City Dweller

In this episode, I speak with Luis Gusto, the Chicago-based creator of the Luis Gusto YouTube channel that features travel-related content about Chicago and other cities around the world. We talk about Luis' love for Chicago that led him to move here and to start his YouTube channel.

In this episode, I speak with Shane O'Mara , a professor of Experimental Brain Research at Trinity College, Dublin - the University of Dublin. He is a psychologist, neuroscientist, and writer whose book In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration is a fascinating look at the benefits of walking. Shane is an avid walker who loves to explore cities on foot.

In this episode, I talk with Laura Hilton Brown, the Program Manager for the London Transport Museum's Hidden London tours which offer the opportunity to explore parts of subterranean London. Laura is also one of four members of the team that deliver the Hidden London Hangouts , a weekly YouTube series that explores secrets spaces of London's transport system.

In this episode, I speak with Larry Shure, a Planner for the City of Chicago who specializes in historic preservation , about his experience of working with historic preservation in Chicago. Larry also discusses his Ultra Local Geography blog which looks at common neighborhood building types.

In this episode, I speak with my brother-in-law Nick Doyle, a librarian who lives in the Columbia, South Carolina area about his love of cities, especially New York and Chicago, and how that informs his lifestyle in the Columbia area.

In this episode, I speak with Leigh DeForth, a Comprehensive Planner for the City of Columbia, South Carolina, my home from 2009 to 2017, about  Walk Bike Columbia , a comprehensive public planning process that provides a long-term vision for walking, bicycling, and transit as well as a plan to guide Columbia in realizing this vision.

In this episode, I speak with Cyril, a native New Yorker and a second generation Chinese-American, who grew up in Brooklyn and lives in Queens about his perspective of New York City.