Walking the Walk with Jonathon Stalls
The War on Cars
The War on Cars, LLC
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Jonathon Stalls doesn't approach the streetscape as a planner or as a journalist or as a politician. He approaches it — and this is his term — as a "walking artist." Jonathan is the Denver-based author of a new book called Walk: Slow Down, Wake Up, and Connect at 1-3 Miles per Hour. For years, he has been leading urban walking excursions that have included planners and elected officials, inviting them to feel for themselves what it's like to walk the car-centric streets of the communities they serve. Sarah spoke with Jonathon about his book, his Pedestrian Dignity project, which connects with people around the country on social media platforms, and about a shared passion for helping others explore the world outside the confines of the metal boxes known as cars.
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| 0:00.0 | We are excited to introduce you to a new podcasting ally in the war on cars. |
| 0:09.8 | Mode Shift is an audio series that explores the past, present, and future of how we move. |
| 0:16.1 | Hosted by Andre Greenewalt and Tiffany Chu, Mode Shift digs deep into the question of how |
| 0:21.6 | to build a new transportation framework that cuts |
| 0:24.9 | dependence on personal cars and creates more options for everyone. |
| 0:29.7 | Tiffany and Andre do a great job of blending storytelling, history, policy, and interviews with |
| 0:36.7 | excellent guests like Tiffany's very own boss, Michelle Wu, the mayor of Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 0:43.7 | They're doing some of the best transportation reform work in America right now. |
| 0:48.4 | Mode Shift is also beautifully produced and easy on the ears, and if you enjoy the war on cars then we highly |
| 0:54.4 | recommend giving it a listen. Find and follow Mode Shift on Apple Podcasts |
| 0:59.7 | Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. We will include a link to Mode Shift in our show notes as well. |
| 1:07.0 | Yaw, pause. Take a deep breath. We are fragile, human bodies, our arms, our limbs are imperfect. |
| 1:20.8 | We're not promised anything. Here we are moving through these landscapes. |
| 1:24.4 | Feel how harsh it is. |
| 1:26.6 | Feel it. And to be in a humble place too, I'm always trying. Sometimes my anger, |
| 1:32.0 | my anger and screaming in the void gets the best of me but I'm always trying to come back to this is not me attacking anyone of you this is inviting all of us into the raw and honest harm that we are all a part of. Hello and welcome to the War on Cars. I'm Sarah Goodyear. The voice you just |
| 2:00.2 | heard belongs to Jonathan Stalls. Jonathan is the author of a new book |
| 2:04.5 | called Walk. Slow down, wake up, and connect at one to three miles per hour. It's a |
| 2:10.7 | subject that he is researched with his own body. |
| 2:14.0 | You see, Jonathan is a little different from a lot of the people we interview for this show. |
| 2:18.0 | He doesn't approach the streetscape as a planner or as a journalist or as a politician. He approaches it and this is his term as a walking artist. |
| 2:29.7 | What does that mean? Well from his base in the Denver area, |
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