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 living. You’ll hear us talking about their recent Kickstarter project. It closed on July 3, […]

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 life. Or in geek speak: placemaking and livability. Obviously you can’t call in live to […]

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. But here’s the catch. Todd needs help. He launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds, […]

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 parking spaces are temporarily converted to miniature parks — and Jane’s Walk — an event […]