Talking Headways Podcast: Designing the Megaregion
Talking to Jonathan Barnett about where the idea of megaregions came from, environmental planning within the landscape, the importance of transit connections in these regions, and how we can coordinate megaregions administratively.
June 11, 2020
Talking Headways Podcast: The Biggest Real Estate Manager
The person who runs a city's Department of Transportation controls around 30 percent of the city's public space — and needs to think that way.
June 5, 2020
Talking Headways Podcast: Portland’s ‘Rose Lanes’ Busways
April Bertelsen of the Portland Bureau of Transportation talks about the Rose Lanes project, which are transit priority treatments that aim to get buses and streetcars out of traffic.
May 28, 2020
Talking Headways Podcast: The Digital City
It's a special edition of the podcast this week, as we talk to an expert in how residents of a city interact with — and are sometimes exploited by — all our digital doodads.
May 21, 2020
Talking Headways Podcast: California High-Speed Rail’s Next Steps
A top official at the California High-Speed Rail Authority gives us an update on that mega-project — and also offers lessons on what engineers and planners have learned.
May 14, 2020
Talking Headways Podcast: Housing and The Threat to Our Very Democracy
Most American cities are not even attempting to hold on to its middle class — and that's a problem.
May 7, 2020
Talking Headways Podcast: Houston Mayor Turner’s Complete Communities
This week, we talked to Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner about the city’s Complete Communities program.
April 30, 2020
Talking Headways Podcast: How Oakland Got it So Right
This week, we talk to a key official in Oakland, who explains how the city is creating the nation's biggest open-streets network practically overnight. Are you listening, Mayor de Blasio?
April 23, 2020
Talking Headways Podcast: Laws Prioritize Cars Over People
It's another standout episode featuring Iowa Law Professor Greg Shill who describes all of the ways that driving is costing and killing out society — and how non-drivers can't even opt out!
April 16, 2020
Talking Headways Podcast: The Vital Link Between Health and Transportation
This week, we talk about how transit can save rural counties lots of money currently being spent on ambulances.
April 9, 2020
