This episode we’re joined by Rob Goodspeed, Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan. Rob joins us to talk about his new book Scenario Planning for Cities and Regions. We chat about early origins of scenario planning, planning vs forecasting, and metrics used to compare scenario effectiveness.

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This week on the podcast we have a bunch of things to chat about!

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This is the full edited transcript for part 2 of our interview with Josh Stephens.

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Below is the full edited and cleaned transcript for our discussion with Josh Stephens.

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This week on the show Tracy McMillan joins us to talk about her move to Phoenix, what we’re up to during the pandemic, and flood maps!

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This week we’re joined by Kevin DeGood, Director of Infrastructure Policy at the Center for American Progress.  We talk about the bill that just got out of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and will be going to the full house.  We also have a couple of odds and ends as usual.

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Below is the full edited transcript for Episode 289. Thanks so much for reading and listening.

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This week on Mondays, Chrissy joins the show to talk about transit solutions amid coronavirus. We’re thinking about the reasons why people fear transit, why they shouldn’t, and what agencies can do to protect riders and workers.

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Below is a full transcript of my discussion with Germaine Halegoua about her book The Digital City.  Hope folks enjoy this one, a must read/listen if you’re going to do any digital outreach or organizing.

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We’ve got a cool new tool we hope folks enjoy.  We have the audio of the podcast connected to the transcript. Hopefully this is useful for folks.  This is a full edited transcript for Talking Headways Episode 287.

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We’re joined by journalist Conor Dougherty to talk about his book Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America.  Conor talks about growing up in San Francisco, his literary inspirations for the book, and the arc of some of the real characters in his book.

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This week I didn’t want to say much because at this time people don’t need to listen to me talk right now.  But I did want to share some of the voices and speeches given by black mayors. CityLab put together a piece with quotes and I took the audio so you could hear their voices.

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We’re chatting with Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner about the city’s Complete Communities program, which seeks to coordinate each city department to support historically under-resourced neighborhoods. The full transcript can be found after the break.

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This week we’re joined by Chrissy Mancini Nichols to talk about some of the solutions cities are discussing to help businesses out during the Coronavirus.  You can view the un-edited full transcript here.

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This is the full transcript for Talking Headways Episode 281.

We’re joined by Warren Logan, Policy Director of Mobility and Inter Agency Relations for the City of Oakland. Warren talks with us about Oakland’s Coronavirus response including how they came up with initiatives to respond to the crisis and some of the specific implementations such as the Slow Streets Initiative.  We dive deep into public engagement and how to think about coordination between different departments in new ways.

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The complete transcript for Episode 279 is below the fold…

We’re joined by Gail Nehls and Leslie Patterson of Envida, a nonprofit transportation and home care organization. We chat about how transportation can help those with behavioral health concerns such as opioid addictions and schizophrenia, how innovation can change people’s health outcomes, and the systems people need in rural areas to thrive.

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This week on the podcast Tracy McMillan of Nelson Nygaard and Chrissy Mancini Nichols of Walker Consultants join the show to talk about density and the coronavirus. Though we end up talking more about institutions because density, while a big current topic, isn’t in our minds why the virus is spreading.

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This week on Mondays Chrissy Mancini Nichols joins the show to talk in more detail about the pandemic and slow streets. We take a bit of a deeper dive on the subject and think about how physical distancing might be a good metric for thinking about streets and  for people and commerce.

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We’ve been posting transcripts to our podcast episodes after we clean them up.  Click through for a full transcript of the episode below.

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This week we chat about racial disparities in Coronavirus deaths, the coming housing crunch, and have some fun naming the Western States Pact.

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We’ve been putting out a few transcripts for the podcasts so if folks like to read them they can get them easier. Follow below for the full transcript.

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Here’s a full transcript of episode 277 with City of Boston Transportation Planer Lindiwe Rennert.

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Tracy joins the show again to chat about pandemic economics, e-bikes in New York, and infrastructure spending.

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This week on the show Tracy McMillan joins to talk about the recovery bill, HEB logistics, and why pigeons win the urban bird game.

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This week Shut Ins Local #101 meets again to talk about quick transportation thinking from Seattle and Bogota while discussing urban design in the time of a pandemic.

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