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PREVIEW: Urban Planning Pop with Pondless

June 30, 2026 5:01am 3 min

***This is a preview of a Patreon-exclusive bonus episode. For complete access to this and all of our bonus content, plus ad-free versions of regular episodes, merch discounts, presale tickets to live shows, and more, be...

Rethinking Criminal Consequences for Drivers Who Kill

June 23, 2026 5:01am 1:01

What should happen to drivers who kill or injure someone with their car? Does a focus on punishment for "reckless" or "dangerous" drivers let everyone else off the hook and never force them to look at the larger harms of...

Changing Lanes

June 09, 2026 5:01am 58 min

What does it take to make a street safer for everyone? In the US, it typically requires a combination of tragedy, grassroots organizing, and political leadership. Even when these ingredients come together, success is nev...

PREVIEW: Sean Duffy's Great American Road Grift

May 26, 2026 5:01am 8 min

This is a preview of a Patreon-exclusive bonus episode. For complete access to this and all of our bonus content, plus ad-free versions of regular episodes, merch discounts, presale tickets to live shows, and more, becom...

Taking the Transportation Fight to Congress from NY-7

May 19, 2026 5:01am 2:05

Antonio Reynoso, Claire Valdez, and Julie Won are all running in the June 23 Democratic primary for New York's 7th congressional district. That's the seat that opened up when veteran Democratic politician Nydia Velazquez...

A Physical Education with Casey Johnston

May 12, 2026 5:01am 56 min

Just as it is with road safety, so much of how Americans talk about health pushes the responsibility for eating right and exercising onto the individual, ignoring the many structural barriers that prevent people from mak...

Streets for Play, Streets for Freedom

April 28, 2026 5:01am 42 min

Streets can be more than places to move and store cars—they can be  places for children to grow and thrive. Alice Ferguson and Tim Gill are the UK-based authors of a new paper called "Streets for Play, Streets for Freedo...

A Doctor's View of Traffic Violence

April 07, 2026 4:01am 56 min

We talk with a guest who knows firsthand just how destructive cars can be. Dr. Rex Tai is a physician who works in long-term care. Many of his patients are the victims of traffic violence. His experience providing care f...

PREVIEW: Let's Get Political

March 31, 2026 5:01am 8 min

This is a preview of a Patreon-exclusive bonus episode. For complete access to this and all of our bonus content, plus ad-free versions of regular episodes, merch discounts, presale tickets to live shows, and more, becom...

Tony Kushner on The Pushcart War

March 17, 2026 4:01am 57 min

The Pushcart War—written by Jean Merrill and illustrated by Ronni Solbert and first published in 1964—is a charming and provocative children's novel that tells the story of a band of pushcart vendors who fight against th...

America's Hidden Desire to Live Car-Free

March 10, 2026 5:01am 45 min

Do people really like our all-enveloping autocentric system quite as much as everyone keeps saying they do? What kind of communities would they live in if given the choice? The answers, as a new study shows, are not exac...

PREVIEW: What Snow Reveals About Cities (Plus More From Our Book Tour)

March 03, 2026 5:01am 8 min

***This is a preview of a Patreon-exclusive bonus episode. For complete access to this and all of our bonus content, plus ad-free versions of regular episodes, merch discounts, presale tickets to live shows, and more, be...

Planning Livable Downtowns with Brent Toderian

February 24, 2026 5:01am 47 min

Brent Toderian has decades of experience in city planning, urban design, and transportation. He was chief planner for the city of Vancouver from 2006 to 2012, a time when the city hosted and was transformed by the Winter...

Superbowl Roundup with Ian Chillag

February 10, 2026 5:01am 1:10

Super Bowl LX had everything, from ads for weight loss drugs and male grooming products to spots touting tax prep services and calming fears about our AI overlords. It also had one outstanding halftime performance from B...

PREVIEW: Women Changing Cities with Melissa and Chris Bruntlett

January 27, 2026 5:01am 9 min

***This is a preview of a Patreon-exclusive bonus episode. For complete access to this and all of our bonus content, plus ad-free versions of regular episodes, merch discounts, presale tickets to live shows, and more, be...

The Importance of Livable Streets with Bruce Appleyard

January 20, 2026 5:01am 52 min

We talked with Dr. Bruce Appleyard, who has spent a lifetime thinking about what we mean when we talk about liveable streets—and why it is so important that we build our cities with human beings in mind, first and foremo...

The Creation of America's Car Culture, Part 2

January 06, 2026 5:01am 31 min

Signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, otherwise known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act, ushered in an unprecedented era of roadbuilding in the United S...

PREVIEW: Hanging Out with Jonathan Maus of Bike Portland

December 30, 2025 5:01am 6 min

***This is a preview of a Patreon-exclusive bonus episode. For complete access to this and all of our bonus content, plus ad-free versions of regular episodes, merch discounts, presale tickets to live shows, and more, be...

Dispatches from Book Tour, Part 2

December 23, 2025 5:01am 1:18

We are back home in Brooklyn but we can't stop talking about everything we saw out on the road on our Life After Cars book tour. Listen for our takes on the second leg of our trip, which took us from Providence to Austin...

Dispatches from Book Tour

November 25, 2025 5:01am 1:06

The last few weeks have been a whirlwind as we hit the road (not in a car) to promote our new book, Life After Cars, in some of the greatest cities of North America including San Francisco, Washington, DC, Seattle, Vanco...

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