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Parksify Podcast

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Brent Toderian joins us to discuss his former role as Vancouver's Chief Planner and some of the challenges facing cities.
Patrick Duggan and Stuart Andrews discuss a research project in New Orleans to study how arts and culture contribute to the resiliency of cities.
We have some exciting news to share about Parksify Storyline, a new podcast featuring exclusive interviews and commentary, as well updates on Parksify for 2018.
When it comes to the government-citizen relationship, there's often a disconnect between the voices and desires of residents and the actions taking place on a municipal level. Ryan Undercoffer, the founder of Citizen Guidebook discusses methods
Walter Clapp, the founder and Director of Community Adaptation, LLC discusses the challenges facing our power grid & how we can better design our cities through the use of biomimicry.
Jeff Speck, planner and author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America One Step at a Time, joins me to discuss the benefits and challenges of shared space street design, which is a concept developed by Dutch traffic engineer Hans Monder
Josh Graham, the founder and CEO of Ehab, discusses the benefits of using blockchain to promote the development of affordable housing.
Jacob Moses joins Ash Blankenship to discuss their favorite episodes of 2017. This year, their favorites include episodes with author Melody Warnick, Milenko Matanovic, and Dr. Robert Zarr, among others.
Each year, Chris and Melissa Bruntlett promote a campaign to encourage cyclists to take their Christmas trees home by bike. I discussed this campaign with Chris and Melissa and how the project is helping cyclists gain a better understanding of
Derk van der Laan, an Amsterdam-based beat reporter, explains how we can benefit from daily walking. Derk discusses tools that we can use in order to increase the amount of walking we do each day. He also talks about how cities can learn from e
Ana Straabe, Chief of Park Development for the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority in the state of California, joins me to discuss how partnerships helped bring the Los Angeles Park to Playa Trail to life.
What is the value in allowing citizens to vote on budgeted parks-related projects? A stronger sense of community, greater use of place, among other benefits believes Seth Piccirillo, Director of Niagara Falls Community Development. Piccirillo d
Laura Clemons, a Certified Floodplain Manager and the founder of Collaborative Communities, joins Ash Blankenship to discuss how cities can better prepare for floods and natural disasters by utilizing placemaking techniques.
Omar Brownson returns to discuss pedestrian bridges with Parksify host and founder Ash Blankenship. Specifically, Brownson, the Executive Director of River LA, talks about three new pedestrian and cycling bridges in the works for Los Angeles.
There's a new trail in the works in Los Angeles. The Park to Playa Trail will be a 13-mile-long trail running from the city's Baldwin Hills neighborhood to the Pacific Ocean, connecting other parks and green spaces along its length. On this epi
On this episode of the Parksify Podcast, Ash Blankenship speaks with Dr. Robert Zarr, a board certified pediatrician at Unity Health in Washington, DC and the founder and Medical Director of Park Rx America, a community health initiative to pre
On this episode of the Parksify Podcast, Ash Blankenship speaks with William Raudenbush, candidate for NYC City Council and parks advocate about his support to save Theodore Roosevelt Park, and about private development's impact on public space
On this episode of the Parksify Podcast, Ash Blankenship speaks with Nidhi Gulati, Program Manager at LivableStreets, about the implications of our cities' streets and public spaces on the lives of first generation Americans.
On this episode of the Parksify Podcast, Ash Blankenship speaks with Kate Pearce, Senior Planner for Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh, North Carolina. Pearce discusses transforming a 308-acre plot of land into a destination park for the city.
On this week’s episode of the Parksify Podcast, Ash Blankenship speaks with Mariela Alfonzo, founder and CEO of State of Place, a predictive analytics software company helping cities build better places through data. Alfonzo discusses the benef
On this week’s episode of the Parksify Podcast, Ash Blankenship speaks with Omar Brownson, the executive director of River LA, a nonprofit working to redevelop the Los Angeles River into a collection of vibrant public spaces.
On this week’s episode of the Parksify Podcast, Ash Blankenship speaks with freelance journalist and author Melody Warnick about her book This is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are.
On this week’s episode of the Parksify Podcast, Ash Blankenship speaks with Eduardo Santana, Executive Director of Pershing Square Renew and Eve Critton, Development and External Relations Coordinator about the initiative to transform Pershing
On this week’s episode of the Parksify Podcast, Ash Blankenship talks with Tafarai Bayne about the benefits of open streets and about how CicLAvia is helping influence positive change throughout Los Angeles’ communities.
On this week’s episode of the Parksify Podcast, we talk with Milenko Matanovic, founder and executive director emeritus of the Pomegranate Center, about transforming our cities public spaces into thriving, vibrant places through the use of art
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