Podcasts about walkable city

Today, Chuck is joined by Jeff Speck, a city planner, author, and principal of an urban design and consultancy firm. They discuss the ideas shared in Chuck's book “Escaping the Housing Trap” and how those concepts play out in the real world, including examples from Jeff's own work. Their discussion covers a wide range of topics, including incremental zoning reform, the benefits and pitfalls of inclusive zoning, and how to finance small-scale housing. ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES Join Jeff and Chuck in Providence next month. Get your National Gathering tickets now! See more from Jeff: The Planner's Pledge (site) “Walkable City” by Jeff Speck, updated edition “Walkable City Rules” by Jeff Speck See more from Strong Towns: “Escaping the Housing Trap” by Chuck Marohn and Daniel Herriges The Housing-Ready City: A Toolkit for Local Code Reform Chuck Marohn (Substack)

How do you turn three people with snow shovels into an initiative that gets covered on the news, triggers a city-funded pilot program, and inspires people to stay in the city long-term? That's what Andrew Neidhardt and Dustin Moore of Walkable Albany, a Local Conversation in New York, are here to explain. ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES Walkable Albany (site). Norm Van Eeden Petersman (LinkedIn). Do you know someone who would make for a great Bottom-Up Revolution guest? Let us know here!

On this week's program, we bring you highlights from a public meeting and open house that took place at the Main Public Library on March 18th about the Downtown & NuLu Street Network Plan. Louisville Metro Government is leading a plan to advance quick-term action projects for streets in Downtown and NuLu, intended to promote walkability and safety for pedestrians and to serve as a blueprint for capital improvement projects over the next several years. The public was invited to come be a part of this planning effort by joining this open house and kickoff of the plan activities - featuring a presentation from Jeff Speck from Metro's planning consultant team! So listen in as renowned urban planner and author Jeff Speck shared his insights on reimagining downtown Louisville through the lens of walkability and why fostering a pedestrian-friendly environment is imperative for a flourishing city. The evening kicked off with Joel from Stantech. Jeff Speck is a city planner and author who advocates internationally for more walkable cities. As Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 through 2007, he presided over the Mayors' Institute on City Design and created the Governors' Institute on Community Design. Prior to his federal appointment, Mr. Speck spent ten years as Director of Town Planning at DPZ & Co., the principal firm behind the New Urbanism movement. Since 2007, he has led Speck & Associates — now Speck Dempsey —an award-winning urban planning firm serving public and private clients around the world. With Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Mr. Speck is the co-author of Suburban Nation, which the Wall Street Journal calls "the urbanist's bible.” His 2012 book Walkable City was the best selling city planning title of the past decade and has been translated into eight languages. He is also the principal author of The Smart Growth Manual and Walkable City Rules. Jeff Speck has been named a fellow of both the American Institute of Certified Planners and the Congress for New Urbanism. In a recent Planetizen poll, he was voted one of the ten “most influential urbanists of all time.” Mr. Speck was the 2022 recipient of the Seaside Prize, whose former awardees include Jane Jacobs and Christopher Alexander. His TED talks and YouTube videos have been viewed more than six million times. Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 7pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at https://forwardradio.org

Hey everyone--Janno here. I'm writing the caption for this episode and boy oh boy am I excited. Let's see...in this ep looks like we talk about shitting our pants. Wow for like a really long time. Hmm. Well uh, wish it wasn't my turn to do this but uh here goes. Janno argues that walkable cities are overrated, while Jay proposes whether laser tag or Chuck E Cheese was the cooler kids birthday party. See what the high council decides is the correct opinion on this episode! As always, follow us on social media for more eps. See y'all next week :>)

With the rise of suburban sprawl and city planning that has prioritized car travel above all else, modern American cities seriously lack comfortable walking and biking infrastructure. It's a massive issue - but solutions do exist and importantly, those solutions are decidedly doable. Today we are so thrilled to be speaking with Jeff Speck, a city planner, who is widely known for his work advocating for and creating more walkable cities. His book, Walkable City, first published in 2012, has been translated into seven languages and is the best selling city planning book of the 21st century. Walkable City is also a winner of the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature.Jeff believes that a thriving city is a walkable city, where cars are instruments for freedom but aren't necessary for the day-to-day basics of living. We would also add that walkable cities are fundamentally biophilic because livability and wellness are at the core of biophilia. In this episode, we chat with Jeff about making cities more walkable, the economic benefits of walkable cities, and demanding more of our environments. Shownotes Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time 10th Anniversary Edition by Jeff SpeckThe Smart Growth Manual by Jeff SpeckWalkable City Rules by Jeff SpeckSuburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream by Jeff Speck The walkable city (TED Talk)4 ways to make a city more walkable (TED Talk)Street Fight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth SolomonowConfessions of a Recovering Engineer by Charles L. MarohnKilled by a Traffic Engineer by Wes Marshall Andres Duany: Principles of New Urbanism (YouTube)Biophilic Solutions is available wherever you get podcasts. Please listen, follow, and give us a five-star review. Follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn and learn more on our website. #NatureHasTheAnswers

In episode 77 of the TBD Podcast, Garrett sits down with Jeff Speck, a renowned city planner, writer, and lecturer who serves as the principal at the urban design and consultancy firm Speck Dempsey. Together, they delve into a range of intriguing topics, including how Seaside, FL revolutionized urban design, the reasons behind U.S. cities' rejection of European-style planning, and the creation of the master plan for Water Street. Tune in for an engaging episode that explores the nuances of city planning. Jeff Speck is an internationally recognized city planner known for advocating walkable cities. As Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts (2003-2007), he launched the Mayors' Institute on City Design and the Governors' Institute on Community Design. Previously, he spent a decade as Director of Town Planning at DPZ & Co., a key player in the New Urbanism movement. Speck co-authored *Suburban Nation* with Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, hailed by the Wall Street Journal as the "urbanist's bible," and authored the best-selling *Walkable City*. His works include *The Smart Growth Manual* and *Walkable City Rules*. His TED talks and YouTube videos have surpassed five million views. 0:00:00 - Intro 0:01:13 - How Jeff Speck got his start in urban design 0:07:09 - How Seaside, FL revolutionized urban design 0:12:08 - The Mayors Institute on City Design 0:15:52 - The history of street cars 0:19:08 - Why did U.S. cities reject European styled urban planning? 0:27:52 - The importance of a contributing society 0:36:14 - FDOT and Street Safety 0:50:02 - Creating the Master Plan for the Water Street District 0:56:20 - Why the grid system is superior to other city systems 1:01:06 - Outro

