Urbanism Speakeasy

Urbanism Speakeasy episodes:

• 10.04.2016

  Seeing better cities through your urban diary, with Chuck Wolfe

  More than street photography. Chuck’s latest book is Seeing the Better City: How to Explore, Observe, and Improve Urban Space [pre-order on Amazon]. He loves street photography, but Chuck’s not interested in persuading us to amass a digital photo album just...

  
• 08.25.2016

  Persuading people to embrace multimodal systems, with David Sands

  Bike Detroit? If we’re playing word association, you say Detroit, I’m gonna say cars. David Sands joins the podcast to talk about transportation advocacy – basically how to get people motivated to improve their communities. He’s a journalist who’s been working...

  
• 07.30.2016

  Anthropology (the fine art of people watching), with Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman

  The relationship between cities and hinterlands Katrina likes to figure out what makes people tick. More specifically, she’s intrigued by how people interact with the built and natural environment. How do we translate the old hunter/gatherer habits into modern contexts?...

  
• 03.20.2016

  Connection between street design and public health

  Street design didn’t give me the flu, but it does contribute to my health. It impacts all of us, whether or not we realize it.   Active Living – it’s not just for health nuts I enjoy walking and riding...

  
• 10.19.2015

  Bicycling as transportation, with Don Kostelec

  Warning: Don shares my bias for streets that are safe and comfortable for people of all ages. In other words, he’s not part of the modern infrastructure cult that is so good at destroying communities across America. Like so many...

  
• 07.02.2015

  Give mom a bike lane, with Dena Driscoll & Marni Duffy

  The Twitterverse. A vast expanse where I have connected with all sorts of great people. Dena Driscoll and Marni Duffy are two such people. I’m pretty sure it was Dena who first caught my attention with a photo of her young...

  
• 06.26.2015

  Convincing politicians to do the right thing, with Kevin Posey

  If you keep quiet, they’ll assume you agree. Kevin Posey is an advocate for sustainable transportation policy. He lives in Alexandria, VA (just outside Washington, DC). It’s a city that has a lot of great streets and architecture, but like...

  
• 04.09.2015

  How traffic engineers predict the future, with Adam Millard-Ball

  Adam Millard-Ball is an assistant professor at the University of California in Santa Cruz. Before that, Adam worked as a transportation planner. So naturally, one of his focus areas of academic research is derived from his experiences. We’re going to focus on an...

  
• 03.10.2015

  Steps to designing great places, with Howard Blackson

  “So do you sell your work on Etsy?” Howard Blackson is probably best described as a placemaker. A what? For you planners or engineers out there, that’s a familiar term. Have you looked around LinkedIn recently? Even place-destroyers are using...

  
• 01.27.2015

  When bicycling makes you invisible to motorists, with Robert Wright

  The Invisible Visible Man Robert Wright is the U.S. industry correspondent for the Financial Times. A journalist! He wasn’t trained to be a road designer or a pro-bike lobbyist. So why feature him on Urbanism Speakeasy? I think the best...

  
• 08.13.2014

  New Urbanism Film Festival, with creators Josh & Joel

  Josh Paget is a comedian living in Los Angeles. Joel Karahadian is a musician and doesn’t always wear socks. These guys created the New Urbanism Film Festival – an event to showcase films about the built environment and its connection to human...

  
• 07.03.2014

  Designing community streets for people [NPR broadcast]

  Peter Norton was a guest host for WMAR’s Virginia Insights, a regular NPR show. (You may remember hearing Peter interviewed by me in this episode.) Peter invited Fionnula Quinn and me to talk about the connection between transportation networks and community...

  
• 02.13.2014

  “In Transit” – a documentary for anyone who’s been stuck in traffic

  Todd Drezner is a New Yorker who wants to create a documentary for anyone who’s ever been stuck in traffic. So I’m going to make the educated guess that if you’re listening to this show, this documentary is for you....

  
• 02.05.2014

  Professional planners guide to tactical urbanism, with Laura Pfeifer

  photo by Laura Pfeifer Laura Pfeifer is an urban planner living in Toronto, Canada. (Ignore what you hear me say on the show. She used to live in Montreal.) She’s been involved in community projects like Park(ing) Day — which is where...