Urbanism Speakeasy
Urbanism Speakeasy is the podcast about human-scale design, just the way the free market intended. We're interested in what makes great cities, towns, and villages. Common sense planning and design has been taboo for decades, thanks in large part to government intervention. We talk about ...
Urbanism Speakeasy is the podcast about human-scale design, just the way the free market intended. We're interested in what makes great cities, towns, and villages. Common sense planning and design has been taboo for decades, thanks in large part to government intervention. We talk about technical issues in plain language for everyone to understand. No advanced degrees or new urbanism pedigree required.
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Designing community streets for people [NPR broadcast]
Peter Norton was a guest host for WMAR's Virginia Insights, ...
Peter Norton was a guest host for WMAR's Virginia Insights, a regular NPR show. (You may remember hearing Peter interviewed by me in this episode.) Peter invited Fionnula Quinn and me to talk about the connection between transportation networks and com...
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Street design is the secret to great cities and towns, with Victor Dover
- Many of you know that Congress for the New ...
- Many of you know that Congress for the New Urbanism was a major inspiration for this show. Not the national conference itself -- but the tribe of people who are eager to challenge the status quo and actually do something to make their citi...
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Government’s role in sprawl development, with Michael Lewyn
Michael Lewyn has been teaching at numerous law schools for ...
Michael Lewyn has been teaching at numerous law schools for 14 years, and has written extensively about urban and suburban development. - Like several other guests on Urbanism Speakeasy, we first met through Congress for the New Urbanism. -
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“In Transit” – a documentary for anyone who’s been stuck in traffic
Todd Drezner is a New Yorker who wants to create ...
Todd Drezner is a New Yorker who wants to create a documentary for anyone who's ever been stuck in traffic. - So I'm going to make the educated guess that if you're listening to this show, this documentary is for you. - But here's the catch.
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Professional planners guide to tactical urbanism, with Laura Pfeifer
photo by Laura Pfeifer Laura Pfeifer is an urban planner ...
photo by Laura Pfeifer Laura Pfeifer is an urban planner living in Toronto, Canada. (Ignore what you hear me say on the show. She used to live in Montreal.) - She's been involved in community projects like Park(ing) Day -- which is where parking...
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Spread of protected bike lanes, with Michael Andersen
Not everyone is a bicycling news junkie. But if you've ...
Not everyone is a bicycling news junkie. But if you've read about bike infrastructure projects in the last year, you've probably read articles by Michael Andersen. He's on staff with the Green Lane Project -- a program that helps people design better b...
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Connections between physical activity and the built environment, with Greg Lindsey
Greg Lindsey is a professor at the University of Minnesota's ...
Greg Lindsey is a professor at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs. He has collected quite a few awards over the years for his work linking academic research with real-world practice. -
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From suburban isolation to urban connectivity, with Jillian Glover
Jillian Glover works in communications and media relations. Her passion ...
Jillian Glover works in communications and media relations. Her passion in that space is connecting with people about urban issues. Jillian writes about cities at a few places online, including her own blog -- This City Life. -
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You should care enough about public safety to promote roundabouts
Consider this: during the 10-year period from 2001 to 2010, ...
Consider this: during the 10-year period from 2001 to 2010, over 400,000 people were killed in vehicle crashes in the United States. - 400,000 people. - That’s an average of 110 deaths on our roads every day for 10 years. -
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Transport planning and mode shift, with Shana Johnson
Shana Johnson is a transportation planner based in Washington, DC. ...
Shana Johnson is a transportation planner based in Washington, DC. She has an interesting background for a planner -- she used to analyze transportation data for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. She's a member of Young Professionals in Transpor...
