Podcasts about yonah freemark

This week Yonah Freemark of the Urban Institute is back again for Part 2 of our annual discussion.  This week we make predictions! We look at what we predicted last year and what might happen in 2025. +++ Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social 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! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week we're joined once again by Yonah Freemark of the Urban Institute to discuss his annual transit project updates at Transit Explorer. In Part 1, we talk about housing strategies for properties near transit, exciting transit openings in 2025, and which cities could use a subway project. We also talk about government deference to local officials and how we can better use public assets to create more housing. +++ Follow us on Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Substack ... @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social 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! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

We're Han Solo this week but have a lot to share from the end of December and the start of 2025.  As we get back into the new year we cover new ways to think about housing construction, transit expansion from Yonah Freemark, and worries about the brightness of headlights. Check out the show notes below.  Transit Openings 2025 - Transport Politic Radical construction rethink - Common Edge  Property tax rethink - Slate Intergenerational living arrangement - Maclean's Canada Forever chemicals in drinking water - New York Times Why it's hard to stop driving - Slate Headlights getting brighter - The Ringer The great abandonment - The Guardian Hidden cause of Food Deserts - The Atlantic Bonus Items Virtual power purchase agreements - Smart Cities Dive Car dependence and life satisfaction - Travel Behavior and Society Illegal to stop in Philly bike lanes - Philadelphia Inquirer Location key to walking more - Men's Health DC tackled a child care crunch - NPR Universal Pre-K - New York Magazine Miami condos sinking - Miami Herald AT&T to end landline service - Urban Milwaukee MNDOT won't remove I-94 - Minneapolis Star Tribune Corn isn't a good solar panel - Need to Know NACTO Launches urban bikeway guide - NACTO Raleigh can't find BRT contractor - News and Observer

Quick hits re: the federal-level implications of the recent election on transportation, housing, and urbanism in the U.S. No political post-mortems or predictions, but rather look at existing policies and their potential impacts. Surface level breakdown of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), detailing the combined $566 billion in federal transportation spending through 2026. Heading into Thanksgiving, we also stress the importance of communicating urbanism ideas effectively across political divides at the family gathering. The episode concludes with a clip from Pete Buttigieg discussing road safety goals, in comparison to the aviation industry. It's a helpful framing. We'll take a look at state and local-level implications, soon. That edition will be far more optimistic, as many local transit funding measures passed, across the country. Ran out of time, today. We discuss: 00:00 On transportation and urbanism post-election. 03:14 Infrastructure act and federal funding. 08:19 CAFE standards and pollution metrics. 11:39 Transit-oriented development and housing. 21:07 Private sector progress in transportation, featuring Brightline and Waymo. 23:08 Optimism. 27:37 Coby Lefkowitz returns, next week. For context: Yonah Freemark's perfect election thread. On the IIJA (via The White House). On the IRA (via EESI). On CAFE standards (via Reuters). Waymo passes 150k weekly rides (via The Verge).

Voices from World Day of Remembrance for Traffic Victims in Los Angeles. 1:48 Transportation under Trump according to Yonah Freemark, principal research associate in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute. 8:25 Los Angeles Bike Fest with BikeLA Director Eli Kaufman. 13:37 Strong Towns Northampton checks its tone over a bike lane closure. With Danielle McKhan, Jennifer Nery, and Alex Bowman. 19:10 Fighting for bikes means fighting back against the Ontario Premier Doug Ford's attempt to rip out Toronto's bike infrastructure- with Norm Di Pasquale, New Democratic Party Candidate for Spadina - Fort York in Toronto, Canada. 34:04 Studying the language of mobility with linguistics Professor Maria Caimotto. 40:41 Stacey's Bike Thought 53:46

