Talking Headways Podcast: Planning for Underground Cities
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We talk to a geotechnical engineer about underground infrastructure and its importance for the future of cities.
Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Urban Design
Why Neighborhood Social Life Starts At the Street Corner
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When street corners are built to accommodate people instead of vehicles, you have the makings of a strong, interconnected community.
Talking Headways Podcast: Civil Rights on the Road
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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.
Talking Headways Podcast: Why a City Is Not a Computer
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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.
Talking Headways Podcast: Not Just Wires, Pipes, and Roads
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This week, we’re talking about the importance a systems approach in interconnected topics like transportation, education, and health care (yes, they're interconnected!).
Seattle Strongly Supports Street Safety: Poll
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Pedestrian streets, protected bike lanes, and bus lanes are popular.