Parks and Fiscal Responsibility
EPISODE 322, SEASON 10: In this episode, I connect with Jamie Sabbach from Salida, CO, and the 110 Percent organization We have a very Strong Towns-esque conversation about parks and how cities need [...]
January 2026
December 2025
Stop Subsidizing Inactivity
EPISODE 319, SEASON 10: In this episode, I connect with Dr. Tepi Mclaughlin from Perth, Australia We discuss the institutional subsidization of motonormativity that directly contributes to epidemic levels of physical inactivity. [...]
November 2025
Dutch Cycling Manifesto
EPISODE 316, SEASON 10: In this episode, I connect with Michela Grasso, a cycling culture researcher with the Urban Cycling Institute in Amsterdam We discuss her research writings, including the publication of [...]
Women Changing Cities
EPISODE 315, SEASON 10: In this episode, I reconnect with my good friends from Delft in The Netherlands, Melissa & Chris Bruntlett We discuss their fabulous new book, their third, Women Changing [...]
April 2025
Car-Lite Living in Indigo
EPISODE 295, SEASON 9: In this episode, I connect Scott Snodgrass and Clayton Garrett with Meristem Communities We discuss the background story that led them to integrate a working farm into the [...]
Streets For People
EPISODE 291, SEASON 9: In this episode, I connect with Cllr James McAsh, London's Southwark Borough We discuss the background story that led him into politics, his transition into land use and [...]
February 2025
Creating People-Centered & Nature-Based Cities
EPISODE 283, SEASON 9: In this episode, I connect with Paris-based Reena Mahajan, founder of Studio Divercity We discuss her efforts to create people-centered and nature-based cities and reduce car dependency in [...]
May 2024
Bicycle City
EPISODE 250, SEASON 7: In this episode, I reconnect with Dan Piatkowski, Associate Professor, at OsloMet University We discuss his fabulous new Island Press book, Bicycle City: Riding the Bike Boom to [...]
March 2023
Understanding Houten
EPISODE 182, SEASON 5: In this episode, I connect with Kylie van Dam, a resident of Houten in The Netherlands We discuss life in Houten, a Dutch city near Utrecht that was intentionally [...]
Livable 15 Minute Communities
EPISODE 176, SEASON 5: In this episode, I connect with Lindsay Sturman with the Livable Communities Initiative (LCI) of Los Angeles, California We discuss LCI's efforts to reimagine Los Angeles and address the [...]