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The Overhead Wire Daily | June 20th, 2024 | Interconnected Risks

June 20, 2024

I share a lot of Susan Crawford’s items from her substack Moving Day because it really is sounding an alarm on the issues climate change will soon make us reckon with. Today she’s shares a study that looks at how insurance costs have gone up since 2020 in areas that are at high risk of



The Overhead Wire Daily | June 19th, 2024 | Killer Rabbits

Projects dead or dying strewn everywhere. All attacked by killer rabbits. That would be my title if I had to characterize the absurdities that are happening in New York and now Houston. I can only make Monty Python references at this point because my disappointment is high and I need something funny to arrest the


The Overhead Wire | June 18th, 2024 | Sprawl Anyways

June 18, 2024

Two things we’re thinking about today. First, we’ve been talking and sharing a lot about the insurance industry and the impacts of climate change on housing markets. We’ve also discussed car insurance and the rising expense of cars and increased exposure to collisions. So today, Lloyd Alter discusses why cars should be designed for disassembly



The Overhead Wire Daily | June 11th, 2024 | Out of Room

An article in the Las Vegas Review Journal noted that local home builders believe that there’s only 8 years of land available for building in the region. It was the source of jokes on Twitter because the idea that these home builders couldn’t go vertical was quite funny to many posters. But it is an


The Overhead Wire Daily | June 11th, 2024 | Car Insurance

June 11, 2024

The (de)congestion pricing saga continues as MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber has held a press conference and seemingly pushed back on Governor Hochul’s last minute rug pull by saying the agency isn’t giving up on (de)congestion pricing. On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean in Wales, the country’s leading car insurance company has



The Overhead Wire Daily | June 6th, 2024 | (De)congestion Deflated

June 6, 2024

Well that blew up today’s news… Yesterday New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that she was going to kill (de)congestion pricing just a month before the first toll would have been collected. The $15 toll to enter Manhattan below 60th street would likely revolutionize transportation policy in not just New York City but North America


(Unedited) Podcast Transcript 486: The Computable City

June 5, 2024

This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Michael Batty, Professor of Planning at the University College London. We chat about his book The Computable City: Histories, Technologies, Stories, Predictions which includes histories of computing, smart city critiques, what the discourse on AI should really be about, and discussions on the future of urban forms.


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