Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week we're coming to you from the UITP Global Transport Summit in Montreal with guest Projjal Dutta, the Director of Sustainability at the NYMTA. We chat about the idea of transit avoided carbon, how you measure emissions, and the impact of Superstorm Sandy on sustainability thinking in the NY region.

This week on the podcast we're chatting with Beth Osborne of T4America and Kevin DeGood of The Center for American Progress about infrastructure plans of the new administration. We talk about the budget process skinny or thick, the possible benefits and drawbacks of public private partnerships, the difference between funding and financing, and what this means for transportation in rural areas.

This week we're joined by Patrick Oliva, the Co-Founder of the Paris Process on Mobility and Climate to talk about decarbonization of transport. We chat about electrification of the transport sector and what it means for climate change, the role cities need to play in the Paris process and what levels of government work best, and the what the focus should be for mayors in the coming decade.

This week we're joined by Matthew Heins to talk about his book The Globalization of American Infrastructure: The Shipping Container and Freight Transportation. Matthew talks about how the American highway and rail systems created a global standard for shipping containers, the local actors shaping globalization, containerization's effects on labor and relevance to an automated trucking future, and the massive intermodal terminals in cities like Chicago.

This week we're back with part 2 of our discussion with Dr. Lisa Schweitzer of USC's Price School of Public Policy. We talk about the idea of jobs housing balance, her blog post on the Smartest Boy Urbanist, her favorite planning books and mentors, and we get a preview of her upcoming book on firearms and cities.

This week we're joined by Dr. Lisa Schweitzer of USC's Sol Price School of Public Policy. For this first episode of two with Dr. Schweitzer we chat about how her students respond to urban planning classes, the recent dustup between bike advocates during a city council election in Los Angeles, and autonomous vehicles and land policy.

This week we chat with Streetfilms own Clarence Eckerson Jr. We chat about how he started making films and his beginnings with BikeTV. Additionally, we talk about the best way to make films and what some of recommendations are for approaching people on the street. There might also be a few stories about Veronica Moss, The Zozo, and The Color Gurple.

This week we're joined by Shelley Poticha, Director of NRDC's Urban Solutions Program. We chat about a couple of programs she's working on at NRDC including SPARCC and the City Energy Project. I ask about the Clean Power Plan and we talk about how FTA and HUD were finally connected as well as the 1993 book she wrote with Peter Calthorpe about TOD called The Next American Metropolis.

This week we're chatting with Matt Horton of Proterra, a company that designs and manufactures battery powered electric buses. We chat about the basics of electric buses, power consumption and recharging, the benefits and costs, as well as possible environmental outcomes.

This week we're chatting with Chuck Wolfe about his new book Seeing the Better City. We discuss how he makes his own urban diaries with images, the ability to sense events long passed in places we know, the best way for bloggers and urbanists to use pictures in their work and advocacy, and a future where images are data mined hopefully not resulting in the extermination of humans by our AI overlords.