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This episode is part of a special series called "Changing American Car Culture" funded with the generous support of The Helen and William Mazer Foundation. As historian Peter Norton documents in his book, Fighting Traffic, the death and destruction caused by the introduction of automobiles into U.S. cities in the early part of the 20th century caused a lot of people to challenge the notion that such machines would ever become popular. In response, autmobile companies, car dealers, driving enthuisasts, and others went on the offense, creating the culture that gave rise to the mass adoption of cars and the phenomenon of forced car dependence. In this special episode, producer Ilana Strauss brings us a story that begins with the pushback against automobiles, the fight for speed governors, and the unlikely partnership between a Studebaker dealer and a young academic who manufactured the rules and norms that came to shape American streets at the expense of anyone who isn't in a car. Support The War on Cars on Patreon and receive exclusive access to ad-free versions of regular episodes, Patreon-only bonus content, Discord access, invitations to live events, merch discounts and free stickers! ***Our new book, Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automobile, is out now from Thesis, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Pre-order now and find us on tour.*** This episode was sponsored by Cleverhood. Listen for the latest discount code. www.lifeaftercars.com
What if the biggest public space in your city isn't a park—it's the street right outside your door? We sit down with author and planner‑geographer David Prytherch to rethink roads as social infrastructure and unpack why “complete streets” is only the starting line. From the rapid legal and engineering turn that handed streets to cars a century ago to the community‑led experiments that reclaimed asphalt during the pandemic, this conversation traces the power dynamics that shape everyday mobility—and how to change them.We dig into mobility justice in plain language: not just bikes versus cars, but who feels safe, who gets heard, and where public money actually lands. David lays out how pop‑ups, parklets, and open streets create a cognitive shift that policy can lock in, and why “messy shared space” often calms traffic better than paint and signs. You'll hear practical, scalable ideas—default speed humps, daylighted intersections, neighborhood greenways, curb‑level plazas—and a frank look at bottom‑up versus top‑down delivery. Boston's standardized traffic calming and Queens' 34th Avenue transformation show two paths to lasting change, each grounded in data, culture, and community stewardship.If you care about safer streets, small business vitality, public health, or equitable access, this episode offers a toolkit and a mindset. We share a reading list—from Peter Norton's Fighting Traffic to Mimi Sheller's Mobility Justice—and outline how cities can move from car hegemony to people‑first design without breaking budgets. Enjoyed the conversation? Subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with a friend or colleague who plans, pedals, or simply walks their city.Show Notes:Further Reading:Fighting Traffic: the Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City by Peter Norton Mobility Justice: the Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes by Mimi ShellerJustice in the Interstates: The Racist Truth about Urban Highways by Ryan Reft, Amanda Phillips de Lucas, Rebecca Retzlaff Cyclescapes of the Uneven City: Bicycle Infrastructure and Uneven Development by John G. StehlinLaw, Engineering, and The American Right-of-Way by David Prytherch (free download here).To view the show transcripts, click on the episode at https://bookedonplanning.buzzsprout.com/Follow us on social media for more content related to each episode:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/booked-on-planning/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BookedPlanningFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bookedonplanningInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bookedonplanning/
In this episode, I reconnect with Prof. Ruth Oldenziel from the Technical University in Eindhoven for a discussion about the global Cycling Cities Initiative, which kicked off in 2016 with the publication of the Cycling Cities: The European Experience coffee table book, which I happen to have in my house. We talk about the maturation of the project, including the upcoming release of the Cycling Cities: The African Experience, as well as the first from North America, Minneapolis. Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):
Continuing Conversations w/ Peter Norton of Hollowponds Solo Sagas. This week on the show, we sit down with Peter Norton, the creative force behind Hollowponds Solo Sagas, to talk about his bold leap into full-time storytelling. We dive into his upcoming projects, his vision for building a vibrant solo RPG community, and his creative ventures into Star Trek Adventures Captain's Log. From passion to profession, from the depths of original worlds to the final frontier—this is an episode packed with inspiration, insight, and the art of going boldly… alone. https://linktr.ee/studiotembo 00:00:20 - Meeting Michael, Jim, and Peter 00:06:35 - Solo role-playing and creative freedom 00:12:46 - Solo game design and imagination 00:15:26 - Star Trek, gaming, and show genres 00:20:53 - Captain encounters sentient lichen species 00:25:17 - Captain's Log as role-playing tool 00:29:36 - Capping stories and building arcs 00:35:27 - Writing requires constant practice 00:40:13 - Sign off: Live long and prosper
Cities across the US are rethinking streets, going beyond sidewalks and bike lanes to welcome nonmotorists to share the roadway. David L. Prytherch, author of Reclaiming the Road: Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets, traces the historical evolution of America's streets and explores contemporary movements to retake them from cars for diverse forms of mobility and community life. Can we design more just streets? Here, Prytherch is joined in conversation with Mimi Sheller and Peter Norton.David Prytherch is professor of geography at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is author of Reclaiming the Road: Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets; Law, Engineering, and the American Right-of-Way: Imagining a More Just Street; and coeditor of Transport, Mobility, and the Production of Urban Space. Mimi Sheller is Dean of The Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Sheller is founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities, founding co-director of the Centre for Mobilities at Lancaster University, England, and past president of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility. Sheller is author of Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes.Peter Norton is associate professor of history in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He is author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City and Autonorama: The Illustory Promise of High-Tech Driving.REFERENCES:John UrryThe Death and Life of Great American Cities / Jane JacobsPeople for Mobility JusticeRobert MosesComplete StreetsThe UntokeningKimberlé CrenshawPraise for the book:"Reporting from the front lines of recent post-pandemic physical and cultural transformations of public space in nine major American cities, David L. Prytherch raises profound questions about what streets are for and how they might be equitably shared. The result is a fresh, hopeful vision for intersectional mobility justice and public placemaking."—Mimi Sheller, author of Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes"David L. Prytherch gives a crisp, clear, and accessible narrative of the movement to reclaim public streets after one hundred years of domination by private automobile interests. Steering us through the politics of streets during the Covid-19 pandemic and recovery, this is a refreshingly innovative and optimistic book for anyone concerned about our urban mobility future."—Jason Henderson, coauthor of Street Fights in Copenhagen: Bicycle and Car Politics in a Green Mobility CityReclaiming the Road: Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets by David L. Prytherch is available from University of Minnesota Press.
