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We’re on vacation this week but we’re flashing back to episode 422 of Talking Headways from a couple of years ago featuring one of our favorites, Jennifer Kent. We’ll be back in a few weeks but I hope folks enjoy this one. This week we’re joined by  Dr. Jennifer Kent, Senior Research Fellow in Urbanism

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast, Steve Davis of Smart Growth America joins the show to talk about their most recent edition of Dangerous by Design. We chat about where we stand on pedestrian traffic deaths in the United States, the data collected to tell the story, and creating consequences for not improving safety.

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A few weeks ago I got to chat with Bill Fulton about a number of topics on the podcast but one that continues to stick out to me is how urban growth and change around the country is clashing with any number of current trends from the silver tsunami to work from home. Along with the

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