The Overhead Wire Daily
The Overhead Wire by Jeff WoodThe Overhead Wire Daily is a newsletter focused on bringing people news about cities daily. This particular substack is a recreation of the basic version of my daily newsletter started in 2006. As the slow death of Twitter continues, I'm branching out...
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A New Development Cycle
About a year ago I interviewed my old urbanist friend Jim Kumon on the podcast (Part 1 | Part 2) about his work developing missing middle housing in the Twin Cities and other spots around the country and he mentioned something super interes...
Episode 577: Find the Bus Art
This week on the Talking Headways podcast, we’re joined by Stephanie Dockery to discuss the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge. Stephanie discusses how a bus art can get a cult following, how artists are creating attention in the...
Bonus Episode: Mapping Every Sidewalk in Your State
We’re doing a bit of a crossover episode this week as I wanted to do two things, promote the amazing podcast The Brake hosted by Kea Wilson at Streetsblog USA and Dr. Anat Caspi at The University of Washington and her work focused on creati...
Episode 576: The Logistics of Package Delivery
This week we’re joined by Arizona State Professor Benjamin Fong to discuss an item he wrote in Urban Omnibus entitled Where’s My Package? We discuss his work trying to suss out how e-commerce companies like Amazon have built their logistics...
Episode 190: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Aging Out of the Car
This week we’re Han Solo, but have a lot of great news items to share including SRO legislation, Japan’s rail expertise, the idea of onboarding residents to a city, and the quiet that came from the solar eclipse.
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Jeff Wood is the author of The Overhead Wire Daily and the host of the Talking Headways Podcast. He's a planner from the Bay Area.
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