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Talking Headways Podcast: How Big Box Stores are Destroying the Fabric of America
All of this very much like relates to where we are in terms of the breakdown in our basic civic fabric as a country.
February 20, 2025
Can We Build Car-Light Neighborhoods From Scratch — Even in Texas?
Can you really build a car-light neighborhood in suburban Houston — and could it inspire car-dependent places to explore new ideas about development?
December 9, 2024
Talking Headways Podcast: Have Cities Run Out of Land?
Chris Redfearn of USC and Anthony Orlando of Cal Poly Pomona on why "pro-business" Texas housing markets are catching up to "pro-regulation" California and what it might mean for future city growth.
July 25, 2024
Talking Headways Podcast: Rethinking Denver Along the South Platte River
Who even knew there was a river in Denver?
May 23, 2024
Talking Headways Podcast: Real Estate Impacts at BART
One of the great assets of any transit system is its real estate — and how it's developed has a major impact on ridership and, therefore, farebox revenue.
October 12, 2023
Can Athletes Solve Urbanism’s PR Problem? Soccer Star Tesho Akindele Thinks So
If the typical professional athlete talks about transportation at all, it's usually in the context of a mulit-million SUV commercial. Soccer star Tesho Akindele, though, isn't the typical athlete — and as he transitions out of his career on the field, he wants to make a full-time job out of building walkable, bikeable, equitable cities.
February 14, 2023
SPUR Talk: Weaving Ballparks into the Urban Fabric
The Giant's ballpark is a lynch pin for development in Mission Bay... something the A's want to emulate in Jack London Square
November 20, 2019
SPUR Talk: Dancing on the Grave of “Level of Service”
Wednesday evening, SPUR, the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association, sponsored a talk entitled "Reconsidering Transportation to Create Better Urban Spaces" at their new downtown Oakland location. The talk focused on the history and damage done by the almost mindless adherence over the years to Level of Service (LOS) on urban spaces throughout California.
June 2, 2016
Land Sits Fallow While Bay Area Housing Crisis Continues
Anyone who rides Caltrain has probably looked out the window once or twice at the Bayshore Station, a stop that practically nobody uses. There's nothing there but a giant brown field.
February 16, 2016