Trilith is a newly built (and growing) walkable community located next to Trilith Studios in Atlanta, Georgia.  It is one of the most successful TNDs and New Urbanists communities in the country.   Rob Parker, as President, leads a team of designers, architects, planners and builders in creating the 235 acre master-planned residential and mixed use development.  Rob is a transformational leader with a focus on people, and has extensive experience in town building, commercial and retail development, music entertainment, non-profit leadership, marketing, branding and capital development. This episode is a must for developers, investors, planners, architects, engineers or city officials interested in creating more walkable, mixed-use, people-first places.  Hear directly from someone who has actually done it successfully, and learn about the keys to success, as well as some of the pitfalls.  Trilith is built on the principles of new urbanism, with a focus on walkability, sustainability, and a deep sense of community. The vision of Trilith is to create a town for creatives, artists, storytellers, and makers, where everyone feels loved, served, inspired, and connected. The community is designed to promote longer, better, and happier lives for its residents. Trilith is a successful example of a people-centered, walkable community that prioritizes sustainability and quality of life.  TAKEAWAYS Trilith is a walkable community in Atlanta, Georgia, built on the principles of new urbanism. The community is designed to promote longer, better, and happier lives for its residents. Trillith is focused on creating a sense of community and connection among its residents. The community is committed to sustainability and has implemented practices such as geothermal heating and cooling and the preservation of green spaces. Trilith is a people-centered, walkable community that prioritizes sustainability and quality of life. The development focuses on creating smaller footprint, energy-efficient homes and incorporates sustainable technologies like geothermal energy and solar power. Trilith emphasizes the importance of community and mental health, offering enrichment activities and a progressive school. The financing of the project involved patient capital and partnerships with builders and investors. The success of Trilith has led to increased property values and a positive impact on the surrounding area. CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction to Trilith and Rob Parker 03:01 Creating a Walkable Community for Creatives 07:47 Promoting Longer, Better, and Happier Lives 14:42 Fostering a Sense of Community and Connection 18:08 The Freedom of Living in a Walkable Environment 20:29 The Impact of COVID-19 on Trilith 29:05 The Importance of Sharing the Vision 37:48 Commitment to Sustainability and Green Practices 40:02 Creating a Sustainable and Walkable Community 41:30 Incorporating Sustainable Technologies in Home Design 44:20 Prioritizing Community and Mental Health 49:48 The Financing and Partnerships Behind Trillith's Success 55:23 The Positive Impact of Trilith on Property Values and the Surrounding Area CONNECT WITH ROB & TRILITH Rob's Linked In Trilith's Real Estate Instagram Trilith's Foundation Instagram Trilith's Facebook Home Website: Trilith Town Website: Town at Trilith Variety Article on Trilith CONNECT WITH BUILDING CULTURE https://www.buildingculture.com/ https://www.instagram.com/buildingculture/ https://twitter.com/build_culture https://www.facebook.com/BuildCulture/ CONNECT WITH AUSTIN TUNNELL https://www.instagram.com/austintunnell/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-tunnell-2a41894a/ https://twitter.com/AustinTunnell https://playbook.buildingculture.com/

On this week's program, we bring you highlights from a great event that took place at the Main Public Library on May 21st called "Walkable Louisville: a conversation with urban planner and author Jeff Speck." The University of Louisville's Urban Design Studio Sustainable City Series presented renowned urban planner and author Jeff Speck as he shared his insights on reimagining downtown Louisville through the lens of walkability and why fostering a pedestrian-friendly environment is imperative for a flourishing city. Jeff Speck is a city planner and author who advocates internationally for more walkable cities. As Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 through 2007, he presided over the Mayors' Institute on City Design and created the Governors' Institute on Community Design. Prior to his federal appointment, Mr. Speck spent ten years as Director of Town Planning at DPZ & Co., the principal firm behind the New Urbanism movement. Since 2007, he has led Speck & Associates — now Speck Dempsey —an award-winning urban planning firm serving public and private clients around the world. With Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Mr. Speck is the co-author of Suburban Nation, which the Wall Street Journal calls "the urbanist's bible.” His 2012 book Walkable City was the best selling city planning title of the past decade and has been translated into eight languages. He is also the principal author of The Smart Growth Manual and Walkable City Rules. Jeff Speck has been named a fellow of both the American Institute of Certified Planners and the Congress for New Urbanism. In a recent Planetizen poll, he was voted one of the ten “most influential urbanists of all time.” Mr. Speck was the 2022 recipient of the Seaside Prize, whose former awardees include Jane Jacobs and Christopher Alexander. His TED talks and YouTube videos have been viewed more than six million times.

In this episode, you'll meet the duo behind the newest urbanism super-firm, Speck Dempsey, Jeff Speck, author of Walkable City, and Chris Dempsey, former Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Massachusetts. We talk about what prompted them to partner up and how they plan to help cities and towns create more walkable and bikeable environments. I hope you enjoy it.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):- Speck Dempsey- Jeff on LinkedIn- Chris on LinkedIn- My first episode with Jeff- Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk - DPZ- Suburban Nation- Walkable City 10th Anniversary Edition- Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU)- Logo design animation - Ethan Pidgeon - Ethan on Insta- Ethan on LinkedIn- The Color of Law book- E-bike Library- Cargo Bike Share- CargoB on Twitter- My Carmel, IN video- My interview with Brandon Lust about Carmel- Brandon's Channel - Lancaster Blvd Redesign- My Mueller Community PlaylistIf 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 ★

On today's edition of the Newsroom Temperature Check, a new travel study done by Preply ranks Chicago as the most walkable tourist destination in America. Following the death of Flaco the owl in New York after ingesting rat poison, officials introduced multiple bills that would offer birth control to combat the city’s rat problem. Finally, Augusta […]

Greg Slater is the CEO of The Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority (THEA). THEA owns and manages the Selmon Expressway, the Selmon Greenway, and Meridian Ave in Tampa, Florida. Greg is the former Secretary of Transportation of Maryland.

Jeff Speck, the noted urban planner and author of the book "Walkable City," and Chris Dempsey, former Massachusetts Assistant Secretary of Transportation, join Radio Boston to discuss their plan to make communities more healthy, happy and walkable.

American streets killed more than 7500 pedestrians in 2023, a 40-year high and climbing every year. Why? City planner and walkable cities advocate Jeff Speck joins us to explain that street design is largely to blame and how modest changes could be made to increase safety, as has been done in European cities with dramatic results. Jeff uses traffic studies to show how urban planning can affect driver speed, traffic congestion, safety, and walkability—all of which can improve and restore our sense of community in the places we live. With wonderful examples of the many cities where Jeff has completed projects, this episode will get you thinking about your neighborhood and what changes you would like to see, be it more trees, pleasanter streets, or simply fewer deaths. Also, we have a new website! Check us out at https://booksshowstunes.discreetguide.com/Jeff Speck's website:https://www.speckdempsey.com/Jeff's book, Walkable City (be sure to get the Tenth Anniversary edition)https://www.amazon.com/Walkable-City-Tenth-Anniversary-Downtown/dp/1250857988The movie that Jeff mentions, The Street Projecthttps://www.amazon.com/Street-Project-Maya-Aoki-Tuttle/dp/B0B6VW7MQ3The Strong Towns Movement:https://www.strongtowns.org/The Releaf Cedar Rapids Project:https://www.cedar-rapids.org/residents/parks_and_recreation/releaf_cedar_rapids_.phpThoughts? Comments? Potshots? Contact the show at:https://booksshowstunes.discreetguide.com/contact/Sponsored by Discreet Guide Training:https://training.discreetguide.com/Follow or like us on podomatic.com (it raises our visibility :)https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/books-shows-tunes-mad-actsSupport us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/discreetguide

Shima Hamidi is a transportation planner and a smart growth advocate. She is an expert in measuring urban form and its quality of life impacts. Shima has been published extensively on walkability, non-motorized transportation, public transit, housing and transportation affordability, public health, life expectancy, upward mobility, and traffic safety.https://www.shimahamidi.com/https://narrowlanes.americanhealth.jhu.edu/ Recorded January 12, 2024  Head to factormeals.com/tire50 and use code tire50 to get 50% off.  Use Off The Record! and ALWAYS fight your tickets! Enter code TST10 for a 10% discount on your first case on the Off The Record app, or go to https://www.offtherecord.com/TSTApp code: tstpod Click on the DILLON banner, buy a pair of sunglasses, receive a FREE Smoking Tire t-shirt! https://thesmokingtire.com/partners-1 Want your question answered? Want to watch the live stream, get ad-free podcasts, or exclusive podcasts? Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thesmokingtirepodcast Tweet at us!https://www.Twitter.com/thesmokingtirehttps://www.Twitter.com/zackklapman Instagram:https://www.Instagram.com/thesmokingtirehttps://www.Instagram.com/therealzackklapman Want your question answered? Want to watch the live stream, get ad-free podcasts, or exclusive podcasts? Join our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thesmokingtirepodcast Use Off The Record! and ALWAYS fight your tickets! Enter code TST10 for a 10% discount on your first case on the Off The Record app, or go to http://www.offtherecord.com/TST. Watch our car reviews: https://www.youtube.com/thesmokingtire Tweet at us!https://www.Twitter.com/thesmokingtirehttps://www.Twitter.com/zackklapman Instagram:https://www.Instagram.com/thesmokingtirehttps://www.Instagram.com/therealzackklapman

The I Love CVille Show headlines: Councilor Natalie Oschrin's Plans For CVille Can CVille Realistically Become A Walkable City? Best Strengths & Assets Of Charlottesville Concerning Weaknesses Of Charlottesville Residents Suing City Because Of Upzoning Grab Bag: Viewer/Listener Topics From Comments UVA Gets Bounce-Back Win Against Hokies “The Kyle Miller Show,” Today, 215 PM – 3 PM Read Viewer & Listener Comments Live On-Air The I Love CVille Show airs live Monday – Friday from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm on The I Love CVille Network. Watch and listen to The I Love CVille Show on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, iTunes, Apple Podcast, YouTube, Spotify, Fountain, Amazon Music, Audible and iLoveCVille.com.

