But if you're okay with a little nuance, hop on in while we take a stroll through what density means, what it does and doesn't do, and why the topic riles so many people up.

We talk about:

• What density measures
• Arguments people make against density
• Arguments people make in favor of density
• A theory on why density tends to be a fixation in North America
• Different ways to reach the same density
• How cars factor in (and cars always factor in!)
• What is overcrowding? And how that relates to "density"
• How talking about urban intensity allows for greater specificity
• And a lot more!

Links:

Want to learn more on this episode’s topic? There has been no shortage of words written on the virus and our cities. Here's just a tiny sample:

• June 1972 article from Psychological Review, titled "On the distinction between density and crowding: Some implications for future research" by Daniel Stokols
• June 22, 2021 article in Policy Options Politiques, "We need to focus on the problem of crowding, not density, in our cities" by Valerie Preston and Brian Ray
• June 1, 2020 TVO Today article, "Density is a planning problem. Crowding is a money problem" by John Michael McGrath
• January 2019 Governing, "Why ‘Density’ Is a Bad Word: It’s often used to describe how people live in urban spaces. But it shouldn't be." by Alex Marshall

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Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark.

Music in this episode includes: Sounds of the Supermarket, Blue Dot Sessions, bummies. (on YouTube), a 1986 recording from The Weather Channel, lukrembo (on YouTube), C. Scott, Isaac Horwedel, and Dead Moon ("Too Many People")

Lots to cover in this show, and we talk about:

• ingrained attitudes about transportation (and whose experience counts the most)
• policy choices that inevitably lead to avoidable death
• individuals and families bearing the burden of collective failures
• learning from other countries: whether safe streets are a "cultural" thing or a policy result
• Vision Zero as a response to traffic deaths
• neighborhood politics
• the concept of "windshield bias"
• a few simple design approaches that make streets safer for all people
• ... and more

Let's dive in!

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Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark.

Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, a 1985 Weather Channel broadcast, Isaac Horwedel, and Cullah ("GroOvy" and "Western Firefight 2").

Some of the things we discuss include:

• the most common (and annoying) sources of outdoor noise
• adverse mental, physical, and social health effects from too much noise exposure
• what safe noise levels even are
• ways to reduce noise in cities (hint: it has a lot to do with cars, like basically everything we talk about)
• and a whole lot more

Links:

Want to learn more on this episode’s topic? There has been no shortage of words written on the virus and our cities. Here's just a tiny sample:

• Book: ‘Curbing Traffic’ by Melissa & Chris Bruntlett
• Why City Noise Is a Serious Health Hazard
• Environmental Noise Pollution in the United States: Developing an Effective Public Health Response
• How Animals Perceive the World 
• The sounds of our lives suck! How to make cities better by ending the blight of noise
• Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud (Video)
• Why sounds and smells are as vital to cities as the sights
• Paris caps speed limit to 30km/h in further boost to 'soft' transport
• The Sensory Assault of 18th Century Cities
• Road Traffic Noise Pollution Is Linked With a Heightened Risk of Central Obesity
• The Science of Quieter Cities
• Traffic Noise Might GiveYou a Heart Attack
• The Science of Quieter Cities
• How Silence Became the Ultimate Luxury Good
• The (Basically) Complete Health Case for Urban Parks, Trees, and Nature
• NOISY CITIES...]]>In this episode, we talk about noise pollution—a much bigger problem than you might realize!

