Key to the City with Sara Bronin

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4.9 • 937 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Zoning is an invisible force that dictates how and where we can build housing, offices, factories, parks and more. It dictates how we access such places and can reinforce car dependency, often in ways that burden the communities that can least afford it, reinforce segregation, and exacerbate climate change and other environmental harms.

In her new book, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes our World, author Sara Bronin argues that zoning does not have to lead to negative outcomes, and that if we understand its power, we can use zoning to build the kinds of communities everyone deserves. Bronin dives into the history of zoning and tells the stories of the many activists and planners in cities such as Hartford, Baltimore and Minneapolis who have learned to harness zoning for good.

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This episode was edited by Ali Lemer. It was recorded by Josh Wilcox at the Brooklyn Podcasting Studio. Transcriptions are by Russell Gragg. Our theme music is by Nathaniel Goodyear.

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0:00.0	Our communities have for far too long been designed around the car and a good zoning code would instead think about designing around people.
0:13.2	This is the war on cars.
0:17.8	I'm Sarah Goodyear and I'm here with my co-hostsack and Doug Gordon.
0:22.6	Hey, what's up?
0:23.6	Hey, how's it going?
0:24.7	Good, how's things with you?
0:26.4	You know, just enjoying our dense, walkable, mixed-use neighborhood,
0:30.8	all enabled by zoning.
0:32.6	Yeah, just thinking about how nicely it's zoned here.
0:35.0	Oh, very good zoning.
0:36.3	The zoning is beautiful this morning.
0:38.1	You know, I moved into this neighborhood thinking,
0:40.1	who wrote the zoning code?
0:41.4	It is perfect.
0:42.4	We're going to get to that. We'll talk
0:44.2	about zoning much more. But first... Just want to remind folks that this
0:49.5	podcast is possible because of your support so please pitch in via
0:54.6	Patreon just go to our website the war on cars.org click support us
0:59.2	consider kicking in a few bucks we will send you stickers and other goodies in addition to a personal note.
1:08.2	So zoning is an invisible force that shapes the world around us. It determines the kind of housing
1:15.8	we can build, where we can build it, it dictates where factories, offices, and shops can be located as well as restaurants, bars,
1:25.4	parks, sports stadiums, you name it.
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