Booked on Planning
Booked on Planning
Booked on Planning
Reclaiming the Road
45 minutes Posted Oct 28, 2025 at 11:00 am.
Welcome & Series Context
Introducing David and the Book
Streets as Social Infrastructure
Rethinking Public Right‑of‑Way
What We Lost to Car Dominance
Law, Engineering, and Auto Hegemony
Beyond Modes: Defining Mobility Justice
Shifting Minds with Pop‑Ups
Pandemic Experiments to Policy Change
Embracing Messy Shared Space
Design Cues, Calm Traffic, Slow Streets
Bottom‑Up vs Top‑Down Equity
Democratizing Transportation Decisions
Case Studies: Boston and Queens
Further Reading & Resources
Closing and How to Get the Book
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What if the biggest public space in your city isn’t a park—it’s the street right outside your door? We sit down with author and planner‑geographer David Prytherch to rethink roads as social infrastructure and unpack why “complete streets” is only the starting line. From the rapid legal and engineering turn that handed streets to cars a century ago to the community‑led experiments that reclaimed asphalt during the pandemic, this conversation traces the power dynamics that shape everyday mobili...