It's a special edition of the podcast this week, as we talk to an expert in how residents of a city interact with — and are sometimes exploited by — all our digital doodads.

A top official at the California High-Speed Rail Authority gives us an update on that mega-project — and also offers lessons on what engineers and planners have learned.

Most American cities are not even attempting to hold on to its middle class — and that's a problem.

This week, we talked to Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner about the city’s Complete Communities program.

This week, we talk to a key official in Oakland, who explains how the city is creating the nation's biggest open-streets network practically overnight. Are you listening, Mayor de Blasio?

It's another standout episode featuring Iowa Law Professor Greg Shill who describes all of the ways that driving is costing and killing out society — and how non-drivers can't even opt out!

This week, we talk about how transit can save rural counties lots of money currently being spent on ambulances.

If you listen to no other podcast this week, check out this one with a electric car booster who sees the demise of the entire oil industry on the near horizon!

Imagine a city that transforms a congested roadway into something that works for transit users and cyclists! It's Boston. Check out our podcast with a Beantown planner.

This week, we talk about Big Ticket transit — and why there's so little of it.

Geoff Boeing, a professor of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis at USC, talks all things data and streets, focusing on street network design. Click for the podcast and some highlights.

Talking to SFMTA's Adrienne Heim and Rafe Rabalais about the Potrero Yard electric bus and housing project.