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Podcast | November 19, 2024
Episode 86: Preserving Missing Middle Neighborhoods
Speakers from Philadelphia share proven approaches to saving naturally occurring affordable housing. In this recording from the Tuesday plenary at Mpact Transit + Community 2024, ULI Philadelphia’s Kevin Moran leads a discussion with Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval, Philadelphia City Councilmember Jamie Gauthier and Commissioner of the City of Philadelphia Department of Records, James Leonard.
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Podcast | January 21, 2025
Episode 87: Ren Yee – The Cognitive Experience of a Transit User
On this episode of the Mpact Podcast, we speak with Ren Yee, head of innovation strategy and forecast with UNStudio in Amsterdam, about using cognitive tools to understand how people experience transit spaces, so that we can make them better.
Podcast | November 19, 2024
Episode 86: Preserving Missing Middle Neighborhoods
Speakers from Philadelphia share proven approaches to saving naturally occurring affordable housing. In this recording from the Tuesday plenary at Mpact Transit + Community 2024, ULI Philadelphia’s Kevin Moran leads a discussion with Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval, Philadelphia City Councilmember Jamie Gauthier and Commissioner of the City of Philadelphia Department of Records, James Leonard.
Podcast | October 11, 2024
Episode 85: TOD and Affordable Commercial
We speak with Ryan Kelley, Community Development Manager with Hennepin County in Minnesota, about the county’s transit-oriented communities program and innovative efforts to support affordable commercial spaces.
Podcast | September 12, 2024
Episode 84: Wins and Co-benefits from Climate Work
A 1 to 1 Conversation about climate resilience, transit, sustainability and the intersection of all of the above, with Julie Eaton Ernst, Climate Resilience Practice Leader at HNTB, and Dr. Cris Liban, Chief Sustainability Officer at LA Metro.
Podcast | August 17, 2024
Episode 83: Advancing Active Transportation in the Delaware Valley
Cassidy Boulan and Thom Stead of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission talk about their work to make it safer and easier to walk, ride bicycles and take the bus in Trenton, NJ, Philadelphia, PA, and the Delaware Valley.
Podcast | July 16, 2024
Episode 82 – Cities and E-Scooters: The Portland Approach
With Jacob Sherman, New Mobility & Electrification Program Manager, and Dylan Rivera, Public Information Officer, both at Portland Bureau of Transportation, City of Portland, Oregon
Podcast | June 6, 2024
Episode 81 – Transit to the Great Outdoors
Find out about providing transit to recreation from Andrea Breault of Cascades East Transit and Amy Schlappi of the Hood River County Transportation District, in a conversation hosted by Mpact Innovators’ Chair Corrie Parrish, a Senior Planner at Kittelson & Associates.
Podcast | May 9, 2024
Episode 80: Post-Peaky Transit
Tracy Hadden Loh, a fellow at Brookings Metro, takes us through post-pandemic trends related to downtowns, activity centers and transit. She also touches on the ways developers and communities can align around transformative projects.
Podcast | April 11, 2024
Episode 79: A New Model for Public Housing at Sun Valley
Erin Clark, Chief Real Estate Investment Officer for the Denver Housing Authority, takes us into the story of the Sun Valley Redevelopment, in which 300 public housing units are being replaced and expanded to more than 900 units in a neighborhood plan shaped by long-time residents.
Podcast | March 7, 2024
Episode 78: Culture Change in Cleveland
A 1-1 Conversation with Billy Terry, Executive Director of the National Transit Institute, and India Birdsong Terry, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority.
Podcast | February 8, 2024
Episode 77: Public Sentiment and Public Transit
In this 1-1 Conversation, Adelee Le Grand of Intellectual Concepts and Scott Wilkinson of AlphaVu talk about using data analytics and AI to understand what the public is thinking – and act on it.
Podcast | January 11, 2024
Episode 76: Displacement is More than Housing
We’re joined by Dr. Kathryn Howell, Director of the National Center for Smart Growth and Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, for a conversation about bout her daily e-bike commute, organizing around the Purple Line, the importance of eviction data and commercial displacement.
Podcast | December 14, 2023
Episode 75: Health in All Places
Jon Ford of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco leads a conversation with Mimi Narayan from the Pew Charitable Trusts and John Vu from Kaiser Permanente about the connections between transportation, housing and public health.
Podcast | November 21, 2023
Episode 74: Downtown or Not Downtown
A dynamic discussion about the future of downtowns and the elements of successful places – downtown or not.
Podcast | October 13, 2023
Episode 73: Older Adults and Climate Emergencies
Our guest is Danielle Arigoni, Managing Director for Policy and Solutions at the National Housing Trust, and author of the new book, Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation.Â