In this episode Sully talks with Peter Norton, author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.Peter Norton: https://bsky.app/profile/norton.bsky.social Fighting Traffic: https://amzn.to/431jI48 Send us a question: radiofreeurbanism@gmail.comPatreon: patreon.com/RadioFreeUrbanism Instagram: https://rb.gy/ezn9rzSully: https://www.youtube.com/@SullyvilleEthan: https://www.youtube.com/@climateandtransitNic: https://www.youtube.com/@nicthedoor
In this episode, I connect with Jarrett Walker, author of Human Transit, revised edition. This book, aimed at a nontechnical reader, explores the challenging questions that you must think about when planning or advocating for public transit in your community. We discuss what aspects of the public transit landscape have changed since the first edition in 2011, such as the rise of small shared personal mobility options like scooters and bikes, work from home trends, and increasingly imaginary techno-whiz-bang solutions like tunnels, aerial gondolas, and flying cars sucking up funds and attention, while also addressing the core fundamentals of effective public transportation that remains same. We also talk about the power of having walkable and bikeable environments to maximize the utilitarian potential of transit and access to opportunity.Thank you so much for tuning in! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend and subscribe to the podcast on your preferred listening platform. Also, don't forget to check out the Active Towns Channel for more video content.Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):- Jarrett Walker & Associates website- Human Transit blog- Jarrett on Bluesky- My episode with Dan Hendry - My episode with Lenore Skenazy- My episode with Peter Norton on Autonorama- My episode with Peter Norton on the history of protesting for safer streets- My Brompton and airports video- Bike and Train Magic episode with Roland KagerIf you are a fan of the Active Towns Podcast, please consider supporting the effort as an Active Towns Ambassador in the following ways:1. Join our Patreon community. Contributions start at just $3 per month2. If you enjoyed this episode, you can also "leave a tip" through "Buy Me a Coffee"3. Make a donation to my non-profit, Advocates for Healthy Communities, Inc., to help support my pro bono work with citiesCredits:- Video and audio production by John Simmerman- Music via Epidemic SoundResources used during the production of this video:- My recording platform is Ecamm Live- Editing software Adobe Creative Cloud Suite- Equipment: Contact me for a complete listFor more information about the Active Towns effort or to follow along, please visit our links below:- Active Towns Website- Active Towns on Bluesky- Weekly Update e-NewsletterBackground:Hi Everyone! My name is John Simmerman, and I'm a health promotion and public health professional with over 30 years of experience. Over the years, my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization in how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.Since 2010, I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be while striving to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities."The Active Towns Channel features my original video content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.Thanks once again for tuning in! I hope you find this content helpful and insightful.Creative Commons License: Attributions, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 2025 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Send Me a Text MessageJoin host Tom Butler on this week's episode as he launches "Zwift Thursday," a fantastic way to ride virtually with other podcast listeners. Tom also shares his newfound love for bike swaps.This week's special guest is Bob Anderton, an attorney with decades of experience representing injured cyclists. He shares his invaluable insights into the legal landscape for cyclists, offering practical tips and a unique perspective you won't want to miss. Tune in for an informative and engaging conversation about staying safe and enjoying the ride!LinksVeloSwap - Denver: veloswap.comLive In Peace - Palo Alto: liveinpeace.org/bikeswap Stop Swap and Save - Westminster, MD: stopswapandsave.comFighting Traffic by Peter Norton: penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/Thanks for Joining Me! Follow and comment on Cycling Over Sixty on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cyclingoversixty/Consider becoming a member of the Cycling Over Sixty Strava Club! www.strava.com/clubs/CyclingOverSixtyPlease send comments, questions and especially content suggestions to me at tom.butler@teleiomedia.comShow music is "Come On Out" by Dan Lebowitz. Find him here : lebomusic.com
Peter Norton discusses Toyota joining the Rally of Canberra. Enjoying a longstanding involvement in both Australia and on the world stage, Toyota is a name synonymous with rally, having had a significant presence since the early 1970s.
Peter Norton discusses Toyota joining the Rally of Canberra. Enjoying a longstanding involvement in both Australia and on the world stage, Toyota is a name synonymous with rally, having had a significant presence since the early 1970s.
Measured by distance and speed, today North Americans move more than ever. Movement, however, is but a means to an end; more movement is not in itself beneficial. Movement is a cost of meeting daily needs, and provided these needs are met, less movement is generally advantageous. Nevertheless, since the 1930s traffic engineers have pursued movement maximization in North American cities as if movement is an end in itself, and even as if movement is in itself freedom. The human costs have included unbearable burdens measurable as financial, health, safety, equitability, livability and environmental costs. Together these burdens impair human autonomy; that is, by constraining people's choices about where and how to live, they diminish freedom. Automobility, promoted as a deliverer of freedom, has instead imposed car dependency, a kind of unfreedom. Paradoxically, many engineers now pursue so-called “autonomous” (robotic) driving, promising thereby to sustain unsustainable quantities of movement, when the sole worthy end of movement is not machine but human autonomy. To escape the traps that these errors set for us, we must trace them to their origins. Though engineering is defined as applied science, history reveals that the origins and persistence of prevailing traffic engineering principles lie not in scientific research but in power politics, and that such principles have more in common with religious dogmas than with natural laws. Far more practical possibilities await us when we escape the confines these dogmas impose on us and recognize movement as a secondary good that serves us only as it contributes to human autonomy. Peter Norton is an associate professor of history in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He is a member of the University of Virginia's Center for Transportation Studies and has been a visiting faculty member at the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Norton is the author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, and of Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving. He is a winner of the Usher Prize of the Society for the History of Technology, and a frequent speaker on the subject of sustainable and equitable urban mobility. In addition to this audio, you can watch the video and read the full transcript of the conversation on Shareable.net – while you're there get caught up on past lectures. Cities@Tufts Lectures explores the impact of urban planning on our communities and the opportunities to design for greater equity and justice with professor Julian Agyeman. Cities@Tufts Lectures is produced by Tufts University and Shareable.net with support from Barr Foundation, Lectures are moderated by Professor Julian Agyeman and organized in partnership with research assistants Amelia Morton and Grant Perry. Paige Kelly is our co-producer and audio editor, the original portrait of Karin Bradley was illustrated by Anke Dregnet, and the series is co-produced and hosted by Tom Llewellyn. “Light Without Dark” by Cultivate Beats is our theme song.
