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America's Hidden Desire to Live Car-Free

Episode 168

Do people really like our all-enveloping autocentric system quite as much as everyone keeps saying they do? What kind of communities would they live …

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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PREVIEW: What Snow Reveals About Cities (Plus More From Our Book Tour)

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Planning Livable Downtowns with Brent Toderian

Episode 167

Brent Toderian has decades of experience in city planning, urban design, and transportation. He was chief planner for the city of Vancouver from 2006…

4 months ago

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Superbowl Roundup with Ian Chillag

Episode 166

Super Bowl LX had everything, from ads for weight loss drugs and male grooming products to spots touting tax prep services and calming fears about ou…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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PREVIEW: Women Changing Cities with Melissa and Chris Bruntlett

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5 months ago

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The Importance of Livable Streets with Bruce Appleyard

Episode 165

We talked with Dr. Bruce Appleyard, who has spent a lifetime thinking about what we mean when we talk about liveable streets—and why it is so importa…

5 months, 1 week ago

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The Creation of America's Car Culture, Part 2

Episode 164

Signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, otherwise known as the National Interstate and Defense Highwa…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

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PREVIEW: Hanging Out with Jonathan Maus of Bike Portland

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6 months ago

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Dispatches from Book Tour, Part 2

Episode 163

We are back home in Brooklyn but we can't stop talking about everything we saw out on the road on our Life After Cars book tour. Listen for our takes…

6 months, 1 week ago

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Dispatches from Book Tour

Episode 162

The last few weeks have been a whirlwind as we hit the road (not in a car) to promote our new book, Life After Cars, in some of the greatest cities o…

7 months ago

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