Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week we’re joined by Dr. Mindy Fullilove, Professor of Urban Policy and Health at The New School, to talk about her book Main Street: How a City’s Heart Connects Us All.  Dr. Fullilove chats about the psychology of place, the strength of weak ties, and how cities are a part of nature. 

This week we’re joined by former Seattle Mayor And Executive Director of America Walks Mike McGinn. Mike chats with us about the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices and why now is the time to speak up in order to make important changes. 

This week we're joined by Joe Cortright of City Observatory and Aaron Brown of No More Freeways to talk about the local fight against freeway expansion through Portland's Rose Quarter.  We chat about the freeway industrial complex, the ping pong of travel forecasting, and what new federal discussions mean for the movement. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Find us at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week we’re joined by Professor Andres Sevtsuk, professor of Urban Science at the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning to talk about his book Street Commerce: Creating More Vibrant Urban Sidewalks. We chat the importance of location in urban retail, the city factors that might determine a store’s success, and why urban retail should be studied more in planning school.

This week on the podcast Chrissy and I go over initial thoughts on the American Jobs Plan and discuss what we think infrastructure means and how we might pay for it. Check out the White House American Jobs Plan fact sheet.

This week we’re joined by Danielle Arigoni,  AARP’s Director of Livable Communities.  Danielle chats with us about how AARP is working in every state to help cities become more age friendly, how the pandemic is affecting older Americans, and how we can think more holistically about aging in place.

This week we’re joined again by Yonah Freemark for the annual prediction show! Yonah chats with us about his new job at the Urban Institute, projects added to his transit inventory, and we make predictions about the coming infrastructure bill. 

This week on the show we are Solo again but have no fear, we keep it short and fun and topical.  FHWA asks TXDOT to halt I-45 work, we need more missing LARGE housing, and we're running out of sand! FHWA Asks Texas to halt I-45 Expansion - Houston Public Media Missing Large Housing - Alfred Twu The urban river swimming renaissance - Pop Up City A crisis of sand - Deutche Welle Should peds wear AV vests? Tree Hugger (NO) Cities could lose Metro status - AP   Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show at http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire  

This week we’re joined by Karel Martens, Associate Professor of Architecture and Town Planning at Technion – Isreal Insitute of Technology.  Karel talks with us about the philosophy underpinning the idea of sufficient accessibility and how he got to the idea in his book Transport Justice.

This week, Angie Rivera-Malpiede, Board Chair of the Regional Transportation District in Denver talks with Cindy Chavez, Former Board Chair of the VTA and Current Santa Clara County Supervisor.  These Latina leaders chat about getting communities involved in transportation and leadership.