The Urbanist Agenda Podcast
1) How to Actually Improve a City (w/Brent Toderian)
Brent Toderian is the former chief planner of Vancouver, Canada. He has worked with dozens of cities around the world to achieve real change, and he has some advice for advocates who want to do the sa...Show More
2) Czechia's Insane Pro-Car Political Party (w/Adam Something)
Czechia just got a new political party called "Motorists for Themselves". But behind the "car-friendly" façade, they're just another far-right political party, funded by fossil fuel interests. Also in...Show More
3) Why is it SO HARD to Take a Train Across the Border? (w/Jon Worth)
The EU is heavily promoting rail as an alternative to flying and driving, but while the "big" high-speed train projects get a lot of attention, it's often maddeningly difficult to take a regional trai...Show More
4) Why I'm Ebike-pilled (with American Fietser)
"If it weren't for ebikes, I'd be driving a car" says American Fietser.
5) Why I Quit YouTube (with RMTransit)
RMTransit has been making YouTube videos about cities and public transit for over 5 years. Now with over 750 videos on his YouTube channel, it's time to call it quits.
6) Let's Send our Pickup Trucks to Ukraine (with Build the Lanes)
Pickup trucks don't belong in European cities, so let's send them to help out in Ukraine! Stef from Build the Lanes tells us about why he's driving pickup trucks from the EU to Ukraine. Berr Batta...Show More
7) The Sociology of Car-Brained Planning (with We're in Hell)
Sam from the YouTube channel "We're in Hell" normally makes video essays about sociology, but he recently went down the urban planning rabbit hole after Doug Ford threatened to take away his bike lane...Show More
8) When Transit isn't Built to be Transit (with RMTransit)
In an attempt to copy of the success of Portland, several US cities kicked off streetcar projects. But are they actually good transit?
9) Los Angeles Deserves Better (with Ellory Smith)
Los Angeles is (in)famous for its car-dependent sprawl, but there are pockets of good urbanism, and there are people working hard to build more of them.
10) The Insanity of Canadian Housing Prices (with Mike Moffatt)
Canada's housing crisis is one of the worst in the world. But why? In this episode I talk to Mike Moffatt, Canadian economist and housing expert.