Our state's newest large-scale development, Utah City, will sit on the eastern shore of Utah Lake in Utah County. Seductive renderings brag about walkability, transit orientation, and high density — three of an urbanist's greatest pleasures. In the recurring theme of Salt Lakers leaving for the suburbs in search of density, host Ali Vallarta asks Utah City planner and “Walkable City” author Jeff Speck for his notes on Salt Lake's streets. Consider becoming a founding member of City Cast Salt Lake today! It's the best way to support our work and help make sure we're around for years to come. Get all the details and sign up at membership.citycast.fm. Subscribe to our daily morning newsletter. You can also find us on Instagram @CityCastSLC. Looking to advertise on City Cast Salt Lake? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads. Learn more about the sponsors of this episode: Harmons Grocery Mattress Warehouse of Utah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, I reconnect with former pro soccer player, Tesho Akindele, for a conversation about his unlikely and unexpected journey from pro sports to urbanism and developing, walkable and bike-friendly communities in Charlotte, NC. I first met Tesho at the annual Congress for the New Urbanism gathering in Charlotte and immediately knew I needed to have him on the Channel to chat about his advocacy efforts in the YIMBY and Legalize Housing movements. He also shares how the book Walkable City by Jeff Speck was instrumental in influencing his passion for urbanism. Be sure to pick up a copy of the brand new 10th Anniversary version of Walkable City with 100 pages of bonus material; see links below.Tesho describes his time in college at the Colorado School of Mines: "I didn't have a car, I had my 'Escalegs' as I liked to call them, I walked everywhere..."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 the Active Towns Channel for more contentHelpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):- Camp North End- Orlando YIMBY group- Craig Ustler "Mr. Downtown Orlando"- CNU - Congress for the New Urbanism- Walkable City book by Jeff Speck in the Active Towns Bookshop and on Amazon - Episode 121 w/ Jeff Speck - Strong Towns- Reinventing the Front Porch Video Part 1- Reinventing the Front Porch Video Part 2- CNU Charlotte Playlist of videosIf 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, 2023 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Get ready to revolutionize your commercial real estate leasing approach in this episode featuring Tyler Cauble. Dive in as he shares top-notch lease strategies that can boost your cash flow and fast-track your journey to success. Gain the upper hand by learning how to navigate the pitfalls in this industry and make the most out of your ventures!   Topics on Today's Episode Main types of commercial real estate leases  Ways to leverage commercial leases to increase cash flow Actionable steps to get into commercial real estate investing  Strategies to keep your commercial spaces occupied Common mistakes landlords make and tips to overcome them   Resources/Links mentioned Starbucks  Target Walmart  Walkable City by Jeff Speck | Kindle and Paperback    About Tyler Cauble Tyler is the founding principal and president of The Cauble Group. He's a native Nashvillian who has witnessed the city's tremendous growth and is involved in it through his developments, renovation projects, and volunteer work. As president of The Cauble Group, Tyler helps bring buyers, sellers, landlords, and tenants in retail, office, industrial, and multi-family real estate. He's committed to helping business owners understand the market to grow their business and be part of Nashville's future. Cauble is also the best-selling author of Open For Business: The Insider's Guide to Leasing Commercial Real Estate.   Connect with Tyler Website: The Cauble Group  Instagram: @commercial_in_nashville YouTube: Tyler Cauble   Want to invest alongside the Kahuna Investments team? Save your spot in our upcoming webinar, where we discuss how you can join our Private Investor Club and get access to our deal rooms exclusively. Now's your chance to start apartment investing, so visit kahunainvestments.com/webinar to register!   Take the first step towards financial success by learning more about Kahuna Investments, and if your investment goals align with our formulas and approaches – book a short 15-minute Virtual Coffee call with us at kahunainvestments.com/coffee today!    Are you ready to experience the cash flow life? Just text “BOOK” to (480) 500-1127 to get a FREE copy of Corey's book, Copy Your Way to Success, and learn how apartment investing can change your life today!   Don't forget to download my Free Workshop Quick Start Video Series, and if you like what you have heard, please leave a review on iTunes.

After World War II, the U.S. embarked on an experiment in how we build cities. Instead of creating places scaled to people who walked, we built suburbs that focused on moving cars quickly and efficiently. Many cities in North America are looking to become walkable again, but it's not easy. Time and time again, change makers are hit by bureaucracy and complicated logistics.  Why is it so difficult to change? In “Urban Intercurrence: The Struggle to Build Walkable Downtowns in Car-Dependent Suburbia,” author Tristan Cleveland goes in depth about why cities struggle to retrofit their car dependence, and what could actually be done to create change. In this Strong Towns Podcast, host Chuck Marohn chats with Tristan Cleveland, PhD, who is a Strong Towns member and an urban planner at Happy Cities.  ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES Tristan Cleveland (Twitter). Read Tristan's PhD thesis on how to redesign suburban communities to become healthy, walkable places. Chuck Marohn (Twitter). Learn more about the 2023 Local-Motive Tour.

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En este episodio de #PodcastLaTrinchera, Christian Sobrino entrevista al Lcdo. Jorge Santini, Senador por el Distrito de San Juan 1997-2000 y Alcalde del Municipio de San Juan 2001-2012. En la  conversación discuten iniciativas importantes de su término como alcalde de la Ciudad Capital de Puerto Rico tales como el Museo de Vida Silvestre, la red educativa del municipio, la Casa Cuna de San Juan, el tren liviano, el "Walkable City," entre otros. También hablan sobre la función ejecutiva en el gobierno, los elementos más desagradables de ser líder político, sus inicios en el gobierno, la actitud pública ante una derrota electoral y mucho más. Para contactar a Christian Sobrino y #PodcastLaTrinchera, nada mejor que mediante las siguientes plataformas:Facebook: @PodcastLaTrincheraTwitter: @zobrinovichInstagram: zobrinovichThreads: @zobrinovich"Un líder necesita saber, necesita saber que sabe y necesita poder dejarle abrumadoramente claro a los que lo rodean de que él sabe." - Clarence B. Randall

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Stories we're covering this week:• Scientists log the state's second largest hailstone in Mansfield• Chamber releases statement amidst membership controversy• Community Read-In event set for Tuesday• Legacy High journalism team earns national honorsIn the Features Section:• Angel Biasatti talks about your health in Methodist Mansfield News to Know• Realtor Beth Steinke offers some important cautions to renters in the Mansfield Real Estate Market Update• Brian Certain takes you to a sunny beach paradise in the Cocktail of the WeekWe have the seven-day weather forecast and, in the talk segment, Steve concludes his in-studio talk with Walkable City author Jeff Speck. Plus, your chance to win a $25 gift card to a Mansfield restaurant of your choice with our Mansfield Trivia Question, courtesy of Joe Jenkins Farmers Insurance. We are Mansfield's only source for news, talk and information. This is About Mansfield.

