SPUR’s Laura Tolkoff to interview Anna Zivarts about her new book: When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency. We chat about non-drivers, car seats, and the week without driving.

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    33 mins
  • Episode 487: Killed by a Traffic Engineer
    Jun 13 2024

    This week we’re joined by Wes Marshall, Civil Engineering Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver to talk about his book Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System. We chat about writing process, the ideas of risk and exposure, and what he learned from pouring over old transportation engineering journals.

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    52 mins