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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 Archives
Podcast | September 14, 2023
Episode 72: Leveraging TOD at BART
with Abby-Thorne Lyman, Director of Real Estate and Property Development at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
Podcast | August 10, 2023
Episode 71: Developing with Creativity
Our guest is Tim Sprague, a Principal with Habitat Metro in Phoenix, Arizona. As an infill developer, Tim has worked on a range of projects, many of them near light rail.
Podcast | July 13, 2023
Episodes 69 and 70: Do It for the Neighborhood, Parts 1 & 2
Listen to a One-to-One Conversation between David Longoria of LISC in Phoenix and Ryan Winkle from RAIL CDC in Mesa, Arizona. The two of them discuss the community work they are doing in Mesa, what it takes to earn trust, and getting positive results.
Podcast | June 8, 2023
Episode 68: Micromobility and Access
Our guests are Hussein Mahfouz and Adham Kalila, authors of a new report, All Possible Commutes: How Micromobility and Realistic Car Travel Times Impact Accessibility Analyses
Podcast | April 17, 2023
Episode 66: Women Who Ride Transit
We’re joined by Scarlett De Leon, Campaigns Director at Alliance for Community Transit – Los Angeles and Meghna Khanna, Senior Director, Mobility Corridors, Countywide Planning & Development at Los Angeles Metro.
Podcast | March 14, 2023
Episode 65: Caretakers of the Public Realm
We’re joined by Andrew Jones, Program Director for the Uptown and Downtown Community Benefits District (CBD) in Oakland, CA.
Podcast | February 9, 2023
Episode 64: A County Voice for Transit
We’re joined by Miami-Dade County, Florida, Commissioner Eileen Higgins
Podcast | January 5, 2023
Episode 63: Homelessness and Public Transportation
A plenary conversation from Rail~Volution 2022 in Miami, with Stephanie Wiggins, CEO of LA Metro; Leslie Richards, General Manager and CEO of SEPTA in Philadelphia; Diana Stanley, CEO of The Lord’s Place, a homeless services provider in South Florida. Our moderator is Daniel Gibson, Regional Vice President, Miami-Dade, for Allegany Franciscan Ministries.
Podcast | December 9, 2022
Episode 62: Community-Centered Transit
Tamika L. Butler is a national expert and speaker on issues related to the built environment, equity, anti-racism, diversity and inclusion, organizational behavior, and change management. She is the Principal + Founder of Tamika L. Butler Consulting.
Podcast | November 10, 2022
Episode 61: Building Resilience
With Shelley Poticha, Chief Climate Strategist, Natural Resources Defense Council; Jane Gilbert, Chief Heat Officer, Miami-Dade County; Elizabeth Wheaton, Chief Sustainability and Resilience Officer, Community Infrastructure Partners; and Laurian Farrell, Regional Director, North America, Resilient Cities Network.
Podcast | October 5, 2022
Episode 60: Bike to Bus in Detroit
We’re joined by Jacob Graham, Program Manager with MoGo bike share in Detroit, to talk about the Connect D project to better understand the bike share to bus connection.
Podcast | September 8, 2022
Episode 59: A New World of Transportation Demand Management
We’re talking with Tien-Tien Chan, a Principal at Nelson\Nygaard, and Jessica Roberts, a Principal at Alta Planning and Design, about transportation demand management (TDM) – what it is and how it has changed in recent years to embrace far more than the daily commute.
Podcast | August 18, 2022
Episode 58: The Evolution of Broward County
We’re talking with Greg Stuart, Executive Director of the Broward County, Florida, Metropolitan Planning Organization, about the evolution of the county and how a pattern of suburban growth is shifting toward more walkable, bikeable and transit-ready neighborhoods.
Podcast | August 10, 2022
Replay: Episode 29 – Resiliency in South Florida
Jim Murley, Chief Resilience Officer for Miami-Dade County, joins us, describing how South Florida takes a comprehensive approach to resilience. We spoke to him in spring 2020, as the county was beginning to respond to COVID-19. We’re replaying this episode in anticipation of Rail~Volution 2022, October 30 to November 2 in downtown Miami.
