Tamika L. Butler, director of planning for California, joins us to talk about an overlooked problem in urban design and why it’s time to start paying attention.
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The Invention of Cities
Monica L. Smith, professor of anthropology at UCLA, joins us to explain how the development of cities – from Mesopotamia to the present – is strongly linked to the prosperity of humankind as a whole.
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New Urbanism in North Texas
We talk about how we should rethink our most densely-populated urban areas with DART board member Patrick Kennedy and Texas State Representative Rafael Anchia.
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Suburban Sprawl, Gentrification And The Rise Of Urbanism
This hour, we’ll talk about why certain metropolitan areas tend to grow out instead of up with Benjamin Ross. He writes about strategies to stem sprawl in his book, Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism.
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