The Urbanist Agenda

The Women Leaders Who Made their Cities Better (w/Melissa & Chris Bruntlett)

Women Changing Cities is the latest book from authors Melissa & Chris Bruntlett. It's an interesting collection of stores from many cities around the world highlight the

How to Fight Back Against Anti-Urbanism Lies (w/The Urban Truth Collective)

Over the past few years there have been a lot of lies and conspiracy theories that are making it harder to build great urban places. One group has had enough, and they've

The Best Way to Understand Dutch Cycling (w/Meredith Glaser)

Meredith Glaser is the CEO of the Urban Cycling Institute and a professor of cycling and urban transportation. She has found that the best way for policymakers to truly u

How We Made a Travel Show w/Graham Haerther

Day Pass is the new Nebula Original series, hosted by Jason of Not Just Bikes. In each episode, Jason explores a new city ... while also riding as much public transit as

Toronto's Crack-Smoking Mayor (w/Bobby Broccoli)

Rob Ford was the infamous crack-smoking mayor of Toronto, but he was always crazy, so how did he get elected in the first place? Bobby Broccoli is current working on a 4-

How to Actually Improve a City (w/Brent Toderian)

Brent Toderian is the former chief planner of Vancouver, Canada. He has worked with dozens of cities around the world to achieve real change, and he has some advice for a

Czechia's Insane Pro-Car Political Party (w/Adam Something)

Czechia just got a new political party called "Motorists for Themselves". But behind the "car-friendly" façade, they're just another far-right political party, funded by

Why is it SO HARD to Take a Train Across the Border? (w/Jon Worth)

The EU is heavily promoting rail as an alternative to flying and driving, but while the "big" high-speed train projects get a lot of attention, it's often maddeningly dif

Why I'm Ebike-pilled (with American Fietser)

"If it weren't for ebikes, I'd be driving a car" says American Fietser. American Fietser: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/americanfietser.bsky.social YouTube: https

Why I Quit YouTube (with RMTransit)

RMTransit has been making YouTube videos about cities and public transit for over 5 years. Now with over 750 videos on his YouTube channel, it's time to call it quits. R

Let's Send our Pickup Trucks to Ukraine (with Build the Lanes)

Pickup trucks don't belong in European cities, so let's send them to help out in Ukraine! Stef from Build the Lanes tells us about why he's driving pickup trucks from the

The Sociology of Car-Brained Planning (with We're in Hell)

Sam from the YouTube channel "We're in Hell" normally makes video essays about sociology, but he recently went down the urban planning rabbit hole after Doug Ford threate

When Transit isn't Built to be Transit (with RMTransit)

In 2001, Portland built the first of their new streetcar system, which was a success, especially in attracting new development to the transit corridor. This kicked off a

Los Angeles Deserves Better (with Ellory Smith)

Los Angeles is (in)famous for its car-dependent sprawl, but there are pockets of good urbanism, and there are people working hard to build more of them. I talked with Ell

The Insanity of Canadian Housing Prices (with Mike Moffatt)

Canada's housing crisis is one of the worst in the world. But why? In this episode I talk to Mike Moffatt, Canadian economist and housing expert about what's going on in

Trams are Great so why are Toronto Streetcars so Terrible!? (with RM Transit)

Trams are great. They create and enable some of the best urbanism around. And yet the streetcars in Toronto are slow and unreliable and painful to take. What is Toronto d

What to do When Your City Won't Fix Things (with Bike Curious)

What should you do when your city won't fix things, even after years of advocacy? The answer might be guerrilla urbanism, aka tactical urbanism. I talk to Bike Curious ab

NYC REALLY Screwed Up Congestion Pricing (with Doug Gordon)

New York City was about to roll out congestion charging. The cameras were up, the staff were hired, the metro projects were financed, and thousands of people were lined u

All Trains Need Level Boarding (with Gareth Dennis)

Level boarding is simple enough: the floor of the train should be level with the platform. But it's not very common, is it? Why? And what can we do about it? Because once

Some Business Owners REALLY Hate Bike Lanes (with Bike Curious)

When a bike lane was installed on Valencia Street in San Francisco, one business owner hated it so much he went on a hunger strike. Bike lanes are almost universally posi