We Built It That Way

In this episode we're talking shade in cities. The good kind! Why don't we have enough of it?

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Want to read more on this episode’s topic? Here’s just a short list of interesting resources:

• Shade (Places Journal)
• Impact of shade on outdoor thermal comfort—a seasonal field study in Tempe, Arizona
• 22 Benefits of Urban Street Trees by Dan Burden
• Urban Trees and Human Health: A Scoping Review
• Some city trees may discourage 'shady' behavior; Study explores relationship between urban trees and crime
• Quantifying the shade provision of street trees in urban landscape: A case study in Boston, USA, using Google Street View
• Homeowner Interactions with Residential Trees in Urban Areas
• The benefits of trees for livable and sustainable communities
• How glass buildings are making fighting climate change harder
• Shade in the City
• The High Cost of Urban MonoculturesParks and Recreation Learn About Phoenix's Urban Forest
• Tree & Shade Plan Development Resources
• Killer Heat in the United States: The Future of Dangerously Hot Days (Map)
• On Fences, Plazas, and Latino Urbanism: A Conversation with James Rojas
• Weather Related Fatality and Injury Statistics
• Talking Headways Podcast: The Heat is On (featuring Dr. V. Kelly Turner)
• Tree Thinking

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In our first episode, we take a look at crossing the street. Why is it so frequently a dangerous and uncomfortable activity? What does street design reveal about our priorities as a society? And what does this all mean for us as humans? 

Join us as we barely scratch the surface on these questions! 

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Want to read more on this episode’s topic? Here’s just a short list of interesting resources:

• Quoted in the show: Should Law Subsidize Driving? by Gregory H. Shill
• Fighting Traffic (book) by Peter Norton
• Right of Way (book) by Angie Schmitt
• Street crossing behavior in younger and older pedestrians: an eye- and head-tracking study
• Collective behavior in road crossing pedestrians: the role of social information
• Human Factors Assessment of Pedestrian Roadway Crossing Behavior
• Road Safety Fundamentals Unit 2: Human Behavior and Road Safety
• Exploring the Pedestrian's Behaviors in Crossing the Street Based on Gender
• On the Psychology of Crossing The Street
• Why Did the Human Cross the Road? To Confuse the Self-Driving Car
• The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"
• Jaywalking: How the car industry outlawed crossing the road
• The secret history of jaywalking: The disturbing reason it was outlawed — and why we should lift the ban
• The (Classist, Racist) History of Jaywalking
• “Adam Ruins Everything” Explains the Origins of “Jaywalking”
• Three Turning Restrictions Cities Need To Put On Drivers
• STUDY: How Race and Income Impact Road Safety in Oregon

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Two and a half minutes of us trying to convince you to subscribe to our new show!

And by us, we mean AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark, your friends who work in urban planning and apparently don't have anything better to do than to nerd out off the clock. But we nerd out in a charming and approachable way. (When you tell your friends and coworkers about this new show, make sure to sell it with exactly those words: "charming and approachable.)

This is a show for curious people, where we'll question why the built environment is built the way it is, and what it says about who we are.

Here is your homework between now and next week:

• Subscribe now to make sure you don't miss out on Episode 1, coming Friday, October 8.
• Follow us on Twitter (for now). Send us instructions about how to create a TikTok and also what is Tiktok? ;)
• Tell literally every single person in your life that their life is about to change forever, and when they ask why, text them the link to our show page and slink off mysteriously. (That last part helps to build the buzz, probably.)

Music is from: Sounds of the Supermarket