  Some of the things we discuss include:

  • the most common (and annoying) sources of outdoor noise
  • adverse mental, physical, and social health effects from too much noise exposure
  • what safe noise levels even are
  • ways to reduce noise in cities (hint: it has a lot to do with cars, like basically everything we talk about)
  • and a whole lot more
  
  

  Links:

  Want to learn more on this episode’s topic? There has been no shortage of words written on the virus and our cities. Here's just a tiny sample:

  • Book: ‘Curbing Traffic’ by Melissa & Chris Bruntlett
  • Why City Noise Is a Serious Health Hazard
  • Environmental Noise Pollution in the United States: Developing an Effective Public Health Response
  • How Animals Perceive the World 
  • The sounds of our lives suck! How to make cities better by ending the blight of noise
  • Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud (Video)
  • Why sounds and smells are as vital to cities as the sights
  • Paris caps speed limit to 30km/h in further boost to 'soft' transport
  • The Sensory Assault of 18th Century Cities
  • Road Traffic Noise Pollution Is Linked With a Heightened Risk of Central Obesity
  • The Science of Quieter Cities
  • Traffic Noise Might GiveYou a Heart Attack
  • The Science of Quieter Cities
  • How Silence Became the Ultimate Luxury Good
  • The (Basically) Complete Health Case for Urban Parks, Trees, and Nature
  • NOISY CITIES (interactive map)
  • National Transportation Noise Map (US DOT)
  
  

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  Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark.

  Music in this episode includes: Sounds of the Supermarket, Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ("Rocket 88"), Scott Joplin ("Pineapple Rag"), Bob Dylan ("Piano Mood").

  ]]>fbf4070d-bf02-4608-8d97-dddc3053375eFri, 29 Jul 2022 17:57:00 -060055:53nofull18Jordan Clark + AJ FawverExtra credit: Who is to blame for climate gentrification?Time for another installment in our 'Extra Credit' series, where we take a reading and discuss our takeaways, for your listening pleasure.

  In this episode, we discuss a piece in Shelterforce titled 'Are Urban Planners Staying Silent on Climate Gentrification?' – written by Colleen O'Connor-Grant.

  The built environment is the embodiment of countless decisions, each of which is a vote for what matters to us (or, to be honest, what matters to those with power and influence). In the case of climate gentrification, zoning rules, economic development practices, affordable housing policies, and other "boring" things create an unequal, ecologically degraded world. Which shapes each of us who live in it.

  Let's dive in!

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  Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark.

  Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, a 1985 Weather Channel broadcast, Isaac Horwedel, Scott Joplin ("Reflection Rag"), and Lead Belly ("Bourgeois Blues").

  ]]>Time for another installment in our 'Extra Credit' series, where we take a reading and discuss our takeaways, for your listening pleasure.

  In this episode, we discuss a piece in Shelterforce titled 'Are Urban Planners Staying Silent on Climate Gentrification?' – written by Colleen O'Connor-Grant.

  The built environment is the embodiment of countless decisions, each of which is a vote for what matters to us (or, to be honest, what matters to those with power and influence). In the case of climate gentrification, zoning rules, economic development practices, affordable housing policies, and other "boring" things create an unequal, ecologically degraded world. Which shapes each of us who live in it.

  Let's dive in!

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  Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark.

  Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, a 1985 Weather Channel broadcast, Isaac Horwedel, Scott Joplin ("Reflection Rag"), and Lead Belly ("Bourgeois Blues").

  ]]>c3b5624b-e5a9-4ca7-b73b-8af64cd801adMon, 18 Jul 2022 12:19:00 -060038:29yesbonusJordan Clark + AJ FawverPandemics change cities. They also spotlight their problems.In this episode we look back on just a few ways this current pandemic had an impact on how we see and use our built environment. (ARE CITIES DEAD?!?!?!)

  Links:

  Want to learn more on this episode’s topic? There has been no shortage of words written on the virus and our cities. Here's just a tiny sample:

  • What the Pandemic's 'Open Streets' Really Revealed
  • Coronavirus is not fuel for urbanist fantasies
  • How the Coronavirus Will Reshape Architecture
  • Driving Went Down. Fatalities Went Up. Here's Why.
  • Oakland's Open Streets Programs Are Still a Work in Progress. That's a Good Thing.
  • Past pandemics changed the design of cities. Six ways COVID-19 could do the same
  
  

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  Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark.

  Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, ERLAX (YouTube), Stockwave (YouTube), and Scott Joplin ("Reflection Rag").

