About a year ago I interviewed my old urbanist friend Jim Kumon on the podcast (Part 1 | Part 2) about his work developing missing middle housing in the Twin Cities and other spots around the country and he mentioned something super interesting that a colleague reminded me of recently about the cycle of our

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we’re joined once again by Tracy McMillan to discuss a number of super interesting news items.  We discuss the future of New Orleans in a time of Sea Level rise, getting amphibians across the road safely during mating season, food insecurity amidst transit deserts, the importance of

This week on the Talking Headways podcast, we’re joined by Stephanie Dockery to discuss the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge. Stephanie discusses how a bus art can get a cult following, how artists are creating attention in their cities with temporary art, and what happens after the projects disappear. Find the Bloomberg Connects art app

We’re doing a bit of a crossover episode this week as I wanted to do two things, promote the amazing podcast The Brake hosted by Kea Wilson at Streetsblog USA and Dr. Anat Caspi at The University of Washington and her work focused on creating a platform that inventories Washington State’s sidewalks. This is a

This week on the Talking Headways Podcast we’re joined by Arizona State Professor Benjamin Fong to discuss an item he wrote in Urban Omnibus entitled Where’s My Package? We discuss his work trying to suss out how e-commerce companies like Amazon have built their logistics systems and the difficulties of last mile deliveries. Benjamin also

This week we’re Han Solo, but have a lot of great news items to share including SRO legislation, Japan’s rail expertise, the idea of onboarding residents to a city, and the quiet that came from the solar eclipse. Below are the show notes including links to the articles that we discussed.

We’ve been thinking a lot lately about Marchetti’s constant, the idea that people will spend an hour commuting each day, or half an hour each way and adjust lives accordingly based on transportation technologies and housing location choices. Two research papers posted today feed into that with interesting results. Using data from the Canadian Mobility

This week on the Talking Headways Podcast we’re joined by Tom Flood, Grant Ennis, and Brent Toderian to discuss their new communications project, The Urban Truth Collective. We discuss pushing back on falsehoods and conspiracies through positive messaging around cities. Listen to this episode at Streetsblog USA. Find all our past episodes here. Below is

I love this superhero introduction story to a parking enforcement officer. Grant Nakamura may not be motorists favorite officer, but his valor in the theater of public rights of way as portrayed by Sacramento Bee writer Ariane Lange is now the stuff of legend. A true Shoupista whether he knows it or not. Of course

This week on The Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Calvin Thigpen of Toole Design and Ysabel Hoogeveen of Upway to discuss a report entitled Refurbished E-bikes: An Affordable Transportation Solution for Cities and Consumers. We chat about costs for used e-bikes and what could help grow the industry. You can listen to this episode