We have a fantastic interview with journalist and Los Angeles tenant organizer Tracy Rosenthal. Tracy and fellow LA Tenants Union founder, Leonardo Vilchis, have a new book out titled Abolish Rent. Abolish Rent is an incredible guide to tenant organizing and offers a path to achieving a just housing system for all. You can order the book here. Subscribe to the Patreon for $2 per month! You'll get access to bonus episodes, livestreams, the Discord server, and more!Josh’s YouTube cha...

Subscribe to the Patreon for $2 per month! You'll get access to bonus episodes, livestreams, the Discord server, and more!Josh’s YouTube channel, Radical Planning. The podcast Instagram where I mostly just post pictures of Mimi the cat. The podcast website - it’s cute and functions fairly well! The podcast Tumblr. God has abandoned this place. The podcast YouTube. Mostly episode uploads, but sometimes other stuff too!

Rynn interviews Monte D. Monteleagre, one half of Wolf Mountain Workshop and creator of the audio play The City Unending. We talk about how surreal cities reflect the actual cities we inhabit, what it means to be called to do something, and what it's like to build a city with things like a daycare called The Giant Mouth We Feed Babies To. It's a good one!You can listen to The City Unending and all the other series that comprise The Tales from Wolf Mountain here. Follow Monte and Wolf Mountain...

So I actually got an episode out this month despite saying I wouldn't. Aren't you lucky? This is the second episode in our Catherine Bauer series, covering the first part of her seminal book, Modern Housing. Enjoy learning about her ideas and the little musical compositions I made special for this episode :)Subscribe to the Patreon for $2 per month! You'll get access to bonus episodes, livestreams, the Discord server, and more!Josh’s YouTube channel, Radical Planning. The podcast Instagram wh...

Subscribe to the Patreon for $2 per month! You'll get access to bonus episodes, livestreams, the Discord server, and more!Josh’s YouTube channel, Radical Planning. The podcast Instagram where I mostly just post pictures of Mimi the cat. The podcast website - it’s cute and functions fairly well! The podcast Tumblr. God has abandoned this place. The podcast YouTube. Mostly episode uploads, but sometimes other stuff too!

We've got Justin Comer from Rock Hard Caucus podcast on to talk all things Iowa - namely the Davenport building collapse that happened a year ago. We finish off with Josh asking Justin and I some questions about Iowa since he has yet to grace the state. You can learn more about Rock Hard Caucus here. Subscribe to the Patreon for $2 per month! You'll get access to bonus episodes, livestreams, the Discord server, and more!Josh’s YouTube channel, Radical Planning. The podcast Instagra...

Subscribe to the Patreon for $2 per month! You'll get access to bonus episodes, livestreams, the Discord server, and more!Josh’s YouTube channel, Radical Planning. The podcast Instagram where I mostly just post pictures of Mimi the cat. The podcast website - it’s cute and functions fairly well! The podcast Tumblr. God has abandoned this place. The podcast YouTube. Mostly episode uploads, but sometimes other stuff too!

We go long in this episode to talk about a fantastic piece by Tracy Rosenthal in The New Republic about the Supreme Court case that could upend how unhoused people are policed in the US. We follow that with the story of a small town Minnesota mayor with a wacky idea. We finish up with this episode's city spotlight on Las Cruces, New Mexico.The New Sundown TownsJosh's Video on Third Place Theory + The Right to the CitySubscribe to the Patreon for $2 per month! You'll get access to bonus episod...

The teaser for the Patron-exclusive April bonus episode. In this episode we start with a conversation about Josh's most recent YouTube video on the Transactive Theory of planning before digging in to an Atlantic article about the dual role housing plays in the United States. We finish up with this episode's city spotlight on Fargo, North Dakota. Subscribe to the Patreon for $2 per month! You'll get access to bonus episodes, livestreams, the Discord server, and more!Josh’s YouTube channel...

In the first new audio essay of the year, we look at the life of Catherine Bauer, housing activist and author of a seminal 20th century piece of housing literature, Modern Housing. We focus on her life leading up to her writing of the book, focusing particularly on her multiple research tours of central and western Europe and the modern housing developments she examined. Enjoy!Brahm's piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m8HEdle87YSubscribe to the Patreon for $2 per month! You'll get acces...

