Jeff Wood
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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.
Talking Headways Podcast: Laws Prioritize Cars Over People
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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!
Talking Headways Podcast: The Vital Link Between Health and Transportation
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This week, we talk about how transit can save rural counties lots of money currently being spent on ambulances.
Talking Headways Podcast: Housing on the Bus Yard
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Talking to SFMTA's Adrienne Heim and Rafe Rabalais about the Potrero Yard electric bus and housing project.
Talking Headways Podcast: It Came from TRB (Part II)!
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Hear it all: trip routing with smart phones, stop sign impacts on safety, how rain affects bus travel times, transit agency equity analysis, and much more!
Talking Headways Podcast: It Came from TRB! (Part I)
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The best and the brightest of the Transportation Research Board's Annual Meeting!
Talking Headways Podcast: Unnecessary Literature Reviews, Part II
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David Levinson talks about the politics of research journals and his new book, "The 30 Minute City."