Earlier this month we shared a NYT article about what cities get or haven’t got out of the Olympic games since Barcelona. That city famously revitalized its waterfront in 1992 and regenerated different parts of the city in an attempt to create lasting improvements. They are still building on that success. Since then many cities

This week on the Talking Headways podcast swe’re joined by Nico Larco, Director of the Urbanism Next Center at the University of Oregon. We chat about his new book with Kaarin Knudson, The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook as well as a realization about how most of what we do in the United States seems to

Last week I got a nice break and was able to hang out with my family on the central California coast. It’s a place I haven’t spent much time but wish to spend more in the future. I’ve lived in Bakersfield and San Francisco and have visited a lot of the state, but despite decades

This week we’re jumping back in time to visit Talking Headways episode 285 featuring Professor Germaine Halegoua discussing her book The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place. It’s one of my favorite book discussions ever and I thought it would be a nice episode to revisit. In this episode, Germaine talks about

This week on Talking Headways we have a conversation moderated by Corrie Parrish of Kittleson Associates with Andrea Breault of Cascades East Transit and Amy Schlappi of Hood River County Transportation District discussing Transit service to the Great Outdoors. This podcast was produced in partnership with Mpact. For more information, go to http://mpactmobility.org To listen

This week we’re joined by Chris Redfearn of USC and Anthony Orlando of Cal Poly Pomona to discuss their paper – Houston, you have a problem: How large cities accommodate more housing. We talk about why “pro-business” Texas housing markets are catching up to “pro-regulation” California and what it might mean for future city growth. To

On our most recent Mondays Show with Chrissy Mancini Nichols of Walker Consultants we talked about the most interesting news shared here at the newsletter over the last few weeks. As we were discussing Japan’s big idea for a massive freight conveyor belt between Osaka and Tokyo, Chrissy brought up something interesting I don’t think

This week on Mondays Chrissy Mancini-Nichols is back! We talk about universal basic mobility, cool corridors, Japan’s idea for a massive underground freight conveyor belt and freight’s first mile last mile problem, health problems caused by a Texas bitcoin mine, and USDOT’s push for emissions reductions. Chrissy also mentioned commenting on the PROWAG regulations Also

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

I want to circle back to something that was posted Monday on a rent cap proposal and discussed more yesterday. I see a lot of hand wringing over the policy of rent control generally on social media so I wanted to jump in and see what the idea is overall. First there are a lot