This week we’re joined by Cleveland journalist Ken Prendergast to talk about intercity passenger rail in greater Ohio. We chat about the competing interests of Brightline and Amtrak and the his...
We’re Han Solo today but no fear we’re flashing back to Episode 211 of the Talking Headways podcast where we chatted with Ralph Buehler about the topic of the German transport concept of Verk...
https://theoverheadwire.com/2024/05/mondays-flashback-verkehrsverbund-with-ralph-buehler/
This week on Talking Headways we’re joined by Erin Clark, Chief Real Estate Investment Officer of the Denver Housing Authority. We chat about the redevelopment of Sun Valley, a public housing p...
The philanthropic wing of America’s largest Medicaid insurer has pledged $1B towards affordable housing by offering below market loans to a development partner. As noted in the Forbes article, ...
https://theoverheadwire.com/2024/05/the-overhead-wire-daily-may-22nd-2024-the-biopsychosocial-model/
This week we’re joined once again by Jarrett Walker to talk about the release of the revised edition of his influential book Human Transit. We chat about Ursula Le Guin, expanding access to opp...
https://theoverheadwire.com/2024/05/unedited-podcast-transcript-483-an-update-to-human-transit/
First before I share today’s thoughts, just wanted to let everyone know we passed 100,000!! links in the news archive. Since 2013 we’ve been collecting and tagging the links we share in the n...
https://theoverheadwire.com/2024/05/the-overhead-wire-daily-may-15th-2024-city-narratives/
This week we’re Han Solo but have a lot of news to cover including items on skateboarding, new types of segregation, third places, and some ancient ways to cool cities and streets. Check out th...
https://theoverheadwire.com/2024/05/mondays-152-ancient-ways-of-water/
An interesting paper about growth in big cities compares housing construction and prices between Texas and California. What researchers found is that housing construction costs are much cheaper a...
https://theoverheadwire.com/2024/05/the-overhead-wire-daily-may-9th-2024-changing-trajectories/
This week we’re joined by Megan Kimble to talk about her book City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America’s Highways. We chat about the folks fighting back against high...
https://theoverheadwire.com/2024/05/unedited-podcast-transcript-482-highway-fighters-in-texas/
First let me offer a super congrats to Elaine Clegg on getting nominated to the Amtrak Board! Very exciting. Second, today a piece in Grist jumped out at me, especially after sharing yesterday’...