Stories we're covering this week:• Juneteenth event promises to be the best yet• Council increases homestead exemption. We'll talk about in A Moment With the Mayor• MISD recognized for music education program• Mansfield ISD Committee to host community forum regarding high school boundaries• Downtown vendors create an event for the dads• In Sports, Lake Ridge grad achieves “Moore”In the Features Section:• Angel Biasatti talks about the world's largest swim lesson in Methodist Mansfield News to Know• Realtor Beth Steinke addresses getting pre-approved in the Mansfield Real Estate Market Update• Brian Certain serves up a Dave Matthews Punch in the Cocktail of the WeekWe have the seven-day weather forecast and, in the talk segment, Steve talks in-studio with Walkable City author Jeff Speck. Plus, your chance to win a $25 gift card to a Mansfield restaurant of your choice with our Mansfield Trivia Question, courtesy of Joe Jenkins Farmers Insurance. We are Mansfield's only source for news, talk and information. This is About Mansfield. 

Today's guest Jeff Speck is a familiar name around here! Anne's referred to his book Walkable City in a bunch of past podcast episodes, because it's a great example of how books can invite us to see and understand the world around us in a whole new way. We're excited to have Jeff on the show today to share more about his professional and writing experience, how his book came to be chosen for the 10th anniversary treatment, and to compile a reading list of fascinating nonfiction and fiction that opens up the world for readers. Connect with Jeff at his website, www.jeffspeck.com, and find the full list of titles mentioned today at our show notes page, whatshouldireadnextpodcast.com/372.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In 2012, Jeff's book sounded the alarm that cars are the central problem of American life, and that making downtown more walkable is the necessary fix for the typical American City. Ten years later, following COVID, the rise of ride share, and the escalating climate crisis, Speck returned with a 10th Anniversary edition that assesses the impacts of these events and the changes that have taken place since the original book was published.Links:Walkable City Rules: Jeff's deep dive book from 2018 with more details on how to design walkable citiesHuman Transit is a book by Jarett Walker referenced in the showJeff mentioned his article “Secretary Pete's safe streets plan won't succeed if engineers continue business as usual” published in The Hill Transport Politic is a blog by Yonah Freemark mentioned during the episode Public Square: Carmel Indiana Plan for Office Park Redesign is an example of one of Jeff's projects to create a more walkable area from a former office complexJeff's website has videos, projects, and a newsroom and is a wealth of resourcesFollow 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 2012, Jeff's book sounded the alarm that cars are the central problem of American life, and that making downtown more walkable is the necessary fix for the typical American City. Ten years later, following COVID, the rise of ride share, and the escalating climate crisis, Speck returned with a 10th Anniversary edition that assesses the impacts of these events and the changes that have taken place since the original book was published.Links:Walkable City Rules: Jeff's deep dive book from 2018 with more details on how to design walkable citiesHuman Transit is a book by Jarett Walker referenced in the showJeff mentioned his article “Secretary Pete's safe streets plan won't succeed if engineers continue business as usual” published in The Hill Transport Politic is a blog by Yonah Freemark mentioned during the episode Public Square: Carmel Indiana Plan for Office Park Redesign is an example of one of Jeff's projects to create a more walkable area from a former office complexJeff's website has videos, projects, and a newsroom and is a wealth of resourcesFollow 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/

Which side of the debate are you on?The Village of Fairport is considering a re-design for Liftbrige Lane East to make more room for bikers and walkers

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San Francisco ist eine Walkable City mit einer Fülle an Aktivitäten, die sehr viel mehr als die Golden Gate Bridge und Alcatraz umfassen. Jeder Einwohner soll in Fußnähe zu einem Park leben. Seit der Pandemie gibt es daher spannende neue Attraktionen, die Outdoor-Fans, Szene- und Kunstliebhaber, Foodies begeistern: Welcome Ambassadors geben Insider Tipps vor Ort, faszinierende Rooftops Parks und grüne Oasen sind entstanden, Highways mit großartigen Ausblicken sind am Wochenende für Radfahrer und Fußgänger geöffnet, Love Touren erinnern an die Hippie Legenden, Terrassen Cafés und Bars beleben die City. San Francisco lädt ein, länger zu bleiben. Annette Kalthoff und Hubertus Funke von San Francisco Travel stellen im Reisepodcast #55 die schönsten neuen Attraktionen der Fog City vor.

Are walkable cities ableist utopias? What about strollers on subways, baby seats in Ubers, and Grandma's walker on the bus? Internationally-acclaimed city planner Jeff Speck graciously and sagaciously parries these types of thrusts from Leah, in a conversation that will leave you looking at your city or town with new eyes. Jeff Speck, the 2022 winner of the Seaside Prize, was Director of Design for the National Endowment for the Arts and now heads Specks and Associates as a private design consultant primarily for American cities. His TED talks and YouTube videos have been viewed more than 5 million times and his book Walkable City was the best-selling city-planning book of the last decade. His Harvard course in the Graduate School of Design is detailed at https://execed.gsd.harvard.edu/walkable-city Additional Resouces: Resources by Jeff Speck: Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, Tenth Anniversary Edition, 2022 Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places, 2018 Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, 2001, with Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk "Nine Keys to Safe Downtown Streets" Public Square, https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2020/01/07/nine-keys-safe-downtown-streets "Why Walkable Communities are the Best Communities for Older Adults" https://www.aarp.org/livable-communities/livable-in-action/info-2018/walkable-communities-jeff-speck.html jeffspeck.com

Today my guest is city planner and urban designer Jeff Speck. Originally trained as an architect, Jeff is most famous within the FIRE community for his award-winning 2012 book: ‘Walkable City: How Downtown Saves America, One Step at a Time'.It's amazing how such a small detail like walkability can touch on so many tenants within the FIRE ethos. The economy, health benefits and sustainability are all areas that are impacted greatly by our poorly designed cities which are where the majority of humans on earth live.Some of the topics we cover in today's episode are:How Jeff became an expert in city planning. (00:03:25)What is urban design and city planning? (00:09:02)City development before the great depression and world war 2 (00:13:43)How do we solve this problem of a car-centric environment? (00:36:25)Health benefits of a walkable city (00:41:14)How we can change our roads to benefit pedestrians and reduce traffic (00:52:09)Different ways to make a city more walkable (00:57:48)LinksWebsite - www.jeffspeck.comTED - Jeff Speck: The Walkable CityBook - WALKABLE CITY: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Timewww.aussiefirebug.com/podcast/

In 2012, Jeff Speck's Walkable City sparked a conversation about why pedestrianized places matter and became one of the best-selling books about the built environment in recent memory. Ten years later, though, so much about the world has changed — even as human-centered communities have become more important than ever. On this episode of The Brake, host Kea Wilson sits down with Speck to talk about an update to his classic book featuring 100 pages of new material, and how new technology, pandemics, and the movement to make cities anti-racist have reshaped his view of America's transportation future. And along the way, he shares some of the highlights from his reading list, and how his goals as a pedestrian advocate are continuing to evolve. Read an exclusive preview of Walkable City: 10th Anniversary Edition here.

John Reiner has served our City since 1997 and has been an integral part of Dublin's smart growth, diverse economy and enviable lifestyle. He's also a tremendous cheerleader for all of those things and so much more. John talks to Lindsay and Bruce about how trips to Europe influenced his vision for our community as friendly and walkable. He also shares some possible future plans coming to the Scioto River and Metro Center. We also salute John and all his fellow men and women who served in the U.S. military and talk about the special place that is Dublin's Veterans Park.

This week we're joined by Billie Giles-Corti, Director of the Healthy Livable Cities Lab at RMIT,  Melanie Lowe of the University of Melbourne, and Geoff Boeing of USC to talk about their papers in The Lancet Global Health series on Urban Design, Transport, and Health. They chat about the importance of walkability to public health, why Sao Paulo Brazil connects policy and outcomes so well, and how cities can use the detailed indicators they've created including bus stop and intersection density to fill policy gaps that lead to positive health outcomes. You can find the papers at The Lancet Global Health or visit The Global Observatory of Healthy and Sustainable Cities Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site!  And get our Cars are Cholesterol shirt at Tee-Public!