  ]]>In this episode we look back on just a few ways this current pandemic had an impact on how we see and use our built environment. (ARE CITIES DEAD?!?!?!)

  Links:

  Want to learn more on this episode’s topic? There has been no shortage of words written on the virus and our cities. Here's just a tiny sample:

  • What the Pandemic's 'Open Streets' Really Revealed
  • Coronavirus is not fuel for urbanist fantasies
  • How the Coronavirus Will Reshape Architecture
  • Driving Went Down. Fatalities Went Up. Here's Why.
  • Oakland's Open Streets Programs Are Still a Work in Progress. That's a Good Thing.
  • Past pandemics changed the design of cities. Six ways COVID-19 could do the same
  
  

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  Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark.

  Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, ERLAX (YouTube), Stockwave (YouTube), and Scott Joplin ("Reflection Rag").

  ]]>35f94c03-1d45-4fa4-8a7b-4ef61b08afefFri, 01 Jul 2022 19:18:00 -060038:57yesfull17Jordan Clark + AJ Fawver📕 Extra Credit: Should we tear down highways?We're trying something new! This is the first in our 'Extra Credit' series, where we take a reading and discuss our takeaways, for your listening pleasure.

  In this episode, we discuss an article that ran in Texas Observer in 2021: What If the State Department of Transportation Tore Down Texas Highways? by Megan Kimble.

  We talk about:

  • what impact urban highways have on cities (and how they are different from rural highways)
  • the "interesting" ways Texas's Department of Transportation publicly talks about transportation
  • why people want to tear down some highways (are they just maniacs??)
  • pros and cons of urban highways
  • and a lot more!
  
  

  We also mention an article in The Guardian that came out the week we recorded:

  • ‘It’s just more and more lanes’: the Texan revolt against giant new highways
  
  

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  Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark.

  Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, Isaac Horwedel, a 1985 Weather Channel broadcast, and Wire ("Lowdown")

  ]]>We're trying something new! This is the first in our 'Extra Credit' series, where we take a reading and discuss our takeaways, for your listening pleasure.

  In this episode, we discuss an article that ran in Texas Observer in 2021: What If the State Department of Transportation Tore Down Texas Highways? by Megan Kimble.

  We talk about:

  • what impact urban highways have on cities (and how they are different from rural highways)
  • the "interesting" ways Texas's Department of Transportation publicly talks about transportation
  • why people want to tear down some highways (are they just maniacs??)
  • pros and cons of urban highways
  • and a lot more!
  
  

  We also mention an article in The Guardian that came out the week we recorded:

  • ‘It’s just more and more lanes’: the Texan revolt against giant new highways
  
  

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  Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark.

  Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, Isaac Horwedel, a 1985 Weather Channel broadcast, and Wire ("Lowdown")

  ]]>c6ebd2ca-b5a7-4415-89f4-c04eb8c67598Fri, 27 May 2022 13:24:00 -060038:39yesbonusJordan Clark + AJ FawverSigns and/or wonders: How much is too much?We're back, and we're talking about signs. Urban advertisements. Billboards, pole signs, and much more.

  We sure do put up with a lot of signs telling us what to do. Why are we so permissive with our eyeballs? Well, in recent decades, there have been movements across the globe to rid cities of public advertising. We discuss this trend and much more. Plus, what implicit values and priorities are built in to the way advertisement is allowed in cities?

  Links:

  Want to learn more on this episode’s topic? Here’s just a short list of interesting resources:

  • The Stealthy Politics of Urban Advertising
  • Can cities kick ads? Inside the global movement to ban urban billboards
  • Advertising: Why billboards and outdoor ads are booming in a smartphone age
  • The Ad Screens on Ride-Hail Cars Collect Data, Too
  • Cities Lose Supreme Court Case on Sign Regulation
  • Here Are the Tools to Hack into Your City's Public Advertising
  • Shedding Light on Digital Signs (PDF)
  
  

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  Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark.

  Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, Blue Dot Sessions ("Sandy Shuffle"), Homer & Jethro ("The Billboard Song"), Isaac Horwedel, and Gary Nintendo ("Riding a giant eagle over the mountains")

  ]]>We're back, and we're talking about signs. Urban advertisements. Billboards, pole signs, and much more.

  We sure do put up with a lot of signs telling us what to do. Why are we so permissive with our eyeballs? Well, in recent decades, there have been movements across the globe to rid cities of public advertising. We discuss this trend and much more. Plus, what implicit values and priorities are built in to the way advertisement is allowed in cities?

  Links:

  Want to learn more on this episode’s topic? Here’s just a short list of interesting resources:

  • The Stealthy Politics of Urban Advertising
  • Can cities kick ads? Inside the global movement to ban urban billboards
  • Advertising: Why billboards and outdoor ads are booming in a smartphone age
  • The Ad Screens on Ride-Hail Cars Collect Data, Too
  • Cities Lose Supreme Court Case on Sign Regulation
  • Here Are the Tools to Hack into Your City's Public Advertising
  • Shedding Light on Digital Signs (PDF)
  
  

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  Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark.

  Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, Blue Dot Sessions ("Sandy Shuffle"), Homer & Jethro ("The Billboard Song"), Isaac Horwedel, and Gary Nintendo ("Riding a giant eagle over the mountains")

  ]]>ee631874-e483-44b7-a200-402609eb9e7eFri, 13 May 2022 11:05:00 -060054:50yesfull16Jordan Clark + AJ FawverInduced traffic: Why doesn’t adding lanes help?It’s Part II of our two-part series on traffic congestion! This time: why adding more lanes doesn’t make congestion go away.

  Framing traffic congestion as primarily a “street capacity” problem has led practitioners to seek solutions by adding more lanes and miles of streets and roads. This has the unintended (but predictable) consequence of generating more traffic. This phenomenon is exceedingly well known but continually ignored among the professionals who can do anything about it.

  Let’s talk about it.

  Links:

  Want to learn more on this episode’s topic? Here’s just a short list of interesting resources:

  • Traffic Jam? Blame 'Induced Demand.' - Bloomberg
  • Transportation For America More highways, more driving, more emissions: Explaining "induced demand" - Transportation For America
  • The Fundamental, Global Law of Road Congestion (from City Observatory)
  • Reducing Traffic or Inducing It?
  • What's Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse | WIRED
  • Induced Demand: An Axiom of Biology — Human Transit
  • Questioning Congestion Costs | City Observatory
  • Induced demand - Wikipedia
  • Reducing congestion: Katy didn't | City Observatory
  • Reduced demand is just as important as induced demand | CNU
  • The Problem with HOV Lanes
  • Opinion: Filth, Automobiles, and Our Misguided Obsession With Traffic
  • Calculating induced demand at the Rose Quarter | City Observatory
  • Generated Traffic and Induced Travel – VPTI (PDF)
  • Your Navigation App Is Making Traffic Unmanageable | Institute of Transportation Studies
  • SHIFT Calculator
  • Book: Walkable City by Jeff Speck (public library)
  
  

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  Check us out on Twitter and It’s Part II of our two-part series on traffic congestion! This time: why adding more lanes doesn’t make congestion go away.

  Framing traffic congestion as primarily a “street capacity” problem has led practitioners to seek solutions by adding more lanes and miles of streets and roads. This has the unintended (but predictable) consequence of generating more traffic. This phenomenon is exceedingly well known but continually ignored among the professionals who can do anything about it.

  Let’s talk about it.

