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Streetsblog California
#DamienTalks Episode 18 – Melanie Curry on the Recently-Ended Legislative Session
Today, #DamienTalks with Melanie Curry, the editor of a boutique news website known as Streetsblog California. Melanie has been covering the legislature for two full sessions, with a focus on transportation, urban design, and public health.
September 15, 2015
Talking Headways Podcast: Your Brain on Two Legs
Antonia Malchik’s recent piece in Aeon Magazine, The End of Walking, went viral in urbanist circles, touching on several themes related to our "right to walk."
September 14, 2015
#Damien Talks Episode 17: Fighting the Bikelash with Modacity
This week, with the California legislative session moving faster than my ability to cover it in a podcast, we're taking a little break from the halls of the Capitol.
September 9, 2015
Talking Headways Podcast: The Urban Displacement Project
This week my guest is Miriam Zuk of UC Berkeley's Center for Community Innovation, who discusses how the team at the Urban Displacement Project has studied and mapped out gentrification and displacement risk in the Bay Area. We talk about the relationship between transit and rising property values, as well as the widespread portrayal of gentrification in the media as a rapidly occurring short-term process.
September 4, 2015
#DamienTalks #16: EDF’s Tim O’Connor on Reducing Petroleum Use
Maybe you've seen the mailers, or the insane websites, or have heard a rant on talk radio. The petroleum industry is coming for S.B. 350, legislation that would set standards to help the State of California reduce its petroleum use by 50 percent in the coming decades.
September 2, 2015
Talking Headways Podcast: Remaking California Transportation
This week on Talking Headways I'm joined by a big roster of guests to talk able about California's climate legislation and how it will change transportation policy.
August 28, 2015
#DamienTalks Episode 15: LADOT General Manager Seleta Reynolds on Vision Zero
Today, #DamienTalks with Seleta Reynolds, the General Manager of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation about the City of Los Angeles' recent announcement that L.A. will be a Vision Zero City.
August 26, 2015
#DamienTalks Episode 14: Assemblymember Richard Bloom
Today, #DamienTalks with Assemblymember Richard Bloom, who represents western Los Angeles County in the State Assembly. Bloom is on the Finance Special Session Committee in the State Assembly, meaning that for the next two and a half weeks, the Assemblymember will have a chance to weigh in on any transportation bills before they come to the full Assembly for a vote.
August 21, 2015
Talking Headways Podcast: Indexing Livability for All Ages
This week we chat with Rodney Harrell of the AARP Public Policy Institute about their new Livability Index Tool. I ask him who the tool was created for and tell him why it should be regarded as more than just magazine clickbait. We talk about the robust policy tools that were included for each section and how the data was collected and at what geographic scale.
August 14, 2015
#Damien Talks Episode 13 – The Davis Planning Department on the Bike Protected Intersection
Today, #DamienTalks with Jennifer D'Onofrio and Bryan Michaelson of the City of Davis about the new protected bike intersection in Davis, California. The newly redesigned intersection is the first of its kind in America, and receiving warm reviews from both cars and bicyclists in Davis and advocates around the country.
August 13, 2015