This week were sharing part 2 of our discussion with Jim Kumon. We chat about the challenges of development, how to crowdfund a building, coming to the end of an 80 year economic cycle, how the built environment is an outcome of how we structure capital, and how more information can make it harder to learn new things.

Some websites of note:

Electric Housing

Incremental Development Alliance

Passive House Crowdfund

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're joined by Tracy McMillan to talk about aging in place, Nashville's big transit plan, potential Alzheimer's causes in car exhaust, Milan's famous weeks, and the Colorado legislature's search for more housing and TOD. 

Articles

Aging in place - New York Times

Nashville's transit plans - Nashville Tennessean

Alzheimer's and car exhaust - Clean Technica

Colorado density laws - Colorado Politics

Milan's commercial weeks - Domus Web

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This week we’re joined by Jim Kumon, Principal at Electric Housing, to discuss his work as a developer and urban policy educator in the Twin Cities. We chat about his sustainable development project, what St. Paul learned from Minneapolis 2040 and how zoning reform and transportation intersect.

Some websites of note:

Electric Housing

Sundial Building

Incremental Development Alliance

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This week we’re joined by Gabe Klein, Executive Director of the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. We chat about the Joint Office’s white paper focused on best practices and solutions for electric vehicle charging entitled: Community Charging: Emerging Multifamily, Curbside, and Multimodal Practices. 

White Paper Link

The EV Charging Infrastructure Playbook - Link

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Happy Mondays!  This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire we're Han Solo again but we have a lot to catch up on.  We're going over some of the news we didn't get to when we were away in China for a month.  We cover LA's spongy infrastructure, an idea to connect zoning reform to transportation funding, and the transition from governments incentivizing retail businesses to warehousing infrastructure.  Of course there's more but listen in to hear everything we share.

Main News

Also below is are the links to the items we covered on the show:

Los Angeles Spongy City - Wired Magazine

Local governments new plans for public housing - Vox

Toronto streetcar speeds up - Blog TO

Smaller houses for smaller prices - New York Times

Zoning for transportation funds - FAS

Canadian feds will stop investing in roads - CBC News

Cell phone distracted drivers - Vox

Rent killing sex? - Discourse Lounge

Mexico City water shortage - CNN

Retail attraction strategies - Time

Deadliest Intersections - Stacker

Reviewing smooth cities - The Nation

Transport equity tool - Streetsblog CA

Health benefits ULEZ/LTNs - Guardian | Guardian

Climate boomtowns - The Atlantic

Profit sharing for cities - Governing

The Great Asynchonization - Transportist

Death of the small car - Autopian

Fire department policy - Thesis Driven

AI Generated visuals - MIT News

Houston Mayor - Texas Monthly

Building deconstruction - Smart Cities Dive

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This week we’re joined by Sara Stickler, President and CEO of WTS International. We discuss how WTS highlights women’s expertise in transportation and how they create opportunities from mentorship to leadership and education. We also chat about some of their legislative priorities on workplace policy as well as some of the barriers women face in the field.

For more information visit: https://www.wtsinternational.org/

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This week we’re featuring a one to one conversation between Billy Terry, Executive Director of the National Transit Institute at Rutgers University, and India Birdsong Terry, General Manager and CEO of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority. They discuss leadership, hiring, and culture change at Ohio's largest transit agency. 

This podcast was produced in partnership with Mpact. To find out more, visit http://mpactmobility.org

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This week on Mondays at The Overhead Wire Jeff talks about his month long trip to China. Subways, multi-use paths, urbanism and more! We chat about Chinese mall culture, great food, and a really cool station design in Shenzhen.

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This week we’re sharing a San Francisco Planning and Urban Research (SPUR) forum on how a statewide coalition of transit advocates were able to organize a funding bridge to avert a fiscal cliff for transit operators in the state. The discussion led by SPUR’s Laura Tolkoff, shares how they did it and what’s next.

Featured guests include...

Laura Tolkoff / Interim Chief Policy Officer & Transportation Policy Director, SPUR      

Rebecca Long / Director, Legislation & Public Affairs, Bay Area Metro      

Cyrus Hall / Independent Sustainable Transportation Advocate      

Zack Deutsch-Gross / Policy Director, Transform CA      

Raayan Mohtashemi / Legislative Aide, Office of California State Senator Scott Wiener      

Monique Webster / Regional Government Affairs Manager, SFMTA

Adina Levin / Policy Director and Co-Founder, Seamless Bay Area

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This week we’re joined by Heidi Simon, Director of Thriving Communities at Smart Growth America. Heidi talks about lessons learned from Complete Streets Leadership Academies as state and local officials and advocates work to create safer streets through quick build projects.

Find the report here.

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This week we’re joined by vehicle designer Dan Sturges to talk about his book Near to Far: A Design for a new and Equitable Transportation System. We talk about new ways of thinking about vehicle design, mobility for low density areas, as well as pop culture perceptions of small vehicles.

Find out more about what Dan is working on at http://www.dzn.camp

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