Active Towns
Conversations about Creating a Culture of Activity: Profiling the people, places, programs, and policies that help to promote a culture of activity within our communities.
Episodes
In this episode, I connect with Jacob Davis, host of The Cities in Motion Podcast, for a discussion about what led him to want to host an urbanism and sustainable communities podcast that channels the tenets of the Strong Towns and Active Towns movements. We also profile the opening of the new Wishbone Bridge, which closes a critical gap on the Butler Hike & Bike Trail around Ladybird Lake in Austin, TX.
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This is the recording of my Live discussion with Charles “Chuck” Marohn, Founder and President of Strong Towns, about their Mission Accomplished: End Highway Expansions Now initiative, and what we as a nation and at the local level should be focusing our transportation dollars on.
For more information:
👉 Strong Towns Mission Accomplished website
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In this episode, I reconnect with a dear friend from my Boulder triathlon days, Dieter Bruhn, and his relatively new wife, Grace. We discuss the Hanoi dance scene and contrast the culture of activity in Vietnam with Boulder, Colorado.
Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):
👉 One World Training website
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This is the Livestream recording of my Follow-Up Conversation with Prof. Wes Marshall, about his impactful book Killed By A Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System.
Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):
👉 Wes Marshall's website
👉 My Book Launch episode with Wes in 2024
👉 Buy Killed By A Traffic Engineer in m...
In this episode, I connect with Diane Alisa Tuft, author of A Love Letter to Suburbia: How to Restore the American Village, to discuss her journey into urbanism and her advocacy for walkable communities and the return of villages. As part of this journey, we discuss how a specific Not Just Bikes video opened her eyes to what was making her so frustrated and miserable.
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In this episode, I reconnect with Carter Lavin for an in-depth discussion about his new book, If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy.
Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):
👉 Carter’s website
👉 Buy the Book via the Active Towns bookshop or via Amazon, and on the Island Press website, for a limited time, use code FIGHT...
In this episode, I connect with Esther Walker, Executive Director of Outride, a non-profit launched by Specialized Bicycles with the mission of providing research, cycling programs, and funding to empower all people to experience the social, emotional, and cognitive benefits of cycling.
Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):
👉 Outride website
👉 Riding For Focus Gr...
In this on-bike interview, I connect with Ryan Short, founder of CivicBrand, for a tour around Boulder while we discuss his new book, The Civic Brand: The Power and Responsibility of Place.
Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):
👉 CivicBrand website
👉 Get your copy of the book
👉 CivicBrand on Instagram
👉 Ryan Short on LinkedIn
👉 Strong Towns website
In this episode, I finally connect with Mara Mintzer, co-founder and executive director of Growing Up Boulder, for a conversation about the power of engaging children in community conversations like planning and design that for too long have been left primarily or exclusively to adults.
Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):
👉 Growing Up Boulder
👉 James Rojas
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In this episode, I connect with Jamie Sabbach from Salida, CO, and the 110 Percent organization for a very Strong Towns-esque conversation about parks and how cities need a better plan to maintain them and a better approach to programming more sustainable facilities, such as sidewalks and pathways versus large, costly sports complexes and fields.
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In this episode, I reconnect with Anna Zivarts for an update on the Week Without Driving Challenge and her new venture, The Non-Drivers Alliance. Naturally, we talk about the land use patterns and infrastructure needed to facilitate a sustainable non-driving existence.
Thumbnail photo credit: Boulder Chamber Transportation Connections (BCTC) see link below
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In this episode, I reconnect with Sam Pearson, Healthy Communities Program Manager at the Pennsylvania Downtown Center, to discuss active mobility implementation strategies in smaller cities and rural towns, and how to leverage existing assets such as trails and pathways.
Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):
👉 Pennsylvania Downtown Center
👉 My Pittsburgh videos -...
In this episode, I connect with Dr. Matthew "Tepi" Mclaughlin from Perth, Australia, for a conversation about the institutional subsidization of motonormativity that directly contributes to epidemic levels of physical inactivity.
Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):
👉 Human Kinetics Journal article with Grant Ennis
👉 Episode with Grant Ennis
👉 15 Minute City ...
In this episode, I connect with Michel Durand-Wood, the Elmwood Guy behind the popular blog Dear Winnipeg, for a conversation about his efforts to engage his community in discussions surrounding municipal finance, channeling a Strong Towns approach, and mobilizing a coalition of neighborhood groups to take immediate action on the streets with the city's (reluctant) support. We also talk about his new book, You'll Pay For T...
In this episode, I connect with Dorothy "Dot" Fennell and Zack DeClerk, co-founders of CargoB, a cargo bike-sharing scheme based in the Boston area. Inspired by the Dutch program Cargoroo, CargoB, employs a fleet of UrbanArrow bakfiets-style cargo bikes for folks to check out and use as needed.
Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):
👉 The CargoB website
👉 The Oslo ...
In this episode, I connect with Michela Grasso, a researcher and writer with the Urban Cycling Institute in Amsterdam, for a discussion about some of her recent projects, including the publication of A Manifesto for Cycling Futures and Planning the Cycling City: A Field Guide.
Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):
👉 Meredith Glasser video playlist
👉 Urban Cycling ...
In this episode, I reconnect once again with Melissa & Chris Bruntlett from Delft, NL, for a conversation about their beautiful and inspirational new book, Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Transformation.
Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):
👉 Melissa & Chris Bruntlett's Modacity website
👉 Women Changing Cities on Bookshop.org or on Amazon
👉 ...
In this episode, I connect with Peter Bird, a resident of Heidelberg, Germany, and a doctoral researcher at the Technical University (TU) Eindhoven in the Netherlands, to continue my discussions* about the Cycling Cities Initiative. He is studying and documenting the historical context of Minneapolis as an impressive North American example of a Cycling City.
*ICYMI: Refer to Episode 311 feat. Prof. Ruth Oldenziel
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In this episode, I connect with the President of Brompton USA, Juliet Scott-Croxford, for a discussion about some exciting new developments 50 years after the first classic Brompton was built, including the release of the versatile new G-Line with 20-inch wheels and a UL-approved e-assist power system.
Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):
👉 Brompton USA website
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In this episode, I am joined by Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear to discuss their new book, Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile, which was inspired in part by their podcast, The War on Cars. Topics discussed include the origins of The War on Cars podcast name, having a good car management plan like the one implemented in Ghent, school streets, bike buses, the enhanced sociability of traffic-...
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