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by Brad Biehl
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About this podcast
A workshop for American urban design + urban planning. Join a prolific collective of neighborhood staples as we look to better brand American urbanism.
New conversations, each week.
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- 122 / Powerlessness, the "Golden Girls" bill, & spare bedrooms / with Rachel Cohen Booth · 36 minRachel Cohen Booth — senior correspondent at Vox — is in good traffic this week for a grab-bag episode, starting with her forthcoming book titled You're Not Powerless: The Crisis…
- 121 / Delaying housing, by design / with Jonathan Berk · 1 h 1 minJonathan Berk — founder of Re:Main — is in good traffic this week from Salem, Massachusetts for a survey of Delayed by Design, a new report published by Boston Indicators. The…
- 120 / Making the American landscape as we know it / with John Dean Davis · 60 minJohn Dean Davis — Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at The Ohio State University's Knowlton School of Architecture — is in good traffic this week for a peek at…
- 119 / A walkable pocket in Tampa, Florida / with James Nozar · 59 minJames Nozar — President of Development at Kettler — is in good traffic this week from Tampa, Florida. We talk the development and design process behind a stretch of former…
- 118 / the monday commute: Why do we focus on American design? · 9 minThe monday commute — an early morning, sub-15-minute quick hit — made for your walk, bike, bus, or even drive into the office. Trialing this format fall '27. This week, some…
- 117 / Place as process, not product / with Ben Donsky · 1 h 3 minBen Donsky — Principal at Agora Partners — is in good traffic this week from Staten Island, New York to discuss placemaking as a process, not a product. Agora Partners guides…
- 116 / Summer of triangulation. · 31 minBack from a July break full of walking, observing, and listening in Portland, Oregon. Avid pedestrian, burgeoning transit user, performing arts educator, actor (and Brad's…
- 115 / Getting policy to actually build / with Amy Tomasso · 55 minAmy Tomasso — Policy + Partnerships at Ivory Innovations — is in good traffic this week from Salt Lake City for a walkthrough of the Ivory Prize: a $1.5 million annual award…
- 114 / The American family rowhome / with Bobby Fijan · 56 minBobby Fijan — founder of The American Housing Corporation — is in good traffic this week for a conversation on rowhomes as the ideal American family housing typology, why density…
- 113 / Bike parking blunders. · 18 minIn Portland for the summer and reflecting once more on the most underrated piece of bike infrastructure: parking. While we rightfully obsess over bike lanes and protected paths…
- 112 / Middle housing university / with Alkarim Devani · 1 h 3 minAlkarim Devani — developer and founder of mddl — is in good traffic this week for a conversation on how Canada's housing realities compare/contrast with that of the U.S., and how…
- 111 / Is data center NIMBYism uniting the populace? / with Avani Adhikari · 51 minAvani Adhikari — head of insights at GatherGov — is in good traffic this week for a conversation about mapping America's data center development pipeline, what happens when you…
- 110 / A walkable algorithm / with Paul Stout · 39 minPaul Stout — urbanist creator and landscape designer — is back in good traffic this week for a conversation about making urbanism foundational, why the most successful design…
- 109 / The missing middle of our food infrastructure / with Caitlin Taylor · 1 h 3 minCaitlin Taylor — architect, farmer, and founder of Midcourse Design & Development — is in good traffic this week for a conversation about the missing middle of America's food…
- 108 / The single-family starter home trap / with Tahra Hoops · 1 h 2 minTahra Hoops — director of economic analysis at the Chamber of Progress and writer of The Rebuild — is back in good traffic this week for a conversation about financial nihilism…
- 107 / Streets as a microcosm of democracy / with Ben Wolf · 51 minBen Wolf — cinematographer and director of the documentary Changing Lanes — is in good traffic this week for a conversation about using a Brooklyn bike lane project as a lens for…
- 106 / Field notes from Oslo, Stockholm, & Copenhagen. · 28 minBack stateside after a week in Scandinavia, and ready to share some field notes! Rather than just repeating what urbanists already know about Nordic bike infrastructure and cafe…
- 105 / Cities bet on millennials, but forgot they'd have kids / with Rachel Booth · 59 minRachel Booth — U.S. social policy writer at Vox — is in good traffic this week for a conversation about what happens when cities bet on millennials but forget they eventually…
- 104 / Large-scale architecture's role & responsibility in urbanism / with Forth Bagley · 50 minForth Bagley — Principal Architect at KPF (Kohn Pedersen Fox) — is in good traffic this week for a conversation about designing at scale, threading the needle between progressive…
- 103 / Super bowl economics, stadium financing, & sports as a land use / with Dominic Leonardo · 1 h 10 minDominic Leonardo — the urban planner and creator behind CityGlowUp — is back in good traffic this week for a conversation about the hidden costs of hosting major sporting events…
