This week on Mondays at the Overhead Wire we’re joined once again by Chrissy Mancini Nichols and Tracy McMillan to tackle a whole host of topics including the connection between VMT and safety, chrono urbanism, how navigating cities protects your brain, and Austin’s housing construction success. Check out the show notes below:
This week we’re joined by Vanessa Cooksey, President and CEO of the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis and Chris Hansen, Executive Director at Kranzberg Arts Foundation. We chat about growth and investment in St. Louis’ Grand Center Arts District and talk about the people that make it work. We also discuss ensuring that the
Numerous freight and trust deregulation laws of the 1970s and 80s led to the consolidation of businesses and emergence of big box stores. The changes mirrored suburban housing growth as land use became more spread out. But consolidation and monopolization increased and e-commerce companies gained market share. Now even less tied to physical location due
This week I’m joined by Jeremy Wells to discuss his book Managing the Magic of Old Places: Crafting Public Policies for People-Centered Historic Preservation. We chat the impact of old places on people’s emotions and the current state of the preservation profession. We also discuss the struggle in the field to legitimize the impact of
Where does the time go? It’s drained or bolstered by our built environment. It’s also a mechanism we don’t look much into considering that it’s often undervalued as a planning principle. How long does it take to get somewhere? What does that mean for the rest of your day? How does that impact your stress
This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we chat about Zurich’s green roofs, zoning at 100, RTD’s missing service, and Madison’s electric bus lessons. This and much much more. Below are links to the items we discussed on the show: Main News FRA’s potential shakeup – The Travel Zurich’s climate shield – Reasons to
This week we’re joined once again by Yonah Freemark. In Part 2, we talk about our predictions from last year and what we got right and wrong on high speed rail and transportation funding, then we make new ones for the coming year that include Seattle and Mexico. Listen in to the episode at Streetsblog
Listening to a recent episode of the Look Both Ways podcast with David Zipper and Wes Marshall connected me with some things I’d been thinking about lately, mainly the value proposition for certain transportation related to its location. In the episode they talk about why they believe robotaxis/autonomous vehicles, in the context of rural areas, would
Our good friend Anna Zivarts has an Op-Ed in The Urbanist discussing how urban highways reduce most trip times for drivers and make using transit a slower choice. Additionally, investing in car infrastructure begets more cars. She asks that the new mayor make a directive that weaves the reduction of VMT into project planning and
This week we’re joined once again by Yonah Freemark to discuss the state of transit in the US and around the world. In Part 1, we talk about the longer term impacts of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, improving TOD, what the future of transportation should look like, and discuss updates to Transit Explorer. Listen to
