Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week we chat with Professor Deborah Salon of Arizona State about location value capture. Deborah talks about the difference between location and land value capture and we go over the main points of a research study on the subject she wrote with several colleagues. We also chat about where location value capture shouldn't be used and whether certain mechanisms such as TIF take too much value for individual projects.

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire Anna Muessig of Gehl joins to chat about her trip to Australia, Minneapolis 2040, and we have fun discussing mobility monopolies. Below are links to stories we talked about this week. News Modern Trains - Streetsblog USA New York considers banning cashless business - Guardian Death of Montreal Bagels? Globe and Mail Story of the Week Minneapolis' radical rezoning - Curbed Lina Hidalgo to run Harris County - New York Magazine Spotlight New Mobility Becoming the Amazon of Transport - The Conversation Puppies and Butterflies The first condo - Price Tags

This week we're joined by Dr. Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California, and Director of USC’s Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) and the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII). We chat about a broad range of topics including the Environmental Justice Screening Method and how that research was turned into California environmental policy. The importance of community organizing in getting agreement for legislation, his new book The State of Resistance, as well as his views on rent control as public policy.   This episode was first aired at Rail~Volution.org

This week on Mondays we talk about closing down the GM plant in Youngstown Ohio, climate change, more on housing, and Virgin Trains USA.  We have a bit of a technical issue but hopefully you still enjoy the show.  Below are links to the items we discussed. News Three Big Climate Takeaways - Vox All Cash Purchases Must be Disclosed - 6sqft Trump Administration floats sharing census information with law enforcement - Washington Post Story of the Week Why affordable housing is scarce in progressive cities - Curbed $17 trillion could be saved with compact development - WRI Spotlight New Mobility Bright line will change name to Virgin Trains - Miami Herald Puppies and Butterflies Bruce Hallman and the SF Faces - Mission Local

This week we talk about Baby Boomer housing, Amazon, and decriminalization of transit fares. News Decriminalizing Fare Evasion - The Hill Autonomous Delivery Vehicles - Fast Company Amazon Won't Save Your Town - New York Times Story of the Week Baby Boomers Not Buying Homes - MNN Spotlight New Mobility Portland's Little Big Shift - Sightline Puppies and Butterflies Sharing a home with older residents - Guardian

This week we're joined by Professor Ralph Buehler of Virginia Tech who talks with us about the German transport concept of Verkehrsverbund (VV). The word translated to English means "transport network".  We discuss where the first VV was formed and how more integrated systems could make transport in the United States more efficient and connected. There's also a discussion about docked bike share as well as how we can think about mobility as a service platforms in the future and their relationship to existing transport systems. 

This week we're joined by Chrissy Mancini Nichols to talk about the election, scooter data, and cities from scratch. Below are some of the pieces we covered... News Clickwork in Nairobi - BoingBoing Rep. Peter DeFazio sees a bill - Washington Post Scooter corrals in Santa Monica - LA Streetsblog Atlanta approves the gulch - Curbed Atlanta Story of the Week Cities and scooter data - Wired Nevada and the bitcoin city - NY Times Cities from scratch - Bloomberg

This week on the podcast, Kate Sofis, CEO of SFMade joins us to talk about the resurgence in urban manufacturing.  We talk about what types of goods are manufactured in cities like San Francisco, the zoning codes that allow manufacturing to thrive in strong housing markets, and how cities have changed the narrative on manufacturing in more urban locales. 

This week the team talks about voting and San Francisco's fight between billionaire's over homelessness measures. We chat about how in Estonia you can keep your data and more about MIT's Moral Machine experiment asking people around the world about the trolley problem. Here are the articles we covered... Moral Machine - MIT Technology Review Billionaire War - Wired Magazine Own Your Own Data - Smart Cities World Platform Urbanism and Walled Gardens - Fast Company   Also visit our sponsor - moovel More News Items Electric Delivery - Seattle Times Rise in TNC Traffic - Tech Crunch Cars Still Banned from the Seine - CityLab  

This week California State Senator Scott Wiener joins us to talk about a number of issues near and dear to our heart including housing and transportation. We talk about what's holding California housing back and several of his bills that address this in the Senate including SB35 as well as the potential return next year of SB827 which would upzone housing near frequent transit. We also chat about the potential for state level discussions on congestion pricing as well as a far future idea of getting transit alignments right.