Podcast

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". This week's New Brief looks the battle between preservationists and parking lots in Stockton, California, the shortage of rental housing in New Orleans, and a legal and controversial land-snatch in Colorado.

As a "megacity" in one of the world's most rapidly developing countries, Mumbai (formerly Bombay) has been forced to make major adjustments as it assumes its role at the forefront of globalization. In this second part of a two-part podcast, Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, reads from his book and discusses the city and India in the context of the globalizing world.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". This week's New Brief looks at Chicago's plan to green its alleyways, efforts by Ohio communities to prevent real estate speculators from buying up their town's foreclosed properties, and the myths surrounding recently rediscovered tunnels in Fresno, California.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". This week's New Brief looks at the controversy around the "most dangerous cities" ranking, the California attorney general's plan to sue cities for not connecting land use and climate change, and the downtown revitalization tool known as "business incubation".

As a "megacity" in one of the world's most rapidly developing countries, Mumbai (formerly Bombay) has been forced to make major adjustments as it assumes its role at the forefront of globalization. In this podcast, Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, reads from his book and discusses the city and its place in a globalizing world from the perspective of a native returning home after more than 20 years.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". This week's New Brief looks at public participation planning for Philadelphia's waterfront, efforts to shrink Flint, Michigan sustainably, and Seattle's new Bicycle Master Plan.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". This week's New Brief looks at the short-sightedness that led to Atlanta's severe water drought, a new take on how congestion pricing can best achieve its goals, and the measures cities are taking to protect their industrial lands from being converted into housing.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". This week's New Brief looks at a nationwide NIMBY attitude towards new development, opposition to big Smart Growth projects on Long Island, and the country's most sedentary cities.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". This week's New Brief looks at preventing crime through urban design, a plan to buy out an entire Maryland neighborhood for higher density redevelopment, and plans to build a high-rise next to single-family homes in affluent Houston, the country's biggest city with no zoning laws.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". This week's New Brief covers the Army Corps of Engineers' plan to buy out more than 17,00 Gulf Coast homes, a congressional proposal to cut mortgage interest tax deductions for homeowners with super-sized houses, and the details of a huge civil engineering canal project proposed in Dubai.

This podcast features excerpts from a speech by Jaime Lerner, former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, home of one of the world's first and most successful bus rapid transit systems. In this speech Lerner presents the five commandments of the sustainable city, and introduces a planning concept he calls "urban acupuncture".

In this podcast we talk with former Salt Lake City Planning Director Stephen Goldsmith, and now the creator and curator of the Temporary Museum of Permanent Change, a conceptual planning project that aims to change the way people think about urban development. Stephen talks about what the museum is and how it fits in to the changing downtown of Salt Lake City.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". This week's New Brief covers recent data showing that new residents take up twice the amount of space as existing residents, a move to prevent people from paving over their front yards, and the 15th anniversary of San Francisco's Critical Mass bike ride.

From cell phones to GPS devices, your location is being tracked. Researchers at MIT recently used this data to create a real-time map of mobility in the city of Rome as part of their "Wiki City" Project. We talk with team leader Francesco Calabrese about the project and its applications in planning.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".