audio by year 2007

In this episode, we bring a summary and analysis of the top five issues and trends in the planning world in 2006.

We present the final part of a three-part series of discussions about urban renewal with architect and planner Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. In the third installment, Plater-Zyberk discusses the increase in public participation in the planning process and the role of the next generation of planners, architects, and designers in creating livable cities.

In this episode we bring a summary of the National Conference on Disaster Planning for the Carless Society, held recently in New Orleans.

Former Maryland Governor Parris Glendening and Los Angeles City Planning Director Gail Goldberg discuss smart growth, applying lessons of a national scale to the city of L.A.

Listen in for a weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues of the past week.

With more than 100,000 cars driving on it daily, various conflicting replacement plans, and a voting public that doesn't like any of the options on the table, removing a double-decker highway in the middle of one of the nation's major cities is no easy task. We talk with planners and public officials about the controversy over Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct.

Urban planning and architecture overlap in many ways, but often the schools teaching these two fields do not embrace their interrelation. Planetizen correspondent Mike Lydon discusses the challenges and trends in education for the two fields with Dean Douglas Kelbaugh and Urban Planning Chair Jonathan Levine of the University of Michigan's A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Listen in for a weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues of the past week.

This installment features a discussion about how demographic data is changing in the upcoming Census 2010 and the new rolling data collection of the American Community Survey. We talk with census expert Chris Williamson about how new data will be collected, how it's different from what's currently available, and how planners should approach it.

Chris Williamson, Ph.D., AICP, is a Senior Planner for the City of Oxnard, California, and formerly worked at the U.S. Census Bureau developing computer mapping technologies. He is also the author and instructor of the Planetizen online course "Introduction to Census Data, ACS, and Growth".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

We talk with blogger Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG about his work covering architecture and urban issues on the blog, and about some of the most notable trends in architecture and urban planning. We also present the Planetizen News Brief, our rundown of some of the week's most interesting and important news.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

In the first of a two-part series, Planetizen talks with Ed Blakely, executive director of the Office of Recovery Management in the City of New Orleans, Louisiana. He discusses the current state of affairs in the city and how the planning process is working to bring the city back to its former glory.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

This podcast features the second of a two-part discussion with New Orleans recovery chief Ed Blakely. Planetizen talks with Blakely about the recovery planning process and the future of the city in the long-term.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City".

From cell phones to GPS devices, your location is being tracked. Researchers at MIT recently used this data to create a real-time map of mobility in the city of Rome as part of their "Wiki City" Project. We talk with team leader Francesco Calabrese about the project and its applications in planning.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". This week's New Brief covers recent data showing that new residents take up twice the amount of space as existing residents, a move to prevent people from paving over their front yards, and the 15th anniversary of San Francisco's Critical Mass bike ride.

In this podcast we talk with former Salt Lake City Planning Director Stephen Goldsmith, and now the creator and curator of the Temporary Museum of Permanent Change, a conceptual planning project that aims to change the way people think about urban development. Stephen talks about what the museum is and how it fits in to the changing downtown of Salt Lake City.

This podcast features excerpts from a speech by Jaime Lerner, former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, home of one of the world's first and most successful bus rapid transit systems. In this speech Lerner presents the five commandments of the sustainable city, and introduces a planning concept he calls "urban acupuncture".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". This week's New Brief covers the Army Corps of Engineers' plan to buy out more than 17,00 Gulf Coast homes, a congressional proposal to cut mortgage interest tax deductions for homeowners with super-sized houses, and the details of a huge civil engineering canal project proposed in Dubai.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". This week's New Brief looks at preventing crime through urban design, a plan to buy out an entire Maryland neighborhood for higher density redevelopment, and plans to build a high-rise next to single-family homes in affluent Houston, the country's biggest city with no zoning laws.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". This week's New Brief looks at a nationwide NIMBY attitude towards new development, opposition to big Smart Growth projects on Long Island, and the country's most sedentary cities.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". This week's New Brief looks at the short-sightedness that led to Atlanta's severe water drought, a new take on how congestion pricing can best achieve its goals, and the measures cities are taking to protect their industrial lands from being converted into housing.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". This week's New Brief looks at public participation planning for Philadelphia's waterfront, efforts to shrink Flint, Michigan sustainably, and Seattle's new Bicycle Master Plan.

As a "megacity" in one of the world's most rapidly developing countries, Mumbai (formerly Bombay) has been forced to make major adjustments as it assumes its role at the forefront of globalization. In this podcast, Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, reads from his book and discusses the city and its place in a globalizing world from the perspective of a native returning home after more than 20 years.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". This week's New Brief looks at the controversy around the "most dangerous cities" ranking, the California attorney general's plan to sue cities for not connecting land use and climate change, and the downtown revitalization tool known as "business incubation".

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". This week's New Brief looks at Chicago's plan to green its alleyways, efforts by Ohio communities to prevent real estate speculators from buying up their town's foreclosed properties, and the myths surrounding recently rediscovered tunnels in Fresno, California.

As a "megacity" in one of the world's most rapidly developing countries, Mumbai (formerly Bombay) has been forced to make major adjustments as it assumes its role at the forefront of globalization. In this second part of a two-part podcast, Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, reads from his book and discusses the city and India in the context of the globalizing world.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". This week's New Brief looks the battle between preservationists and parking lots in Stockton, California, the shortage of rental housing in New Orleans, and a legal and controversial land-snatch in Colorado.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". This week's New Brief looks light rail plans meeting competition from subway plans in Kansas City, and an unwelcome renovation that has small town New York residents angry.

A weekly rundown of some of the most interesting and important news and issues, airing every week on the nationally-syndicated radio program "Smart City". This week's New Brief looks at the determining factor of walkability, the rise of the "green collar" job, and Pennsylvania's toll road woes.

Over the course of the year, the editors of Planetizen review and post summaries of hundreds of articles, reports, books, studies, and editorials related to planning and urban development. Now, we take a look back at 2007 and the trends and issues that defined the year in urban planning.