“Every line on the road is a political choice.” Marco te Brömmelstroet, a.k.a. “The Cycling Professor,” is the chair of Urban Mobility Futures at the University of Amsterdam. His book Movement, with Thalia Verkade, takes a stance against myths and received wisdoms that surround popular thinking about the rights and place of cyclists and pedestrians, urban design, and traffic engineering. Parallel to the critique, he presents new ways of thinking about how, and why we move through the world, and at what speed. -- Intro/Outro: “My White Bicycle,” by Tomorrow -- Discussed: - Urban Cycling Institute - Woonerf - Chicane - Chip Cone - Cauliflower neighborhood, a.k.a. Bloemkoolwijk - Fighting Traffic, by Peter Norton - RoadDanger.org - Stafford Beer - Rollback of congestion pricing in New York City - The bicycle at the bed-in, Amsterdam 1969 - The Royal Dutch Touring Club, AWNB vs the EWNB - School streets, Paris - Provo – Dutch nonviolent protest group + The White Bicycle Plan - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig - Bicycle Highways - Anne Hidalgo + Carlos Moreno = 170,000 trees - Groningen car ban, 1980 - Nieuwmarkt riots, Amsterdam, 1975 - Janette Sadiq-Khan and the Times Square pedestrianization - Bike Bus – Sam Balto - NYC Municipal Vehicle Active Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) / Speed Geofencing - Valerie Plante, Mayor of Montreal, BIXI bikes (non-profit bike-sharing program) - Swapfliets (Swap Bike)
May is Bike Month and it timed perfect to interview Dan Piatkowski on his book coming out this month titled "Bicycle City: Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future." Our conversation sheds light on the power of e-bikes as vehicles for sustainable urban transport. We tackle the questions around electric vehicles and their true impact on city design, challenging the prevalent notion that technological advancement alone can solve our environmental issues. We also examine the agility of urban centers during times of crisis, drawing parallels to the rapid changes seen in response to the pandemic and the lessons we can carry forward for climate action. As we wrap up this episode, the notion of 'car light' living steers us toward a vision of cities abundant with walkable streets and bike paths that are inclusive for all. Show Notes:Further Reading: Dark PR by Grant Ennis, Autonorama by Peter Norton, Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt; Killed by a Traffic Engineer by Wes Marshall, When Driving is not an Option by Anna Zivarts.Further Utopian Reading: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson's work, Cory Doctorow's workTo help support the show, pick up a copy of the book through our Amazon Affiliates page at https://amzn.to/3yb8pdM or even better, get a copy through your local bookstore!To view the show transcripts, click on the episode at https://bookedonplanning.buzzsprout.com/Follow us on social media for more content related to each episode:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/booked-on-planning/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BookedPlanningFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bookedonplanningInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bookedonplanning/
In 1991, two police officers stopped Tupac Shakur for jaywalking. He said he was knocked unconscious during his arrest, and sued the city of Oakland for 10 million dollars. His lawyer says many of the police brutality cases he's worked on started with jaywalking stops. Peter Norton's book is Fighting Traffic. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, members-only merch, and more. Learn more and sign up here. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Die autogerechte Stadt. Wohl kaum ein Leitbild des 20. Jahrhunderts hat in den Städten Deutschlands und der Welt deutlichere Spuren hinterlassen. Und wohl kaum eine Entwicklung des letzten Jahrhunderts hat heute eine derart negativere Auswirkung auf unsere Lebensqualität in den Städten. Denn ganz ehrlich: WAS HABEN AUTOS BITTE IN STÄDTEN VERLOREN?! Während meiner autohassgetriebenen Recherche für diese Folge musste ich dann aber doch eine Ironie feststellen. Denn diese ganze Idee – die autogerechte Stadt – entstand ursprünglich gerade, WEIL das Leben in Städten in den Jahrzehnten zuvor so unerträglich geworden war. Es mag mit dem Blick von heute also überraschen, aber vielleicht war an dieser Vorstellung doch einmal was dran?Melde dich hier für den Newsletter an und erfahre hier mehr über den Déjà-vu Club.Schauen wir uns diese autogerechte Stadt in dieser Folge also mal etwas näher an. Wandern (oder fahren?) wir gemeinsam in die Geschichte und sprechen über die wichtigsten Merkmale dieser damals revolutionären Idee. Reden wir über die Vorteile und Nachteile der autogerechten Stadtplanung, über ihre theoretischen Grundlagen wie etwa die Charta von Athen und auch über konkrete Beispiele aus der Geschichte. Hast du Lust? Na dann steig ein.Déjà-vu Geschichte ist Mitglied des Netzwerks #Historytelling. Diese Episode findest du auch auf ralfgrabuschnig.com. Hinterlasse mir dort gerne einen Kommentar mit deinen Gedanken. Und wenn dir der Déjà-vu Geschichte Podcast gefällt, abonniere ihn doch bitte, wo auch immer du ihn hörst.Links zur EpisodeDer Stadtspaziergang durch Köln EhrenfeldAlles über den Déjà-vu NewsletterZum Club auf SteadyAlle Infos aus der WerbungQuellenDas von mir zitierte Interview mit Peter Norton in Bloomberg (Sarah Goodyear: The Invention of Jaywalking. 24.4.2012)Christoph Bernhardt: Längst beerdigt und doch quicklebendig. Zur widersprüchlichen Geschichte der “autogerechten Stadt”. In: Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History, Online-Ausgabe 14 (2017), H. 3.Tags: Zeitgeschichte, Europa, Westeuropa, Deutschland, Amerika, Nordamerika, USA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Peter Norton discusses the wild weather and Harry Bates victory at the Rally of Canberra
Peter Norton discusses the wild weather and Harry Bates victory at the Rally of Canberra
In this episode, I welcome back Professor Peter Norton of the University of Virginia for a continuation of our discussion about the long legacy of parents fighting for safer streets in the United States of America and how Motordom ultimately prevailed in most cases where they were challenged. We also draw comparisons between the street safety protests of The Netherlands in the 1970s, which profoundly changed the trajectory of the country and helped to pave the way towards a country that broadly has mobility choice between walking, biking, transit, and driving a motor vehicle.Thank you so much for tuning in! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend and subscribe to the Podcast on your preferred listening platform, and don't forget to check out and subscribe to the Active Towns Channel for more contentHelpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):- My first podcast episode with Peter- My second episode with Peter- Professor Peter Norton's website- Peter Norton on X/Twitter- Peter on BlueSky- Fighting Traffic by Peter D. Norton- Autonorama by Peter D. Norton- Families for Safe Streets website- Dark PR episode with Grant Ennis- Active Towns Bookshop for Books Profiled on the PodIf you are a fan of the Active Towns Podcast, please consider supporting the effort as an Active Towns Ambassador in the following ways:1. Join our Patreon community. Contributions start at just $1 per month(Note: Patron benefits include early, ad-free access to content and a 15% discount in the Active Towns Merch Store)2. If you enjoyed this episode, you can also "leave a tip" through "Buy Me a Coffee"3. Pick up some Active Towns #StreetsAreForPeople Merch at my storeCredits:- Video and audio production by John Simmerman- Music via Epidemic SoundResources used during the production of this video:- My recording platform is Ecamm Live- Editing software Adobe Creative Cloud Suite- Equipment: Contact me for a complete listFor more information about the Active Towns effort or to follow along, please visit our links below:- Active Towns Website- Active Towns on Twitter- Periodic e-NewsletterBackground:Hi Everyone! My name is John Simmerman, and I'm a health promotion and public health professional with over 30 years of experience. Over the years, my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization in how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.Since 2010, I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be while striving to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities."The Active Towns Channel features my original video content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.Thanks once again for tuning in! I hope you find this content helpful and insightful.Creative Commons License: Attributions, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 2024 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Welcome to the Season Two premiere of "Cycling Over Sixty," where new fitness challenges await! In this episode, listeners join host, Tom Butler, as he explores his goal for the new season: achieving significant weight loss, a pursuit that eluded him during Season One. Tom candidly reflects on the challenges he faced, drawing lessons from his initial cycling endeavors.Accompanying Tom on this episode is journalist and avid cyclist, Nick Deshais. With his extensive experience cycling around the Pacific Northwest and exploring the world on two wheels, Nick brings a unique perspective to the table. Together, they engage in a discussion about the bike challenge Tom should take on next, drawing inspiration from Nick's rewarding journeys.But the conversation doesn't stop there. Tom and Nick delve into various topics related to cycling and its impact on society. They explore how cycling can transform communities, promote sustainability, and inspire healthier lifestyles across all age groups. Unveiling the implications of this eco-friendly mode of transportation, their dialogue uncovers the potential for positive change both within individuals and in the world at large.LinksUSBR10 Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Bicycle_Route_10Nicks article on the history of roads and cycling in Spokane: spokesman.com/stories/2019/sep/07/spokane-was-a-city-built-for-cycling-and-then-the-/Peter Norton book, Fighting Traffic: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262516129/fighting-traffic/Bicycle quarterly: bikequarterly.com/Paris as a bike city: discerningcyclist.com/how-paris-became-cycling-city/Thanks for Joining Me! Follow and comment on Cycling Over Sixty on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cyclingoversixty/Please send comments, questions and especially content suggestions to me at tom.butler@teleiomedia.comShow music is "Come On Out" by Dan Lebowitz. Find him here : lebomusic.com
This show we get an Australian view of the British Grand Prix with Peter Norton.
This show we get an Australian view of the British Grand Prix with Peter Norton.
Peter Norton discusses the atomosphere of a Ferrari win at the 100th anniversary of the Le Mans 24 Hour classic.
