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.

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 that can be used to help heal the divide between residents and officials.

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 Monderman.

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 how bikes can be used for more than just a commute.

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 each other when it comes to creating more walkable cities.

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.