  Links:

  Want to learn more on this episode’s topic? Here’s just a short list of interesting resources:

  • Traffic Jam? Blame 'Induced Demand.' - Bloomberg
  • Transportation For America More highways, more driving, more emissions: Explaining "induced demand" - Transportation For America
  • The Fundamental, Global Law of Road Congestion (from City Observatory)
  • Reducing Traffic or Inducing It?
  • What's Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse | WIRED
  • Induced Demand: An Axiom of Biology — Human Transit
  • Questioning Congestion Costs | City Observatory
  • Induced demand - Wikipedia
  • Reducing congestion: Katy didn't | City Observatory
  • Reduced demand is just as important as induced demand | CNU
  • The Problem with HOV Lanes
  • Opinion: Filth, Automobiles, and Our Misguided Obsession With Traffic
  • Calculating induced demand at the Rose Quarter | City Observatory
  • Generated Traffic and Induced Travel – VPTI (PDF)
  • Your Navigation App Is Making Traffic Unmanageable | Institute of Transportation Studies
  • SHIFT Calculator
  • Book: Walkable City by Jeff Speck (public library)
  
  

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  Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark.

  Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, Joanna Newsom ("Good Intentions Paving Company"), Wu Tang Clan ("C.R.E.A.M." instrumental), Bob Dylan ("Piano Mood"), Isaac Horwedel, Gary Nintendo ("Riding a giant eagle over the mountains"), and a 1985 Weather Channel broadcast

  ]]>b69c7b36-b7cf-49ab-a2b0-c3b5f3860139Thu, 07 Apr 2022 23:20:00 -060001:05:23yesfull15Jordan Clark + AJ FawverCongested: Why is there so much 🤬 traffic?After an unexpected hiatus, your best friends AJ and Jordan are back in business.

  This time around we go where few shows of any stature have ever dared: the subject of traffic congestion. What's up with it? What causes it? When did we first start to see it as a problem? How did competing narratives from the early days come to shape how we see and deal with it? Is traffic congestion definitely bad, or is it akshually good?

  And as always, we will be talking about how this all affects us as humans, individually and collectively. This is a longer episode than usual, but it's more packed than the Katy Freeway at rush hour. Stay tuned for a follow-up episode about some common ways we've tried to address traffic but ended up making it worse!

  Links:

  Want to learn more on this episode’s topic? Here’s just a short list of interesting resources:

  • Fighting Traffic by Peter Norton (buy or find in library)
  • Questioning Congestion Costs
  • It's back, and it's even dumber than ever: The Urban Mobility Report
  • PDF: Congestion Costing Critique: Critical Evaluation of the “Urban Mobility Report”
  • Traffic Congestion - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
  • The Causes of Traffic and Congestion
  • That Influential Texas "Urban Mobility Report"
  • Self-Driving Cars: A Coming Congestion Disaster?
  • Is Ride-Hailing to Blame for Rising Congestion?
  • Traffic congestion - Wikipedia
  • Video: Why Traffic Congestion Grows Exponentially, Why It Matters, and What To Do About It // An Explainer (CityNerd)
  • Video: The Simple Solution to Traffic (CGP Grey) — mentioned in the show
  • Video: Why do Traffic Jams Occur out of Nowhere? (The Good Stuff)
  
  

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  Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark.

  Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, Scott Joplin ("Reflection Rag" & "Sugar Cane"), a 1986 Weather Channel broadcast, Gary Nintendo, Jerry Reed ("Lord Mr....]]>After an unexpected hiatus, your best friends AJ and Jordan are back in business.

  This time around we go where few shows of any stature have ever dared: the subject of traffic congestion. What's up with it? What causes it? When did we first start to see it as a problem? How did competing narratives from the early days come to shape how we see and deal with it? Is traffic congestion definitely bad, or is it akshually good?

  And as always, we will be talking about how this all affects us as humans, individually and collectively. This is a longer episode than usual, but it's more packed than the Katy Freeway at rush hour. Stay tuned for a follow-up episode about some common ways we've tried to address traffic but ended up making it worse!

