This week the Patricks talk about a recent Courier Journal oped from the CEO of Greater Louisville Inc discussing the impact of NIMBYism on attempts to develop affordable and dense housing in Louisville, followed by a dive into the new Louisville Downtown Revitalization Team's Action Plan for revitalizing downtown, including some ideas for empty offices. 

The Patricks talk about a couple recent articles on making better public spaces and places for teenage girls and women, and then get into Piuma's new piece on his recent trip Cincinnati. 

The Patricks follow up last week's episode on a new direction for downtown, followed by a discussion on how the profession of transportation engineering continues to fail cities, and also a look at the new trial road re-openings for cars in Olmsted's Cherokee and Iroquois parks. 

This week the Patricks talk about what's right and maybe what's wrong with downtown Louisville. 

The Patricks coming at you with another 52 solid minutes of chat. This week they are continuing the discussion on higher density forms of housing and why Louisville doesn't have more of it, a little discussion on what we would do the millions of dollars coming Louisville's way via the federal COVID-19 relief funds for cities, and a discussion on new investigative journalism looking at where all the guns saturating the Metro are coming from. 

The Triple P discuss the idea that Louisville has decided not to be a big city, some of the reasons for the skyrocketing cost of single family housing, the Metropolitan Housing Coalition's new report on evictions during COVID19, and new plans for improving River Road along the Ohio.

Talking with Britt Walford and Todd Brashear of Slint about Louisville in the early 90s

The Pat-bois talk about spring cold snaps, utility companies hacking up streets trees, why can't we bury power lines, Elon Musk's car tunnel fiasco, Electric Vehicles, and they attempt to get into a great article from Henry Grabar in Slate (April 12, 2021), " 'Good Design' Is Making Bad Cities, but it Doesn't Have To"

The Patricks discuss recent revelations on the KY Derby Festival's secret pop up fireworks displays, and consider how cities touting climate action leadership can justify hugely polluting fireworks shows. In the second bit, they talk about efforts to protect unsheltered people in cities and the very high cost of continually clearing camps vs providing services that can help people.

The Pattys talk about keeping Cherokee, Iroquois parks closed to vehicle traffic, recent issues with restaurants not being able to find staff, Biden's expansive new $2 trillion infrastructure proposal, and Amtrack's proposal to expand U.S. passenger rail over the next 15 years.