Placemakers Podcast
1) When Good Placemakers Go Bad
George Leonidas Leslie was perhaps the most sensational—and successful!—criminal in American history. An architect by training, he planned and pulled off a series of record-breaking bank robberies thr...Show More
2) The Quest to Make the Perfect Place
Imagine a place where you can stroll down the sidewalk, wave to your neighbors on their porch, then pick up your dry cleaning or have lunch at the café. That’s the kind of walkable, compact, mixed-use...Show More
3) Paid Podcast: Uniting a Neighborhood
Seattle’s Yesler Terrace was the first racially integrated housing project in the U.S. Today, it remains a multicultural nexus for the city. The Seattle Housing Authority and its partners at JPMorgan ...Show More
4) A City of Blue Ribbons
Long before the Black Lives Matter movement swept the U.S., Dallas’ police chief tried to diffuse the anger and mistrust between minority communities and police. His reforms made an impact. The number...Show More
5) Live Free or Die
How does a small group of people change politics? The Free State Project wants libertarians to concentrate themselves in New Hampshire and promote libertarian causes. Thousands have already moved, and...Show More
6) The Greatest Misallocation of Resources in the History of the World
How do you solve a problem like the suburbs? For one man in Arizona, it means creating an agricultural utopia, replete with picket fences and a community garden. He was inspired by one of our era's m...Show More
7) Fighting Blight in the Gateway City
Three stories from St. Louis highlight different ways to combat urban blight, from fighting urban decay on MLK Jr. Drive, to turning vacant lots into lush corner gardens. Whether it’s one street, one ...Show More
8) Paid Podcast: Elevating the Neighborhood
In the 1950s and ‘60s, Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard was a thriving commercial district beloved by New Orleans’ African-American community. After decades of disinvestment, the boulevard has turned a c...Show More
9) The Warrior on the Hill
Washington, D.C., may be the political center of the free world, but its 670,000 residents don’t have a say in the national legislature. What they do have is a “non-voting delegate” in the House of Re...Show More
10) Building a Better Bike Share
Philadelphia has made a mission of making bike share attractive to low- income and minority residents, trying to buck the national trend of bike-share users being white, rich, educated, and male. The ...Show More