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At a recent event held at Harvard University the author, professor, and renowned urbanist Richard Florida spoke to chiefs of staff and deputy mayors of 30 large US cities, and we're releasing the audio of that speech with a bonus question and answer session. Listen to Florida talk about the way the pandemic spread the housing unaffordability crisis, why cities must stop chasing businesses to the bottom, and beliefs he's rethinking about the future of cities in this exclusive episode.

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Jane Week in Worcester is right around the corner; an awareness and recognition week for the urban theorist Jane Jacobs and her concepts for building vibrant, livable communities. On this Public Hearing episode, Josh talks with Joyce Mandell, author of Jane Jacobs in the Woo; a blog discussing Worcester development projects and asking “What would Jane say?” We talk about the ballpark, Harding Green, and Hillside Beach and what Jane might think of these projects in the city. 

“Joyce Mandell has worn many hats at different times of her life – mom, community organizer, sociologist, community development specialist, urban studies professor, and just general feisty rabble-rouser.  She is excited to add “channeling the spirit of Jane Jacobs” to the list.  She has lived in Worcester, Massachusetts for over twenty-five years and first moved to the East Side when she served as the Economic Development Director of Oak Hill Community Development Corporation from 1995 – 1998.  She believes in the potential of Worcester, the power of praxis and the truth to be found both in stories and stillness.”

Read the blog Jane Jacobs in the Woo and follow Jane Week on Facebook.

Listen to Public Hearing wherever you get your podcasts and on WICN 90.5FM, Worcester’s NPR affiliate station. And, while we celebrate women all year round, our guests for the month of March are all women who live, influence, and/or impact the City of Worcester, MA. Learn more about our show at PublicHearing.co

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Jane’s Walk is a global event of free neighbourhood walking tours held in Calgary and around the world each May.

Inspired by writer and activist Jane Jacobs, Jane’s Walk encourages a wide range of people to design and lead a walking tour of an area they know well. Elementary school students, seniors’ clubs, architects, refugee support agencies, artists, urban planners, Indigenous educators, ecologists, and people who make their living through bottle picking have all led Jane’s Walks in Calgary. Walks draw from a huge diversity of local interests and knowledge.

Some Jane’s Walks are designed to explore a theme (wildlife in the city, climate change resiliency, street safety, feminist history, public art, and so on). Others simply aim to shine a little light on a favourite neighbourhood. In either case, Jane’s Walks are fun, free, and informative and depend entirely on volunteers.

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A titan of Australia's built industry, Tone Wheeler talks Jane Jacobs, New York, urbanism, transport, safety, books women in the design field, ANU and even everything that is wrong with Canberra.

It's a full house on the podcast today. Felix Landry, Tim Wright, and Kevin Shepherd join Jordan to talk about our favorite reads and listens from the year.

Here are links to the stuff we talked about in the show:

Tim's picks:

• There’s a missing middle for commercial spaces, too – Kevin Klinkenberg, The Messy City
• What’s Up with All Those Empty Commercial Storefronts in New Mixed-Use Developments? – Rachel Quednau, Strong Towns
• Podcast: Typology with Ian Morgan Cron (We also discuss his book The Road Back to You)

Felix's picks:

• Building Jerusalem: Christianity and New Urbanism – Kathleen Curran Sweeney, Public Discourse
• The Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann
• 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles Mann

Jordan's picks:

• Book: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
• Book: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Blog: Mr. Money Mustache
• Blog: Brain Pickings
• Podcast: On Being with Krista Tippett
• Podcast: Philosophize This!
• Podcast: Akimbo, from Seth Godin

Kevin's picks:

• The Big Sort by Bill Bishop
• The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
• Building a Vibrant Community by Quint Studer
• The Art of Explanation by Lee LeFever
• Strong Towns blog
• Farnam Street blog
• Podcast: Strong Towns
• Podcast: Entreleadership
• Podcast: Serial
• Podcast: Building Local Power (ILSR)