HeyJaredgood traffic.
A workshop for American urban design and urban planning.Join a prolific collective of city and neighborhood staples as we look to better brand American urbanism. New conversations, each week.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 5
- Latest publication
- Sep 10, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Aug 3, 2026
Latest episodes
120 / Making the American landscape as we know it / with John Dean Davis (opens the original)
Read excerpt
John Dean Davis — Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at The Ohio State University's Knowlton School of Architecture — is in good traffic this week for a peek at Reconstruction-era America and the landscapes it built. Prof. Davis' new book, Reconstructors: Land, Work, and Engineering After the Civil War , posits that Reconstruction wasn't a mere political realignment, but a massive physical rebuilding project whose infrastructure and ideology shape the contemporary American landscape a
119 / A walkable pocket in Tampa, Florida / with James Nozar (opens the original)
Read excerpt
James Nozar — President of Development at Kettler — is in good traffic this week from Tampa, Florida. We talk the development and design process behind a stretch of former industrial and surface parking lots becoming Water Street: a $4 billion waterfront neighborhood, and what that same playbook looks like applied to a second Tampa district: Gas Worx. We also touch on: Jeff Vinik and Bill Gates' Cascade Investment placing the original bet on Water Street back in 2015. Why treating the arena as a
118 / the monday commute: Why do we focus on American design? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
The monday commute — an early morning, sub-15-minute quick hit — made for your walk, bike, bus, or even drive into the office. Trialing this format fall '27. This week, some calibration. Why do we focus good traffic conversations on American precedents, cities, and progress, when there are typically stronger examples of the built environment found elsewhere around the globe?
117 / Place as process, not product / with Ben Donsky (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Ben Donsky — Principal at Agora Partners — is in good traffic this week from Staten Island, New York to discuss placemaking as a process, not a product. Agora Partners guides real estate developers, foundations, and government agencies through the planning, activation, and long-term operation of public space projects nationwide — including Klyde Warren Park in Dallas and Providence’s District Park. We also touch on: Why “authenticity” is a word Ben tries to avoid, and what building organic cultu
116 / Summer of triangulation. (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Back from a July break full of walking, observing, and listening in Portland, Oregon. Avid pedestrian, burgeoning transit user, performing arts educator, actor (and Brad's fiancé) Aly Marchant is back on the show, too, reflecting on the practice of triangulation — understanding movement as not just A to B or A to C, but also the relationships between points B and C — and how doing this in your city helps in identifying the strengths and shortcomings of an infrastructure system. We also touch on:
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Not enough subject data for this period yet.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.