Livable City

A bi-weekly podcast with inspiring guest interviews and practical ideas on making your city, better. Practical advice to inspire you to take action for your place you call home. Join the movement.

A Bottom Up Revolution - Chuck Marohn 08/18/2020

A Bottom Up Revolution - Chuck Marohn How about progressive change, what does that have to do with livability? Also, quite a lot. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/15659261

Ecodesign for Cities & Suburbs (Part II) - Larry Beasley & Jonathan Barnett 08/04/2020

Ecodesign for Cities & Suburbs (Part II) - Larry Beasley & Jonathan Barnett Part II of the conversation with Larry Beasley and Jonathan Barnett. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/15471038

Ecodesign for Cities & Suburbs (Part I) - Larry Beasley & Jonathan Barnett 07/22/2020

Ecodesign for Cities & Suburbs (Part I) - Larry Beasley & Jonathan Barnett If you were in a position to lead a plan to make your city more livable, how would you do it, what would you do? How would you go about instilling your vision for greater livability but in close collaboration with your fellow city residents, how would you do that? Guest Larry Beasley and Jonathan Barnett share their wisdom and experience on how they did this during their own careers as planners and professors. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/15308375

Reimagine Your Neighborhood - Jeffery Tompkins 07/06/2020

Reimagine Your Neighborhood - Jeffery Tompkins As they say, a picture is worth 1000 words. And when something in your neighborhood or your city has been a certain way for decades or even hundreds of years, it’s easy to forget that a physical place or the places where neighbors come together to know one another can, in fact, change for the better. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/15107429

Expand the Conversation - Kea Wilson 06/23/2020

Expand the Conversation - Kea Wilson How do we know if our cities are livable? There are many cities that you’ve visited that have felt much more or much less livable to you compared to the one you call home. And this is no different than how livable other peoples’ homes feel to you compared to your own home. But the difference with cities is that thousands or millions of people call it home, and that makes it more challenging to steer them in a certain direction without creating significant injustices. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/14927345

Transit is an Essential Service - Steven Higashide 06/08/2020

Transit is an Essential Service - Steven Higashide What’s the role of transportation in the livability foundation of a city? Even more specifically, what’s the role of public transit in making a city more livable? In places where transit has long been neglected, many might even think that public transit might diminish the livability of a place because it becomes correlated with increases in local crime. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/14744966

More Human Places - Andre Vasquez 05/25/2020

More Human Places - Andre Vasquez In the midst of the unpredictability that has come with the COVID-19 pandemic, at least one thing has become quite true: many of the world’s cities desperately need more space. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/14558999

Streets are for Living First! - Mike Lydon 05/11/2020

Streets are for Living First! - Mike Lydon One of the most powerful and unpredicted outcomes so far from the Coronavirus pandemic has been the immediate change in how the world’s city streets are used. Pre-pandemic, many cities’ streets were mostly dedicated to moving motor vehicles back and forth in a monotonous rhythm of the daily commute. No longer the case, streets lay mostly empty from traffic replaced mostly by humans walking or cycling or sometimes even sunbathing. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/14370617

Should I become a professional urban planner? - Austin Gibble 04/28/2020

Should I become a professional urban planner? - Austin Gibble Do you need to become an urban planning professional in order to make more livable cities? Do you need to study civil engineering in order to help design safer neighborhood streets? The answer is, yes sometimes, but not always. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/14173160

Is Density Making us Sick? - Yonah Freemark 04/13/2020

Is Density Making us Sick? - Yonah Freemark The debate is not a new one and yet it feels like the world wonders for the first time, do dense cities inherently make us more prone to becoming infected with something like a Coronavirus? It turns out, the answer isn’t as simple as it might at first seem to be. I debate this with special guest Yonah Freemark. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/13957385

The War on Cars? Part II - Doug Gordon 04/06/2020

The War on Cars? Part II - Doug Gordon Part II of my conversation with Doug Gordon, host of The War on Cars podcast and local better streets advocate in Brooklyn, NY. In this part we get even deeper on the way cars have impacted our cities and Doug has some very good advice on how you can begin to push back on cars where you live. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/13859246

The War on Cars? Part I - Doug Gordon 03/24/2020

The War on Cars? Part I - Doug Gordon Are we talking about a literal war on cars here...not quite. Cars do have their legitimate place in our cities. But in many cities they’ve become the only real and viable way of getting around for millions of people and that comes with many, many problems unleashed on society at large. So where do cars belong in our cities then? /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/13673741

