Podcast appearances and mentions of brent toderian

In this episode, we wander into the global 15-Minute City conversation that started with an urban planning vision of a world where schools, jobs, parks, and coffee shops are a short train or bike ride away. But amidst the green utopian dream, dystopian concerns have arisen. Voices like Joe Rogan [https://www.joerogan.com/] and Oh the Urbanity YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/c/OhTheUrbanity] weigh in, unpacking the fears of a society locked in by invisible and visible boundaries. Moreover, we hear from the practitioners, Professor Carlos Moreno [https://www.moreno-web.net/] who founded the concept for Paris, Data Scientist Angel Hsu [https://sternstrategy.com/speakers/angel-hsu/] who illustrates how urban living and climate harsh realities collide, and Canadian urbanist city planner Brent Toderian [https://toderianurbanworks.com/brent/] lays out the grand design. Will the 15-minute city liberate or incarcerate? Listen as we dissect an urban blueprint for tomorrow. For an extended interview and other benefits, become an EcoJustice Radio patron at https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio More Info: 15-Minute City with Carlos Moreno https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ2f4sJVXAI Angel Hsu https://www.ted.com/speakers/angel_hsu Oh The Urbanity - Prison Cities https://youtu.be/DpXqY_j1m1U?si=Id1Rs9ryzvkfb0EO An Evening with Brent Toderian https://youtu.be/fVVdmRGZ0hM?si=MwrPVxO-zfrRcP32 Jack Eidt is an urban planner, environmental journalist, and climate organizer, as well as award-winning fiction writer. He is Co-Founder of SoCal 350 Climate Action and Executive Producer of EcoJustice Radio. He is also Founder and Publisher of WilderUtopia [https://wilderutopia.com], a website dedicated to the question of Earth sustainability, finding society-level solutions to environmental, community, economic, transportation and energy needs. Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/ Podcast Blog: https://www.wilderutopia.com/category/ecojustice-radio/ Support the Podcast: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LBGXTRM292TFC&source=url Executive Producer and Host: Jack Eidt Engineer and Original Music: Blake Quake Beats Episode 213 Photo credit: Pixabay

Brian interviews Brent Toderian. Brent is a top national and global thought leader on cities, and an acclaimed, award-winning practitioner with 32 years of experience in advanced urbanism, city planning, transportation, urban design, and complex urban change management. Last week he presented “Mississauga in Fifty Years” challenging the audience to contemplate Climate, housing, health, etc, and how the suburb cities impact these. I talk with Brent Toderian about City Planning.

Urban planning has become the latest target of conspiracy theorists. In recent weeks, the 15-minute city concept — where neighbourhoods provide life's essentials in 15 minutes by foot or bike — has become a harbinger of big brother in conspiracy-land.Misinformation has triggered fierce protests against 15-minute city plans in the UK and Canada, with the City of Oxford even having to clarify they wouldn't be erecting physical barriers to separate citizens.Brent Toderian, a keen urbanist and Vancouver's former chief planner, is here to help us understand how the polite world of urban planning crashed into conspiracies.

Former planning manager of the Canadian city of Vancouver and now advisor to City of Reykjavik, Iceland, Brent Toderian, discusses Reykjavik's urban development plan competition, the problem of car dependency, and the populist backlash to even the most modest attempts at sustainable city design.

In the wake of COVID, local governments are looking for ways to construct cities to center around individuals rather than cars. 15-Minute Cities are a concept designed by urban planner Carlos Moreno to have cities include all necessary amenities within a 15-minute walk or cycle, so people do not need to rely on cars. This approach aims to reduce car dependency, emissions, meet climate goals and promote healthy and sustainable living and quality of life. However, some right-wing politicians and conspiracy theorists have condemned the idea as an example of authoritarian control, a form of climate lockdown and a "socialist concept" that will impose severe traffic restrictions confining people to their neighbourhoods and curtailing their personal freedoms. Join our guests Brent Toderian, formerly Vancouver's former chief planner, Niamh Moore - Cherry, a Professor of Urban Governance and Development, James Woudhuysen, Spiked Columnist and veteran environmental campaigner Arthur Pendragon as they explore the conspiracy theories surrounding 15-Minute Cities.

Gone are the days when a four-cylinder sedan was Australia's car of choice — it's all about SUVs, or the sports utility vehicle. From Mazda to Lamborghini, SUVs have fast become a must-have in an automaker's offering, and global demand is exponentially increasing (and so are the costs). Esteemed Canadian urbanist Brent Toderian joins Blueprint to discuss the consequences this SUV romance is having on our cities and streets.  