Chris has returned from Washington DC, and shares all of his feelings about his trip!  Hollyanne has an announcement, and Smiley has three jobs.

Video version of this episodeWalkable City which came out ten years ago was a breakout success as a book about the why and how of creating walkable vibrant downtowns and helped bring the concept of walkability into the mainstream consciousness AND breaking news, it is being re-released as a special 10th-anniversary edition with a new forward by Janette Sadik-Khan and as you will learn in this video over 100 pages of new content provided as an update to the original text.  It is expected out by November 2022. Jeff and I talk about this and much more in this episode.Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):- Jeff's website- Harvard Class- Suburban Nation- Walkable City (original version) if you can wait until the updated version is available in November- Walkable City Rules- The Congress for the New Urbanism website- James Howard Kunstler - The Geography of Nowhere- James Howard Kunstler - Home from Nowhere- Urban Sprawl and Public Health by Frumkin, Jackson and Frank- Green Metropolis by David Owens- The Option of Urbanism by Christopher B. Leinberger - The High Cost of Free Parking by Don Shoup - Landing page for my episode w/ Don Shoup - Playlist of my five CNU30 OKC videos- My video highlighting Cambridge, MA continuous elevated sidewalk and cycle path- My interview with Cara Seiderman- My Carmel, IN - Monon Blvd video- Strong Towns book by Chuck Marohn - Confessions of a Recovering Engineer book by Chuck Marohn - Jeff on the Strong Towns Podcast- Culdesac video- Culdesac websiteMy Personal Call To Action:- Become a Patron! Please consider supporting my efforts via Patreon- Please check out my new store for some fun Streets Are For People merch- 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 yet done so, please also subscribe to my YouTube Channel and don't forget to "Ring" that notifications bell; this lets you know when I post a new video or schedule a premiere.Resources used during the production of this episode:- My awesome recording platform is Ecamm- Adobe Creative Cloud SuiteStudio Equipment:- Main MIcrophone Sennheiser Pro Audio MKH416-P48U3- Rode RODECaster Pro Podcast Production Studio- Additional Microphone - Shure MV7- Camera - Sony ZV-E10 (currently sold out)- Lens - Sigma 16mm f/1.4 DC DN Contemporary Lens- Elgato Cam Link 4k- Elgato Streamdeck XL*- Elgato Streamdeck (*you may not need the XL)Editing Computer System:- Apple MacBook Pro 16" 2021 M1 Pro- LG 34WP88C-B 34-inch Curved 21:9 UltraWide QHD (3440x1440) IPS Display with Ergo StandAll video, audio, and music production by me, John SimmermanFor 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 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.To make a donation to Advocates for Healthy Communities go here★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Step 57: Design facilitates AgencyPart 1: The MouskedoerCrawford tells this story about watching the Mickey Mouse channel, and on the show they have these segments where, say, 4 objects are in a grid, and a river shows up on the screen. Do you use the bridge, the ladder, the hammer, or the banana to cross the river? Did you guess banana? That's a common mistake. Smart mouses ask for help! Let's do it on 3, 1,2, 3… it starts with a br and ends with an idge. And if you get all 4 you are declared a “mousekedoer.” Hooray!  In early cartoons, objects such as hammers and nails and springs seem to have an identity and a contrary will of their own: they were somewhat threatening. A Spring will bounce back at you or a rubber band with snap-on your hand or your eye: all tools misbehaved, even clocks would spin backward or slow down to taunt you. Today on the Mickey Mouse show, all problems are solved swiftly with Assurance, if only you ask for help. Even the questions on the little quizzes they prompt make you feel as if you're solving a problem, but before any frustration can set in one of your four choices automatically fits its designated role, so a bridge will land over stream of water, or a ladder will fall into place, but there is a magical sing-along chant to ask for help and the solution will arrive The contrariness of reality, the hazards, and overcoming have been removed: all solutions are at hand if you submit to asking someone else to take care of it for you. Congratulations, you are a mousekadoer who did nothing. Step 57: Design facilitates AgencyPart 2: design, dials, and free will We have a problem today: part of it goes back to that Cartesian Net Alan Watts was talking about: the grid we throw over the world in order to measure dissect and parse the inter-related complexities of the world. We can also refer to this as the Techno-rational mindset, where we reduce the world into smaller, isolated metrics to try to figure out what's going on, rather than gauging it holistically. We look for a bolt or o-ring that caused the problem. This is real, and it works, but it also generates more left-brain-centric solutions: limited solutions that cannot account for cascading environmental variables. In short, today, we design out vital feedback. We are pulled out of our environment and our bodily connection to sensory information is impoverished. Adrienne Cussins says we can know how fast we are moving through our sight/body/perception, but we now have an abstraction that tells us: this is the speedometer. When I was first learning to drive, I remember my dad telling me to stop looking at the speedometer, that I could judge how fast I was going just by gauging the rapidity of telephone poles passing, or basically, by looking around. And, bonus, besides just ‘feeling' your speed it is safer because it keeps you from “chimping” at the dashboard. “chimping” is what photographers call checking every photo on the little LCD screen on your camera.But the speedometer, this additional information about how fast you are going is conveyed in numbers or a dial with numbers. It is an abstract substitution for sensory information. It interferes and pulls you out of sensory reality into an interface. Don't get me wrong, the abstraction has utility and purpose. Just like the abstract sounds that make up our language, it helps us communicate, and if we leverage this information we have a tool that maximizes utility. What I mean by this is that abstraction is a reductive model, necessarily, but it allows us to communicate in more fixed terms, these agreed-upon terms are a new fulcrum that bypasses the messiness of the subjective, experiential terms… > “really officer? 110? But it only felt like I was going 50” Feelings are subjective and slippery, so abstract measures have utility. But also, reliance on the measurement tends to drift into reliance on the dials. The more complex a machine the more we delegate understanding to gauges, which are reductive mediations for reality: we reduce our understanding of reality for the short-hand of the dial.(This is similar to Goodhart's law, where we replace the actual thing being measured with the metric we measure it with.) For instance, We now offer “attention assist” for drivers, and “blindspot assist” and auto-parallel parking, and even self-driving. We now “idiot-proof” driving, and yet there seem to be more idiots on the road. Like the guy who was sleeping in the back of his Tesla while it drove him home. This is peculiar… it is as if handing off our situational awareness stems from (is caused by) handing off the steps of mechanical understanding. The less we understand the process between function and dial (reality and abstract notification) the more we are psychologically prepared to hand over perception itself… leaving us alone inside our wonderfully sound-proofed car, inside our wonderfully isolated heads.“Those who present choices to us appear as handmaidens to our own freedom.” Matthew Crawford It is, to paraphrase Cormac McCarthy in the Counselor, as though we think we can move through this world and yet not take part in it, not have it affect us.What a strange ethic, what a strange philosophy.  Step 57: Design facilitates Agency Part 3: VR as MoralityBut, after all, this is the ultimate dream, right? A type of severance? To pass through the world untethered and untouched. To rule the body as a submissive subject, only allowing pleasure, muting pain. And thus, we gravitate towards a dream of Virtual Reality, where the difficulties of reality morph into abstracted difficulties of mind. Perhaps in VR we have a new morality with unpluggable consequences, yet it is completely designed by others: thus our morality in VR is not autonomy, it is not agency or freedom, it is heteronomy, which is our morality defined by an outside other… something alien to us, perhaps a machine. The larger issue here, because don't forget we are somewhat of a philosophy podcast, is as Crawford says, Our WILL, the human will, is looking for how to guide itself, and when it finds itself governed by the laws of objects, it tends to follow the “object's desire” as if it is our own. The object outside of us is, as Immanuel Kant says,“an alien interest, and you should not administer to it's purposes” but instead your will should “manifest it's own sovereign authority as supreme maker of the law.” Immanuel KantThis is a bit over the top. Crawford points out that for Kant, “to be rational is precisely not to be situated in the world.” ~ and when we cease to engage with difficult objects of the empirical world, the WILL becomes freer in a rational world without restraint, without grounding. And does this not seem like the goal of VR, virtual reality? Kant wanted the will to be outside influence, to be a law unto itself ~ but this also reduces agency, especially in a Newtonian sense: if you remove the will to a separate realm it can have no causal affect in this world. the fantasy of autonomy comes at a price of impotence. Matthew CrawfordStep 57: Design facilitates Agency Part 2: BreatherSo let's take a breather for a second because that was a lot: to go from speedometers into morality and alien control of our will through objects which rob us of autonomy, yet, also, to remove our will from conditions of the world, like an escape to moral Virtual Reality, isolates our will in an untouchable realm, which also robs us of autonomy and agency. Once again, “you cannot move through this world, yet not take part in it.”So this is a breather, and I wanted to give a shout out to my buddy Eli Walker, who reached out after the last episode. We texted about the body and design, and he mentioned this amazing video where Keith Haring, the artist, walks up to a wall mentally Maps it out and in one shot completes a total mural with no spacing issues. Which is nearly impossible. And, as Eli said, is proven by our inability to even write out a Wi-Fi password on a scrap of paper without having to scrunch the text at the end, much less tackle an entire wall. So when we were talking about embodied cognition: our body's ability to perceive space is phenomenal, yet we don't live in a culture that employs this. Instead, we now have apps that measure out rooms for us, yet I know men who can look at a wall and say that's 19 ft 6 