Jeff Wood
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Talking Headways Podcast: The Hidden Terror of Driverless Cars (It’s Not What You Think)
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Are we going to live in a world where nothing moves unless Amazon or Google gets a piece of the action?
Talking Headways Podcast: Housing Builds Neighborhoods
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Brian O’Looney talks about his new book "Increments of Neighborhood: A Compendium of Built Types for Walkable and Vibrant Communities."
Talking Headways Podcast: Uber’s Transit Moves
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This is a must listen: A chat with an Uber honcho about avoiding the development of more car-oriented development, post-COVID, which would be a disaster.
Talking Headways Podcast: ‘Right of Way’ with Angie Schmitt
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Schmitt, the former editor of Streetsblog USA, talks with us about why she wrote the book and what she hopes folks can take away from it.
Talking Headways Podcast: Bringing Back the Carpool
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Could a new feature on the Waze app help restore something we have all forgotten how to do? Dani Simons talks about carpooling.
Talking Headways Podcast: Optimizing Transit — For the Pandemic and the Community
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You asked for it: How well did Pittsburgh's public transit system respond to COVID-19? We talked to David Huffaker, chief development officer for the Port Authority of Allegheny County to find out.
Talking Headways Podcast: Valuing Black Lives and Property
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This week, we talk to an expert in Black wealth about why development and placemaking leaves out the community. Just because a big company comes to town does not mean everyone will benefit.
Talking Headways Podcast: Designing the Megaregion
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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.
Talking Headways Podcast: The Digital City
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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.
Talking Headways Podcast: California High-Speed Rail’s Next Steps
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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.
Talking Headways Podcast: Housing and the Threat to our Democracy
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Most American cities are not even attempting to hold on to their middle class — and that's a problem.
Talking Headways Podcast: How Oakland Got it So Right
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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.