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Jeff Wood

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Talking Headways Podcast: Planning for Underground Cities

By Jeff Wood | Feb 17, 2022 | No Comments
Asal Bidarmaghz, a lecturer in geotechnical engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, discusses underground infrastructure and its importance for the future of cities, including underground climate change, coordination among long-term projects, and appropriate land use.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Treating Social Media Like a City

By Jeff Wood | Feb 10, 2022 | No Comments
This week, Sahar Massachi of the Integrity Institute talks about his MIT Technology Review piece, “How to Save Our Social Media by Treating it Like a City.” Who knew that managing social media’s bad actors is like dealing with urban problems such as black-box highway modeling, speed management, and city building?
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Talking Headways Podcast: A Grassroots Bus-Network Redesign

By Jeff Wood | Feb 3, 2022 | No Comments
This week we feature a chat between Carlos Cruz-Casas, assistant director of Miami Dade County's Department of Transportation and Public Works, and Grace Perdomo, executive director of Miami's Transit Alliance, about the Better Bus Project, an advocacy-led, community-driven redesign of the Miami-Dade bus network.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Reimagining Sustainable Cities

By Jeff Wood | Jan 27, 2022 | No Comments
We talk to Tina Rosan and Stephen Wheeler about how we can design our cities and our government to be fairer.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Civil Rights on the Road

By Jeff Wood | Jan 21, 2022 | No Comments
This week we’re joined by Anna Zivarts from Disability Rights Washington and Paulo Nunes-Ueno from Front and Centered. They join us to talk about the Disability Mobility Initiative and the Mobility Bill of Rights. We also chat about why mobility experiments might make travel harder for disabled travelers and why road safety is a core part of civil rights.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Why a City Is Not a Computer

By Jeff Wood | Jan 14, 2022 | No Comments
This week we’re joined by Shannon Mattern, professor of anthropology at the New School for Social Research, who talks with us about her new book, "A City is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences." We discuss the ideas of smartness versus wisdom, maintenance as a way of absorbing information, and the city as a processing machine.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Building a Better Transit Board

By Jeff Wood | Jan 6, 2022 | No Comments
This week on the podcast, we’re back at last fall’s virtual Railvolution conference. Former BART GM Grace Crunican discusses the role of board members in transit agencies with former MBTA board member Monica Tibbits-Nutt and former Houston Metro board member Christof Spieler.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Not Just Wires, Pipes, and Roads

By Jeff Wood | Dec 16, 2021 | No Comments
This week, we’re talking about the importance a systems approach in interconnected topics like transportation, education, and health care (yes, they're interconnected!).
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Talking Headways Podcast: The Traffic War Is Never Won

By Jeff Wood | Dec 10, 2021 | No Comments
This week we’re joined by University of Virginia Associate Professor Peter Norton, to talk about his new book "Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving." Norton discusses the false promises of automakers and technologists and the mobility solutions that are already in front of us.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Optimism on Infrastructure

By Jeff Wood | Dec 2, 2021 | No Comments
This week we’re joined by Linda Samuels, associate professor of urban design at Washington University in St. Louis, to talk about her book "Infrastructural Optimism." We chat about how growth for growth’s sake is not the answer, learn from postmodernist urbanism, and why systems should be more connected.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Transit Expansion and Service in the Pandemic

By Jeff Wood | Nov 18, 2021 | No Comments
This week we’re at the 2021 Virtual Railvolution conference. Adelee Le Grand, CEO of Tampa's transit system, moderates a panel featuring Debra Johnson of RTD in Denver, and Peter Rogoff of Sound Transit in Seattle. Johnson and Rogoff discuss progress in their regions and the effects of the pandemic.
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Talking Headways Podcast: Streets Are Not Just Pipes

By Jeff Wood | Nov 12, 2021 | No Comments
This week we’re joined by Miami of Ohio Geography Professor David Prytherch. Prytherch chats with us about his recent journal article in Urban Geography: "Reimagining the physical/social infrastructure of the American street." We talk about businesses' newfound interest in the street, equity and ethical discussions about rights to the street, and the new pandemic paradigm of "open streets."
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