This week we chat with Melanie Piana, the Mayor of Ferndale Michigan.  We chat about her city’s Woodward Avenue road diet, the city’s bike plans, and how parking is part of too many urban issues. OOO  Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire  Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!  And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at  Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com 

Episode 436: Fabulous Ferndale Michigan

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This week we’re joined once again by Jarrett Walker to talk about the release of the  revised edition of his influential book Human Transit.  We chat about Ursula Le Guin, expanding access to opportunity, how to think about transit riders, the free transit movement and thoughts on anger as a response to change. *** Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Follow us on Threads or Instagram @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!  And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at  Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

Episode 483: An Update to Human Transit

This week we're Han Solo but have a lot of news to cover including items on skateboarding, new types of segregation, third places, and some ancient ways to cool cities and streets.  Check out the show notes below for more information.  Notes: Skateboarding -  Reasons to be Cheerful Cityhood -  Corner Side Yard Cleveland rail competitors -  NEOtrans Third Places -  Vox Second Best -  Bloomberg CityLab Access Maps -  New Urban Order Ancient water tunnels -  Al Jazeera Like two mortgages - Moving Day Brightline to Vegas -  Smart Cities Dive Agglomeration after pandemic -  Business Insider Bonus Items Harnessing land -  Los Angeles Times Interstate speed limits -  Streetsblog USA Taiwan urban mining -  Time Magazine Zoning rule in CA shut down -  Los Angeles Times Taxes raised for child care -  Associated Press CO gas truce for transit funds -  CPR Cincinnati Solar Array -  WVXU E-bikes reduce VMT -  CTV News CA TX on same path - Real Estate Economics Journal OOO *** Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Follow us on Threads or Instagram @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!  And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at  Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

Episode 152: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Ancient Ways of Water Infrastructure

This week we’re joined by Megan Kimble to talk about her book  City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways. We chat about the folks fighting back against highways, the history behind building big roads, and what the future looks like for advocacy. *** Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Follow us on Threads or Instagram @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!  And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at  Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

Episode 482: Highway Fighting in Texas

This week were sharing part 2 of our discussion with Jim Kumon. We chat about the challenges of development, how to crowdfund a building, coming to the end of an 80 year economic cycle, how the built environment is an outcome of how we structure capital, and how more information can make it harder to learn new things. Some websites of note: Electric Housing Incremental Development Alliance Passive House Crowdfund  ***  Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Follow us on Threads @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!  And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at  Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com    

Episode 481: Money is a Lot of Different Things

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're joined by Tracy McMillan to talk about aging in place, Nashville's big transit plan, potential Alzheimer's causes in car exhaust, Milan's famous weeks, and the Colorado legislature's search for more housing and TOD.  Articles Aging in place - New York Times Nashville's transit plans - Nashville Tennessean Alzheimer's and car exhaust - Clean Technica Colorado density laws - Colorado Politics Milan's commercial weeks - Domus Web ***  Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Follow us on Threads & Instagram @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!  And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at  Tee-Public! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com 

Episode 436: Fabulous Ferndale Michigan

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