Walter Clapp, the founder and Director of Community Adaptation, LLC discusses the challenges facing our power grid & how we can better design our cities through the use of biomimicry.

Walter Clapp on Biomimicry and the Power Grid

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Brent Toderian joins us to discuss his former role as Vancouver's Chief Planner and some of the challenges facing cities.

Brent Toderian on His Former Role as Vancouver's Chief Planner

Patrick Duggan and Stuart Andrews discuss a research project in New Orleans to study how arts and culture contribute to the resiliency of cities.

Patrick Duggan and Stuart Andrews on Art and City Resilience

When it comes to the government-citizen relationship, there's often a disconnect between the voices and desires of residents and the actions taking place on a municipal level. Ryan Undercoffer, the founder of Citizen Guidebook discusses methods that can be used to help heal the divide between residents and officials.

Ryan Undercoffer on the Government-Citizen Relationship

Jeff Speck, planner and author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America One Step at a Time, joins me to discuss the benefits and challenges of shared space street design, which is a concept developed by Dutch traffic engineer Hans Monderman.

Walter Clapp on Biomimicry and the Power Grid

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