This week we’re joined by Adele Houghton of the Harvard School of Public Health and Carlos Castillo-Salgado of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to discuss their new book Architectural Epidemiology: Architecture as a Mechanism for Designing a Healthier, More Sustainable, and Resilient World. We chat about how to connect the social and| The Overhead Wire
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This week we’re on vacation, but we’re flashing back to Episode 391 and chatting with Jonathon Stalls about his wonderful book Walk: Slow Down, Wake Up, and Connect at 1-3 Miles Per Hour. He also talks about Pedestrian Dignity and his 2010 walk across the US. Hope everyone is doing well. I’m in China this Copyright © 2025 The Overhead Wire The post Replay: Walking with Pedestrian Dignity appeared first on The Overhead Wire.| The Overhead Wire
This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by former FHWA Deputy Administrator and IIJA architect Andrew Rogers to discuss how congress can help reduce traffic deaths and collisions with the use of technology. We discuss the best time to influence congress on transportation and the crash first, fix later mentality. Find out more Copyright © 2025 The Overhead Wire The post (Unedited) Podcast Transcript 550: Crash First, Fix Later Mentality appeared first on The Overhead Wire.| The Overhead Wire
I love the work that our friend Anna Zivarts does promoting the week without driving which is coming up in a few weeks. What’s interesting about it is that it makes those who try to live for a week without driving a car understand what the stresses are for people who depend on non-auto mobility. Copyright © 2025 The Overhead Wire The post A Week of Understanding appeared first on The Overhead Wire.| The Overhead Wire
I’m currently in Taiyuan, the capital city of Shanxi Province which contains about 34 million people. For reference, California is almost 40 million people. Taiyuan is a moderately sized city at about 4 million, but even at that population level it is fairly compact and hyper dense. One of the things that I noticed when| The Overhead Wire
This week on Talking Headways we’re joined once again by Sam Sargent of VTA for part 2 of a conversation about transit agencies and special projects and programs. Sam chats with us about Austin’s light rail plans, Caltrain electrification and moving diesels to Peru, and gives some thoughts on visionary transit leadership such as Randy Copyright © 2025 The Overhead Wire The post (Unedited) Podcast Transcript 549: Reminiscing About the Future appeared first on The Overhead Wire.| The Overhead Wire
We recently interviewed Adele Houghton and Carlos Castillo-Salgado about their new book Architectural Epidemiology (interview coming out around September 25th) which advocates for designing buildings not just for green and healthy building standards like LEED, but for addressing the local context of social and architectural determinants of health through the building construction process. One of Copyright © 2025 The Overhead Wire The post Preventive Building Medicine appeared first on The O...| The Overhead Wire
This week we’re joined by Sam Sargent of VTA for part 1 of a conversation about transit agencies and special projects and programs. This week Sam chats with us about VTA’s history, current projects and future prospects in the South Bay. To listen to this episode, find it at Streetsblog USA or in our archive. Copyright © 2025 The Overhead Wire The post (Unedited) Podcast Transcript 548: Wonders of the South Bay appeared first on The Overhead Wire.| The Overhead Wire
My daughter knows every park/playground within a two mile radius of the house and even a few outside. Some days we’ll try to hit three parks in a day if they are close enough together by foot or bike. Many I had seen on my travels around the city but often paid them no mind. Copyright © 2025 The Overhead Wire The post The Value of Parks and Libraries appeared first on The Overhead Wire.| The Overhead Wire
This week we’re Han Solo but have a lot of great news to share. We talk about the smartest city in the world, Toronto’s TOD ambitions, electric car range and much much more! Below are items we shared on the show:| The Overhead Wire
This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by professor Daniel Wortel-London to discuss his new book The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1875–1981. We talk about urban growth and missed opportunities by reformers to allow cities to capture more of their value. We discuss Henry George| The Overhead Wire
This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined once again by Colin Parent of Circulate San Diego to discuss a new report entitled The Powerless Brokers: Why California Can’t Build Transit. We talk about permitting delays and reforms, public sector capacity, and giving transit authorities more authority. Listen to this episode at Streetsblog USA| The Overhead Wire
This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Mark Kabbash, founder of The Dandy Horse. He chats with us about a new system for measuring and verifying bike commuting to obtain carbon avoidance credits. We chat about how the system works and the funding it could generate. Find out more about Mark’s work| The Overhead Wire
I’ve been working through an idea as I work on a podcast episode about Kingwood, the neighborhood outside of Houston (since annexed by the city) where I grew up. The idea is that during the 1970s we could have chosen another direction on transportation as the Netherlands did. We had a prototype but didn’t act| The Overhead Wire
This week we’re joined once again by professor Karel Martens of Technion University. We learn about how transportation engineering is good at finding problems but not solving them, and a new tool to determine the success of transportation systems. Fair Transport Lab Website A scale for describing people’s mobility status – Findings Press Listen to| The Overhead Wire
This week we’re joined by Oxford Ohio City Councilor and Miami of Ohio geography professor, David Prytherch. We chat about his new book Reclaiming the Road: Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets. We chat about how pandemic open street experiments were rediscovering original uses, the cognitive benefits of experiencing car free streets, the opening of a democratic| The Overhead Wire
This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Adie Tomer of Brookings to discuss a paper he and his team wrote about the idea of regional block grants. He discusses the local subsidies going to state DOTs and how more local funding could mean more regional collaboration on infrastructure. To listen to this| The Overhead Wire
This week we’re back at the Mpact conference in Philadelphia and joined by Ruth Miller of Jawnt. Ruth shares her superhero origin story and how employer transit pass programs like SEPTA’s Key Advantage Program work to support employees, agencies, and the region overall. You can listen to this episode at Streetsblog USA or find it| The Overhead Wire