This week we’re back live for another show from Manny’s in the Mission featuring Streetsblog SF editor Roger Rudick interviewing California High Speed Rail Authority CEO Ian Choudri. They chat about reducing costs, systems in other countries, and take questions from the audience. You can listen to this episode first at Streetsblog USA, or find

This week Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon of the War on Cars podcast join the show to talk about their new book: Life After Cars – Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile. We discuss opposing views, Turtle Jesus, and potential offramps towards car free cities. Listen to this episode first at Streetsblog USA

I’ve been thinking more about the trip to China and especially the high speed rail of it all. I’m also about to dive into a new book I was able to get while I was there published by the Chinese State Railway but wanted to think a bit more on what I wanted to bring

This week on Talking Headways we’re flashing back to exactly ten years ago to Episode 78 with Dr. Kevin Gurney, now at Northern Arizona University. We chat about measuring emissions at the street, block, and neighborhood level and the data that enables it. I wanted to flash back to this one this week because I

The second tier Chinese cities I’ve visited are very different from mid-sized metros in the United States. Obviously with so much more population that’s going to be true, but especially in terms of things like retail. I saw a number of smaller cities and villages from the train, but my experience with the larger second-tier

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Ben Donsky of Agora Partners to discuss City Walk BHAM in Birmingham Alabama, a public space project that connects two sides of the city separated by a highway. We chat about positive public space, doing something instead of nothing, and what it takes to make

There are many important parts of the intersection between public health and planning but one I haven’t seen discussed much is sleep. People have all kinds of different sleeping patterns but society generally caters to the early birds over the night owls. I’m not bitter. Scientists in Japan now have found a way sleep is

We’re Han Solo again but this time I’m sharing some thoughts from my trip to China in addition to the news.  We’ve got stories about traffic lights in Japan, the creation of a new electric company, and housing costs. And of course there’s much much more. Below are the show notes:   Middle class housing

This week we’re joined by Adele Houghton of the Harvard School of Public Health and Carlos Castillo-Salgado of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to discuss their new book Architectural Epidemiology: Architecture as a Mechanism for Designing a Healthier, More Sustainable, and Resilient World. We chat about how to connect the social and

The traffic here in China is pretty crazy. In Beijing, there are 6 million vehicles for a city of 22 million people that is much denser than western cities. On the ring roads there is traffic most of the day in certain spots even though people have access to the largest subway in the world