Peter Norton discusses the atomosphere of a Ferrari win at the 100th anniversary of the Le Mans 24 Hour classic.
Peter Norton talks about the sights and sounds at the Le Mans 24 Hours as the race draws closer, with Ferarri on the pole, and NASCAR making a big splash at the 100th running of the event
Peter Norton talks about the sights and sounds at the Le Mans 24 Hours as the race draws closer, with Ferarri on the pole, and NASCAR making a big splash at the 100th running of the event
As part of Newstalks Summer Tour, Lunchtime Live was LIVE from the picturesque village of Enniskerry, nestled in the Wicklow mountains. Famous for Powerscourt house and gardens, but what else has the village got to offer? Lana Condron from the School House for Art in Enniskerry gave Andrea a guided tour. Andrea also met with Peter Norton, the owner of Poppies in Enniskerry...
Mass memorials to the victims of traffic violence are a rarity on American roads. But it wasn't always that way — and there's a fascinating history behind why so many lost lives have become virtually invisible in the public realm today. On this episode of The Brake, Kea Wilson sits down with historian and author Peter Norton to talk about how America used to memorialize car crash deaths in the early days of the automobile, and why automakers invested so much into reshaping the way we grieve. And then they chat about what it might take to bring the national traffic violence epidemic out of the shadows, and why even everyday non-lethal road trauma deserves to be called out. Listen in, and learn more about traffic violence memorials in our earlier coverage.
Paris Marx is joined by David Zipper to discuss how Silicon Valley pitched new technologies as the fix for a whole range of transport problems, and how that really just distracted us from solutions while allowing issues like road deaths, emissions, and traffic to get even worse.David Zipper is a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Taubman Center for State and Local Government and a contributing writer at Bloomberg CityLab. You can find his articles and sign up for his newsletter at DavidZipper.com and follow him on Twitter at @DavidZipper.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.Also mentioned in this episode:David wrote about why traffic safety is getting worse in the US, and compared it to Canada, Finland, France, and Japan. He also wrote about the history of self-driving cars, the danger posed to pedestrians on the roads, the problem with infotainment systems, and what's wrong with positioning car tech as the solution to our problems.Paris wrote about how Elon Musk designed the Hyperloop to try to get California's high-speed line canceled.AAA puts the annual cost of car ownership in the US at over $10,000 a year in 2022. In Canada, CAA put it at $8600 to $13,000 a year in 2017 — a number that is surely even higher now.Peter Norton wrote about how the auto industry took over US roads in the early 1900s in Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.Support the show
Watch the video version of this episode to get the full effect.Landing page for the episodeWe also discuss the slow transformation of the streets of the Los Angeles area and how he hopes he can help to facilitate change locally.Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):- Hello Road- Ethan's Cars Suck video- Streets For All- Streetsblog article- Peter Norton's AutonoramaFour Easy Steps to Support My Efforts:1. Become an Active Towns Ambassador by "Buying Me a Coffee" or by pledging as little as $1 per month on Patreon2. If you enjoyed this episode, please give it a "thumbs up," leave a review on Apple Podcasts, and share it with a friend.3. Subscribe to the podcast on your preferred listening platform and the Active Towns YouTube Channel4. Pick up some Active Towns #StreetsAreForPeople Merch at my storeCredits:All video and audio production by John SimmermanMusic:Epidemic SoundResources used during the production of this episode:- My awesome recording platform is Ecamm- Adobe Creative Cloud SuiteFor more information about my Active Towns effort or to follow along, please visit my links below:- Website- Twitter- Newsletter- Podcast landing pages- Facebook- InstagramBackground:Hi Everyone, my name is John Simmerman.I'm a health promotion professional with over 30 years of experience and my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization of how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.In 2012 I launched the non-profit Advocates for Healthy Communities as an effort to help promote and create healthy, active places.Since that time, I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be, in order to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities."My Active Towns suite of channels feature my original video and audio content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.Thanks for tuning in; I hope you have found this content helpful.Creative Commons License: Attributions, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 2022Advocates for Healthy Communities, Inc. is a nonprofit 501c3 organization (EIN 45-3802508) dedicated to helping communities create a Culture of Activity. To donate, click here. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Watch the video version of this episode to get the full effect.Landing page for the episodeWe also discuss what led her on the journey to make this film on safer street design, a topic she knew nothing about before the cameras started rolling. She shares how making this film has profoundly changed how she sees our cities, streets, and land use patterns. From the film's website: "THE STREET PROJECT is the story about humanity's relationship to the streets and the global citizen-led fight to make communities safer.Digging deep into the root causes of traffic violence, the filmmakers engage a diverse array of experts, including street historian Peter Norton, city planner Jeff Speck, and urban design expert Mikael Colville-Andersen. These expert interviews are interwoven with the stories of real people working to make their communities safer.Jennifer Boyd has produced and directed more than 25 documentaries, nine of those films have won EMMY awards. Recent projects include 3 Seconds Behind the Wheel, which Good Morning America called “Groundbreaking.” Boyd has also co-created and produced two music television series Infinity Hall Live and The Kate, with 40 episodes in distribution.Currently, she is executive producing and directing a 5-part series on the history of Las Vegas, and a documentary on Mesa Verde National Park.The Street Project was filmed over 4 years and in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic." Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):- The Street Project film website- 3 Seconds Behind the Wheel film- Filmmaker Jennifer Boyd's websiteFour Easy Steps to Support My Efforts:1. Become an Active Towns Ambassador by "Buying Me a Coffee" or by pledging as little as $1 per month on Patreon2. If you enjoyed this episode, please give it a "thumbs up," leave a review on Apple Podcasts, and share it with a friend.3. Subscribe to the podcast on your preferred listening platform and the Active Towns YouTube Channel4. Pick up some Active Towns #StreetsAreForPeople Merch at my storeCredits:All video and audio production by John SimmermanMusic:Epidemic SoundResources used during the production of this episode:- My awesome recording platform is Ecamm- Adobe Creative Cloud SuiteFor more information about my Active Towns effort or to follow along, please visit my links below:- Website- Twitter- Newsletter- Podcast landing pages- Facebook- InstagramBackground:Hi Everyone, my name is John Simmerman.I'm a health promotion professional with over 30 years of experience and my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization of how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.In 2012 I launched the non-profit Advocates for Healthy Communities as an effort to help promote and create healthy, active places.Since that time, I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be, in order to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities."My Active Towns suite of channels feature my original video and audio content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.Thanks for tuning in; I hope you have found this content helpful.Creative Commons License: Attributions, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 2022Advocates for Healthy Communities, Inc. is a nonprofit 501c3 organization (EIN 45-3802508) dedicated to helping communities create a Culture of Activity. To donate, click here. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
