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This week on Mondays Wes Marshall is back! We chat about his trip to Bogota Columbia, the connections between biological structure and the built environment, and of course we discuss the news from last week including climate migration, high speed rail, roundabouts, and healthy urbanism. Check out below for the show notes including links to
This week on Talking Headways, we’re joined by architect Vishaan Chakrabarti to talk about his book The Architecture of Urbanity: Designing for Nature, Culture, and Joy. We discuss the goldilocks density, defining urbanity, the ennui of young architects, and much much more! How to Make Room for 1M New Yorkers – NYT | Vishaan Chakrabarti in
There’s an interesting confluence of events that has emerged around passenger rail in Texas and Mexico over the last year. Mexico’s previous president Andrés Manuel López Obrador had built around 900 miles of passenger rail and that policy of expansion is something that the new president, Claudia Scheinbaum wishes to continue, however more aligned with
