Hello and welcome to the political orphanage. I'm your host Andrew Heaton.

Today we're going to talk to an urban designer about how to gussy up your city, add trees, slim down its waistline, color coordinate,

all those good things with none other than Dave Amos, the host of City Beautiful, which is a delightful YouTube channel on urban design

and a pretty popular one as well. He was something of a get.

But first, the political orphanage is funded by its very own patrons via Patreon.

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We're on day four of City Week and I want to ask you an honest question.

Imagine in an alternate universe instead of listening to this show, the political orphanage, you instead attended the first week of urban planning and design or public policy at a prestigious university.

You sat in the classes, you learned the basics, you listened to guest speakers, you did the reading.

How much more do you think you'd learn from that, from an accredited university program,

compared to what you've learned this week? a you have never taken let alone taught any classes in urban planning or public policy

at a prestigious university may well be that this really sucks in comparison but I would

like to think that by the end of this week you're kind of getting an entire

semester's worth of condensed know-how and entertainment via this program. If you

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I am joined today by Dave Amos he is assistant professor in the Department of City

and Regional Planning at Cal Poly San

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