All aboard for Pivot's special series on the future of travel, examining the big changes coming to the way we get around the world! Will 2024 be the year that high-speed rail becomes reality in the United States? How did the U.S. get so far behind other countries? And what cities have the best train systems? On this episode, Kara and Scott talk trains with Yonah Freemark, the principal research associate at the Urban Institute, who also writes the blog, The Transport Politic. Follow Yonah at @yfreemark Follow us on Instagram and Threads at @pivotpodcastofficial. Follow us on TikTok at @pivotpodcast. Send us your questions by calling us at 855-51-PIVOT, or at nymag.com/pivot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The housing and communities that people live in can influence nearly every aspect of their lives; from where they work to how they get there, the quality of the schools in their area, and even their longevity. Today, we take a deep dive into how zoning, land use policies, and efforts like NIMBYism affect affordability, equality in education, and economic mobility in our communities. Joining us to discuss this topic is Yonah Freemark, a Principal Research Associate at the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute. Yonah is the Research Director of the Land Use Lab at Urban where his research focuses on the intersection of land use, affordable housing, transportation, and governance. Tuning in, you'll learn how the Urban Institute works toward using public policy to create a brighter future for all, what it looks like to close the Black-white wealth gap in America, the need to shift our focus from policy to the needs of the individual, the importance of allowing people access to the communities they want to live in and redirecting investments into the communities that need them most, and much more! You won't want to miss this thought-provoking conversation.Key Points From This Episode:How Yonah became interested in #policy, #housing, transportation, land use and the way people live.Public policy for a better future: insight into the work that the #Urban Institute does.The impact of the Great Recession on closing the Black-White #wealth gap in the US.Ways to address racial #inequality as a result of exclusionary #landuse policies.What it means to improve #equity for people across race and gender boundaries.NIMBYism and the role of the federal government in leveling the playing field for affordable housing development in local communities.The impact that county governments with a regional outlook can have on land use policy.Correlations between zoning policies and access to opportunity.A look at the Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing (MTO) initiative in Chicago, the story of the impact of #YIMBY activism in New Haven's West Rock community, and other impactful initiatives.Perspectives on solving unjust public policies and why there's no one-size-fits-all solution.The power of individual actions and citizen initiatives.Key takeaways from this discussion and actionable advice for anyone listening.Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:Yonah FreemarkMetropolitan Housing and Communities Policy CenterUrban InstituteLand Use Lab at Urban (LULU)Yonah Freemark on XYonah Freemark on LinkedInVincencia Adusei on LinkedInVincencia Adusei on TwitterVASE ConstructionJimmy Miller on LinkedInCensere ConsultingPeter Wood on LinkedInYIMBY Nation Email YIMBY Nation

Prediction Time! This week on part 2 of our chat with Yonah Freemark, we score our transportation predictions from last year and make new ones for 2025. We talk about the Roosevelt Subway, Transit agency bailouts, open gangway trains, and coming transit elections and extensions.  You can find Transit Explorer through the Transport Politic.  OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Follow us on Threads @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! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're joined once again by transportation and housing expert Yonah Freemark. In part 1 we talk about the equitable distribution of transportation grants, potential for flex funding for transit, and our annual transit openings discussion. You can find Transit Explorer through the Transport Politic.  OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social Follow us on Threads @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! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

In this episode of "High Frequency," host Kapish Singla explores the state of transit funding with Yonah Freemark, senior research associate at the Urban Institute. Based on insights from the recent Urban Institute report, “Surmounting the Fiscal Cliff,” the interview delves into the reasons behind transit's current fiscal cliff,  and the policy choices that have perpetually put transit agency finances on precarious footing. The episode advances sustainable funding solutions that could finally disrupt this vicious cycle of underinvestment, and ensure that the current crisis is transit's last fiscal cliff.“Transit is key to our society, and transit is going to come back from the pandemic at higher ridership levels if we give our transit systems the opportunity to provide the services they need. Transit systems that have invested in improved quality of service have benefited from increased ridership, including higher levels of ridership than pre-pandemic, and a number of systems. We don't have to give up on transit. In fact, we should be thinking about the future as a more transit-heavy future than even before the pandemic.” - Yonah FreemarkTo read “Surmounting the Fiscal Cliff,” click here. To watch a webinar with the report researchers, click here.For more on TransitCenter, visit us here. Hosted by Kapish SinglaEdited by Melanie Marich & Kapish SinglaProduced by TransitCenterMusic: “Comma” - Blue Dot SessionsDisclaimer: Political views raised by guests on the podcast do not reflect the views of TransitCenter.