in. and be spot on. I know people who can pick up a screw and say that's a number 6, 1 5/8 in, can bend conduit pipe without measuring, quilt without patterns, or plow a field in a straight line with no Satellite guidance. We have, over time, through flattened screens, lost our basic orientation through kinetic physicality, which we discussed last time: moving through space is how we perceive, relate, and cognate. And this lead us back into our podcast, where we now design reliance where we once developed skill. Step 57: Design facilitates Agency Part 3: concept prep In the last episode, we discussed the human body as a perception mechanism gathering information and reacting to it rapidly through sort of subroutines that never reach our conscious brain. Like feeling the slip of your bike tire, or feeling the wood about to splinter. Or, even when we walk, the ground is rising, step higher. By moving we find the affordances our environment offers. Unfortunately, some situations have to be learned: you proabably didn't know your body could map out a whole wall for a mural, and you probably don't know that a banana peel is slippery to step on until you have seen 37 slapstick cartoons. In the book “the upper half of the motorcycle” Bernt Speigel says “one simply has to know about some situations before Behavior can be adapted on the basis of this knowledge.” This is fascinating: essentially you have to have a concept in order to recognize and attune your body to the unique coalescence of factors that create a situation. For instance, if you are told what black ice looks like, that it looks like pavement and the best solution is do nothing it is counter intuitive, or maybe if you are in a desert and know a mirage looks like an Oasis, you can restrain yourself from punching Noel Gallagher. But if no one tells you a banana peel is slippery you will be unprepared: we need the concept to recognize the situation. ~ And this comes from others, from the community. Once recognized, we adopt a posture that allows us to react, to mirror our forecasting of the situation that may occur. Our body prepares for the possible, and what this does is reduce our reaction time: we don't want to have to involve the computation of the brain: it is too slow, too taxing. Use the body. Instead we perceive the situational affordance through embodied sense making. This requires attention. Attention, which is distracted and stolen by staring at a speedometer. Or a phone. I keep referring to driving because Crawford does, and it is a good vehicle for the ideas: it is a relatable mid-ground between the self's agency and larger systems… it embodies the individual will, yet is social, physical, and made possible through complex machinery that amplifies our actions. But concept prep and environmental awareness can also work for craftsmanship: As a matter of design, to reach a skill level of mastery, we want to reduce the cognitive leaping about, the projecting and forecasting of several hypothesises (hypothesi?)… that are interfering. These small mental ramblings are like mosquito bites, stealing your attention. We need to design an environment that sets us up for embodied flow, relieve the mind of it's anxieties, and reach a zen state, a flow state, as Crawford says, as state of “Alert watchfulness, without meddling” — YET, this does not happen unless you are involved. “involve your ass, your mind will follow.” converse: “free your ass, your mind will wander” But here's the deal: it takes work and risk and a bit of danger: John Muir, author of ‘how to keep your volkswagon alive' says “we must have skin in the game” If we drove cars strapped to the front, like an Aztec sacrifice, we would be much more cautious with our driving. Safety design actually alleviates awareness and caution, or circumspection: it reduces the need to attend and negotiate. John MuirWhen people do not have to consider, then “being unaware” they behave recklessly to undermine the very design that is protecting them. Amplify this for each iteration and more safety equals more reckless nonconsideration. This implies it may be impossible to idiot-proof, and even more concerning is idiot-proofing, safety, leads humans to be unable to navigate the world without themselves becoming idiots… we become mousekadoers, unable to tolerate frustration and always asking for help so we can retreat back to the safety of our own minds. And by idiots, Crawford previously defines idiota from the Greek: meaning a private person detached from the implications of how we move through society or the world.To be an idiot is behaving as if we were in private when we are actually in public: To assume your preferences take precedence.Step 57: Design facilitates Agency Part 4: A rebuttal to the rebuttalIs Crawford saying idiot-proofing is encouraging us to behave like idiots? Is he saying that safety features make us less safe? We are, after all, protecting and helping through design. The forethought of engineers saves lives.It is easy to have a knee-jerk reaction to this, and start saying things like “oh you want to remove speedometers from cars? Why don't we just get rid of speed limits, Mario Andretti? What's next? Getting rid of the stop signs and right of way?” And interestingly enough, Jeff Speck in “Walkable City” talks about a concept called Naked Streets. The idea is exactly to remove signage and right of way, narrow lanes, and get rid of crosswalks. Where this has been implemented it decreases traffic accidents and the severity of accidents. The “common sense” approach is to widen streets so that people have more visibility, but that only encourages people to speed up since they can see further. We put in stoplights and stop signs, which tell people “you have the right to go now.” And speed limits tend to be reinterpreted to “drive 5 mph faster.”These environmental mediations through abstract symbols, a green light or a red light or a sign with a number, tell you how to behave without the necessity for you to truly address your environment. Someone has predetermined consideration, so you don't have to. You no longer negotiate with your environment or others: you have the “right of way” and off-load the responsibility of cautiously, attentively, navigating the shared public realm. This lead us (finally) to the concept of design and agency. Human agency is our ability to affect change -to consider a situation, make a choice, and feel the power and responsibility of that decision. Rules and nudges that direct our behavior (through hijacking automatic responses) also rob us of our agency of self-determination. (There is no decision to be made, thus no autonomy.) Over time we trade our agency for legal certitude: a right/wrong binary and social guide based laid out as a cartesian abstraction. Similar to dials that convey reduced information by requiring no attentive negotiation to a complex reality we free our minds to daydream, our hands to twiddle on phones, and a once public ballet of interaction becomes isolated, individual bubbles colliding. So far we have focused on how mediating through design reduces primary sensory input to the human, actually detaching them from the environment and world. Yet there is a kind of design, like “naked streets”, that feels like anti-design: removing the over-designed mediation as a means of reconnection and returning agency to the human. A literal human-centric-design philosophy, where insight bolsters human flourishing, not just parading ergonomic door handles as the lever to freedom.  Step 57: Design facilitates AgencyPart 5: the world without maps the world is it's own best model We talked last episode about robot design, and how brute-force computation is costly and slow, while physical design and haptic feedback is much more efficient and elegant as a solution. And of course the best models of this come through Evolution and the world itself. Yet here we are talking about how designs mediate reality into an abstraction, a dial that tells us how fast we are going, or a sign it tells us how fast we should be going. These are symbols, and symbols are granted meaning by society, thus grounding them in a universal language, which has great utility. And we now want to create symbols to ground all things. What is fascinating about skipping the symbol and returning to the embodied representations, is as Arthur Glennberg says “embodied representations do not need to be mapped onto the world to become meaningful because they arise from the world.”Arthur Glennberg That is if your body derives information directly from the world we do not need to encode and decode it: it is uniquely instantaneous. We do not need a map of the world when the world is its own best model. indeed the map is not the territory. And reducing the encoding-decoding process to experience the world directly also allows us to learn more rapidly. This is because multiple senses are bound together, coupled, in the learning process. this is called cross-modal binding. Not only do we glean information through multiple senses, sights sounds and feelings and location, but we bind those experiences to a shared commonality – time. These experiences all occur simultaneously, co-occur, and coordinated into a Time locked stream of information. The upshot of this is our brain binds from various senses a coherent sensory pattern of time signatures, this timestamp becomes “the thing in itself” When all of our sensory data is mediated, it is an abstraction, and and when we turn that abstraction into a falsification, such as the sound of a V8 rumbling engine now running through your speakers because the car no longer sounds that way, we have falsely informative information. We are now going to Great Lengths to create the exact opposite of reality as a substitute for reality, pretending to stand in for the truncated reality. And suddenly we're back into talking about the simulacra, from steps 38 and 39, a false reality that forgot it's purpose. What is our means to counteract this? On the most simple level, it is to actually do something physical. To move. Not only is Locomotion indispensable to learning, but only self-motion can accomplish this, not VR or flat screens. It also begins to provide true options, not simply choices. Most online environments and even much of our built environment have pre-existing choice architectures, paths already prepared for us, and over time we conflate choosing with doing. We literally think we can only go right or left, who we are as a person is defined by the 4 color choices for our car. “what does that red say about me as a person?” It is so impoverished and limited. And we are back to being good mousekadoers. “if choosing replaces doing for the mouse-clicking mousekedoer, it figures that such a disengage self should be especially pliable to the “choice architectures” to get installed in public spaces.”You do not find yourself merely by choosing, you find yourself by doing. And it is frustrating and painful to encounter the real world that has an objectness and will of its own, unlike the mickey mouse challenges, unlike the models in our heads, but engaging the real world is also real overcoming, and a step closer to genuine self-reliance and a truer form of autonomy. 