In Episode 2 of Season 2 of the Feminist City podcast series, Sneha Visakha is in conversation with Dr. Govind Gopakumar, Associate Professor and Chair, Centre for Engineering in Society at Concordia University. In this episode, they discuss Dr. Gopakumar's work in Bengaluru on topics ranging from the politics of urban infrastructure, urban mobility policies surrounding cars, buses and car-centric urban design along with the critiques of existing solutions to decongesting Bengaluru that contribute to the very problem it is trying to solve. They also discuss the use of law in shaping the city, lack of people's participation in determining policies and plans in cities and how this particularly affects women and other vulnerable populations in the city. Dr. Govind Gopakumar is currently Associate Professor in the Centre for Engineering in Society in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University. His specific interests are in the policy dynamics of urban infrastructure change, social dimensions of the sustainability of water supply, globalisation of urban infrastructure, interdisciplinarity in engineering education and social entrepreneurship for engineers. Dr. Gopakumar received his Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to that he received a M.S. in Energy and Environmental Policy from the University of Delaware and completed an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University. He has a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from College of Engineering, University of Kerala, India. You can read more about him and his work here: https://govindgopakumar.net/ For background reading, we recommend perusing the literature provided below: Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities, Govind Gopakumar, MIT Press. Making a Feminist City – Planning Safety and Autonomy for Women, Sneha Visakha Indian Automobility, Govind Gopakumar, Concordia. Jaywalkers to be fined in special drive on pedestrian safety, The Hindu. Regime of Congestion: Technopolitics of Mobility and Inequality in Bengaluru, Govind Gopakumar, Science as Culture. Who will Decongest Bengaluru? Politics, Infrastructures, & Scapes. Govind Gopakumar, Mobilities. JNNURM as a Window on Urban Governance, Govind Gopakumar, Economic & Political Weekly. Bengaluru does not need a steel flyover worth hundreds of crores, voices rise against project, TNM Staff, The News Minute Free bus ride scheme for women begins in Delhi, The Economic Times Now, free bus rides for Capital's labour force, Sweta Goswami, Hindustan Times Car Country: An Environmental History (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series), Christopher W. Wells, University of Washington Press. Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, Peter Norton, MIT Press. Participolis, Consent and Contention in Neoliberal Urban India, Edited by Karen Coelho, Lalitha Kamath, M. Vijayabaskar, Routledge India Do Artifacts Have Politics? Langdon Winner, Daedalus, Modern Technology: Problem or Opportunity? The MIT Press Civic Groups: Bangalore Bus Prayanikara Vedike (BBPV) Bengaluru Bus Prayanikara Vedike's Bus Manifesto for BMTC Documentary: Social Life of a Bus, Govind Gopakumar & Bangalore Bus Prayanikara Vedike, Youtube. Podcast: Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities by Govind Gopakumar (Podcast), Govind Gopakumar, Sneha Annavarapu, New Books Network. Want to get in touch? Email sneha.visakha@vidhilegalpolicy.in or reach out to her on Twitter, @magicanarchist.
Author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation and Host of Tech Won't Save Us Paris Marx helps us see how the future of transportation imagined by our techno-benefactors may best be understood as a collective dead end.
William Gladstone is an expert on the implications and impact of 2012 and ancient religions. . He's traveled around the world researching for and setting up the international productions of Rod Serling's IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT MYSTERIES and other projects including IN SEARCH OF THE HISTORICAL JESUS. As a literary agent he has worked with some of the most respected and influential authors of our time, including Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, and Barbara Marx Hubbard. Throughout his career, William has also worked with prominent visionaries, including Tom Anderson, founder of Myspace; Peter Norton, founder of Norton Computing; and Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system. He attended Yale College and earned a graduate degree in cultural anthropology from Harvard University. He resides in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California. - www.12thebook.comTo listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com
This episode is the second of Jack's investigations into self-driving cars. Last time, he was interested in Phoenix, Arizona. This time, he's back home in London, an old, complicated, messy city with an extensive public transport system. The episode was presented and written by Jack Stilgoe and edited by Gemma Milne, with research assistance from Nuzhah Miah.Relevant links- Joe Moran, (2006). Crossing the road in Britain, 1931–1976. The Historical Journal, 49 (2), 477-496.- Joe Moran (2010). On roads: a hidden history. Profile Books.- Lucy Suchman (1987). Plans and situated actions: The problem of human-machine communication. Cambridge university press.- Peter Norton (2011). Fighting traffic: the dawn of the motor age in the American city. MIT Press.- Peter Norton (2021). Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-tech Driving. Island Press.- https://www.wayve.ai/ (and the company's published papers, e.g.: Hawke, J., Badrinarayanan, V., & Kendall, A. (2021). Reimagining an autonomous vehicle. arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.05805). - Chris Tennant, & Jack Stilgoe, (2021). The attachments of ‘autonomous' vehicles. Social Studies of Science, 51(6), 846-870. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03063127211038752- Tennant, C., Neels, C., Parkhurst, G., Jones, P., Mirza, S., & Stilgoe, J. (2021). Code, culture and concrete: Self-Driving Vehicles and the Rules of the Road. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 122.Transcript and study questions available at thereceivedwisdom.org.
Peter Norton is associate professor of history in the department of engineering and society at the University of Virginia. In this interview he talks about his recent book Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving, arguing that driverless cars cannot be the safe, sustainable, and inclusive “mobility solutions” that tech companies and automakers are promising us. He claims the salesmanship behind the driverless future is distracting us from investing in better ways to get around that we can implement now that are inexpensive, safe, sustainable, and inclusive. Subjects of discussion include smart highways, the focus on autonomous vehicles and the importance – or otherwise – of ITS. Plus news and conversation with Tom Stone and Saul Wordsworth.NOTE: Exclusive and additional content from the interview will appear in the September issue of TTi.Interview begins at 4:45.
This month is a bit different. This episode is the first part of an investigation, led by Jack, into self-driving cars, trying to locate the technology in particular places. The first part focuses on Phoenix, Arizona, a testbed for some of the technology's most ambitious developers and also the scene of the first self-driving car crash to kill a pedestrian. Jack talks to various experts - historians, crash investigators, journalists and tech company representatives - to ask what the technology might mean for different places. The second part moves to Jack's home town, London.The episode was presented and written by Jack Stilgoe and edited by Gemma Milne, with research assistance from Nuzhah Miah.- Jack Stilgoe, (2019) Who Killed Elaine Herzberg?, OneZero, 12 Dec 2019, https://onezero.medium.com/who-killed-elaine-herzberg-ea01fb14fc5e- Chris Tennant, & Jack Stilgoe, (2021). The attachments of ‘autonomous' vehicles. Social Studies of Science, 51(6), 846-870. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03063127211038752- Lucy Suchman, (2019). Demystifying the intelligent machine. In Cyborg Futures (pp. 35-61). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-21836-2_3- Madeleine C Elish, (2019). Moral Crumple Zones: Cautionary Tales in Human-Robot Interaction. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 5, 40-60.- Peter Norton, (2011). Fighting traffic: the dawn of the motor age in the American city. Mit Press.- Wetmore, J. (2003). Driving the dream. The history and motivations behind 60 years of automated highway systems in America. Automotive History Review, 7, 4-19.Full transcript and study questions available at thereceivedwisdom.org.