Housing has gotten SO expensive — for many of us, buying something seems totally out of reach. And even renting a decent apartment is a struggle these days. Who, or what, is to blame for these high prices? We track down the culprit with urban planner Prof. Nicole Gurran and attorney Prof. Sara Bronin.   Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/ScienceVsAffordableHousing In this episode, we cover: (00:00) The Crime (03:48) Suspect 1: Greedy developers (07:20) Suspect 2: AirBnB (14:20) Suspect 3: Zoning (24:00) The Twist! This episode was produced by Rose Rimler along with Wendy Zukerman, with help from Joel Werner, R.E. Natowicz, Meryl Horn, and Michelle Dang. We're edited by Blythe Terrell. Fact checking by Eva Dasher. Mix and sound design by Bobby Lord. Music written by Bumi Hidaka, Emma Munger, and Bobby Lord.  Thanks to everyone we reached out to for this episode, including Dr. Yonah Freemark, Prof. Stephen Sheppard, , Prof. Sonia Hirt, Prof. Solly Angel, Dr. Sherry Bokhari, Dr. Salim Furth, Dr. Norbert Michel, Dr. Max Holleran, Prof. Manuel Aalbers, Prof. Kirk McClure, Dr. Kate Pennington, Prof. Joseph Gyourko, Prof. Jessica Trounstine, Jenna Davis, Dr. Jake Wegmann, Prof. Hui Li, Dr. Edward Kung, Dr. David Wachsmuth, Dr. Brian Doucet, Dr. Aradhya Sood, Dr. Stan Oklobdzija, and Dr. Andrew Whittemore. Special thanks to Meg Driscoll, Flora Lichtman and a big thanks to our voice actors: Aliza Rood, Annie Minoff, Chantelle Young, Valentina Powers, Alena Acker, Krystian Zun, and Moo.  Science Vs is a Spotify Studios Original. Listen for free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us and tap the bell for episode notifications.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Yonah Freemark of the Urban Institute is BACK for the Annual Prediction Show.  This year we chat about our predictions from last year and next year of course, but also regional rail in France, interesting transportation projects happening around the world, and the high cost and management of big transit projects. OOO Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Follow us on Mastadon theoverheadwire@sfba.social 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! And everything else at http://theoverheadwire.com

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/

The drive for free public busing is speeding up. Several cities are moving towards offering 100% free service on public buses as a way to counteract inequity. Digital video producer Casey Kuhn takes a look at Washington, where it's expected to start later this year, and William Brangham discusses the issue with Yonah Freemark of the Urban Institute. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Ryan Packer of The Urbanist and Yonah Freemark of the Urban Institute join Soundside to discuss traffic fatalities both nationally and here in Washington state.

This week we're joined by Harriet Tregoning, Director at NUMO, and Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute to talk about their report, Charting Out a Next-Generation, Place-Based Federal Transportation Policy. We talk what needs to change about federal policy and the entities that need to pursue it.   Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Support the show on Patreon http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire Buy books on our Bookshop.org Affiliate site! 

This month on the Rail~Volution podcast we're joined by Harriet Tregoning, Director at NUMO, and Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute to talk about their report, Charting Out a Next-Generation, Place-Based Federal Transportation Policy. We talk what needs to change about federal policy and the entities that need to pursue it.

With California gas prices at a record high, state officials are considering at least four different proposals to ease the pain at the pump They range from suspending the state's gas tax to sending rebates to certain California taxpayers. Governor Newsom has his own proposal, legislative Democrats have at least two others, and Republicans have a competing plan. To sort through all this and try to figure out what might make the most sense for California, KCBS Radio news anchors Jeff Bell and Patti Reising, along with KCBS Radio political analyst and State of California host Doug Sovern, spoke with Yonah Freemark, Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute.

