Planning matters is a podcast examining relevant issues and topics of city planning and why they matter for the cities we love. Each episode, we will explore a particular issue confronting cities that’s relevant to City Planning. Have an idea for a future podcast or question you want to ask? Leave a message by clicking here: https://anchor.fm/planning/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/planning/support
Most people traditionally think of parking being an issue in their City because they believe there isn't enough. The truth is that your City does have a parking problem; there is too much of it. In this week's episode, we discuss ways to visualize the oversupply of parking in your City and some of the challenges having too much parking creates.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/planning/supportIn this episode, we discuss Vision Zero and how to implement the program successfully.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/planning/supportDo walkable places result in people actually walking? Check out the Storymap I created for this episode to see the analysis and resources for what was discussed in today's episode.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/planning/supportIn this week's episode, we discuss missing middle housing (like duplexes, triplexes and quads) and why housing choice is important to your City. While City's like Minneapolis and Berkeley make headlines for their so-called ban on single family housing, we cover intermediate steps you can take in the interim.
--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/planning/supportTraditional measures of equity typically consider only a fraction of person's day, as they rarely examine things other than where people live. In this week's episode, we look at how mobile location data can unlock and reveal larger patterns of equity or inequality by looking at where people shop, work and socialize.
In the episode, we discuss a methodology for how you can examine this same issue for your City. A link to the results of my analysis are below.
The El Paso Equity Atlas is available here: https://arcg.is/11HKjr
Walkability is a nebulous term to that means lots of things to different people. In today's episode, we examine whether walkability matters in terms of the price people are willing to pay for housing. Using data from real estate website such as Zillow and Redfin and combining it with walkability metrics from Walkscore, you can examine the correlation between walkability and sales data. Interested in learning more? Leave leave me a message or contact me on anchor.fm/planning.
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