After an unexpected hiatus, your best friends AJ and Jordan are back in business. This time around we go where few shows of any stature have ever dared: the subject of traffic congestion. What's up with it? What causes it? When did we first start to see it as a problem? How did competing narratives from the early days come to shape how we see and deal with it? Is traffic congestion definitely bad, or is it akshually good? And as always, we will be talking about how this all affects us as humans, individually and collectively. This is a longer episode than usual, but it's more packed than the Katy Freeway at rush hour. Stay tuned for a follow-up episode about some common ways we've tried to address traffic but ended up making it worse! Links: Want to learn more on this episode's topic? Here's just a short list of interesting resources: Fighting Traffic by Peter Norton (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/fighting-traffic (buy) or https://www.worldcat.org/title/fighting-traffic-the-dawn-of-the-motor-age-in-the-american-city/oclc/1020677234 (find in library)) https://cityobservatory.org/questioning-congestion-costs/ (Questioning Congestion Costs) https://cityobservatory.org/its-back-and-its-even-dumber-than-ever-the-urban-mobility-report/ (It's back, and it's even dumber than ever: The Urban Mobility Report) PDF: http://www.vtpi.org/UMR_critique.pdf (Congestion Costing Critique: Critical Evaluation of the “Urban Mobility Report”) https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/traffic-congestion (Traffic Congestion - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics) https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/10/2/does-new-development-cause-traffic (The Causes of Traffic and Congestion) https://humantransit.org/2011/06/that-influential-texas-urban-mobility-report.html (That Influential Texas "Urban Mobility Report") https://humantransit.org/2015/11/self-driving-cars-a-coming-congestion-disaster.html (Self-Driving Cars: A Coming Congestion Disaster?) https://humantransit.org/2018/07/is-ride-hailing-to-blame-for-rising-congestion.html (Is Ride-Hailing to Blame for Rising Congestion?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_congestion (Traffic congestion - Wikipedia) Video: https://youtu.be/cHSCmQnGH9Q (Why Traffic Congestion Grows Exponentially, Why It Matters, and What To Do About It // An Explainer) (CityNerd) Video: https://youtu.be/iHzzSao6ypE (The Simple Solution to Traffic) (CGP Grey) — mentioned in the show Video: https://youtu.be/8qy6MrDcukk (Why do Traffic Jams Occur out of Nowhere?) (The Good Stuff) --- Check us out on https://twitter.com/webuiltitpod (Twitter) and https://www.instagram.com/webuiltitpod/ (Instagram) @webuiltitpod. Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark. Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, Scott Joplin ("Reflection Rag" & "Sugar Cane"), a 1986 Weather Channel broadcast, Gary Nintendo, Jerry Reed ("Lord Mr. Ford"), and The Muppets ("It's Not Easy Being Green")
GUEST: Peter Norton, author, "Autonorama"ABOUT THIS EPISODE“AUTONORAMA—The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving” (Island Press, 2021) is the new book by Peter Norton, an associate professor at the University of Virginia. In Autonorama, Peter looks at the history of the future of high-tech driving. He begins with the automotive Utopia depicted by the spectacular General Motors Futurama exhibition at the World's Fair of 1939, that promised better living, new places to go, and new ways of getting there. He then takes us to later similar exhibitions that first floated the idea of congestion-free, crash-free transportation, and then the myriad opportunities on offer in a world of automated driving, where everyone in the vehicle could relax and do anything other than drive, while state-of-the-art technology took on the role of driving the car.Peter writes: “This book is not an entry into the debate about whether the automated driving revolution is good or bad, or whether it will yield (as a perennial question would have it) a transport “heaven” or a transport “hell.” It is a plea to stop asking such questions.”In this episode, Peter talks through some of the key themes in his book, and shares some broader ideas about the development of technologies and business models for the future of mobility.Peter Norton is associate professor of history in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia, where he teaches history of technology, social dimensions of engineering, research, and professional ethics. Follow this link to learn more about Peter's work at University of Virginia, and this link for Peter's page on LinkedIn.
The University of Virginia professor and author of “Autonorama: The Illusory Promise Of High-Tech Driving” details a decades-long history of autonomous-driving promises and scrutinizes America's car-dependent transportation system.
Peter Norton, The Past and Future of Driving in High-Tech Cities Peter Norton is an associate professor of history in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He is the author of the new book Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving as well as Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City and Persistent Pedestrianism: Urban Walking in Motor Age America, 1920s-1960s. Appendices: Peter Norton: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Greg Shill: How Reporters Can Evaluate Automated Driving Announcements by Bryant Walker Smith; Rewriting Our Nation's Deadly Traffic Manual by Gregory H. Shill and Sara C. Bronin; Did Highways Cause Suburbanization? by Nathaniel Baum-Snow; and Freeway Revolts!: The Quality of Life Effects of Highways by Jeffrey Lin and Jeffrey Brinkman. Jeff Lin: Changing Lanes: Visions and Histories of Urban Freeways by Joseph F.C. DiMento and Cliff Ellis. Follow us on the web or on Twitter: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, and @greg_shill. Producer: Schuyler Pals. The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
Can driverless cars really be the “safe, sustainable, and inclusive ‘mobility solutions' that tech companies and automakers are promising us”? In his newest book, Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving, technology historian Peter Norton argues that we should treat these utopian promises about driverless vehicles with a great deal more caution and skepticism. Autonorama exposes how, from its inception in the Depression era, the automobile was a subject of controversy; believe it or not, not everyone initially wanted cars around. Over time, however, a shift occurred that caused us to see automobiles as the solution, and a not a problem, for our transportation needs in cities. Today on the Strong Towns Podcast, host Chuck Marohn is interviewing Peter Norton about Autonorama. They discuss the history behind our shift in perception toward cars—up to our current societal fixation on driverless cars, the wrong answer for a problem we can solve with resources we already have, and without doing further harm to ourselves and the environment. Additional Show Notes Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving Peter Norton (University of Virginia) Charles Marohn (Twitter)
Show Notes:In Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving, technology historian Peter Norton argues that driverless cars cannot be the safe, sustainable, and inclusive “mobility solutions” that tech companies and automakers are promising us. The salesmanship behind the driverless future is distracting us from investing in better ways to get around that we can implement now. Unlike autonomous vehicles, these alternatives are inexpensive, safe, sustainable, and inclusive.I'm excited to have Peter back on the Podcast for a second time. We not only dive into the sales pitch being served up to us about autonomous vehicles and a utopian world of car dependency, but we talk about the real-life pragmatic solutions that we should be focusing on such as a sustainable safety approach to mobility network design and the example provided in The Netherlands in the Dutch cycle path and transit network integration. And specifically the power of mobility choice.I hope you enjoy it.Helpful Links:Video version of this episodeLanding page for this episode - for access to photos featured in the video versionAutonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving published by Island PressFighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City published by MIT PressHow did the Dutch get their cycle paths video by BicycleDutchThe Best Country in the World for Driving - The Netherlands a video by Not Just BikesMy first podcast episode with Peter - Highlighting the Fighting Traffic bookShow Credits and Information: All video, audio, and music production by me, John SimmermanMy Personal Call To Action: - If you enjoyed this episode please give it a "thumbs up", leave a comment, and share it with a friend.