Care & Feeding | Your City Could Be Better For Parents

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🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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On this episode: Zak, Elizabeth and Lucy chat with Diana Lind, an urban policy expert and writer, about her thoughts on parent-friendly cities. We’ll talk about ways that cities do – and could – make housing, third places, transportation, and more work better for more families. And if you stick around for the Slate Plus Playground, Diana hangs out for a conversation about why kid activities have to be so. boring. for. adults. If you’re not part of the Slate Plus community, we hope you’ll consider joining! Keep reading to learn how. Join us on Facebook and email us at [email protected] to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get to hang out with us on the Plus Playground every week for a whole additional grab-bag of content — and you’ll get an ad-free experience across the network. And you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Care and Feeding. Sign up now at slate.com/careplus – or try it out on Apple Podcasts. Podcast produced by Maura Currie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.6	Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise the next generation together.
1:08.2	I'm Elizabeth Newkamp.
1:10.4	I write the family travel blog Dutch Dutch goose.
1:11.5	I'm the mom to Henry who's 13, Oliver who's 11, and Teddy who's 8. We live in Tokyo, Japan. I'm Zach Rosen. I make
1:18.0	another podcast. It's called The Best Advice Show, and I am dad to Ami, who's four, and Noah, who's
1:23.5	seven. At the moment, we live in Amsterdam. I'm Lucy Lopez. I have another podcast,
1:30.0	the Mamasita Rica. I'm mother to Amelia who's 15, Avery who's 12, and we live in Miami.
1:36.1	Today on the show, we're talking about livable cities, and specifically, what makes the city
1:40.3	a great place to be apparent? Our guest is an expert in urban policy, and as you'll hear,
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