Livable City Podcast
1) A Bottom Up Revolution - Chuck Marohn
What do city budgets, wise infrastructure investments and mom and pop shops have to do with a livable city? Turns out, quite a lot.  If our cities and our towns can’t make wise and measured investmen...Show More
2) Ecodesign for Cities & Suburbs (Part II) - Larry Beasley & Jonathan Barnett
Part II of the conversation with Larry Beasley and Jonathan Barnett. Why do we even live in cities? There's been a lot of criticism about them during the pandemic which makes this the perfect time to ...Show More
Ecodesign for Cities & Suburbs (Part II) - Larry Beasley & Jonathan Barnett
53:50 | Aug 4th, 2020
3) Ecodesign for Cities & Suburbs (Part I) - Larry Beasley & Jonathan Barnett
If you were in a position to lead a plan to make your city more livable, how would you do it, what would you do? How would you go about instilling your vision for greater livability but in close colla...Show More
Ecodesign for Cities & Suburbs (Part I) - Larry Beasley & Jonathan Barnett
56:08 | Jul 22nd, 2020
4) Reimagine Your Neighborhood - Jeffery Tompkins
As they say, a picture is worth 1000 words. And when something in your neighborhood or your city has been a certain way for decades or even hundreds of years, it’s easy to forget that a physical place...Show More
5) Expand the Conversation - Kea Wilson
How do we know if our cities are livable? There are many cities that you’ve visited that have felt much more or much less livable to you compared to the one you call home. And this is no different tha...Show More
6) Transit is an Essential Service - Steven Higashide
What’s the role of transportation in the livability foundation of a city? Even more specifically, what’s the role of public transit in making a city more livable? In places where transit has long been...Show More
7) More Human Places - Andre Vasquez
In the midst of the unpredictability that has come with the COVID-19 pandemic, at least one thing has become quite true: many of the world’s cities desperately need more space.  What kind of space ar...Show More
8) Streets are for Living First! - Mike Lydon
One of the most powerful and unpredicted outcomes so far from the Coronavirus pandemic has been the immediate change in how the world’s city streets are used. Pre-pandemic, many cities’ streets were m...Show More
9) Should I become a professional urban planner? - Austin Gibble
Do you need to become an urban planning professional in order to make more livable cities? Do you need to study civil engineering in order to help design safer neighborhood streets? The answer is, yes...Show More
10) Is Density Making us Sick? - Yonah Freemark
The debate is not a new one and yet it feels like the world wonders for the first time, do dense cities inherently make us more prone to becoming infected with something like a Coronavirus? It turns o...Show More