On this episode of the Good Roads Podcast Thomas and Jared talk to Brent Toderian, a renowned urbanist and city planner, and keynote speaker at this years Good Roads Conference.In this episode, we discuss some of the most pressing issues facing the transportation industry and how cities can plan and design their roads and transportation systems to better serve their communities.Join us and learn how municipalities and cities both big and small can take a creative approach, as well as ideas from other cities, and apply them at home to create a tighter community. TODERIAN UrbanWORKS (TUW) - https://toderianurbanworks.com/ Brent Toderian Twitter - https://twitter.com/BrentToderian How Cities Make Us Sick: CBC The National - https://youtu.be/jQfC6mKTErg https://twitter.com/Goodroads https://www.instagram.com/on.goodroads/ https://www.facebook.com/goodroads.ca https://www.linkedin.com/company/goodroads https://www.GoodRoads.ca

Urban planning has become the latest target of conspiracy theorists. In recent weeks, the 15-minute city concept — where neighbourhoods provide life's essentials in 15 minutes by foot or bike — has become a harbinger of big brother in conspiracy-land.Misinformation has triggered fierce protests against 15-minute city plans in the UK and Canada, with the City of Oxford even having to clarify they wouldn't be erecting physical barriers to separate citizens.Brent Toderian, a keen urbanist and Vancouver's former chief planner, is here to help us understand how the polite world of urban planning crashed into conspiracies.

Cities and cars and a climate crisis, oh my! For the past 70 years, urban design in Canada has been centred around the car. Cities have started making changes, but are they doing enough to meet Canada's climate goals? Featured in this episode: Dr. Edda Bild, postdoctoral fellow at McGill University and lead soundscape researcher for Sounds in the City. Jason Slaughter, creator of the YouTube channel Not Just Bikes. Brent Toderian, city planner and urbanist at TODERIAN UrbanWORKS. Links: Sounds in the City website Not Just Bikes YouTube Channel “The Power of Parking” paper Support Canadaland at canadaland.com/join Sponsors: oxio, Article Additional Music is by Audio NetworkSupport CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/joinSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brent Toderian, Vancouver based city planning consultant, discusses the Irish Government's target of getting one million electric vehicles on the roads by 2030.

On today's show, both Edmonton and Calgary have seen violent incidents involving young people recently. Is it something we should be concerned about? We ask Dr. Ritesh Narayan, a criminologist at Mount Royal University. Plus, has Edmonton found the solution for Canada's housing crisis? We ask Brent Toderian, a city planner & urbanist at TODERIAN UrbanWorks. And Emmunal Macron has been re-elected in France. Dr. Ferry de Kerckhove, a senior fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, explains why this election was so closely watched. 

Brent Toderian, city planner & urbanist at TODERIAN UrbanWorks

8:55 | Astronaut Chris Hadfield shares about his journey into writing books since retiring from space travel, including his new Cold War thriller, The Apollo Murders.  37:21 | #RealTalkRoundTable: Photo Radar, Urban Design & Road Safety We get evidence-based perspectives on how effective speed enforcement is, from City Planner and urbanist, Brent Toderian, City of Edmonton's Director of Safe Mobility's Jessica Lamare, and active transportation advocate Stephen Raitz with Paths for People. 1:32:15 | #TrashTalk | Ryan lets 'er rip on Real Talkers' emails about bad drivers, anti-vaxxers, and more. Presented by Local Waste

In this second episode of The Future of Cities series, Rich is joined by two special guests - Brent Toderian, International Consultant and Founder of Toderian UrbanWorks, and Lynn Haig, Director of Planning at the City of Bridgeport. Tune in as they discuss how travel patterns have changed in Connecticut during the pandemic, including the increase in the use of bike and scooter-share programs, and changes happening across other countries.

The pandemic has changed everything: from where we work to how we travel. This, in turn, has changed transportation patterns in our cities. In the first of a two-part discussion, Rich is joined by guests - Brent Toderian, International Consultant and Founder of Toderian UrbanWorks, and Lynn Haig, Director of Planning at the City of Bridgeport. Tune in as they discuss how travel patterns have changed in Connecticut during the pandemic, including the increase in the use of bike and scooter-share programs.

Urban planner, Brent Toderian and University of Calgary researcher Dr. Yeonjung Lee explain how Canadian cities are built can negatively impact the aging population.  Education expert Carla Peck shares about the need for the new Alberta Curriculum Analysis. The non-partisan, research-based website provides a scholarly evaluation of the proposed Alberta's Kindergarten to grade 12 curriculum. Funeral director and embalmer, Jeremy Allen, explains how he helps people to learn to live with grief via Death Ed workshops. Chief Allan Adam from Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations speaks about the call by 11 First Nation and Métis Nations in Northern Alberta for the Kenney government to take action and address COVID-19 immediately. 9:42 - Brent Toderian & Dr. Yeonjung Lee 41:13 - Dr. Carla Peck 1:07:59 - Jeremy Allen 1:35:22 - Chief Alan Adam

We chat with Brent Toderian. Consultancy Principal of Toderian UrbanWorks  Former Chief Planner for the City of Vancouver

The debate is on. In-studio we had Kyla Lee, Criminal Lawyer with Acumen Law, battling Brent Toderian, Toderian UrbanWorks consultancy principal.

The UBC skytrain project is gaining momentum. Today a press conference was held by Mayor Stewart and some prominent Indigenous leaders in hopes of getting other levels of government on board. We talk to Brent Toderian, City planner, Urbanist at TODUrbanWORKS. Former Vancouver chief planner. 