  Links:

  Want to learn more on this episode’s topic? Here’s just a short list of interesting resources:

  • Fighting Traffic by Peter Norton (buy or find in library)
  • Questioning Congestion Costs
  • It's back, and it's even dumber than ever: The Urban Mobility Report
  • PDF: Congestion Costing Critique: Critical Evaluation of the “Urban Mobility Report”
  • Traffic Congestion - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
  • The Causes of Traffic and Congestion
  • That Influential Texas "Urban Mobility Report"
  • Self-Driving Cars: A Coming Congestion Disaster?
  • Is Ride-Hailing to Blame for Rising Congestion?
  • Traffic congestion - Wikipedia
  • Video: Why Traffic Congestion Grows Exponentially, Why It Matters, and What To Do About It // An Explainer (CityNerd)
  • Video: The Simple Solution to Traffic (CGP Grey) — mentioned in the show
  • Video: Why do Traffic Jams Occur out of Nowhere? (The Good Stuff)
  
  

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  Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark.

  Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, Scott Joplin ("Reflection Rag" & "Sugar Cane"), a 1986 Weather Channel broadcast, Gary Nintendo, Jerry Reed ("Lord Mr. Ford"), and The Muppets ("It's Not Easy Being Green")

  ]]>05735de1-5db5-44f3-9793-ac679e729a04Fri, 11 Mar 2022 10:08:00 -060050:18yesfull14Traffic congestion: what's the deal? Where does it come from? And is it all bad?Jordan Clark + AJ FawverAging in America: Why do we make it so hard for seniors?This month we ask whether our built environment serves older adults well as they age—and how that has an impact on all of us, regardless of age.

  Links:

  Want to read more on this episode’s topic? Here’s just a short list of interesting resources:

  • Improving with age? How city design is adapting to older populations
  • Designing Better Urban Spaces for the Aging
  • Designing cities for the aged | E&T Magazine
  • To build an inclusive smart city, look through an age-friendly lens
  • Cities Alive: Designing for ageing communities
  • Co-designing Urban Living Solutions to Improve Older People's Mobility and Well-Being
  • Improving housing and neighborhoods for the vulnerable: older people, small households, urban design, and planning
  • How Cities Can Design for Aging Baby Boomers
  • Creative Ageing Cities: Place Design with Older People in Asian Cities: Foreward
  • Planning and an Aging Population
  • How can cities become more inclusive for elderly people? | World Economic Forum
  • The cities designing playgrounds for the elderly
  • Age-Friendly Built Environments: Opportunities for Local Government
  • What Do Seniors Need in Parks?
  • Planning for Aging-Friendly Communities
  • Five Innovative Ways Cities Are Improving Life for Seniors
  • Ten questions concerning age-friendly cities and communities and the built environment
  • This month we ask whether our built environment serves older adults well as they age—and how that has an impact on all of us, regardless of age.

    Links:

    Want to read more on this episode’s topic? Here’s just a short list of interesting resources:

    • Improving with age? How city design is adapting to older populations
    • Designing Better Urban Spaces for the Aging
    • Designing cities for the aged | E&T Magazine
    • To build an inclusive smart city, look through an age-friendly lens
    • Cities Alive: Designing for ageing communities
    • Co-designing Urban Living Solutions to Improve Older People's Mobility and Well-Being
    • Improving housing and neighborhoods for the vulnerable: older people, small households, urban design, and planning
    • How Cities Can Design for Aging Baby Boomers
    • Creative Ageing Cities: Place Design with Older People in Asian Cities: Foreward
    • Planning and an Aging Population
    • How can cities become more inclusive for elderly people? | World Economic Forum
    • The cities designing playgrounds for the elderly
    • Age-Friendly Built Environments: Opportunities for Local Government
    • What Do Seniors Need in Parks?
    • Planning for Aging-Friendly Communities
    • Five Innovative Ways Cities Are Improving Life for Seniors
    • Ten questions concerning age-friendly cities and communities and the built environment
    • The US's Neglect of the Elderly Has Turned Murderous
    
    

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    Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark.

    Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, Scott Joplin ("Pineapple Rag"), a 1986 Weather Channel broadcast, and Bing Crosby ("Silver Threads Among the Gold")

    ]]>f8d70948-7c7d-4466-a4e8-e8e62216e422Fri, 10 Dec 2021 12:46:00 -060042:10yesfull13Jordan Clark + AJ FawverNot throwing shade: Why is shade so hard to find?In this episode we're talking shade in cities. The good kind! Why don't we have enough of it?

