Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

This week on the podcast we chat with Vanan Murugesan, Director of Design and Innovation at Pillsbury United Communities. Vanan talks about the role of community centered design in creating a nonprofit grocery store in North Minneapolis called North Market. We also chat about pros and cons of the farm bill, technology and convenience, and new initiatives in workforce development.

This week we're joined by Chrissy Mancini Nichols to talk about Gwinnett County's transit election, Level of Service, and transportation data privacy. News Gwinnett County rejects MARTA tax - Governing Amsterdam new homes can't be rented - CityLab More US cities end recycling - New York Times Seattle passes zoning changes - Curbed Visit our Sponsor too - moovel Story of the Week Getting rid of level of service - Brookings Privacy issues come to the forefront - LA Times Puppies and Butterflies Seiichi Miyake's tactile blocks - Curbed

This week we're joined by Susan Crawford, the John A. Reilly Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard School of Law. Susan talks about her new book Fiber which focuses on how cities in the United States are trying to build communications networks with this seemingly limitless technology but get push back from regulators and incumbent companies alike.

Urbanist Ed Parillon joins the show to talk about autonomous technology, Scott Weiner's SB50 bill, pied a terre taxes in NY, and Gavin Newsom's housing plans that could take away transportation funds. Visit our sponsor - moovel News Boeing Crashes Are a Warning to Drivers, Too - Slate Twitter Thread on Boeing Technology Issue - Sumner Pied-à-terre Tax Could Help Pay for MTA - Curbed NY Gavin Newsom's Ideas to Spur More Housing - Streetsblog CA Story of the Week How Three Cities Ended Chronic Homelessness - Fast Company How Santa Monica Is Luring People Back to the 3rd Street Promenade - LA Magazine Spotlight Mobility Scott Weiner updates SB50 - Curbed SF Puppies and Butterflies A mysterious global hum - Guardian

This week we chat with Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender. Lisa, a planner by profession and now a two-term city councilor, chats about public participation in the Minneapolis 2040 planning process locally and the discussions that led to the passing of the city's comprehensive plan last December. She also talks about streets as public spaces and how Minneapolis 2040 plays into the city's vision for transportation. Finally, we ask Lisa about the public discourse overall at public meetings and in planning.

The week friend of the show Tracy McMillan from SafeTREC joins to talk about making money off of mobility, autonomous buses, the Lyft IPO, outdated city equipment and much more! The News Autonomous bus testing in Singapore - Bloomberg Cashless retail could be outlawed - CityLab Uber not criminally liable in crash - Smart Cities Dive Visit our sponsor, moovel. Story of the Week Automakers struggle to make money on mobility - Bloomberg Cities running on software from the 80s - Bloomberg Kings of Dallas Sprawl - D Magazine Spotlight Mobility Information available now on Lyft IPO - Reuters Puppies and Butterflies Risk, Fear, and Freedom As always you can reach us on twitter @theoverheadwire or at theoverheadwire@gmail.com

This week we're joined by perennial favorite Yonah Freemark of the Transport Politic. We rate his predictions from last year and give predictions for next year, some of which are already in peril! He chats about his zoning paper that has gotten a LOT of attention from housing advocates, high speed rail and California's current dilemma, and Amazon's New York departure. For Yonah's previous episodes, check out 45, 61, 88, 132, or 169

Chrissy joins the show and we talk about Duke rejecting Durham light rail, NY's move towards congestion pricing, Berlin's new transport app, and anchor institutions. News Duke rejects light rail - News and Observer de Blasio endorses congestion pricing - Streetsblog NYC UPMC joins health providers to think about housing - NextPittsburgh Join moovel at SXSW - Link Daimler and BMW join forces - The Verge Story of the Week Netherlands pays people to bike to work - Huffington Post de Blasio endorses congestion pricing - Streetsblog NYC Spotlight Mobility Berlin's all in one app - Fast Company

This week we're joined by Matthias Buehler of Vrbn and David Wasserman of Fehr and Peers. We talk about the City Engine program and how to create realistic cityscapes for movies and planning applications. We chat about the time it takes to code details, how much collected urban data sets can be used, and what these types of programs could be used for in the future. A few notes from David and Matt David: Complete Street Rule on Github Future of the Curb and City Engine - ESRI Software for Bike Planning - People for Bikes Procedural Modeling for City Design - YouTube Matthias: Vrbn Company Interview with Matthias Buehler - Gnomon Workshop Independence Day and City Engine Making a Favela - Ronen Berkman

This week we chat with Jerry Paffendorf, Co-Founder and CEO of Loveland Technologies. We chat about how they collect parcel data from all over the country, how parcels were measured historically, and how they can be used to create better transparency in cities.