This week we're joined by Yonah Freemark, a senior research associate at the Urban Institute. We chat about the impacts of the pandemic on office work, rethinking federal transportation policy, and make our annual predictions on next year's transportation policies and projects. Follow us on twitter @theoverheadwire Shop authors at our Bookshop shop. Support the show at http://patreon.com/theoverheadwire  

The Twin Cities have the largest gap in homeownership between Black and white residents - 51% -  and the gap is widening. The reason? Gentrification and the rise of single family rentals owned by investor companies.--Tiffany Bui reports: In the Twin Cities, the gap between the number of Black residents who own their home and white residents is the widest in the country.Researchers from the Urban Institute found that, Black homeownership has declined dramatically since 2000. This resulted in a 51 percentage point difference between the two groups.Yonah Freemark, one of the researchers, identified two reasons that contribute to fewer Black homeowners: gentrification, and the rise of single family rentals owned by big investor companies.“So the Great Recession, and the years that followed, were associated with a significant increase in foreclosures, especially among homeowners of color,” explained Freemark. “And so there were a lot of investors who were able to sort of leverage the inability of people of color to continue to own their homes and buy up residences in those neighborhoods.” The companies that own the most single family rentals in the Twin Cities include Front Yard Residential Corporation  and Invitation Homes. These investors buy up properties in typically low-income and minority neighborhoods like North Minneapolis and central St. Paul. This funnels the wealth out of neighborhoods; researchers estimate about 1 billion dollars worth in Hennepin and Ramsey counties over a period of 15 years. Catrice Williams heads a team of financial coaches for Project for Pride in Living, a Minneapolis organization that prepares people to buy a home. She said more investors in the market can make it harder for individuals to win a bid, especially for those who can't afford to come with cash in hand.“So they can't buy and they can't build wealth. And that puts them right back into that renting cycle where they again cannot build wealth, they can't invest in the community to uplift and rebuild,” Williams said.Researchers say that government regulation of single family rentals and homeownership assistance to Black families can help close the gap.

Good morning, RVA! It's 56 °F, and coolish temperatures remain today. Andrew Freiden says you can expect humidity to make its sticky return, though, and possibly bring with it some rain. Temperatures steadily increase from here straight on through to the middle of next week. Enjoy what looks to be a pretty great weekend!Water coolerAs of this morning, the Virginia Department of Health reports the seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths as: 134, 10, and 6, respectively. VDH reports a seven-day average of 11.4 new cases in and around Richmond (Richmond: 3.1; Henrico: 4.4, and Chesterfield: 3.9). Since this pandemic began, 1,353 people have died in the Richmond region. 46.0%, 57.5%, and 54.0% of the population in Richmond, Henrico, and Chesterfield have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. I know we're nearing the end of the usefulness of all these charts I have, but you should really take a look at this week's stacked chart of new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. Look at that precipitous drop in new cases and that strong steady decline in new hospitalizations! There are probably lots of reasons why we're seeing these dramatic decreases, but they all match up pretty well with the middle of April, when Virginia opened up vaccination to the general public.I like this line from a column in the Richmond Times-Dispatch about how scientists can and should reach out to folks who are hesitant about getting a COVID-19 vaccine, “To be clear, I am not shaming Thomas. I frequent Starbucks twice a day because I know that the vaccines are just as safe as my caramel latte.” I think a lot of the vaccine work over the next several months means making vaccination as regular, commonplace, and boring (but life-giving nonetheless) as your morning coffee.Yesterday, Brendan King at WTVR celebrates the third anniversary of the Pulse—and I totally missed it! The Pulse had such smashing success its first two years of operation, and it still exists after an entire year of pandemic so I'm counting that as a big win. King also talk to Dr. Scientist Jeremy Hoffman who reminds us that, “Really, it is transportation that's driving our contribution to global climate change. What's one way that we can tackle that? It's investing in reliable, frequent, public transit.” He said this while literally getting on the Pulse, which is beyond charming. Next up for rapid transit in our region will be painting the bus-only lanes red this coming spring and using that pile of new regional transportation money to start planing for a second BRT (most likely a north-south route).Quick City Council update: It looks like the Land Use, Housing and Transportation committee decided to continue that laundry list of changes to Richmond 300 for another month. Because I'm a delight at parties, I love keeping track of which legislation has been kicking around on City Council's agenda the longest, and, turns out, it is this very same resolution (RES. 2021-R026)! Introduced on April 26th, it's now 60 days old—which is nowhere near Council's record but now definitely something I will keep an eye on.It's Infrastructure Week! Again! Yesterday, the Senate came to an agreement on $579 billion in new spending on our country's infrastructure—with lots of that earmarked for roads and bridges ($312 billion). For insight on federal transportation-related things I always turn to the Ubran Institute's Yonah Freemark, and, if you're interested, you should spend some time scrolling through his timeline this morning. Fascinating to me, is that it sounds like Biden will only sign this bipartisan bill if it's paired with another massive bill that can be passed through the 50-vote reconciliation process. Here's a quote from the president, “If this is the only thing that comes to me, I'm not signing it…It's in tandem.” So we'll see if we get any of the promised investment in health care, child care, high education, and climate change in the coming months.This morning's longreadEdgar Allan Poe's Other ObsessionAs a Richmonder, I feel obligated to link to Poe stuff.By 1840, Poe was working at a men's magazine, where he launched a feature called “A Chapter on Science and Art,” consisting of the sorts of squibs on innovation later found in Popular Mechanics. (“A gentleman of Liverpool announces that he has invented a new engine,” one entry started.) With this column, Tresch suggests, “Poe made himself one of America's first science reporters.” He also made himself one of America's first popular skeptics—a puzzle master and a debunker, in the vein of Martin Gardner. Poe wrote a column on riddles and enigmas, and he made a gleeful habit of exposing pseudoscience quacks.If you'd like your longread to show up here, go chip in a couple bucks on the ol' Patreon.Picture of the Day

