Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week we're joined by Sofia Navas and James Nix of the NGO Transport & Environment to talk about their recent report: Ever Bigger? Car Size at a Crossroads. We discuss the increasing size of vehicles and why they keep growing. The safety issues that are tied to vehicle size increases, and the amount of parking and public space that could be lost.
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This week we're Han Solo, but that won't stop us from sharing some interesting news including daylighting urban streams, why we shouldn't put everything on transit, Barcelona's e-bike subsidy, and Charlotte's value created. 
News Items
Two ways to daylight streams - The Conversation
Transit scope creep - Works in Progress
Barcelona e-bike - City of Barcelona
The Carbon Wave - MIT Press Reader
Feedback loops - ArchDaily
Charlotte light rail value - Planetizen
Dead malls a thing still? - Arbitrary Lines
Cities need municipal wealth funds - Urban Proxima
Trumps war reduced oil consumption - Yale Climate Connections
Bonus Items
Robotaxis skipping the gas tax - Eno Center for Transportation
Bay area exporting housing shortage - San Francisco Chronicle
Did Chicago TIF work? - University of Illinois Chicago
Las Vegas BRT ridership - Las Vegas Sun
China's new rules for autonomous vehicles - China Daily
New Zealand road user charges set - ITS International
Illinois e-bike bill signed - Government Technology
Heat deaths are higher than shared - NPR
Where do people mix - Northeastern University
Paying for bike lane removal - LA Times
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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Joshua Schank to talk about his book New Tricks for Old Bureaucracies: Improving Policy Outcomes in the Public Sector. Joshua talks about the inner workings of LA Metro, benefits of openness and transparency as well as strategic planning.  We also share frustrations about meetings, transit board structures, and agency fiefdoms.
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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined by Yale's Karen Seto and University of Connecticut's Zhe Zhu to talk about their study: The Urban Pulse. We talk about using frequent time series satellite data to measure change in cities and the processes of urbanization.
The Urban Pulse - Yale School for the Environment
The Urban Pulse: Diagnosing the urbanization process as spiky, cyclical, and asynchronous - PNAS
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This week on the Mondays Show we are Han Solo again, but have a lot of interesting news to share.  We talk about LA's people mover change orders, a poll that finds lots of people want urbanism, and a trip along the coast of West Africa.
Today's Items
People mover change orders - The Hollywood Reporter
Voter attitudes towards green urbanism - Data for Progress
Overperforming downtowns - Patrick Kennedy
West African coast - NPR
E-bike town - Portland Mercury
A city for families - Constructor University
London's social housing - The Guardian
MBTA battery trains - Commonwealth Beacon
Utah cutting emissions - KUER
Hold grail of downtown recovery - Challenger Cities
Bonus Items
Oversize vehicles in Australia - The Conversation
Rooftop rainwater cuts heat - University of Manchester
Delivery protection act - New York Times
China heavy vehicles chewing up roads - Techy 44
Baltimore policing reform - Emerald Pages
Hidden fungal networks - Brighter Side of News
NC Tax break could strip cities - INDY Week
Pike Place market scale back - The Urbanist
Roadless rule - Field and Stream
CA tire efficiency rule - Grist
The modern Sears home - Groundwork Collaborative
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