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Talking Headways Podcast: The Urban Displacement Project

By Jeff Wood | Sep 4, 2015 | No Comments

This week my guest is Miriam Zuk of UC Berkeley’s Center for Community Innovation, who discusses how the team at the Urban Displacement Project has studied and mapped out gentrification and displacement risk in the Bay Area. We talk about the relationship between transit and rising property values, as well as the widespread portrayal of gentrification in the media as a […]

#DamienTalks #16: EDF’s Tim O’Connor on Reducing Petroleum Use

By Damien Newton | Sep 2, 2015 | No Comments

Maybe you’ve seen the mailers, or the insane websites, or have heard a rant on talk radio. The petroleum industry is coming for S.B. 350, legislation that would set standards to help the State of California reduce its petroleum use by 50 percent in the coming decades. Today, #DamienTalks with Tim O’Connor, an analyst with the […]

Talking Headways Podcast: Remaking California Transportation

By Jeff Wood | Aug 28, 2015 | No Comments

This week on Talking Headways I’m joined by a big roster of guests to talk able about California’s climate legislation and how it will change transportation policy. Lauren Michelle of Policy in Motion and Kate White, Deputy Secretary for Environmental and Housing at the California State Transportation Agency, give us the lay of the land when it […]

#DamienTalks Episode 15: LADOT General Manager Seleta Reynolds on Vision Zero

By Damien Newton | Aug 26, 2015 | No Comments

Today, #DamienTalks with Seleta Reynolds, the General Manager of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation about the City of Los Angeles’ recent announcement that L.A. will be a Vision Zero City. In short, that means that all planning, construction and enforcement decisions that impact the transportation grid will be based on whether or not it […]

#DamienTalks Episode 14: Assemblymember Richard Bloom

By Damien Newton | Aug 21, 2015 | No Comments

Today, #DamienTalks with Assemblymember Richard Bloom, who represents western Los Angeles County in the State Assembly. Bloom is on the Finance Special Session Committee in the State Assembly, meaning that for the next two and a half weeks, the Assemblymember will have a chance to weigh in on any transportation bills before they come to the […]

Talking Headways Podcast: Indexing Livability for All Ages

By Jeff Wood | Aug 14, 2015 | No Comments

This week we chat with Rodney Harrell of the AARP Public Policy Institute about their new Livability Index Tool. I ask him who the tool was created for and tell him why it should be regarded as more than just magazine clickbait. We talk about the robust policy tools that were included for each section […]

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