Welcome to Friday Evening Fireside, a long-form version of Monday Morning QB. Today's edition features three extended interview cuts: WPFW News Director Askia Muhammad with scholar and activist Phyllis Bennis on Benjamin Netanyahu's political future; reporter Chris Bangert-Drowns with urban policy expert Yonah Freemark on Biden administration plans to shrink the racial wealth gap; and reporter Amara Evering with Shelbi Day, Chief Policy Officer at Family Equality, on LGBTQ rights and religious freedoms at the Supreme Court.

This week, two expert guests, Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Yonah Freemark, join the show to talk about the American Jobs Plan and how we can better decarbonize our economy with smart infrastructure spending. Professor Sachs explains how to best aim spending plans to create sustainable jobs, build up a green economy, and reduce inequality in the process. Freemark tells us why transportation emissions keep increasing, how to get fewer cars on the road, and the importance of federal and local coordination on transportation plans.  About Our Guests:  Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, the President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, and an SDG Advocate for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. He is the author of several books including The End of Poverty, The Age of Sustainable Development, and The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions. He hosts the new podcast Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs. Yonah Freemark is a senior research associate in the Urban Institute’s Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center, where he researches the intersection of land use, affordable housing, and transportation. You can read his recent Op-Ed "How to ensure Biden's climate-focused transportation plans turn out sustainable and equitable" in The Hill. You can follow his work at Urban.org or his blog The Transport Politic. Subscribe to our Substack newsletter "The Climate Weekly": https://theclimateweekly.substack.com/ As always, follow us @climatepod on Twitter and email us at theclimatepod@gmail.com. Our music is "Gotta Get Up" by The Passion Hifi, check out his music at thepassionhifi.com. Rate, review and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and more! Subscribe to our new YouTube channel! Join our Facebook group. Check out our updated website!     