    Links:

    Want to read more on this episode’s topic? Here’s just a short list of interesting resources:

    • Shade (Places Journal)
    • Impact of shade on outdoor thermal comfort—a seasonal field study in Tempe, Arizona
    • 22 Benefits of Urban Street Trees by Dan Burden
    • Urban Trees and Human Health: A Scoping Review
    • Some city trees may discourage 'shady' behavior; Study explores relationship between urban trees and crime
    • Quantifying the shade provision of street trees in urban landscape: A case study in Boston, USA, using Google Street View
    • Homeowner Interactions with Residential Trees in Urban Areas
    • The benefits of trees for livable and sustainable communities
    • How glass buildings are making fighting climate change harder
    • Shade in the City
    • The High Cost of Urban MonoculturesParks and Recreation Learn About Phoenix's Urban Forest
    • Tree & Shade Plan Development Resources
    • Killer Heat in the United States: The Future of Dangerously Hot Days (Map)
    • On Fences, Plazas, and Latino Urbanism: A Conversation with James Rojas
    • Weather Related Fatality and Injury Statistics
    • Talking Headways Podcast: The Heat is On (featuring Dr. V. Kelly Turner)
    • Tree Thinking
    
    

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    Check us out on Twitter and In this episode we're talking shade in cities. The good kind! Why don't we have enough of it?

    Links:

    Want to read more on this episode’s topic? Here’s just a short list of interesting resources:

    • Shade (Places Journal)
    • Impact of shade on outdoor thermal comfort—a seasonal field study in Tempe, Arizona
    • 22 Benefits of Urban Street Trees by Dan Burden
    • Urban Trees and Human Health: A Scoping Review
    • Some city trees may discourage 'shady' behavior; Study explores relationship between urban trees and crime
    • Quantifying the shade provision of street trees in urban landscape: A case study in Boston, USA, using Google Street View
    • Homeowner Interactions with Residential Trees in Urban Areas
    • The benefits of trees for livable and sustainable communities
    • How glass buildings are making fighting climate change harder
    • Shade in the City
    • The High Cost of Urban MonoculturesParks and Recreation Learn About Phoenix's Urban Forest
    • Tree & Shade Plan Development Resources
    • Killer Heat in the United States: The Future of Dangerously Hot Days (Map)
    • On Fences, Plazas, and Latino Urbanism: A Conversation with James Rojas
    • Weather Related Fatality and Injury Statistics
    • Talking Headways Podcast: The Heat is On (featuring Dr. V. Kelly Turner)
    • Tree Thinking
    
    

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    Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark.

    Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, a 1986 Weather Channel broadcast, the West Wing theme, Edward Shallow, and Stephen Douglass ("Gonna Be Another Hot Day")

    ]]>edcf0204-dfdb-48e5-9a92-9375e4f7f303Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -060036:40yesfull12Jordan Clark + AJ FawverLook both ways: Why is crossing the street so dangerous?In our first episode, we take a look at crossing the street. Why is it so frequently a dangerous and uncomfortable activity? What does street design reveal about our priorities as a society? And what does this all mean for us as humans? 

    Join us as we barely scratch the surface on these questions! 

    Links:

    Want to read more on this episode’s topic? Here’s just a short list of interesting resources:

    • Quoted in the show: Should Law Subsidize Driving? by Gregory H. Shill
    • Fighting Traffic (book) by Peter Norton
    • Right of Way (book) by Angie Schmitt
    • Street crossing behavior in younger and older pedestrians: an eye- and head-tracking study
    • Collective behavior in road crossing pedestrians: the role of social information
    • Human Factors Assessment of Pedestrian Roadway Crossing Behavior
    • Road Safety Fundamentals Unit 2: Human Behavior and Road Safety
    • Exploring the Pedestrian's Behaviors in Crossing the Street Based on Gender
    • On the Psychology of Crossing The Street
    • Why Did the Human Cross the Road? To Confuse the Self-Driving Car
    • The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"
    • Jaywalking: How the car industry outlawed crossing the road
    • The secret history of jaywalking: The disturbing reason it was outlawed — and why we should lift the ban
    • The (Classist, Racist) History of Jaywalking
    • “Adam Ruins Everything” Explains the Origins of “Jaywalking”
    • Three Turning Restrictions Cities Need To Put On Drivers
    • STUDY: How Race and Income Impact Road Safety in Oregon
    
