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Streetsblog California
#DamienTalks Ep. 22.1 – How Was the Legislative Session?
Welcome to the first two-part #DamienTalks. Today, I talk with Meea Kang with the Council of Infill Developers, Gloria Ohland of Move L.A. and Colin Parent of Circulate San Diego. The topic of the day is the recently concluded legislative session in Sacramento.
October 21, 2015
#DamienTalks Episode 21: Joe Biel, Elly Blue and Groundswell Movies
Today #DamienTalks with Joe Biel and Elly Blue with Microcosm Publishing. The duo is producing the eight-part Groundswell Movies focused on community-based bicycle advocacy (as opposed to activist-based bike advocacy) and how it's worked in cities throughout the country.
October 16, 2015
#DamienTalks Episode 20: Hit and Run Hero Damian Kevitt
This week, #DamienTalks with Damian Kevitt, the man who went from hit and run victim to survivor to hero.
October 6, 2015
#DamienTalks Episode 19: CicLAvia’s Romel Pascual and the Rise of Open Streets
Today, Damien talks with Romel Pascual, the new executive director of CicLAvia, the non-profit that programs arguably the most popular Open Streets program in America.
September 23, 2015
Talking Headways Podcast: The Transportation Innovation Revolution
Shin-pei Tsay of Transit Center joins me this week to delve into her new report, A People’s History of Recent Urban Transportation Innovation, which examines how advocacy and political leadership have combined in several American cities to produce a more multi-modal transportation network.
September 18, 2015
#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