- And if you haven't done so yet already, please subscribe to the Podcast - Please consider supporting my efforts by becoming a Patron via Patreon. For more information about my Active Towns effort or to follow along please visit my links below:- Website- Twitter- Newsletter- Podcast landing pages- Facebook- InstagramBackground: Hi Everyone, my name is John Simmerman. I'm a health promotion professional with over 30 years of experience and my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization of how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.In 2012 I launched the non-profit Advocates for Healthy Communities as an effort to help promote and create healthy, active places. Since that time I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be, in order to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities".This is one of my personal Active Towns channels and it features my original podcast episodes: conversations, and personal reflections profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them. Click here to access my YouTube Channel for my video contentThanks for tuning in, I hope you find this content helpful.Creative Commons License: Attributions, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 2022Advocates for Healthy Communities, Inc. is a nonprofit 501c3 organization (EIN 45-3802508) dedicated to helping communities create a Culture of Activity. Any donations collected are used specifically to support the organization's mission.Click here to make a donation to Advocates for Healthy Communities★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Alex Pareene, a contributing editor to The New Republic and the author of The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter, joins the podcast to talk about his recent run of stories on cars, parking and the competition for scarce space on city streets. We discuss 311 — the non-emergency phone number for accessing municipal services — and what it tells us about how government works (or doesn't work). What message are police sending when they fail to enforce illegal parking? As far as driving is concerned, does anything go? And how does Elon Musk's insistence on beta-testing Full Self-Driving on public streets relate to it all? ***This episode is sponsored by our friends at Cleverhood.*** Support The War on Cars on Patreon for access to ad-free bonus content. SHOW NOTES: Subscribe to The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter. Read Alex in The New Republic. Listen to The Politics of Everything. "The Lawlessness that Cops Ignore." (The Atlantic) "Losing a Streetfight to Elon Musk." (The AP) Read "Fighting Traffic" by Peter Norton. Get official War on Cars merch at our store. Purchase books by podcast guests at Bookshop.org. Follow and review us on iTunes. It helps people find us! Twitter: @TheWarOnCars TheWarOnCars.org
Peter Norton shares about the timeless nature of the Beatles' song lyrics and how they have shaped our culture. Peter recently published The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics a compendium of 170+ Beatles lyrics accompanied by full-color photos, artwork, and illustrations, with a foreword by music journalist and Beatles expert Steve Turner. Learn more here: https://www.thunderbaybooks.com/books/the-beatles-illustrated-lyrics-9781645176336/ (https://www.thunderbaybooks.com/books/the-beatles-illustrated-lyrics-9781645176336/)
Smart Growth, the Philidelphia Planning Authority and Island Books combined to bring a special event to life in which Peter Norton talked about his new book: "Autonorama: The Ilorory Promise of High-Tech Driving". A full-length recording of the event can be found on the Smart Growth website. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) enabled people to hear a discussion about the question: "What Does the Glasgow Climate Pact Mean for the Fight Against the Climate Crisis?". 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The battle for road space between bikes and cars is a well-known one in many cities. But conversations about being a “bike person” or a “car person” tend to skew more towards identity politics than what the data tells us about how to make a city safe and most efficient for all citizens - no matter how they choose to get around. So why can't we get past our emotional response? Peter Norton, an associate professor and author of "Fighting Traffic", as well as the new book, "Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving" shares just how cars came to dominate our roads and how they still have a place in contemporary cities. Plus, Adrian talks to Canadian-Danish urban mobility expert Mikael Colville-Andersen about coaching cities around the world to be more bike-friendly. And Adrian comes clean on something you might not expect.
In our first episode, we take a look at crossing the street. Why is it so frequently a dangerous and uncomfortable activity? What does street design reveal about our priorities as a society? And what does this all mean for us as humans? Join us as we barely scratch the surface on these questions! Links: Want to read more on this episode's topic? Here's just a short list of interesting resources: Quoted in the show: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3345366 (Should Law Subsidize Driving? by Gregory H. Shill) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/fighting-traffic (Fighting Traffic (book) by Peter Norton) https://islandpress.org/books/right-way (Right of Way (book) by Angie Schmitt) https://bmcgeriatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12877-015-0175-0 (Street crossing behavior in younger and older pedestrians: an eye- and head-tracking study) https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/21/6/1236/332865 (Collective behavior in road crossing pedestrians: the role of social information) https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/13098/13098.pdf (Human Factors Assessment of Pedestrian Roadway Crossing Behavior) https://rspcb.safety.fhwa.dot.gov/RSF/Unit2.aspx (Road Safety Fundamentals Unit 2: Human Behavior and Road Safety) https://austinpublishinggroup.com/emergency-critical-care-medicine/fulltext/ajeccm-v2-id1011.php (Exploring the Pedestrian's Behaviors in Crossing the Street Based on Gender) https://www.drdarciedixon.com/blog/on-the-psychology-of-crossing-the-street (On the Psychology of Crossing The Street) https://www.wired.com/story/why-did-the-human-cross-the-road-to-confuse-the-self-driving-car/ (Why Did the Human Cross the Road? To Confuse the Self-Driving Car) https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history (The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking") https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26073797 (Jaywalking: How the car industry outlawed crossing the road) https://www.salon.com/2015/08/20/the_secret_history_of_jaywalking_the_disturbing_reason_it_was_outlawed_and_why_we_should_lift_the_ban/ (The secret history of jaywalking: The disturbing reason it was outlawed — and why we should lift the ban) https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/13/the-classist-racist-history-of-jaywalking/ (The (Classist, Racist) History of Jaywalking) https://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/10/14/adam-ruins-everything-explains-the-origins-of-jaywalking/ (“Adam Ruins Everything” Explains the Origins of “Jaywalking”) https://usa.streetsblog.org/2021/06/28/three-turning-restrictions-cities-need-to-put-on-drivers/ (Three Turning Restrictions Cities Need To Put On Drivers) https://usa.streetsblog.org/2021/03/10/study-how-race-and-income-impact-road-safety-in-oregon/ (STUDY: How Race and Income Impact Road Safety in Oregon) --- Check us out on https://twitter.com/webuiltitpod (Twitter) and https://www.instagram.com/webuiltitpod/ (Instagram) @webuiltitpod. Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, Scott Joplin, Gary Nintendo
Welcome to the History of Computing Podcast, where we explore the history of information technology. Because understanding the past prepares us for the innovations of the future! Todays episode is on the History of Symantec. This is really more part one of a part two series. Broadcom announced they were acquiring Symantec in August of 2019, the day before we recorded this episode. Who is this Symantec and what do they do - and why does Broadcom want to buy them for 10.7 Billion dollars? For starters, by themselves Symantec is a Fortune 500 company with over $4 billion dollars in annual revenues so $10.7 Billion is a steal for an enterprise software company. Except they're just selling the Enterprise software division and keeping Norton in the family. With just shy of 12,000 employees, Symantec has twisted and turned and bought and sold companies for a long time. But how did they become a Fortune 500 company? It all started with Eisenhower. ARPA or the Advanced Research Projects Agency, which would later add the word Defense to their name, become DARPA and build a series of tubes call the interweb. While originally commissioned so Ike could counter Sputnik, ARPA continued working to fund projects in computers and in the 1970s, this kid out of the University of Texas named Gary Hendrix saw that they were funding natural language understanding projects. This went back to Turing and DARPA wanted to give some AI-complete a leap forward, trying to make computers as intelligent as people. This was obviously before Terminator told us that was a bad idea (pro-tip, it's a good idea). Our intrepid hero Gary saw that sweet, sweet grant money and got his PhD from the UT Austin Computational Linguistics Lab. He wrote some papers on robotics and the Stanford Research Institute, or SRI for short. Yes, that's the same SRI that invented the hosts.txt file and is responsible for keeping DNS for the first decade or so of the internet. So our pal Hendrix joins SRI and chases that grant money, leaving SRI in 1980 with about 15 other Stanford researchers to start a company they called Machine Intelligence Corporation. That went bust and so he started Symantec Corporation in 1982 got a grant from the National Science foundation to build natural language processing software; it turns out syntax and semantics make for a pretty good mashup. So the new company Symantec built out a database and some advanced natural language code, but