I've never been a fan of tall buildings. On a visit to Vancouver, I needed someone to convince me that they aren't inherently bad. The most obvious choice is my friend Brent Toderian, urban planner and former Chief Planner for the City of Vancouver. We spoke in the Olympic Village - one of the projects Brent is most proud of - about the urban development in Vancouver. He tells me what Vancouver learned from the world and - more importantly - what the world can learn from Vancouver. I learn why European cities do tall buildings badly, about strategic densification and that at the end of the day, we should just design a good building that lands well, regardless of height.

Gillian Gillette of Caltrans and Jeroen Kok of Rebel Group join this week and talk about the California Integrated Travel Project and the Market Sounding report they did to look at the future of integrated payment systems.  We also went over the usual news and reviews from the previous week. News Milwaukee workers no longer required to live in city - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Coastal cities made to plan more housing - LA Times 220 Acre park near downtown Charlotte - Charlotte Agenda Odds and Ends Will Kansas City have free transit? - Kansas City Star Cities sue FCC over fees - Bloomberg Story of the Week What does transportation equity mean? - University of Toronto How transit scaling shapes cities - Phys.org How megacities of Europe stole a continent's wealth - Guardian Puppies and Butterflies Jeff Tumlin to run the SFMTA - Streetsblog SF Funny clip from Utopia on Australian Broadcast Channel - via Brent Toderian tweet

A tale of two city-makers — one, a son of the working poor, who showed an early knack for creation and collaboration, in part through the use of polyhedral dice; the other, a world-renowned urban planner, with a Twitter following as large as the populations of some of the cities he now calls clients.The two are, of course, the same man. Brent Toderian arrived in Vancouver in 2006 as the new Director of Planning for the City of Vancouver, stepping into the role jointly held by Larry Beasley and Ann McAfee. In addition to being part of the team of “mad geniuses” at 12th & Cambie, Beasley and McAfee were already legends in the planning community for having presided over the era which introduced Vancouverism to North America.In explaining the trajectory that brought him here — an early passion for law, a degree in environmental science from University of Waterloo (major in urban and regional planning, natch), and early success managing city centre planning and design in Calgary — Toderian plots and connects a few new dots in his life story.That’s the opening flourish, however, to a more fascinating and controversial narrative, one which to this day still casts a shadow on the political makeover initiated by Vision Vancouver in the early days of their first majority on council (2008-2011). An administrative shake-up of epic proportions placed Toderian — halfway through what might have otherwise been a legendary tenure of his own at City Hall — in a very, very difficult position, one which ultimately became untenable.If you know anything about Toderian, whether personally, by reputation, or by Twitter feed, you agree with his self-assessment: he has zero tolerance for boredom, he believes planners aren’t (or perhaps shouldn’t be) neutral, and he’s unafraid of speaking truth to power (both the act, and its potential consequences). All of which might explain why he only lasted three years into the reign of then-City Manager Penny Ballem, who replaced her much-venerated predecessor Judy Rogers in 2008 to the chagrin of, …well… almost everyone. It’s an act of political interference still bemoaned for both its immediate and long-term consequences.But in case that’s still not enough of an explanation, Toderian speaks for himself — perhaps more candidly than you might have expected — as to the impact of that personnel change, and why he couldn’t stay at CoV. Whether due to the mellowing effects of time, fatherhood, or his subsequent success as an urbanist consultant and celebrity with Toderian UrbanWorks, Toderian opens up about this exciting, fraught time of his career, in a fast-moving discussion with Gord. Read more »

Brent Toderian joins us to discuss his former role as Vancouver's Chief Planner and some of the challenges facing cities.

Carmel Kilkenny speaks with urban planner Brent Toderian, about the evolution of shopping malls in Canada.

Bringing you the highlights from the Council for Canadian Urbanism's annual summit, held this year in Winnipeg. We speak to CanU founding president Brent Toderian, Winnipeg architect and Free Press columnist Brent Bellamy, SVN's Barbara Myers, Halifax's Urban Design Program Manager Jacob Ritchie, and newly-named CanU Vice President Kalen Anderson, Edmonton's director of planning coordination.

Jennifer chats with Brent Toderian, Urbanist and former Vancouver chief planner. They discuss the transformation and the need for transforming suburbia. Subscribe on your preferred platform: www.invisiblecitypodcast.com/subscribe

This episode features Brent Toderian, former Chief Planner for Vancouver, BC, Canada and current founder and principal at TODERIAN UrbanWORKS. Brent shares his perspective on city planning and urban design. He discusses the relationship between transportation engineers and planners, noting the evolution of the "plangineer."

This episode features Brent Toderian, former Chief Planner for Vancouver, BC, Canada and current founder and principal at TODERIAN UrbanWORKS. Brent shares his perspective on city planning and urban design. He discusses the relationship between transportation engineers and planners, noting the evolution of the "plangineer."

This week we’re joined by former Vancouver BC chief planner Brent Toderian. We discuss the best way to do density, when towers are appropriate for cities, what type of cities should take on the Olympics, and what happens to a planner after they have kids.  Brent also talks about the negatives of not only NIMBYs but YIMBYs and whether we should believe all those articles that rank cities by any measure.