Wilks Family Director, Ian L. McHarg Center Billy Fleming is the Wilks Family Director of the Ian L. McHarg Center in the Weitzman School of Design, a senior fellow with Data for Progress, and co-director of the "climate + community project." His fellowship with Data for Progress has focused on the built environment impacts of climate change, and resulted most prominently in the publication of low-carbon public housing policy briefs tied to the “Green New Deal for Public Housing Act” introduced in 2019. In his role at the McHarg Center, Billy is co-editor of the forthcoming book An Adaptation Blueprint (Island Press, 2020), co-editor and co-curator of the book and now internationally-traveling exhibit Design With Nature Now (Lincoln, 2019), and author of the forthcoming Drowning America: The Nature and Politics of Adaptation (Penn Press, expected 2021). Billy is also the lead author of the recently published and widely acclaimed “The 2100 Project: An Atlas for the Green New Deal.” He is also a co-author of the Indivisible Guide (2016). Along with Daniel Aldana Cohen, Billy co-directs the climate + community project (ccp), which works to connect the demands of the climate justice movement to the policy development process. ccp aim to do this by developing new, investment-forward public policy proposals under the framework of the Decade of the Green New Deal that target the intersection of climate justice and the built environment. Its focus has been on foregrounding the role of public housing, public schools, public transportation, public power, public land, and public works in local, state, national, and international climate policy discourse. This work has already resulted in applied policy research and model legislation in the housing, schools, transportation, and electricity sectors, filling a critical gap between the demands of the climate justice movement, the appetite for substantial new policy content from sitting legislators, and the desire of a rising generation of scholars to contribute to their work (including Olufemi Taiwo, Akira Drake Rodridguez, Yonah Freemark, Thea Riofrancos, and Shalanda Baker). His writing on climate, disaster, and design has also been published in The Guardian, The Atlantic, CityLab, Dissent Magazine, Houston Chronicle, Jacobin, Places Journal, and Science for the People Magazine, and he’s frequently asked to weigh in on the infrastructure and built environment implications of climate change, as well as candidate and congressional climate plans, by major climate reporters and congressional staff. His research has been supported by grants from the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, William Penn Foundation,Summit Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Hewlett Foundation, and by a variety of sponsors in the design and building industry. Prior to joining Penn, he worked as a landscape architect, city planner, organizer, and, later, in the Obama Administration’s White House Domestic Policy Council. He holds a bachelor of landscape architecture (University of Arkansas), master of community and regional planning (University of Texas), and a doctorate of city and regional planning (University of Pennsylvania).

This week we’re joined again by Yonah Freemark for the annual prediction show! Yonah chats with us about his new job at the Urban Institute, projects added to his transit inventory, and we make predictions about the coming infrastructure bill. 

In this second episode of Infrastructured I interview Yonah Freemark about the now passed House of Representatives' "INVEST in America Act," which is a $494 Billion Transportation Re-Authorization Bill that will fund the transportation infrastructure of the United States over the next five years. We talk about the different parts of the bill, from Amtrak to addressing the Climate Crisis, and discuss the complicated history of transportation policies prioritizing highways and cars. But this must change. We need to prioritize passenger rail and public transit in this country and this discussion talks about how the INVEST Act begins to get us there.

The debate is not a new one and yet it feels like the world wonders for the first time, do dense cities inherently make us more prone to becoming infected with something like a Coronavirus? It turns out, the answer isn’t as simple as it might at first seem to be. I debate this with special guest Yonah Freemark. But the conversation still focuses almost solely on the inherent dangers of living in dense places. The conversation needs to evolve and mature. Livable City seeks to call us towards making cities far more livable, more vibrant, more connecting to each other. Connecting in-person has been put on hold during the COVID-19 crisis, however we haven’t stopped connecting to each other and we’ve moved to connecting online in unprecedented levels. And this proves again the fundamental nature of cities that mustn't be forgotten: cities exist first and foremost to fulfill humanity’s social needs, that all of us seek to be seen, known and cared for around where we live by those who live around us. And it is from this lens that my conversation with Yonah seeks to contribute to the global conversation around this important subject. Yonah is an incredibly well read and thoughtful researcher, professional and urban practitioner at the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Follow the work of Yonah on Twitter and definitely check out a mix of his personal and academic work at The Transport Politic.   Come join the conversation around this subject by joining the Livable City community group.   Interesting density and Coronavirus infection figures: Chicago COVID-19 cases by zip code Coronavirus pandemic in Hong Kong New York City area cases by zip code Coronavirus cases around France Brought to you by SquadCast and post-production by Creekmore Music.

