City Planning Matters

Alex Hoffman

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

  • 29 minutes 33 seconds
    Why Plans Fail
    Plans can fail for a number of reasons, but in today's episode we highlight the top five causes of planning efforts failing to make it across the finish line. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/planning/support
    2 July 2021, 11:00 am
  • 30 minutes 36 seconds
    The Economics of Bad Planning
    In this episode, we look at how the dollars and cents of development can sometimes result in bad planning. Plus, we discuss opportunities for the land value tax and how this can result in better outcomes. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/planning/support
    18 June 2021, 11:00 am
  • 39 minutes 20 seconds
    Your City's Parking Problem

    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.

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    4 June 2021, 11:00 am
  • 39 minutes 28 seconds
    Achieving Vision Zero

    In this episode, we discuss Vision Zero and how to implement the program successfully.

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    21 May 2021, 11:00 am
  • 27 minutes 49 seconds
    Who Do You Serve?
    Examining how cities develop service area boundaries and discussion of a new, data-driven approach to doing so. By using this methodology, cities can identify and answer the question of when it comes to city facilities, who do you serve? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/planning/support
    7 May 2021, 10:00 am
  • 25 minutes 4 seconds
    If You Build It, Will They Come?

    Do 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.

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    23 April 2021, 2:31 pm
  • 27 minutes 50 seconds
    Transit Supportive Policies
    Many cities struggle to have functional public transit systems. While some blame rests with the agencies on the operations side, many times it’s the lack of transit-supportive policies that doom transit. In this episode, we will look at policies your city can change to help make your transit ridership increase. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/planning/support
    9 April 2021, 1:00 pm
  • 35 minutes 5 seconds
    Missing Middle Housing

    In 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.

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    26 March 2021, 1:36 pm
  • 22 minutes 58 seconds
    Rethinking Inequality

    Traditional 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


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    12 March 2021, 3:36 pm
  • 27 minutes 33 seconds
    Does Walkability Matter?

    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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    26 February 2021, 4:41 pm
  • 26 minutes 39 seconds
    Visualizing Traffic Congestion
    Traffic Congestion is often the number one complaint of residents in your city, but many governments struggle showing both where it occurs and the magnitude of the problem. But with more companies making traffic data available, there are now multiple data sources available to allow you to begin visualizing your city's traffic congestion problem. Listen to today's episode to learn how you can begin collecting this data, all at no cost. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/planning/support
    13 February 2021, 6:21 pm
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