Walkable City Rules

Walkable City Rules

Constant Wonder - Radio Archive, Episode 258 , Segment 1

Episode: Johnny Appleseed, Walkable Cities, Listeners Share Wonder

  • Sep 20, 2019 8:00 pm
  • 18:29 mins

Guest: Jeff Speck, city planner and author, "Walkable City" and "Walkable City Rules" Jeff Speck has said, “The car is an optional instrument of freedom rather than a prosthetic device.” He is one of the leading advocates for a revolution in the way we conceive and design our places of habitation and our means of transportation.

Other Segments

Our Listeners Find Wonder

3 MINS

Guests: Amy Jensen, Norma Roberts, Marie-Laure Oscarson, Marshall Coleman, and Joanna Harmon Throughout this hour, listeners from around the globe share discoveries of wonder in their neighborhoods.

Guests: Amy Jensen, Norma Roberts, Marie-Laure Oscarson, Marshall Coleman, and Joanna Harmon Throughout this hour, listeners from around the globe share discoveries of wonder in their neighborhoods.

The ReactivatorSuspends Life and Reanimates It

31 MINS

Guest: Shannon Tessier, Instructor, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and Scientific Staff, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston

Guest: Shannon Tessier, Instructor, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and Scientific Staff, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston

Highlight: Ancient Sourdough Brought to Life (originally aired September 11, 2019)

14 MINS

Guest: Seamus Blackely, father of the xBox, physicists, master baker Seamus Blackely, with the help of a Harvard lab, has made sourdough bread from yeast harvested from 4,000-year-old pots.

Guest: Seamus Blackely, father of the xBox, physicists, master baker Seamus Blackely, with the help of a Harvard lab, has made sourdough bread from yeast harvested from 4,000-year-old pots.
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