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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Leapfrogging the Oligarchy
When cell phones were introduced some places that didn’t have landlines could skip the infrastructure investment and go straight to mobile phones. Same with renewable energy that comes from solar panels generating power locally instead of c...
Episode 580: Community Severance by Road
This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Jaime Benavides and Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou of Brown University to discuss their new paper showing how community severance by road infrastructure and traffic has led to more m...
Episode 579: Greensboro's Downtown Greenway
Talking Headways episodes are generally evergreen so feel free to jump in at any time!
This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Dabney Sanders, Project Manager of the Greensboro Downtown Greenway. We chat about opening the...
The Transportation Bill - A Money Supply Mechanism that Lacks a Heart
Lots of discussion related to the reauthorization of the transportation bill (previous was IIJA) this year including a flare up related to the addition of an electric car tax that would cost more than gas typically does for drivers annually...
Episode 578: Sidewalk Nation
This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Cardozo Law professor Michael Pollack to talk about his new book Sidewalk Nation: The Life and Law of America’s Most Overlooked Resource. Michael discusses who manages, owns, and fee...
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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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