Yonah Freemark, a PhD candidate in urban policy at MIT, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss the 2020 crisis, its impact on transit, and what should be done to preserve the economic role of transit.Guest co-host Gregory Shill, associate professor of law at the University of Iowa, joins host Andrew Jennings, a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.

This week we're joined by Yonah Freemark of the Transport Politic for his eighth appearance on the show.  We look back at past transit predictions and then make a few more for next year. We talk about building subways around the country and cheer ourselves up about the state of transit as well. 

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From his academic research at MIT to his blog The Transport Politic, Yonah Freemark has tackled a key question: what can communities and elected officials do to ensure that their local transit projects are successful and meet their community goals?

On this episode we introduce a new segment featuring the inimitable Anjulie Rao. Anjulie and Keefer discuss the piece “Refusal After Refusal” by Adjustments Agency, which appeared in Harvard Design Magazine as well as the article “The “B” Word: How a More Universal Concept of Beauty Can Reshape Architecture” by Mark Alan Hewitt in Common Edge.Next Keefer opens up the mailbag with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke of Future Firm. Send in your listener questions to buildingsonair@gmail.com for us to answer!Lastly, we interview Yonah Freemark to discuss his research on upzoning which set the urbanist discourse alight!

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

Does building more housing--and allowing more housing to be built--actually reduce rents and home prices in the long run? How long is the long run exactly? In light of a MIT study that casts doubt on the efficacy of "upzoning"--allowing more houses to be built on one piece of land--Matt and Liam talk about "supply skepticism" and how important the study may or may not be to the fate of statewide housing reforms in California. Then an interview with Michael Lens (26:00), professor of urban planning at UCLA and a proponent of upzoning, about what has and hasn't been proven in housing research and his reaction to the MIT study. Finally an interview with the MIT study author himself, Yonah Freemark (44:00).

This week we’re joined by Yonah Freemark of the Transport Politic for our annual prediction extravaganza!  Find out how last year’s predictions held up and whether you agree with this year’s thoughts on Montreal transit and Bus Rapid Transit in Boston. We also discuss the leaked infrastructure plan from the new administration and talk about our favorite writers focused on urban issues. 

This week we’re joined by Yonah Freemark of the Transport Politic and Streetsblog’s new series Getting Transit Right.  This is our annual prediction show where we break down the results of last year’s transit predictions and make some more for 2017.  In between Yonah and I talk about high speed rail, transit and development, Elon Musk’s crazy tunnel ideas, and the future of federal policy. 

Yonah Freemark joins us to talk about his new mapping tool Transit Explorer and the big transit projects that are opening or under construction in the next year.

This episode pretty much sums up why this podcast exists in the first place. You thought you knew something about transit? Listening to Yonah Freemark of the Transport Politic and Jeff Wood of the Overhead Wire (and my lovely co-host) geek out on transit starts of 2014 and 2015 is a humbling, and surprisingly animating, experience. You can study for this episode by reading Yonah's seventh annual compendium of "Openings and Construction Starts Planned for 2015" or you can come straight here and hear him tell it (and then argue with Jeff about it). You thought the Oakland airport connector was a good idea just because transit is good? Get schooled. Didn’t know the country was getting its first bus/rail/bike/ped (but no cars!) bridge? Learn about it here. Wondering how escalator length impacts subway ridership? Yup, you heard it here first, folks. With that, I present to you: Yonah and Jeff on the transit starts of 2014 and 2015. Spoiler alert: Last year was a good year for expanding transportation options, and this year stands to be even better. But don’t take my word for it. Have a listen.

In this week’s episode of Chicago Policy Radio, Jim Howes sits down with Yonah Freemark and turns the gears about transit-oriented development and infrastructure investment and how these concepts fit into the present-day narrative on cities.