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A Positive Soundscape

June 19, 2025

Last week’s Talking Headways podcast featured Chris Burdik’s book Clamor which discusses sound and noise in detail and I wanted to bring it back up today not really as a counter to the Washington Post item on electric vehicle generated sounds but as a reminder that there should be more considered of the urban soundscape

(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 538: Small Scale Manufacturing in Cities

June 18, 2025

This week we’re joined by Illana Preuss of Recast City to talk about small scale manufacturing in cities. We discuss the commercial side of economic development, the types of jobs we are creating, and how to build community wealth in left behind places. We also talk about hot planning topics such as jobs housing balance,

Full of Lead

June 17, 2025

Has everyone seen the chart below? I was reminded of this chart which makes the rounds on social media every now and again when people argue which generation is the greatest or why certain generations seem like they make decisions other generations don’t like, mostly piling on Baby Boomers but also Generation X. I’m a

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