Across a generational divide. How the car has shaped our lives.
A series on the development of modern cities and how transportation shapes the way we live. Arman Bachmann is a Masters of Public Policy graduate currently working on housing in the Greater Toronto Area with a deep interest in transportation and housing. Ken Greenberg is an urban designer, city building advocate, and author with years of experience working on cities globally. By engaging in a cross-generational conversation on the evolution of urban planning, Arman and Ken hope to illuminate how those decisions impact our lives.
Episode Five: The Politics of Transformation: Perceptions, Realities, and the “The War on the Car”
On this episode, Arman Bachmann and Ken Greenberg discuss how politics impacts urban planning the transportation policy. How can urban policymakers navigate the complicated politics of their field when commonly held perceptions often conflict with reality.
16 May 2023
Episode Four: Falling in Love Again with Walkability
On this episode, Arman Bachmann and Ken Greenberg discuss how and when they each fell back in love with walkability, and begin to chat about how we can once again build cities in human-scaled and walkable ways.
27 Feb 2023
Episode Three: Cars in Popular Culture
How our relationship to cars appear in pop culture.
On this episode, Arman and Ken discuss the presence of cars in our popular culture, and how “car culture” has changed over time. Through sharing experiences from their own lives — plus some help from popular shows like Seinfeld, Friends, The Life of Riley and The Honeymooners — Arman and Ken examine how the cultural and social perceptions of cars have developed over generations.
11 Jan 2023
Episode Two: The Impact of Car-Centric City Building
How accommodating the car altered our cities.
In this episode, Arman Bachmann and Ken Greenberg discuss how building around the car dramatically reshaped our living environments and how we interact with them.
Downtowns Altered for Parking:
Michael Manville in The Atlantic: How Parking Destroys Cities (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/parking-drives-housing-prices/618910/)
Vox on Youtube: The High Cost of Free Parking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akm7ik-H_7U)
Reading on Possible Impacts of Self-Driving Vehicles:
The Alex Pareene Newsletter: Losing a Street Fight to Elon Musk (https://theap.substack.com/p/losing-a-street-fight-to-elon-musk)
12 Dec 2022
Episode One: From Streetcar Suburbs to Car Dependence and Back
How we reorganized our cities to accommodate the car.
On this episode, Arman Bachmann and Ken Greenberg introduce themselves while discussing the impact of the 20th century's shift away from streetcar and subway supported housing towards car dependent neighbourhoods.
Article mentioned in episode:
Bloomberg - CityLab: The Commuting Principle That Shaped Urban History (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-29/the-commuting-principle-that-shaped-urban-history)
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