    

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    Check us out on In our first episode, we take a look at crossing the street. Why is it so frequently a dangerous and uncomfortable activity? What does street design reveal about our priorities as a society? And what does this all mean for us as humans? 

    Join us as we barely scratch the surface on these questions! 

    Links:

    Want to read more on this episode’s topic? Here’s just a short list of interesting resources:

    • Quoted in the show: Should Law Subsidize Driving? by Gregory H. Shill
    • Fighting Traffic (book) by Peter Norton
    • Right of Way (book) by Angie Schmitt
    • Street crossing behavior in younger and older pedestrians: an eye- and head-tracking study
    • Collective behavior in road crossing pedestrians: the role of social information
    • Human Factors Assessment of Pedestrian Roadway Crossing Behavior
    • Road Safety Fundamentals Unit 2: Human Behavior and Road Safety
    • Exploring the Pedestrian's Behaviors in Crossing the Street Based on Gender
    • On the Psychology of Crossing The Street
    • Why Did the Human Cross the Road? To Confuse the Self-Driving Car
    • The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"
    • Jaywalking: How the car industry outlawed crossing the road
    • The secret history of jaywalking: The disturbing reason it was outlawed — and why we should lift the ban
    • The (Classist, Racist) History of Jaywalking
    • “Adam Ruins Everything” Explains the Origins of “Jaywalking”
    • Three Turning Restrictions Cities Need To Put On Drivers
    • STUDY: How Race and Income Impact Road Safety in Oregon
    
    

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    Check us out on Twitter and Instagram @webuiltitpod.

    Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark.

    Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, Scott Joplin, Gary Nintendo

    ]]>7668bb80-94d5-4489-aeff-d703b3a74e26Fri, 08 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -060041:10yesfull11Jordan Clark + AJ FawverTRAILER: We Built It That WayTwo and a half minutes of us trying to convince you to subscribe to our new show!

    And by us, we mean AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark, your friends who work in urban planning and apparently don't have anything better to do than to nerd out off the clock. But we nerd out in a charming and approachable way. (When you tell your friends and coworkers about this new show, make sure to sell it with exactly those words: "charming and approachable.)

    This is a show for curious people, where we'll question why the built environment is built the way it is, and what it says about who we are.

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    • Subscribe now to make sure you don't miss out on Episode 1, coming Friday, October 8.
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    Music is from: Sounds of the Supermarket

    ]]>Two and a half minutes of us trying to convince you to subscribe to our new show!

    And by us, we mean AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark, your friends who work in urban planning and apparently don't have anything better to do than to nerd out off the clock. But we nerd out in a charming and approachable way. (When you tell your friends and coworkers about this new show, make sure to sell it with exactly those words: "charming and approachable.)

    This is a show for curious people, where we'll question why the built environment is built the way it is, and what it says about who we are.

    Here is your homework between now and next week:

    • Subscribe now to make sure you don't miss out on Episode 1, coming Friday, October 8.
    • Follow us on Twitter (for now). Send us instructions about how to create a TikTok and also what is Tiktok? ;)
    • Tell literally every single person in your life that their life is about to change forever, and when they ask why, text them the link to our show page and slink off mysteriously. (That last part helps to build the buzz, probably.)
    
    

    Music is from: Sounds of the Supermarket

    ]]>d8b0a76c-bc93-4c5d-85f1-571dd1d9c0d0Wed, 29 Sep 2021 18:00:00 -060002:28notrailerJordan Clark + AJ Fawver