Hosted by Jacob · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 22 episodes
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Cities in Motion is a podcast about what it’s really like to get around — walking, biking, riding transit, or living with fewer cars. We talk sidewalks that vanish, stadiums you can’t walk to, “paint-only” bike lanes, and cities where transit works like magic (plus the ones where it doesn’t).Each episode asks how the design of a city affects real life — our time, stress, safety, money, and independence. We celebrate places that get it right, call out places that don’t, and imagine what it would look like if moving through a city felt easy again.Join us as we explore cities built for people
Jacob hosts Cities in Motion, a society show with 22 episodes published.
Since 1997, Austin's Yellow Bike Project has been turning donated and discarded bicycles into transportation, independence, and community for thousands of Central Texans. Run entirely by volunteers operating as a consens
Englewood, Colorado hadn't let residents vote for their own mayor in nearly 50 years. Then a small group of volunteers changed that — with no staff, no budget, and a whole lot of community organizing. Noah Kaplan, founde
What if suburbia didn't have to be a dead end? Diane Alisa Tuft, author of A Love Letter to Suburbia: How to Restore the American Village , joins Cities in Motion to make the case that the sprawling, car-dependent neighb
Sara Lind, co-executive director of Open Plans, joins the show to talk about what it actually takes to redesign New York City's streets around people instead of cars. From the near-miss with a car while pushing her son i
NOTE: I apologize for the audio, I had some new LAV mics and the sensitivity was too high. San Antonio is one of the largest cities in the U.S. without a rail transit system — but a growing coalition wants to change that
What does it take to plan a city that actually works for people? I go on a tour with Prof. Sarah Serpas of the UTSA Department of Planning to explore how the next generation of planners is being trained — and what that m
What if your neighborhood was designed around people and not cars? Brett "Hans" McMurdy joins the show to unpack the Car-Free Community Trust model: a bold approach to urban living that combines cohousing, coworking, and
San Antonio is one of the fastest-growing cities in America but is it growing in the right direction? Joey Pawlik, founder of ActivateSA, joins the show to talk about what it takes to build an urban advocacy movement fro
In this episode, we sit down with Hexel Colorado, the founder of Dallas Urbanist and a leading voice in the Texas transit scene. Hexel isn't just a content creator; he’s an advocate who transitioned from viral "Dallas 19
What does it take for two citizens to propose moving a city's entire railroad underground — and actually get people to listen? Christian Lenhart is a civil engineer who saw Salt Lake City's west side cut off from downtow
In this episode of Cities in Motion, we sit down with Tom Wald, Executive Director of the Red Line Parkway Initiative, to discuss the future of active transportation in Central Texas. The Red Line Parkway is a planned 32
What does it actually take to make biking feel safe, accessible, and normal for people of all ages and abilities? In this season-finale episode of Cities in Motion, I’m joined by Darek Hanson, Austin Team Lead for the Gh
In this episode of Cities in Motion, Jacob talks with Cody Boyd, founder of Edmond Urbanist, about walkability, housing, and people-centered development in Edmond, Oklahoma and the greater Oklahoma City metro. As central
Houston is the fourth-largest city in the U.S., and the choices it makes today affect millions of people every single day. In this episode of Cities in Motion, I’m joined by Ruben and Matthew from Strong Towns Houston to
In this episode of Cities in Motion, I sit down with John Simmerman, creator of Active Towns, to talk about how walking, biking, and everyday movement shape community health and quality of life. John shares his journey f
In this episode of Cities in Motion, I’m joined by Joe Panzarella, a candidate for Houston City Council representing District C. We talk about what it means to govern and advocate in the fourth-largest city in the U.S.,
In this episode, I sit down with Shane from Strong Towns Pflugerville to explore how a small group of residents is working to reshape the future of their city — one code update, one traffic cone, and one public comment a
Texas has been trying to build a high-speed rail line between Dallas and Houston for more than 15 years and it still doesn’t exist. In this episode of Cities in Motion, we look at what happened to the Texas Bullet Train:
In this episode of Cities in Motion, I sit down with Kelly from Austin Bicycle Meals on the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge in downtown Austin to talk about how a small, volunteer run group is using bicycles to fight food inse
What happens when we stop talking about cities and economies as abstract systems—and start talking about people? In this episode of Cities in Motion, I’m joined by Isaac, the voice behind People Over Numbers, a podcast t
Matthew
student Director · Creative Nature
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Ruben
co-founder · Futsi
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Shane
horror reviewer and content creator · Blackland razors
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Kelly
president · Whittier Chamber of Commerce
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Isaac
VP of Marketing · 120 Water
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