A Podcast for the Sinking City
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River Runs Backwards
By Cicada Radio
4.9
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How many episodes does River Runs Backwards have?
The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.
River Runs Backwards episodes:
September 04, 2023Special Episode! Empowering Communities Through Podcast Engagement Special Episode: Join Devin and a panel of audio media experts at the 2022 American Planning Association - Louisiana State Conference as they explore the "Power of Podcasting for Public Engagement". Learn podcasting techniques, its impact on public interest, and effective audience connection and how to apply all of this to the practice of Urban Planning.
...more May 26, 2023PLANNER POP: Urban Morphology II In Part 2 of Urban Morphology, we look at the agents of change. Who is responsible for destroying the Back O’ Town neighborhood and erecting a City Hall there that no one wants to use? Find out on this edition of “Planner Pop” from River Runs Backwards.
...more April 08, 2023PLANNER POP: Urban Morphology Back-O-Town was a vibrant, black neighborhood in New Orleans that gave birth to jazz. Today it is an area mostly filled of void spaces and a city hall that mayor’s have begged to abandon. How did it come to be this way? Tune into this edition of Planner Pop.
...more June 30, 2022Planter Box III: We're Just Going to Have to Learn to Live With Water Planter Ludo, designed by 1st Place Winner, Estephania Barajas, is a self-watering planter, focused to meet the height and accessibility of the most vulnerable: children, the elderly, and the disabled. Using the same trapezoid shape, planter Ludo encourages the essence of play and allows for a system that is simple, modular, and flexible. The goal and the ambition was to make a planter that can create more interesting and fun spaces; a planter that can grab a child's attention while simultaneously informing and explain its own operational components - an intersection of education and play.
...more March 22, 2022Planter Box II: Sustainability & Specificity of Place Lesley Conroy is a Landscape Architect and the second place winner of the NOLA Water Collaborative's Planter Box Challenge! Food insecurity and flooding are issues that will only be solved if the opportunities to address them are widely implemented. This planter system is revolutionary because it can be executed successfully, distributed easily, is accessible to many users, and brings joy. The design limits barriers to implementation, with dimensions that could be shipped more easily, maneuvered without equipment, and accessed from all sides. Lower production costs and quick set-up make these more likely to be used and will more quickly address these two issues....more February 26, 2022Planter Box I: Everybody Can Come to the Gumbo Box and Garden Like a good gumbo, this planter feeds your body and soul. As intense weather patterns and food insecurity batter our cities, Gumbo Box rises to meet new climate challenges by increasing accessibility to home-grown food, encouraging community connections, and reducing runoff by capturing rainwater. During heavy rain events water is stored in a double reservoir system preventing flooding in the planting bed. Long periods of drought are combated with capillary watering tubes. This sub-irrigation minimalizes wasted water evaporating from the surface....more June 25, 20212 Pumped 2 Curious We’re back, and this time, we’re 2. Join us for completely authentic vintage public service announcements and a face-melting jaunt across time in this episode of River Runs Backwards!
...more May 20, 2021FOR YOUR EARS ONLY Hey there, Cicadacateers! We’ve finally got some exclusive material for you dropping only on the Patreon feed! O, what’s that? How do you become a Cicadacateer? We’re glad you asked. Just visit our Patreon and pledge at least $1 per month. That’s it! You’ll have access to ALL premium content NETWORK WIDE, we’ll send you select items from our Swag Store from time to time, and coming soon, all Cicadacateers will receive an enamel BROOD BADGE! You definitely want these plump perks, but maybe most importantly, you want the smug satisfaction of knowing that you, dear listener, are an essential component of bringing the valuable work done by everyone at Cicada Radio into the world. We can’t do it without your support, so please, become a Cicadacateer today. We love you....more March 08, 2021Get Pumped It was a dark and stormy night on August 5, 2017. Way to stormy for the outdated flood resilience infrastructure in the city of New Orleans. This is River Runs Backwards, and in our inaugural episode we explore why the failure of the pumps and the Sewerage and Water Board may not be the only reason this city increasingly floods disastrously. Join urban planner, Devin Foil, and producer, Asher Griffith, and get ready to Get Pumped.
...more March 08, 2021Trailer A Podcast for the Sinking City
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FAQs about River Runs Backwards:
How many episodes does River Runs Backwards have?
The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.