It's Part II of our two-part series on traffic congestion! This time: why adding more lanes doesn't make congestion go away. Framing traffic congestion as primarily a “street capacity” problem has led practitioners to seek solutions by adding more lanes and miles of streets and roads. This has the unintended (but predictable) consequence of generating more traffic. This phenomenon is exceedingly well known but continually ignored among the professionals who can do anything about it. Let's talk about it. Links: Want to learn more on this episode's topic? Here's just a short list of interesting resources: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-06/traffic-jam-blame-induced-demand (Traffic Jam? Blame 'Induced Demand.' - Bloomberg) https://t4america.org/2021/10/20/say-hello-to-induced-demand/ (Transportation For America More highways, more driving, more emissions: Explaining "induced demand" - Transportation For America) https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/3/3/the-fundamental-global-law-of-road-congestion (The Fundamental, Global Law of Road Congestion) (from City Observatory) https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2015/11/20/reducing-or-inducing-traffic (Reducing Traffic or Inducing It?) https://www.wired.com/2014/06/wuwt-traffic-induced-demand/ (What's Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse | WIRED) https://humantransit.org/2022/01/induced-demand-an-axiom-of-biology.html (Induced Demand: An Axiom of Biology — Human Transit) https://cityobservatory.org/questioning-congestion-costs/ (Questioning Congestion Costs | City Observatory) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand (Induced demand - Wikipedia) https://cityobservatory.org/reducing-congestion-katy-didnt-2/ (Reducing congestion: Katy didn't | City Observatory) https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2021/03/19/reduced-demand-just-important-induced-demand (Reduced demand is just as important as induced demand | CNU) https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/7/18/the-problem-with-hov-lanes (The Problem with HOV Lanes) https://slate.com/business/2021/12/cars-traffic-congestion-jams-open-streets-freeways-reduce.html (Opinion: Filth, Automobiles, and Our Misguided Obsession With Traffic) https://cityobservatory.org/calculating-induced-demand-at-the-rose-quarter/ (Calculating induced demand at the Rose Quarter | City Observatory) http://www.vtpi.org/gentraf.pdf (Generated Traffic and Induced Travel) – VPTI (PDF) https://its.berkeley.edu/news/your-navigation-app-making-traffic-unmanageable (Your Navigation App Is Making Traffic Unmanageable | Institute of Transportation Studies) https://shift.rmi.org/ (SHIFT Calculator) Book: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1289253484 (Walkable City by Jeff Speck) (public library) --- 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, Joanna Newsom ("Good Intentions Paving Company"), Wu Tang Clan ("C.R.E.A.M." instrumental), Bob Dylan ("Piano Mood"), Isaac Horwedel, Gary Nintendo ("Riding a giant eagle over the mountains"), and a 1985 Weather Channel broadcast

Today we wanted to share a conversation between Strong Towns President Chuck Marohn and renowned urban planner and walkability expert Jeff Speck. Speck is a returning guest on the Strong Towns Podcast, and author of the books Walkable City (which is getting an update this November with a new forward and introduction) and Walkable City Rules. He's also the recipient of this year's Seaside Prize, and has curated a weekend (March 4–6) of guest lectures at Seaside, which includes speakers like Janette Sadik-Khan, Mike McGinn, Dar Williams, Andres Duany, and Strong Towns' own Chuck Marohn. It's going to be a great event, so we encourage you to attend if you're able to make the trip! Speck also talks with Marohn about Strong Towns' ongoing lawsuit against the Minnesota Board of Engineering Licensure. Marohn gives an update on where the case is at, and shares some of his thoughts on it. He then has an in-depth discussion with Speck about Marohn's latest book, Confessions of a Recovering Engineer. You don't want to miss out on the insights Speck shares about Confessions, and the questions he poses to Marohn about the book! Additional Show Notes To learn more and sign up to attend the 2022 Seaside Weekend, visit the Seaside Institute's website. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places Jeff Speck (Twitter) Charles Marohn (Twitter) Cover image source: Jeff Speck.

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What began as a conversation about induced demand with urban planner Jeff Speck quickly broadened into a wider discussion about U.S. road engineering standards, their impact, and what responsibility engineers may have to improve them. Speck is the author of Walkable City, one of the most influential and widely read city planning books in recent years. He subsequently wrote Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places, which is targeted towards traffic engineers and transportation professionals. If you've read these books, you know he doesn't hold back on his opinions, and that trait comes through on this podcast. So, buckle up.

