Houston is becoming more Democratic, more tolerant, and more secular. The Kinder Institute's Leah Binkovitz speaks with Dr. Stephen Klineberg about the findings of the 2016 Kinder Houston Area Survey.

Outgoing Houston Mayor Annise Parker sat down with Urban Edge host Ryan Holeywell to discuss the city's pensions, the local economy, and her future aspirations.

Kinder Institute transportation expert Kyle Shelton explains the role that infrastructure plays in protests. Then, senior editor Ryan Holeywell interviews Canadian artist Steve McDonald about his new adult coloring book featuring architecture from around the world.

A special two-part episode highlights two recent Urban Edge articles. First, Andrew Keatts explores why the bicycling community often fails to pay attention to its most vulnerable members. Then, Ryan Holeywell discusses his recent trip inside Houston's Astrodome, which has sat vacant for 16 years.

Gabe Klein has an unusual resume: he is perhaps the only person to have served as the head of two big city transportation departments. Before his work heading the transportation agencies in Washington, D.C. and Chicago, he worked with start-ups like Zipcar and a food truck business. He discusses his new book "Start-Up City," which features advice on what government can learn from business.

The Kinder Institute's Kyle Shelton interviews James Longhurst, author of the new book "Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road." Longhurst, a professor at University of Wisconsin -- La Crosse, explains how the history of bicycles (and the policy decisions surrounding them) will affect the future of roadway development.

In the first-ever Urban Edge podcast, Ryan Holeywell interviews Emily Ryder Perlmeter about "colonias," Texas communities that lack infrastructure like paved roads and running water. Perlmeter, a researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, has spent the last few years researching these communities. The Urban Edge podcast is produced by Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research.