Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

Episode 593: Carspreading

This week we're joined by Sofia Navas and James Nix of the NGO Transport & Environment to talk about their recent report: Ever Bigger? Car Size at a Crossroads. We discus

Episode 198: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Creating Systemic Change

This week we're Han Solo, but that won't stop us from sharing some interesting news including daylighting urban streams, why we shouldn't put everything on transit, Barce

Episode 592: New Tricks for Old Bureaucracies

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Joshua Schank to talk about his book New Tricks for Old Bureaucracies: Improving Policy Outcomes in the Public S

Episode 591: The Urban Pulse

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Yale's Karen Seto and University of Connecticut's Zhe Zhu to talk about their study: The Urban Pulse. We talk ab

Episode 197: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Change Orders!

This week on the Mondays Show we are Han Solo again, but have a lot of interesting news to share.  We talk about LA's people mover change orders, a poll that finds lots o

Episode 590: Coulda Built 36 Paris Metros

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're chatting with Dallas Developer, DART Board Member, and urban designer Patrick Kennedy about his recent publication, An Atl

Episode 589: The Bikeable Forest

This week we're finally doing it! We're going to Kingwood Texas and talking about the greenbelt trail system I've been telling everyone about for years. This is a storyte

Episode 196: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Disassembling to Save The Building

This week we're Han Solo and covering some of the news from the last few weeks.  We talk about delivery worker stress, Maryland's need to build a revolving loan fund, and

Episode 588: What Does It Cost to Build a Bus?

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Lisa Jerram of APTA and Philip Plotch of the Eno Center for Transportation to discuss Eno's report: Customizatio

Flashback: Megan Kimble Talks Highway Expansion in Texas

We're on vacation this week but we're flashing back to Episode 482 from two years ago featuring Megan Kimble discussing her book City Limits.  Soon we'll have Patrick Ken

Mondays Flashback: The Messiness of Family Travel

We're on vacation this week but we're flashing back to episode 422 of Talking Headways from a couple of years ago featuring one of our favorites, Jennifer Kent. We'll be

Episode 587: Dangerous by Design

This week on the Talking Headways podcast, Steve Davis of Smart Growth America joins the show to talk about their most recent edition of Dangerous by Design. We chat abou

Episode 586: SF Muni to the Future

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by SFMTA Director of Transportation Julie Kirschbaum. She discusses making system improvements, rising customer sat

Episode 195: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Han Solo Returns

This week on the Mondays show Han Solo is back and we're going through some news from the last month or so.  Some really super interesting items to share in news format f

Episode 585: Bill Fulton and the Future of Where

This Week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Bill Fulton who has worn many hats including mayor, planning director, think tank director, publisher, professor

Flashback! Episode 419: We Travel to Reach Destinations

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Greg Shill, Professor of Law at the University of Iowa, and Jonathan Levine, Professor of Urban and Regional Pla

Episode 194: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Family Friendly Cities?

This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire, Tracy McMillan is back on the show to talk about a number of items including a piece on the role of the built environment in po

Episode 583: The Transit Abundance Playbook

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Will Poff-Webster of the Institute for Progress to talk about their new collection of ideas to bring transit pro

Episode 583: Framing Urban Disorder

This week we're joined by Ryan Puzycki, who writes at The City of Yes.  We have a discussion on urban disorder, how it manifests, and how to address the upstream impacts

Episode 193: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Henry George's Urbanist Army

This week on the Mondays show we're joined by Kate Gasparro of the Building Better Cities podcast. We talk about the potential for land value taxes, research on car commu