Parksify Podcast
Parksify Podcast
Parksify
The Parksify Podcast interviews planners, urbanists, and authors about our cities' public spaces and their impacts on the communities we live in.
Brent Toderian on His Former Role as Vancouver's Chief Planner
Brent Toderian joins us to discuss his former role as Vancouver's Chief Planner and some of the challenges facing cities.
Feb 13, 2018
25 min
Patrick Duggan and Stuart Andrews on Art and City Resilience
Patrick Duggan and Stuart Andrews discuss a research project in New Orleans to study how arts and culture contribute to the resiliency of cities.
Feb 6, 2018
24 min
Ryan Undercoffer on the Government-Citizen Relationship
When it comes to the government-citizen relationship, there's often a disconnect between the voices and desires of residents and the actions taking place on a municipal level. Ryan Undercoffer, the founder of Citizen Guidebook discusses methods that can be used to help heal the divide between residents and officials.
Jan 30, 2018
18 min
Walter Clapp on Biomimicry and the Power Grid
Walter Clapp, the founder and Director of Community Adaptation, LLC discusses the challenges facing our power grid & how we can better design our cities through the use of biomimicry.
Jan 23, 2018
23 min
Jeff Speck on Shared Space Street Design
Jeff Speck, planner and author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America One Step at a Time, joins me to discuss the benefits and challenges of shared space street design, which is a concept developed by Dutch traffic engineer Hans Monderman.
Jan 16, 2018
22 min
Josh Graham on Affordable Housing
Josh Graham, the founder and CEO of Ehab, discusses the benefits of using blockchain to promote the development of affordable housing.
Jan 9, 2018
20 min
2017 in Review
Jacob Moses joins Ash Blankenship to discuss their favorite episodes of 2017. This year, their favorites include episodes with author Melody Warnick, Milenko Matanovic, and Dr. Robert Zarr, among others.
Jan 2, 2018
32 min