Award-Winning Journalist Shar Jossell joins Ryan this week and the commentary is FIRE! We break down everything you need to know about CA big recall election with the Washington Post. We discuss the Met Gala, and Honey... AOC is getting called out for a particular fashion choice. Also, we discuss the nuances of former HRC president Alphonso David speaking out for being fired and he's calling the organization out for racial discrimination. Plus, old relationship drama and so much more. It is a juicy show!  Special guests: Scott Wilson - West coast correspondent at The Washington Post. Dr. Mike Saag - Physician, Infectious Diseases, AIDS researcher at UAB Center for Aids Research. Jeff Speck - City planner and author of the popular book Walkable City. Garrit De Vynck - Technology reporter at The Washington Post. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Commercial Real Estate Academy podcast was created to demystify the commercial real estate industry for the masses. During our weekly episodes, we interview industry experts on a host of different commercial real estate-related topics. Through these interviews, we hope to arm you with the knowledge, references, and tools you'll need to confidently pursue commercial real estate opportunities as a business owner and/or an investor. Raphael Collazo and Jeff Walston are excited to introduce their guest for this week! In today's episode, we hosted Lucas Lindsey, Development Manager at Venue Projects LLC, for a lively conversation on real estate development and adaptive reuse. ▶️ During our conversation, we explored topics such as: • How he got started in commercial real estate, • What adaptive reuse is and how to identify opportunities, • A case study of a gas station redevelopment project, • What the commercial real estate landscape will look like post-Covid, • An case study of a hotel adaptive reuse project they completed, • The best resources available to learn more about adaptive reuse, • As well as much more... ▶️ If you're interested in learning more about Lucas, below I've provided relevant links: ▶ Website: http://venueprojects.com/ ▶ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasglindsey/ Below I've provided links to books that were referenced during the episode: 1) How Buildings Learn - https://www.amazon.com/How-Buildings-Learn-Happens-Theyre/dp/01401399662) 2) Walkable City - https://www.amazon.com/Walkable-City-Downtown-Save-America/dp/0865477728 If you find value in these episodes, please SUBSCRIBE, leave a 5

Summary: What would you like to do when you retire? Mark McClure retired last year from a career in IT, most recently as a solution consultant. In this episode, Mark shares his intentions for retirement, what it was like to travel solo at 23, and what he's learned from digitizing thousands of his late mother's photos.What would you like to do when you retire? Mark McClure retired last year from a career in technology, most recently as a solution consultant. In this episode he shares how he'd now like to spend his time. We also talk about how Mark balances his data privacy concerns with his digital presence on Flickr, where he's shared hundreds of his photos from his life, through the decades. I admire Mark for his patient storytelling, and for what he's looking to learn more about during retirement--you'll have to listen to the episode to know more! Something that stood out to me personally was Mark's commitment to using active transportation the last few years. I, too, am a public infrastructure geek, and try to walk, cycle, or run where I'm headed as often as I can. A few references you may be interested in reading more about:Mark McClure's bio: https://pnwphotowalks.com/about-mark-mcclureMark McClure's photos on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/memcclure Walkable City by Jeff Speck, bookActive Transportation, https://www.transportation.gov/mission/health/active-transportationFlickr, online photo community, https://www.flickr.com/Follow along:whenyougrowup.orgwww.instagram.com/whenyougrowup_podcast/#wygupodcast #podcast #career #family #retirement #personalgrowth #photography #activetransportation #professionalgrowth #mentor #rolemodel

Featured interview: 'Pedestrian Day' and Importance of Walkability in metropolises - 보행자의 날 기념 걷기 좋은 도시의 조건 분석 Guest: Jeff Speck, City planner and author of book "Walkable City"

Why is walking so important for our health, wealth, and the environment? Are there particular conditions in a city that encourage (or discourage) people to walk? Does promoting walkability mean we get rid of all the cars?In this episode, Sara Joy interviews Eric about why he likes the book Walkable City by Jeff Speck so much. And, on a personal note, we learn what are Eric's favorite aspects of walking the neighborhood where his church is located are and how he sees walking as an important component that defines Jesus' ministry while on earth.Through our discussion, we hash out Speck's research that shows there are a myriad of health, economic, and sustainability benefits associated with walking. And, we consider the four conditions, or characteristics, of walkability that he believes need to be present in order to encourage people to walk. Walks need to be useful, safe, comfortable, and interesting. Speck further unpacks each one of these conditions with 10 distinct steps of walkability. We dig into several of these steps for our listeners. In particular, we spend some time discussing step one - putting cars in their place - and what that actually means. Not getting rid of cars, but simply prioritizing people over cars while valuing space for both (in their right places!). We also talk about the important step of mixing the uses and how Speck's focus on housing is a unique and interesting perspective for understanding why mixed-use development in our cities is so critical. We highlight the value of narrow streets, enclosed space, thresholds, and trees for making good, walkable places as well. In short, we show that good walkability has many layers even though it is such a basic act. Access more Show Notes with pictures and resources related to this episode.More information about this podcast and helpful church and urbanism resources can be found on The Embedded Church website.Support our work! You can give online to our Indiegogo Campaign.Related ResourcesWalkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff SpeckThe Walkable City: TED Talk by Jeff SpeckWhat's a STROAD, and why does it matter? Strong TownsWalkscore an online tool for scoring your neighborhood in terms of walkability, which takes into factors such as proximity of goods and services and access to transit.Peripateo a Greek word used often in the Bible (93 instances in the NT) both for literal walking and for living in general “I urge you to live (walk) a life worthy of the calling you have received.” Ephesians 4:1Genesis 3:8-9 “Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, ‘Where are you?'”Micah 6:8 “He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”Luke 10:33-34 “But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. 34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him.”Mark 5:27-29  “When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, ‘If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.' Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.”Find these Key Terms on The Embedded Church website:- Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU)- Enclosure- Inclusionary Zoning- Induced Demand- Missing Tooth Concept- Mixed Use Development- WalkabilityShow CreditsHosted and Produced by Eric O. Jacobsen and Sara Joy ProppeEdited by Adam Higgins | Odd Dad Out Voice ProductionsTheme Music by Jacob ShafferArtwork by Lance Kagey | Rotator Creative

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast My guest today is Jeff Speck. Jeff is the author of Walkable City and Walkable City Rules. As an urban planner and city designer he specializes in, and advocates for, human modes of transportation: first and foremost walking, but also biking. Become a Patreon Supporter Using years of research and action, Jeff shows how cities become better places when we move away from an automobile-focused life. As I spend a lot of my time walking through cities whenever I get a chance, preferring to travel on foot when possible, I knew there were some places that felt safer as a pedestrian and were generally more enjoyable to walk through. Jeff lays out exactly why that is, and what each of us can do to advocate for these changes in our local towns and cities. In the process we can limit gentrification, which Jeff expands on during the interview, making cities even friendlier to people and more sustainable for generations to come. You can find Jeff and his book at JeffSpeck.com. In addition to his website, I've included copious links in the resources section below for you to learn more about what we talked about in this interview. Since recording this conversation, I've gone on to read Jeff's Walkable City Rules, which lays out in even more actionable detail what we can do to show up at planning meetings and be a force for change while preserving mainstreet and reducing the impacts of climate change. As permaculture practitioners, our roles in cities and towns change towards an even more human focus to minimize the impacts of this increased living density on the surrounding environment and designing for living in place. For those of us who live in cities, and I'll be doing so in just a few weeks as I relocate to Falls Church, Virginia, there's a huge intersection between city planning, including the parks and rec departments, for us to get involved and take direct action through advocacy. We can argue for why we need to reduce speed limits, increase street trees, and expand green spaces. Image the more beautiful, verdant world we could have. But, that's just my thoughts on leaving this interview with Jeff Speck. What are yours? Leave a comment in the show notes or get in touch by sending me an email: The Permaculture Podcast Until the next time, spend each day advocating for the place you live while taking care of Earth, yourself, and each other. Related Interview The Commons - David Bollier Resources Jeff Speck Books Walkable City - Jeff Speck Walkable City Rules - Jeff Speck Suburban Nation - Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck The Barefoot Architect - Johan van Lengen The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander Policing the Open Road - Sarah E. Seo The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs Garden Cities: Theory and Practice of Agrarian Urbanism - Andres Duany People and Organizations DPZ CoDesign - Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk Human Transit - Jarrett Walker Jan Gehl - Making Cities for People Related Ideas Community Land Trust (Wiki) A Pattern Language (Wiki) Seaside - Resort Community designed by Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk Serenbe

Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable—for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment—yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck's follow-up to his bestselling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. Walkable City Rules is a doer's guide to making change in cities, and making it now.

Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable—for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment—yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is seldom easy. Jeff Speck's follow-up to his bestselling Walkable City is the resource that cities and citizens need to usher in an era of renewed street life. Walkable City Rules is a doer's guide to making change in cities, and making it now.