Smart City Radio features a show focused on the impact of transportation on land use, including interviews with Robert Puentes and Katherine Perez.
Host Carol Coletta of Smart City Radio interviews Robert Puentes, a fellow with the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, specializing in policy options for older suburban America and transportation and infrastructure, and Katherine Perez, Vice President of Development at Forest City Development, where her focus is on transit oriented development and development in emerging communities.
You can hear the radio show online in streaming audio format.
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