Talking Headways Podcast: What Sports Teams Bring (and Don’t Bring) to Cities
There are both benefits — and pitfalls — from stadium deals.
June 9, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: What It Takes To Be a Developer
Why people of color who try to build affordable housing face many different kinds of barriers.
May 26, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: A ‘Communities First’ Infrastructure Alliance
Why this is an important moment for infrastructure equity.
May 20, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: Measuring Transportation Insecurity
This week, Alix Gould-Werth of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and Alex Murphy, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Michigan, talk about their transportation security index.
May 13, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: A Next-Generation Transportion Policy
What's next? Harriet Tregoning, director at NUMO, and Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute, talk about their report, "Charting Out a Next-Generation, Place-Based Federal Transportation Policy."
May 6, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: ‘Ctrl Alt Delete’ for Transportation
We talk to Kevin Krizek of the University of Colorado, and David King, of Arizona State University about access, justice, and why their new book is perfect for changing the conversation around transportation.
March 31, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: Who Represents “The Community” Part 2
In Part 2 of our conversation with Jeremy Levine, assistant professor of organizational studies and sociology at the University of Michigan, we discuss how people talk about “the community” and what public outreach and participation could look like.
March 24, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: Who Represents “The Community” Part 1
Jeremy Levine, an assistant professor of organizational studies and sociology at the University of Michigan, talks about his book "Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston." How do neighborhood groups, elected officials, and public servants claim the mantle of representing “the community”? Part 1 of 2.
March 17, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: The Annual Prediction Show with Yonah Freemark
Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute, chats about the effects of the pandemic on office work and makes predictions about next year’s transportation policies and projects.
March 4, 2022
Talking Headways Podcast: Transit Project Costs and Solutions
Paul Lewis, policy director at the Eno Center for Transportation, discusses "Saving Time and Making Cents: A Blueprint for Building Transit Better" — about the differences between highway and transit capital projects and ways to create better governance and lower costs.
February 24, 2022