This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by journalist Megan Kimble to talk about housing and highway fights in Texas. We chat about TXDOT’s political pressure, the organizations fighting back, and how throughput remains king. To listen to this episode, go to Streetsblog USA or our Libsyn archive. Below is a full unedited transcript:

This week we’re joined by Broward MPO Executive Director Greg Stuart to talk about the history of Broward County, it’s connections to the rest of South Florida, the historic MAPS transportation plan, and how they are dealing with potential sea level rise and impacts of the pandemic. This episode was produced in partnership with Rail~Volution.

This week on Mondays we cover a ton of ground including Transportation Insecurity, putting retail away from arterial streets, pattern book building, bad intersections, forced flood buyouts and much more! Check out links in the show notes below:

This week we’re joined by Billie Giles-Corti, Director of the Healthy Livable Cities Lab at RMIT,  Melanie Lowe of the University of Melbourne, and Geoff Boeing of USC to talk about their papers in The Lancet Global Health series on Urban Design, Transport, and Health. They chat about the importance of walkability to public health,

This week on the show I’m Han Solo again, but that won’t stop us from covering interesting news about cities from around the world!  We chat about Phoenix’s ancient canals, some of California’s potential new laws, Black migration, and making friends in sprawl. Check out the show links and notes below:

This week we’re joined by Michael E. Smith, Professor of Anthropology and Archeologist at Arizona State’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change.  We talk with Michael about his article in Aeon Magazine entitled Energized Crowding about life in early cities and neighborhoods. To listen to this episode, you can find the show at Streetsblog

When I went into planning I never thought I would be self employed. I thought I’d work for a city or continue in the non-profit world. After my previous job at Reconnecting America, there was a short time where I wondered what I was going to do.  But after a while I started getting emails

This week we’re joined by Nolan Gray to talk about his new book Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. We talk about how cities were regulated before zoning, why state and national reforms are important and why zoning abolition should be the ultimate goal. You can find audio

This week on Mondays we’re playing catch up with stories from the last five weeks of The Overhead Wire newsletter. Dangerous roads, TXDOT skirts environmental rules, young adults stay close to home, Stuttgart’s green corridor and much more. You can find all the links to the stories in the notes below:

This week we’re joined by Kim Cella of Citizens for Modern Transit and Sheila Holm of AARP. to discuss how they are transforming transit stops in St. Louis. We chat about how they involve the community, engage transit operators, and bring life to grey spaces. Listen to the episode at Streetsblog USA and our hosting