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Milling the Urban Tree
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: City of Minnetonka forester Hannibal Hayes mills a log at the city's new saw mill., Credit: Timothy Foss
Amidst the Emerald Ash Borer crisis, the city of Minnetonka currently has a surplus of ash logs from 60,000 trees. Some Minnetonka foresters are wo...

  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 05:50
Architecture or Revolution: Part 3 of The State Made Visible
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: This St. Louis image was taken before 1954 when the small-scale buildings seen here would be leveled for park space and eventually become the Gateway Mall. The buildings in the foreground would be leveled after 1959 as part of Mill Creek Valley clearance.
Our focus is on the planning and architecture of our modern sites of resource extraction, the cities we live in, and how the design of parks and br...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
St. Louis: Patterns of Segregation and Alibis for Abandonment
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Mill Creek Valley (St. Louis) circa 1948
Part Two of our conversation with Walter Johnson about his must-read book The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the Uni...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Landshark Office Park
From: Evan Jacoby
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The Ellis Act lets California landlords evict rent-controlled tenants. Supporters call it an important tool for repurposing land, but opponents fea...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 12:25
  • Purchases: 1
Prairie Garden (episode 3)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
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Harvest wild plants with Native nutritionist Valerie Segrest of the Muckleshoot Tribe. Explore what a regionally-based food system could look like ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KVSC


  • Added: Apr 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:21
  • Purchases: 3
Be the Hummingbird (episode 2)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
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Go to the heart of Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood, where an immigrant family and thousands of volunteers turned 20 acres into a Japanese gard...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KVSC


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:47
  • Purchases: 3
This is the kind of story that begins in a forest
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
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This is the kind of story that begins in a forest, on the traditional lands of the Duwamish and Coast Salish People, past and present. It’s a story...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 16, 2020
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome to Growing Old
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
Caption: Growing Old
This is the kind of story that begins in a forest, on the traditional lands of the Duwamish and Coast Salish People, past and present. It’s a story...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2020
  • Length: :59
Paris: Responses to Terror, and the Experiment in Mixite
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Paris is in flux. How are Parisians-native and immigrant, still dealing with terrorist attacks? If mixite, or social mixing, provides an answer, wh...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Mar 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Bloomington and Ellettsville: How a Developer's Lawsuit Reveals Differences In Planning Policies
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Earlier this month, WFHB reported on a lawsuit filed by a developer against the Ellettsville plan commission. Today, correspondent Jerrod Dill brin...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 11:15
The White Elephant
From: Israel Story
Series: Israel Story Podcast
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In "The White Elephant,” Yochai Maital walks us through the history of Tel Aviv’s ‘New’ Central Bus Station — a derelict eight-story behemoth and m...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2016
  • Length: 32:00
New Orleans Bike Infrastructure Expands
From: Nina Feldman
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New Orleans is a perfect city for biking: flat ground, warm weather, not a ton of traffic. But it's had one of the least robust network of biking f...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Sep 05, 2014
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 1
Timothy Thompson Gives Historical Markers an Update
From: John Tynan
Caption: Historical marker describing the drain pipe installed by Vernon Villareal, Credit: John Tynan
Baltimore-based sculptor Timothy Thompson's take on the Historical Markers we see along roads and beside old buildings has an unintended effect in ...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 10:01
Historic Preservation: One Man's Treasures
From: Nina Milligan
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A story of how redevelopment challenges communities to make tough choices.

  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 05:37
RISE: Part I Sounding the Waters
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions threaten the nation's coastal towns, Credit: Jan Sturmann
The San Francisco Bay is a place of beauty and biological diversity. But sea level rise and extreme weather will change human life along its coastl...

Bought by WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WHRV, WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
RISE: Part II Facing the Rising Tide
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Steve Mello is a farmer on Tyler Island in the San Francisco Bay Delta, Credit: Jan Sturmann
Rising waters threaten the lands of a farmer and of a developer, yet they and their families dismiss all warnings of danger. Why are so many of us ...

Bought by WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WHRV, WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
RISE: Part III Chuey’s Story
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Chuey Cazares and his family live in the tiny coastal town of Alviso at the southern tip of the San Francisco Bay, Credit: Jan Sturmann
Adapting to climate change will be a messy and painful business. And in the short term there will be winners and losers. Chuey Cazarez’s family is ...

Bought by WFHB, CI Dolphin Radio, WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Big Ideas
From: Smart City Radio
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This week on Smart City, Big ideas, and big change. Tim Brown of IDEO tells us how design thinking can sovle big problems, and authors William Egg...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Spokane Public Radio, WLRN, WBEZ, and WFSU


  • Added: Dec 16, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5