Hey all!  I know I haven't posted here much and there are still a lot of visitors apparently from Google.  So if you're interested in what we've been doing over at The Overhead Wire website check it out.  Also, sign up for a free two week trial of our daily newsletter below.  It's been going since 2006 and is unlike any other newsletter you get.  No credit cards, just an email address. And if you ever unsubscribe we delete it forever. We do 8 hours of city news search work daily so you only have to do 5 minutes. Email Address Wire Feed ..read more

This week, Robin Rather of Collective Strength joins the podcast to talk about missteps in the planning profession - including how things go wrong with language. Robin shares how she got to thinking about urban issues and why she believes current planning practice is stuck in the 1990s. We discuss the often jargon-filled language the profession uses, taking a paragraph from Austin’s current zoning code rewrite to illustrate. Wire Feed ..read more

I will be updating here less now as I've moved blogging over to new The Overhead Wire site. This site will always be up as an archive.  My most recent post is on Houston and development as it pertains to the weekend's horrible events.  At some point soon I'll write a longer post about the change, but in the mean time, feel free to subscribe to the RSS there too. Wire Feed ..read more

Here’s the first installment of my two-part conversation with Jonn Elledge, the editor of City Metric and the host of the Skylines podcast. In this episode Jonn interviews me about American transportation, particularly the history of urban subways and light rail, as well as transportation politics and possible futures. Wire Feed ..read more