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City Planning Matters
Alex Hoffman
19 episodes
2 days ago
Planning matters is a podcast examining relevant issues and topics of city planning and why they matter for the cities we love. Each episode, we will explore a particular issue confronting cities that’s relevant to City Planning. Have an idea for a future podcast or question you want to ask? Leave a message by clicking here: https://anchor.fm/planning/message
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Planning matters is a podcast examining relevant issues and topics of city planning and why they matter for the cities we love. Each episode, we will explore a particular issue confronting cities that’s relevant to City Planning. Have an idea for a future podcast or question you want to ask? Leave a message by clicking here: https://anchor.fm/planning/message
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Episodes (19/19)
City Planning Matters
Why Plans Fail
Plans can fail for a number of reasons, but in today's episode we highlight the top five causes of planning efforts failing to make it across the finish line.
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4 years ago
29 minutes 33 seconds

City Planning Matters
The Economics of Bad Planning
In this episode, we look at how the dollars and cents of development can sometimes result in bad planning. Plus, we discuss opportunities for the land value tax and how this can result in better outcomes.
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4 years ago
30 minutes 36 seconds

City Planning Matters
Your City's Parking Problem

Most people traditionally think of parking being an issue in their City because they believe there isn't enough. The truth is that your City does have a parking problem; there is too much of it. In this week's episode, we discuss ways to visualize the oversupply of parking in your City and some of the challenges having too much parking creates.

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4 years ago
39 minutes 20 seconds

City Planning Matters
Achieving Vision Zero

In this episode, we discuss Vision Zero and how to implement the program successfully.

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4 years ago
39 minutes 28 seconds

City Planning Matters
Who Do You Serve?
Examining how cities develop service area boundaries and discussion of a new, data-driven approach to doing so. By using this methodology, cities can identify and answer the question of when it comes to city facilities, who do you serve?
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4 years ago
27 minutes 49 seconds

City Planning Matters
If You Build It, Will They Come?

Do walkable places result in people actually walking? Check out the Storymap I created for this episode to see the analysis and resources for what was discussed in today's episode.

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4 years ago
25 minutes 4 seconds

City Planning Matters
Transit Supportive Policies
Many cities struggle to have functional public transit systems. While some blame rests with the agencies on the operations side, many times it’s the lack of transit-supportive policies that doom transit. In this episode, we will look at policies your city can change to help make your transit ridership increase.
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4 years ago
27 minutes 50 seconds

City Planning Matters
Missing Middle Housing

In this week's episode, we discuss missing middle housing (like duplexes, triplexes and quads) and why housing choice is important to your City. While City's like Minneapolis and Berkeley make headlines for their so-called ban on single family housing, we cover intermediate steps you can take in the interim.

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4 years ago
35 minutes 5 seconds

City Planning Matters
Rethinking Inequality

Traditional measures of equity typically consider only a fraction of person's day, as they rarely examine things other than where people live. In this week's episode, we look at how mobile location data can unlock and reveal larger patterns of equity or inequality by looking at where people shop, work and socialize. 

In the episode, we discuss a methodology for how you can examine this same issue for your City. A link to the results of my analysis are below.

The El Paso Equity Atlas is available here: https://arcg.is/11HKjr


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4 years ago
22 minutes 58 seconds

City Planning Matters
Does Walkability Matter?

Walkability is a nebulous term to that means lots of things to different people. In today's episode, we examine whether walkability matters in terms of the price people are willing to pay for housing. Using data from real estate website such as Zillow and Redfin and combining it with walkability metrics from Walkscore, you can examine the correlation between walkability and sales data. Interested in learning more? Leave leave me a message or contact me on anchor.fm/planning.

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4 years ago
27 minutes 33 seconds

City Planning Matters
Visualizing Traffic Congestion
Traffic Congestion is often the number one complaint of residents in your city, but many governments struggle showing both where it occurs and the magnitude of the problem. But with more companies making traffic data available, there are now multiple data sources available to allow you to begin visualizing your city's traffic congestion problem. Listen to today's episode to learn how you can begin collecting this data, all at no cost.
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4 years ago
26 minutes 39 seconds

City Planning Matters
Data Driven City
A how-to on getting started on making data-driven decisions for you and your city.
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4 years ago
28 minutes 26 seconds

City Planning Matters
Planning and Politics

This week's episode dives into the political aspects of the field as we look at Planning and Politics and how planners can navigate this difficult landscape.

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4 years ago
27 minutes 1 second

City Planning Matters
Rethinking Nonconformities
In this episode, we look at nonconforming situations as it relates to cities' zoning ordinances. We highlight common issues cities run into when it comes to enforcing existing nonconforming policies and provide simple steps you can undertake to have a better, more common sense policy in place.
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4 years ago
31 minutes 54 seconds

City Planning Matters
Generation Priced Out

In today's episode, we look at how zoning regulations and mortgage lending practices have priced out an entire generation of Americans from owning homes. This episode discusses the Opportunity Atlas to provide local context of what has happened in local housing markets. Check out the resource by going to OpportunityAtlas.org

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4 years ago
29 minutes 3 seconds

City Planning Matters
Building Profitable Neighborhoods
In today’s episode, we examine the role mortgage lending had in shaping our neighborhoods as well as the historical arguments against the city grid.
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4 years ago
21 minutes 48 seconds

City Planning Matters
Building Blocks

Building on the last week's episode, we examine how urban form and zoning join forces to have a powerful shaping effect on cities. The smallest unit of development in cities is the block and its shape, configuration and dimension determine the ability of buildings to change adapt over time. Listed below are the resources referenced in the episode with links to learn more about the topics discussed.

References:

  • Image of the City by Kevin Lynch or read the Summary
  • The Evolution of Urban Form by Brenda Case Scheer
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4 years ago
15 minutes 29 seconds

City Planning Matters
Zoning Rules!
In this first episode of Planning Matters, we examine the evolution of zoning regulations in the United States from basic simple housing keeping to those of growth management. Reading William Fischel’s Zoning Rules! here: https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/books/zoning-rules
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4 years ago
15 minutes 46 seconds

City Planning Matters
City Planning Matters (Trailer)
4 years ago
50 seconds

City Planning Matters
Planning matters is a podcast examining relevant issues and topics of city planning and why they matter for the cities we love. Each episode, we will explore a particular issue confronting cities that’s relevant to City Planning. Have an idea for a future podcast or question you want to ask? Leave a message by clicking here: https://anchor.fm/planning/message