Podcast
Ear to the Pavement, since 2016
I host and produce Ear to the Pavement, a podcast about urban planning and politics. The show features interviews with people at the forefront of urban planning and political thought.
Ear to the Pavement is produced in association with Progressive City, a magazine of the Planner’s Network.
EpisodeS Overview:
Jan 20, 2023
Ep 25: Deconstructing Feminism: Yasmin Nair on THE RIGHT TO SEX
Sep 2, 2022
Ep. 24: Deconstructing Feminism: Yasmin Nair on White Feminism, Part 2
Aug 12, 2022
Ep. 23: Deconstructing Feminism: Yasmin Nair on White Feminism, Part I
Apr 8, 2022
Ep. 22: Adolph Reed, Jr. on “The South: Jim Crow and its Afterlives”
Feb 11, 2022
Ep. 21: The Death of the Composer as Social Critic: Marianna Ritchey on Composing Capital
Oct 22, 2021
Ep. 20: Mindy Thompson Fullilove on Main Street as a 21st-Century Machine for Living
Jun 8, 2021
Ep. 19: Deconstructing #MeToo: Jennifer Hirsch, Shamus Khan, and Lacy Crawford on Sexual Citizens
Dec 31, 2020
Ep. 18: Deconstructing #MeToo: Yasmin Nair on “Know My Name”
Sep 17, 2020
Ep. 17: The Antiracist Movement and the Class Question, with Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Aug 21, 2020
Ep. 16: Deconstructing #MeToo: JoAnn Wypijewski on Sex, Power, and the Politics of Fear
May 13, 2020
Ep. 15: Deconstructing #MeToo: Yasmin Nair on Catch And Kill
Apr 3, 2020
Ep. 14: Repurposing the Webs of Infection as Webs of Connection, with Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Mar 16, 2020
Ep. 13: Snake Emojis, South Carolina, and the State of the Sanders Campaign, with Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Feb 19, 2020
Ep. 12: Deconstructing #MeToo: Yasmin Nair on She Said
Aug 15, 2019
Ep. 11: How today’s politically ineffectual billionaire CEOs make the corporate elites of the 1950s look like moderate pragmatists.
Dec 21, 2018
Ep. 10: It’s not just HQ2. Amazon has been stealing public money from the start.
Sep 20, 2018
Ep. 09: Corporate America Is Embracing Racial Equity. Should We Cheer Them On?
Apr 23, 2018
Ep. 08: Living on 90 Percent Less Energy: Can We Do It for Climate Justice?
Nov 16, 2017
Ep. 07: Everyday Radicals: What #TheResistance Can Learn From the League of Revolutionary Black Workers
Episode 6: Take Back the Land beat Bank of America. Here’s how they did it.
September 15, 2017
In episode six of Ear to the Pavement, housing organizer Rob Robinson recounts his journey from homelessness to the housing movement, and explains how Take Back the Land, an organization he co-founded, used radical organizing to successfully fight the corporate forces that helped create the foreclosure crisis. Robinson is currently a volunteer organizer with the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI), and is connected to housing and land movements in Europe, South Africa, and Brazil.
Episode 5: Do We Need a Breitbart of the Left?
May 2, 2017
Since Trump was elected, Left independent media outlets have been on the rise. Current Affairs Magazine is at the forefront of this movement. In episode five of Ear to the Pavement, Current Affairs founder and editor, Nathan J. Robinson, talks about the experiences that led him to start his own media organization, the importance for the Left of getting out of the elite media bubble and reaching a broad audience, and the crucial ingredients for building an effective progressive media.
Episode 4: The Urgency of Community Media in an Era of Noise
April 5, 2017
In episode four of Ear to the Pavement, documentary filmmaker and teacher Louis Massiah talks about the importance of using media to focus attention on the concerns and experiences of ordinary people. One of the country's most important and celebrated pioneers in the field of community media, Massiah is Founder and Executive Director of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, a media arts center which has been around since 1982. The center's mission is to help communities in the Philadelphia area learn to make media both as a means of artistic expression, and as a tool for progressive social activism.
Episode 3: Revisiting Root Shock in an Age of Mass Displacement
February 22, 2017
As more and more people are displaced by gentrification, war, deportation, economic instability, and other forces, the concept of "Root Shock" is as relevant as ever. In episode three of Ear to the Pavement, psychiatrist, author, and scholar Mindy Thompson Fullilove revisits her classic book, Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It. Well before it was an accepted idea, Fullilove documented how people's ability — or lack thereof — to put down roots and shape their communities influences not only individual mental health, but society as a whole.
Episode 2: Inauguration Special, Unpacking Trump
January 23, 2017
In episode two of Ear to the Pavement, we present an extended interview with planning scholar, author, and activist Tom Angotti about his personal reaction to the rise of Donald Trump, how we got here, his biggest concerns, and how progressives might respond. This interview delves further into themes Tom covered in his November piece in Progressive City, Trump: What can progressive planners do?
Episode 1: The Brooklyn Wars
November 13, 2016
In episode one of Ear to the Pavement, Allison Lirish Dean speaks with New York City-based journalist and author Neil DeMause about gentrification and development in Brooklyn, and his new book, The Brooklyn Wars: The Stories Behind the Making of New York's Most Celebrated Borough.