Development
Is ‘Walk Score’ Really Just a ‘White Score’?
A provocative new paper argues that one of America's most popular real estate tools is driving investment to predominantly white urban neighborhoods, without meaningfully expanding walkability for anyone else.
April 7, 2025
Talking Headways Podcast: Stuck with Yoni Appelbaum
Yoni Appelbaum on the history of moving in the United States and how the different traditions of land ownership and management in America evolved.
February 27, 2025
Talking Headways Podcast: How Big Box Stores are Destroying the Fabric of America
All of this very much like relates to where we are in terms of the breakdown in our basic civic fabric as a country.
February 20, 2025
Talking Headways Podcast: Not Eating Exhaust with Your Beer
Author Mike Eliason on single-stair buildings, development on arterials, building back after climate disasters and the problem with RFPs.
January 30, 2025
Can We Build Car-Light Neighborhoods From Scratch — Even in Texas?
Can you really build a car-light neighborhood in suburban Houston — and could it inspire car-dependent places to explore new ideas about development?
December 10, 2024
Talking Headways Podcast: Have Cities Run Out of Land?
Chris Redfearn of USC and Anthony Orlando of Cal Poly Pomona on why "pro-business" Texas housing markets are catching up to "pro-regulation" California and what it might mean for future city growth.
July 25, 2024
Talking Headways Podcast: Rethinking Denver Along the South Platte River
Who even knew there was a river in Denver?
May 23, 2024
Talking Headways Podcast: Real Estate Impacts at BART
One of the great assets of any transit system is its real estate — and how it's developed has a major impact on ridership and, therefore, farebox revenue.
October 12, 2023
Talking Headways Podcast: Local Culture and Development
We chat with Tim Sprague from Phoenix about supporting local culture through development projects and the importance of sustainable development and transportation.
September 21, 2023
City of Yes Yes Yes! Adams Calls for Elimination of Parking Mandates on ALL New Housing
Mayor Adams today announced the historic end to one of the city’s most antiquated — and despised — zoning laws requiring the construction of parking with every new development.
September 21, 2023
