Aaron Renn Podcast

I joined Josh Fenton of GoLocalLive to talk about the affects of coronavirus on business, work life, and state and local budges. We also talk about the possible road ahead.

Risk Adamski of Ash+Lime joins me to talk about urbanism in Dallas. We discuss the state of urbanism in the city, the nature of the "Dallas way" of urbanism, and also a bit about the city's little known Fair Park (home to a World's Fair in the 1930s), as well as creative redevelopment of aging suburban retail centers in the area.

Jerome Horne of IndyGo, the Indianapolis transit agency, joins me to talk about the city's new Bus Rapid Transit network now under construction, as well as its new fare payment system and overall bus network redesign. This collection of changes represents a quantum leap in transit service for a city traditionally lacking it.

Sacha Haselmayer of CityMart(https://www.citymart.com/) joins me to discuss how government can reinvent procurement into an innovation engine for government transformation - and significant significant improvements to supplier diversity at the same time.

Nicole Gelinas, Seth Barron and I discuss recent events in Chicago and New York in this edition of the City Journal 10 Blocks podcast. We review the recent mayoral election in the Windy City and the passage of a new flawed congestion pricing law in New York.

Tyler VanderWeele, director of Harvard's Human Flourishing Project, joins me to discuss their work, including what human flourishing is, the state of society today, what factors produce a more flourishing life, and how we can individual can maximize our chances of finding it.

A reprise of a talk I gave at the University of Chicago on the history of the city, it's long list of present day strengths, it's problems and challenges, and its key to-dos going forward.