The Urbanist Agenda

Epizode

• The Women Leaders Who Made their Cities Better (w/Melissa & Chris Bruntlett) 29.05.2026 45min

  Women Changing Cities is the latest book from authors Melissa & Chris Bruntlett. It's an interesting collection of stores from many cities around the world highlight the groundbreaking work of female mayors, planners, advocates, and policymakers in reshaping urban spaces for the better. Women Changing Cities (the book): https://www.modacitylife.com/women-changing-cities Modacity: https://www.modacitylife.com/ Not Just Bikes: https://nebula.tv/notjustbikes See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• How to Fight Back Against Anti-Urbanism Lies (w/The Urban Truth Collective) 24.04.2026 41min

  Over the past few years there have been a lot of lies and conspiracy theories that are making it harder to build great urban places. One group has had enough, and they've formed the Urban Truth Collective to fight back. The Urban Truth Collective: www.urbantruthcollective.com  BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/urbantruth.bsky.social Brent: https://bsky.app/profile/brenttoderian.bsky.social Tom: https://www.creativebyrovelo.com/  Grant: https://mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/dark-pr-grant-ennis/  The origins of the “15-Minute City” conspiracy: https://www.desmog.com/2023/02/16/revealed-the-science-denial-network-behind-oxfords-climate-lockdown-backlash/ Not Just Bikes: https://nebula.tv/notjustbikes See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• The Best Way to Understand Dutch Cycling (w/Meredith Glaser) 26.03.2026 48min

  Meredith Glaser is the CEO of the Urban Cycling Institute and a professor of cycling and urban transportation. She hosts "study tours" in the Netherlands so that policymakers from other countries can understand Dutch cycling.
• How We Made a Travel Show w/Graham Haerther 20.02.2026 43min

  Day Pass is the new Nebula Original series, hosted by Jason of Not Just Bikes. In each episode, Jason explores a new city ... while also riding as much public transit as possible. In this podcast, I talk to Graham Haerther at Nebula, the producer of Day Pass, as well as the cameraman for the first three episodes, about what it was like to make this show a reality. Watch Day Pass on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/daypass See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• Toronto's Crack-Smoking Mayor (w/Bobby Broccoli) 29.01.2026 59min

  Rob Ford was the infamous crack-smoking mayor of Toronto, but he was always crazy, so how did he get elected in the first place? Bobby Broccoli is current working on a 4-part video series on Rob Ford, and he shares what he learned through his research. Meet Mayor Ford: https://youtu.be/nACJOKV_YYA Bobby Broccoli: https://www.youtube.com/@BobbyBroccoli Not Just Bikes: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• How to Actually Improve a City (w/Brent Toderian) 12.12.2025 55min

  Brent Toderian is the former chief planner of Vancouver, Canada. He has worked with dozens of cities around the world to achieve real change, and he has some advice for advocates who want to do the same. Brent Toderian on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/brenttoderian.bsky.social Not Just Bikes: https://nebula.tv/notjustbikes See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• Czechia's Insane Pro-Car Political Party (w/Adam Something) 21.11.2025 50min

  Czechia just got a new political party called "Motorists for Themselves". But behind the "car-friendly" façade, they're just another far-right political party, funded by fossil fuel interests. Also in this episode: TRAINS! Motorists for Themselves (Motoristé sobě) Party Website: https://motoristesobe.cz/ Adam Something: https://youtube.com/@adamsomething Not Just Bikes: https://nebula.tv/notjustbikes See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• Why is it SO HARD to Take a Train Across the Border? (w/Jon Worth) 17.10.2025 44min

  The EU is heavily promoting rail as an alternative to flying and driving, but while the "big" high-speed train projects get a lot of attention, it's often maddeningly difficult to take a regional train across an EU border.
• Why I'm Ebike-pilled (with American Fietser) 04.07.2025 1h 16min

  "If it weren't for ebikes, I'd be driving a car" says American Fietser.
• Why I Quit YouTube (with RMTransit) 06.06.2025 1h 18min

  RMTransit has been making YouTube videos about cities and public transit for over 5 years. Now with over 750 videos on his YouTube channel, it's time to call it quits.
• Let's Send our Pickup Trucks to Ukraine (with Build the Lanes) 11.04.2025 38min

  Pickup trucks don't belong in European cities, so let's send them to help out in Ukraine! Stef from Build the Lanes tells us about why he's driving pickup trucks from the EU to Ukraine. Berr Battalion - https://www.help99.co/patches/nafo-berr-battalion Berr Battalion Announcement Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7tZdrGU_2c Help99 - https://www.help99.co/ 69th Sniffing Brigade (YouTube) - https://www.youtube.com/@69thSniffingBrigade 69th Sniffing Brigade (Instagram) - https://www.instagram.com/69thsniffingbrigade/ The 30th convoy (Stef's second time) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQIaSHKRAtI& Stef's Instagram - ttps://www.instagram.com/the_modern_engineer/ NAFO 2.0 Truck - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nso3YKbdp4M NAFO Casevac - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJXHov1cXDQ NAFO Drone Bus Example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLUFbtut6Z4 Want to support this podcast? Sign up to Nebula and get every episode early (with an RSS feed, too!) - https://nebula.tv/agenda Not Just Bikes: https://nebula.tv/notjustbikes Build the Lanes: https://youtube.com/@buildthelanes See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
• The Sociology of Car-Brained Planning (with We're in Hell) 14.03.2025 56min

  Sam from the YouTube channel "We're in Hell" normally makes video essays about sociology, but he recently went down the urban planning rabbit hole after Doug Ford threatened to take away his bike lanes.
• When Transit isn't Built to be Transit (with RMTransit) 24.01.2025 47min

  In an attempt to copy of the success of Portland, several US cities kicked off streetcar projects. But are they actually good transit?
• Los Angeles Deserves Better (with Ellory Smith) 27.12.2024 39min

  Los Angeles is (in)famous for its car-dependent sprawl, but there are pockets of good urbanism, and there are people working hard to build more of them.
• The Insanity of Canadian Housing Prices (with Mike Moffatt) 11.10.2024 52min

  Canada's housing crisis is one of the worst in the world. But why? In this episode I talk to Mike Moffatt, Canadian economist and housing expert.
• Trams are Great so why are Toronto Streetcars so Terrible!? (with RM Transit) 20.09.2024 1h 7min

  Trams are great. They create and enable some of the best urbanism around. And yet the streetcars in Toronto are slow and unreliable and painful to take. What is Toronto doing wrong, and what could other "streetcar" cities learn from their mistakes?
• What to do When Your City Won't Fix Things (with Bike Curious) 09.08.2024 47min

  What should you do when your city won't fix things, even after years of advocacy? The answer might be guerrilla urbanism, aka tactical urbanism.
• NYC REALLY Screwed Up Congestion Pricing (with Doug Gordon) 12.07.2024 50min

  New York City was about to roll out congestion charging. The cameras were up, the staff were hired, the metro projects were financed, and thousands of people were lined up to make public transit better ... and then the governor cancelled it on vibes.
• All Trains Need Level Boarding (with Gareth Dennis) 14.06.2024 42min

  Level boarding is simple enough: the floor of the train should be level with the platform. But it's not very common, is it? Why? And what can we do about it?
• Some Business Owners REALLY Hate Bike Lanes (with Bike Curious) 10.05.2024 49min

  When a bike lane was installed on Valencia Street in San Francisco, one business owner hated it so much he went on a hunger strike. Bike lanes are almost universally positive for business, so why do some business owners hate them so much?