Beneath the Surface: An Infrastructure Podcast
1) Farewell—For Now
In this wrap-up episode, host Tamara Winter and producer Everett Katigbak reflect on the first season of Beneath the Surface, featuring highlights from our favorite episodes, and musings about future ...Show More
2) B-side: Interview with Shruti Rajagopalan
In this conversation, Shruti Rajagopalan, Head of India Policy Research at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and host Tamara Winter discuss Shruti's research on how population growth can ...Show More
3) People and Ideas: Populations as Infrastructure
We explore the effects of declining birth rates and what, if anything, could be done to reverse them. Along the way, we’ll dig into one of the thorniest questions about population growth: what happens...Show More
4) B-side: Interview with Alex Forrest
In this conversation, host Tamara Winter and Alex Forrest, transit planner for the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission in Springfield, Massachusetts, discuss the history of transit in the US, the relat...Show More
5) Growing Pains and Bullet Trains: The Art and Science of Moving People
We examine how officials in post WWII-Japan created one of the most efficient examples of scaled infrastructure in the modern world — and what cities around the world can learn from them.
6) B-side: Interview with Ronan Lyons
In this conversation, host Tamara Winter and Ronan Lyons, Associate Professor in Economics at Trinity College Dublin, discuss Ireland’s economic development, the current challenges facing would-be hom...Show More
7) You Say You Want to Build More Housing...
The price of housing in major cities has, over the past few decades, far outpaced the cost of construction. The immediate effects of the housing crunch are generally well-understood: productivity suff...Show More
8) The Industrial Ballet: An Investigation into Global Supply Chains
A conversation with Ryan Petersen, CEO of Flexport.
9) B-side: Interview with Audrey Carleton
Audrey Carleton, environmental journalist for VICE, discusses the potential for lithium extraction at the Salton Sea to catalyze the burgeoning electric vehicle industry, the parallels to the oil and ...Show More
10) Salton Sea: White Gold in the California Desert
In 1905, Colorado River floodwaters created one of the largest lakes in the United States: the Salton Sea. In this episode, we explore the future of energy production, how boom and bust cycles affect ...Show More