New segment where we talk a bit about a city neither of us has been to in the most recent bonus episode! $5 patrons can help pick the city for each episode :)Subscribe to the Patreon for $2 per month! You'll get access to bonus episodes, livestreams, the Discord server, and more!Josh’s YouTube channel, Radical Planning. The podcast Instagram where I mostly just post pictures of Mimi the cat. The podcast website - it’s cute and functions fairly well! The podcast Tumblr. God has abandoned this ...

I've decided to unlock the first ever Zoned Out bonus episode, a review of Garrett Hardin's 1968 essay The Tragedy of the Commons. Enjoy!Subscribe to the Patreon for $2 per month! You'll get access to bonus episodes, livestreams, the Discord server, and more!Josh’s YouTube channel, Radical Planning. The podcast Instagram where I mostly just post pictures of Mimi the cat. The podcast website - it’s cute and functions fairly well! The podcast Tumblr. God has abandoned this place. The podcast Yo...

In this episode we look at the American Planning Association's 2024 Trend Report for Planners. We look at their housing, politics, and climate sections among others. The report leaves a lot to be desired. Correction: I meant to say 1924/1920 when referring to the Georgist presidential candidates, not 2024/2020. Subscribe to the Patreon for $2 per month! You'll get access to bonus episodes, livestreams, the Discord server, and more!Josh’s YouTube channel, Radical Planning. The podcast Ins...

It's Part 1 of the Zoned Out Season 2 Double Feature Picture Show! Here we read an article from Bloomberg about how Minneapolis has tamed housing inflation and discuss the limitations of mainstream reporting on the housing crisis.Part 2 of Episode 20 is available on the Patreon for $2 per month!Josh's YouTube channel, Radical Planning.Subscribe to the Patreon for $2 per month! You'll get access to bonus episodes, livestreams, the Discord server, and more!Josh’s YouTube channel, Radical Planni...

In this episode I am delighted to have David Cobb, Advancement Manager for the Dishgamu-Humboldt Community Land Trust, as a guest. In this great interview not only do we talk about this incredible CLT project, but we also talk about left movement politics and David's history in the Green Party.Below are some relevant links to things we talk about in the episode:David's SubstackDishgamu Community Land TrustUS Solidarity Economy NetworkMove to AmendZoned Out Socials:Subscribe to the Patreon for...

This episode is an introduction to community land trusts. We talk about their history, how they work, and their benefits/limitations. If you want to find a CLT near you, check out this handy map.Subscribe to the Patreon for $2 per month for early episodes, bonus episodes, and access to the Zoned Out Discord server.The podcast Instagram where I mostly just post pictures of Mimi the cat.The podcast website - it’s cute and functions fairly well!The podcast Tumblr. God has abandoned this place.Su...

Teaser for the Patron-only wrap-up to our queer geography series.Subscribe to the Patreon for $2 per month!The podcast Instagram where I mostly just post pictures of Mimi the cat.The podcast website - it’s cute and functions fairly well!The podcast Tumblr. I'll post when you least expect it.Subscribe to the Patreon for $2 per month! You'll get access to bonus episodes, livestreams, the Discord server, and more!Josh’s YouTube channel, Radical Planning. The podcast Instagram where I mostly just...

This is the final public episode of the queer geography series! We look at three essays about queer life, activism, and politics in Beirut, Lebanon. Thank you so much to the activists, academics, and writers who shared their experiences and expertise so that we might learn from them. Hopefully I do these essays justice in my presentation of them, but I'm always willing to learn if I messed up on something.Subscribe to the Patreon for $2 per month!The podcast Instagram where I mostly just post...

This episode we are joined by Tam Guy, PhD. candidate at University of California Los Angeles in urban planning. We have a fantastic conversation about queer cities, the intersections of green infrastructure and house, and their study surveying trans people on their experiences taking public transit.You can find the link to Tam's survey here!Support this podcast for $2 per month on Patreon!InstagramTumblrWebsiteSubscribe to the Patreon for $2 per month! You'll get access to bonus episodes, li...

This episode we dig into queer geography! A couple notes about this episode:Some of the topics in this episode may be emotionally challenging or triggering. Specific content warnings are in the episode, but just be kind to yourself as you are listening to this. You don't have to finish the whole episode in one go.This is just a selection of topics within the broad subject of queer geography, and there is no way for me to represent the full breadth of queer experience. If you do not feel repre...