Transit Increases Livability - Jeff Wood 03/09/2020

Transit Increases Livability - Jeff Wood How does transit affect the livability of a place? Turns out, quite a bit. My guest today, Jeff Wood of the Talking Headways podcast, talks about how important it is to be able to experience your city through as many different transportation options as possible. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/13462670

Calmer, More Enjoyable Cities - Chris & Melissa Bruntlett 02/24/2020

Calmer, More Enjoyable Cities - Chris & Melissa Bruntlett How calm and enjoyable is your neighborhood, your town, your city? I’m not talking about a sleepy place where very little is going on, but a vibrant place that is still, even while bustling, calm and enjoyable for the vast majority of people who live there or move through it. If not your town or city, then have you visited one where you really noticed and enjoyed this aspect about that place? /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/13265795

Think AND Do - Gary Reiter 02/10/2020

Think AND Do - Gary Reiter What does it take to lead change? Ultimately, it means taking action and not just getting stuck thinking about taking action. For my guest today, Gary Reiter, this was a conscious decision that he wrestled with and ultimately decided on if he was to help make a difference in his neighborhood in Indianapolis. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/13077161

Bike Lane Uprising! - Christina Whitehouse 01/27/2020

Bike Lane Uprising! - Christina Whitehouse Bike lanes are sometimes controversial in communities because they’re seen as something encroaching on the space, efficiency and our limited time in getting somewhere by car. Love cars or hate them, for many places in the world they’re the primary and many times only current way of getting somewhere. My guest today believes that one should be able to choose to use their bike, particularly in dense towns or cities, to get somewhere and not feel like their very life is threatened. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/12884888

Art + empathy heal neighborhoods - Joanna Taft 01/13/2020

Art + empathy heal neighborhoods - Joanna Taft Gentrification, cultural shifts, crime, unsafe streets, poverty and disconnection. They all sound pretty bleak especially when considered together. But my guest, Joanna Taft, has been experimenting with her neighbors in the Herron Morton neighborhood in Indianapolis and have found some remarkably sensitive and effective ways to begin to reverse these trends. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/12706829

Love for all things local - Jacob Moses 12/30/2019

Love for all things local - Jacob Moses In this episode, I interview Jacob Moses where he talks about these kinds of things for the neighborhood that he lives in Denton, Texas. Jacob shakes up the status quo for how we normally treat strangers by setting an amazing example for how to befriend people in your neighborhood and how to get to know them. Oh, and yes he’ll give you good reasons why you should even want to do this in the first place. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/12524933

Trains > Cars, All Aboard! - Mike Christensen 12/16/2019

Trains > Cars, All Aboard! - Mike Christensen That's right, trains are greater than cars if you care about livable places. There, I said it - now for some background... /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/12373970

Listen and Ask Questions to Lead Change - Michael Schneider 12/02/2019

Listen and Ask Questions to Lead Change - Michael Schneider How do we make change of such massively complex ways of doing things for our cities and towns? My guest today has many thoughts about this and much practical advice to share. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/12239867

My Bicycle Was a Gateway Drug - Lauren Crabtree 11/18/2019

My Bicycle Was a Gateway Drug - Lauren Crabtree What happens when you start using your bike to get to places? Turns out, a lot of unexpected things. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/12057266

Just Start Doing Something Where you Live! - Dawn Olsen 11/04/2019

Just Start Doing Something Where you Live! - Dawn Olsen How do you begin to get involved where you live? Our guest today, Dawn Olsen, just can't keep quiet about the details of where she lives. She just can't help but notice many things that could be better about her neighborhood in Indy and that has meant she has become a trusted voice as the neighborhood president. Dawn will inspire you with practical advice on how to do the same where you live by beginning to notice what matters to you and then get busy doing! /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/11842484

How to Advocate for Your City - Laura Giffel 10/23/2019

How to Advocate for Your City - Laura Giffel Laura Giffel, licensed clinical therapist, Bates Hendricks neighborhood president and advocate, and candidate for Indianapolis city council seat of the 16th district. Laura shares with us about her advocacy work in her neighborhood and will inspire you with practical advice on how to do the same where you live. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/11750387

Guest Allan LeSage Interviews Jim Hodapp 09/30/2019

Guest Allan LeSage Interviews Jim Hodapp In this first full length episode of Livable City, my friend and first guest Allan LeSage interviews me, Jim Hodapp on my backstory and how I came to creating this podcast. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/11384465

Introducing Livable City 08/27/2019

Introducing Livable City Love your city or your town? Want to learn how to make it even better? Subscribe now for this new bi-weekly podcast that seeks to explore this question deeply and get highly practical. New episodes coming soon. /episode/index/show/livablecity/id/11009705

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