by 1984 the PC revolution was on and that code had been built for a DEC PDP so could not be run on the emerging PCs in the industry. Symantec was then acquired by C&E Software short for the names of its founders, Dennis Coleman and Gordon Eubanks. The Symantec name stayed and Eubanks became the chairman of the board for the new company. C&E had been working on PC software called Q&A, which the new team finished and then added natural language processing to make using the tools easier to use. They called that “The Intelligent Assistant” and they now had a tool that would take them through the 80s. People swapped rolls, and due to a sharp focus on sales they did well. During the early days of the PC, dealers - or small computer stores that were popping up all over the country, were critical to selling hardware and software. Every Symantec employee would go on the road for six days a week, visiting 6 dealers a day. It was grueling but kept them growing and building. They became what we now call a “portfolio” company in 1985 when they introduced NoteIt, a natural language processing tool used to annotate docs in Lotus 1-2-3. Lotus was in the midst of eating the lunch of previous tools. They added another devision and made SQZ a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet tool. This is important, they were a 3 product company with divisions when in 1987 they got even more aggressive and purchased Breakthrough Software who made an early project management tool called TimeLine. And this is when they did something unique for a PC software company: they split each product into groups that leveraged a shared pool of resources. Each product had a GM that was responsible for the P&L. The GM ran the development, Quality Assurance, Tech Support, and Product Market - those teams reported directly to the GM, who reported to then CEO Eubanks. But there was a shared sales, finance, and operations team. This laid the framework for massive growth, increased sales, and took Symantec to their IPO in 1989. Symantec purchased what was at the time the most popular CRM app called ACT! In 1993 Meanwhile, Peter Norton had a great suite of tools for working with DOS. Things that, well, maybe should have been built into operating systems (and mostly now are). Norton could compress files, do file recovery, etc. The cash Symantec raised allowed them to acquire The Peter Norton Company in 1999 which would completely change the face of the company. This gave them development tools for PC and Mac as Norton had been building those. This lead to the introduction of Symantec Antivirus for the Macintosh and called the anti-virus for PC Norton Antivirus because people already trusted that name. Within two years, with the added sales and marketing air cover that the Symantec sales machine provided, the Norton group was responsible for 82% of Symantecs total revenues. So much so that Symantec dropped building Q&A because Microsoft was winning in their market. I remember this moment pretty poignantly. Sure, there were other apps for the Mac like Virex, and other apps for Windows, like McAfee. But the Norton tools were the gold standard. At least until they later got bloated. The next decade was fast, from the outside looking in, except when Symantec acquired Veritas in 2004. This made sense as Symantec had become a solid player in the security space and before the cloud, backup seemed somewhat related. I'd used Backup Exec for a long time and watched Veritas products go from awesome to, well, not as awesome. John Thompson was the CEO through that decade and Symantec grew rapidly - purchasing systems management solution Altiris in 2007 and got a Data Loss Prevention solution that year in Vontu. Application Performance Management, or APM wasn't very security focused so that business until was picked up by Vector Capital in 2008. They also picked up MessageLabs and AppStream in 2008. Enrique Salem replaced Thompson and Symantec bought Versign's CA business in 2010. If you remember from our encryption episode, that was already spun off of RSA. Certificates are security-focused. Email encryption tool PGP and GuardianEdge were also picked up in 2010 providing key management tools for all those, um, keys the CA was issuing. These tools were never integrated properly though. They also picked up Rulespace in 2010 to get what's now their content filtering solution. Symantec acquired LiveOffice in 2012 to get enterprise vault and instant messaging security - continuing to solidify the line of security products. They also acquired Odyssey Software for SCCM plugins to get better at managing embedded, mobile, and rugged devices. Then came Nukona to get a MAM product, also in 2012. During this time, Steve Bennett was hired as CEO and fired in 2014. Then Michael Brown, although in the interim Veritas was demerged in 2014 and as their products started getting better they were sold to The Carlyle Group in 2016 for $8B. Then Greg Clark became CEO in 2016, when Symantec purchased Blue Coat. Greg Clark then orchestrated the LifeLock acquisition for $2.3B of that $8B. Thoma Bravo then bought CA business to merge with DigiCert in 2017. Then in 2019 Rick Hill became CEO. Does this seem like a lot of buying and selling? It is. But it also isn't. If you look at what Symantec has done, they have a lot of things they can sell customers for various needs in the information security space. At times, they've felt like a holding company. But ever since the Norton acquisition, they've had very specific moves that continue to solidify them as one of the top security vendors in the space. Their sales teams don't spend six days a week on the road and go to six customers a day, but they have a sales machine. And the've managed to leverage that to get inside what we call the buying tornado of many emergent technologies and then sell the company before the tornado ends. They still have Norton, of course. Even though practically every other product in the portfolio has come and gone over the years. What does all of this mean? The Broadcom acquisition of the enterprise security division maybe tells us that Symantec is about to leverage that $10+ billion dollars to buy more software companies. And sell more companies after a little integration and incubation, then getting out of it before the ocean gets too red, the tech too stale, or before Microsoft sherlocks them. Because that's what they do. And they do it profitably every single time. We often think of how an acquiring company gets a new product - but next time you see a company buying another one, think about this: that company probably had multiple offers. What did the team at the company being acquired get out of this deal? And we'll work on that in the next episode, when we explore the history of Broadcom. Thank you for sticking with us through this episode of the History of Computing Podcast and have a great day!
Autonomous cars? Who needs ‘em. If you want to improve your city then design it so that children have more autonomy. In this episode we hit the playground with architecture critic Alexandra Lange, the author of “The Design of Childhood.” To grow up into healthy, functional adults, kids need opportunities to experience freedom and independence. Alexandra argues that car-dominated streets make that more difficult. A city designed for cars is a city that's lousy for families -- and pretty much everyone else. Plus: The surprising history of playgrounds. In celebration of our twentieth episode, the first twenty people who enlist in The War on Cars Patreon campaign after this episode drops will receive a bonus #BanCars sticker. Buy a War on Cars t-shirt at Cotton Bureau. Rate and review the war effort on iTunes. Show Notes: Visit Alexandra Lange's web site and follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Buy a copy of her book, “The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids.” How children lost the right to roam in four generations. (Daily Mail) Peter Norton's “Fighting Traffic” is a mind-boggling (and scholarly!) historical account of the bloody battle for city streets at the dawn of the motor age in the American city. This episode was produced by Matt Cutler. Find us onTwitter @TheWarOnCars, Aaron Naparstek @Naparstek, Sarah Goodyear @buttermilk1 and Doug Gordon @BrooklynSpoke. Email us: thewaroncars@gmail.com https://thewaroncars.org
The message from Silicon Valley seems to be that self-driving cars are the way of the future. This week, On the Media considers the history behind the present-day salesmanship. Plus, why transit rights mean much more than point-A-to-point-B mobility. Also, a new opera about Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs. 1. Angie Schmitt [@schmangee], national reporter at Streetsblog, on the "heartwarming" stories of Americans who walk miles and miles to work. Listen. 2. Peter Norton, professor of history at University of Virginia's Department of Engineering and Society, and Emily Badger, urban policy reporter for the New York Times, on the past, present and dazzling future of self-driving car salesmanship. Listen. 3. Judd Greenstein [@juddgreenstein], composer, on the in-progress opera, A Marvelous Order. Listen. 4. Kafui Attoh, professor of urban studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, on the deeper political meanings of "transit rights." Listen. Music from this week's show: Dan Deacon — USA III: RailIggy Pop — The PassengerGary Numan — CarsJudd Greenstein — ChangeJudd Greenstein — A Marvelous OrderBrian Eno — Music For Airports On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.
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