The Urbanist Agenda
A podcast by the creator of the popular YouTube channel Not Just Bikes, The Urbanist Agenda is an exploration of the latest topics in urban planning and urban mobility from your favourite urbanist YouTubers. Each month we'll put another important topic on the agenda and pull back the curtain to discover how online urbanists plot and scheme to make cities work better for everyone.
Episodes
Women Changing Cities is the latest book from authors Melissa & Chris Bruntlett. It's an interesting collection of stores from many cities around the world highlight the groundbreaking work of female mayors, planners, advocates, and policymakers in reshaping urban spaces for the better.
Women Changing Cities (the book): https://www.modacitylife.com/women-changing-cities
Modacity: https://www.modacitylife.com/
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Over the past few years there have been a lot of lies and conspiracy theories that are making it harder to build great urban places. One group has had enough, and they've formed the Urban Truth Collective to fight back.
The Urban Truth Collective: www.urbantruthcollective.com
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/urbantruth.bsky.social
Brent: https://bsky.app/profile/brenttoderian.bsky.social
Tom: https://www.creativebyr...
Meredith Glaser is the CEO of the Urban Cycling Institute and a professor of cycling and urban transportation. She has found that the best way for policymakers to truly understand Dutch cycling is to experience it for themselves.
Urban Cycling Institute: https://urbancyclinginstitute.org/
Meredith Glaser: https://nl.linkedin.com/in/maglaser
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Day Pass is the new Nebula Original series, hosted by Jason of Not Just Bikes. In each episode, Jason explores a new city ... while also riding as much public transit as possible. In this podcast, I talk to Graham Haerther at Nebula, the producer of Day Pass, as well as the cameraman for the first three episodes, about what it was like to make this show a reality.
Watch Day Pass on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/daypass
Rob Ford was the infamous crack-smoking mayor of Toronto, but he was always crazy, so how did he get elected in the first place? Bobby Broccoli is current working on a 4-part video series on Rob Ford, and he shares what he learned through his research.
Meet Mayor Ford: https://youtu.be/nACJOKV_YYA
Bobby Broccoli: https://www.youtube.com/@BobbyBroccoli
Not Just Bikes: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes
Brent Toderian is the former chief planner of Vancouver, Canada. He has worked with dozens of cities around the world to achieve real change, and he has some advice for advocates who want to do the same.
Brent Toderian on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/brenttoderian.bsky.social
Not Just Bikes: https://nebula.tv/notjustbikes
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Czechia just got a new political party called "Motorists for Themselves". But behind the "car-friendly" façade, they're just another far-right political party, funded by fossil fuel interests. Also in this episode: TRAINS!
Motorists for Themselves (Motoristé sobě) Party Website: https://motoristesobe.cz/
Adam Something: https://youtube.com/@adamsomething
Not Just Bikes: https://nebula.tv/notjustbikes
The EU is heavily promoting rail as an alternative to flying and driving, but while the "big" high-speed train projects get a lot of attention, it's often maddeningly difficult to take a regional train across an EU border. Jon Worth has travelled on almost every single rail line in the EU and he has an incredible wealth of knowledge about how cross-border rail could work so much better.
- The Cross Border Rail Project: ht...
"If it weren't for ebikes, I'd be driving a car" says American Fietser.
American Fietser:
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/americanfietser.bsky.social
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AmericanFietser
Not Just Bikes: https://youtube.com/notjustbikes
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RMTransit has been making YouTube videos about cities and public transit for over 5 years. Now with over 750 videos on his YouTube channel, it's time to call it quits.
Reece's Mastodon: https://masto.canadiancivil.com/@reece
Reece's Transit Blog: https://reecemartin.ca/author/reecemartintransit/
Cinq Personnes: https://cinqpersonnes.substack.com/
Next Toronto: https://nexttoronto.substack.com/
Not Just Bikes: https://yo...
Pickup trucks don't belong in European cities, so let's send them to help out in Ukraine! Stef from Build the Lanes tells us about why he's driving pickup trucks from the EU to Ukraine.
Berr Battalion - https://www.help99.co/patches/nafo-berr-battalion
Berr Battalion Announcement Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7tZdrGU_2c
Help99 - https://www.help99.co/
69th Sniffing Brigade (YouTube) - https://www.youtube.co...
Sam from the YouTube channel "We're in Hell" normally makes video essays about sociology, but he recently went down the urban planning rabbit hole after Doug Ford threatened to take away his bike lanes. Learn what he learned in his research about the sociology of car-brained planning.
Why is North American Transit so Bad?
The World's Dumbest Bike Lane Law Just Passed in Canada
In 2001, Portland built the first of their new streetcar system, which was a success, especially in attracting new development to the transit corridor. This kicked off a bunch of new transit projects in other US cities, eager to bring their own new development projects, and taking advantage of transit funding from the Obama administration. But somewhere along the way they forgot that there's more to transit than just a way...
Los Angeles is (in)famous for its car-dependent sprawl, but there are pockets of good urbanism, and there are people working hard to build more of them. I talked with Ellory Smith from Streets For All Los Angeles about her outlook on where LA is going, as well as our new YouTube channel, I Love the City!
- Streets For All: https://www.streetsforall.org/
- I Love the City: https://youtube.com/@ilovethecity
Canada's housing crisis is one of the worst in the world. But why? In this episode I talk to Mike Moffatt, Canadian economist and housing expert about what's going on in the Canadian housing market, as well as the common factors that are creating a housing crisis in almost every major city in the developed world.
The Missing Middle Podcast
Trams are great. They create and enable some of the best urbanism around. And yet the streetcars in Toronto are slow and unreliable and painful to take. What is Toronto doing wrong, and what could other "streetcar" cities learn from their mistakes?
Financial capital of Canada pauses so streetcar driver can move tracks with big stick: https://www.thebeaverton.com/2016/06/financial-capital-of-canada-pauses-so-streetcar-driver...
What should you do when your city won't fix things, even after years of advocacy? The answer might be guerrilla urbanism, aka tactical urbanism. I talk to Bike Curious about the people who are tired of waiting, and just get things done by themselves. Is it legal? Well ... it's sometimes better to ask for forgiveness rather than permission.
Tactical urbanism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_urbanism
New York City was about to roll out congestion charging. The cameras were up, the staff were hired, the metro projects were financed, and thousands of people were lined up to make public transit better ... and then the governor cancelled it on vibes.
Level boarding is simple enough: the floor of the train should be level with the platform. But it's not very common, is it? Why? And what can we do about it? Because once you learn the details of level boarding, you'll realise just how important it is.
The Campaign for Level Boarding: https://www.levelboarding.org.uk/
Passengers suffer serious injuries boarding Elizabeth line trains at west London station
When a bike lane was installed on Valencia Street in San Francisco, one business owner hated it so much he went on a hunger strike. Bike lanes are almost universally positive for business, so why do some business owners hate them so much? Jon from Bike Curious joins me to discuss.
San Francisco restaurant owner goes on 30-day hunger strike over new bike lane: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/18/san-francis...
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