Going to CNU 22? What should you see? What is Kristen looking forward to? Learn the answers to both of those questions on this week’s episode. Plus, Kristen asks newly minted National Association of Railroad Passengers(NARP) Council Member Malcolm Kenton What’s Your [His] Place?
Show Notes
CNU 22 Official Conference Page
What Kristen’s looking forward to seeing at CNU.
National Association of Railroad Passengers homepage.
https://soundcloud.com/kristen-jeffers/01-the-black-urbanist-radio-show-episode-1-on-retail
Welcome again to another podcast episode! This week focuses on the changing nature of retail.
If you are just joining us on the podcast and haven’t been able to read all the posts I reference here they are below:
The Walkability Paradox (the post about North Hills).
Smaller Retail for a Smaller Buying and Consuming Era.
Does it Matter Who Owns the Corner Store?
Mails and Main Streets–Two Sides of the Same Coin
The Department Store of the Amazon and New Urbanist Era
Putting Place and Experience Back Into Retail
I also mentioned Groceteria- http://www.groceteria.com for context on retail history in Greensboro and across the Southeast.
The History of Belk book, which is older, but also helpful as a reference for those companies. I also mentioned the Target wiki page.
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A few months back I’d come across this video by Gracen Johnson, a Canadian going against the grain of what many say young people are doing, moving to the big city to get ahead. She willingly, with her partner, moved across Canada to a small city. Since then, she’s developed a lovely videoblog that I’m looking forward to digging into this weekend. For this week’s edition of Video Friday, I’m enclosing a link to her first video. Click on the picture below and learn more about what inspired her journey and what continues to inspire her work today.
So last Thursday I promised audio when I’m not podcasting and podcasting when I am. So here’s what I’m calling my preview episode of my second round of podcasting. This time, we’re calling ourselves The Black Urbanist Radio Show and we have at least two and possibly more features that you are going to love to share and hear. Plus, we will be coming to iTunes and Stitcher in the coming weeks, but for now, follow me through SoundCloud just like before or click the play button below:
https://soundcloud.com/kristen-jeffers/the-black-urbanist-preview-episode
For those of you who need references to the posts discussed in TL:DR, here are direct links to my posts on DIY sprawl repair, holding leaders accountable for sprawl and for the powers to be to allow people to gentrify/develop/grow in place on their own. Oh and words. Lots of words.
Also, be patient with me as I work out sound quality, audio transitions and pronouncing things right. I’m excited to crank this back up again and I hope you will enjoy and share far and wide.
Welcome to #VideoFriday. Here at The Black Urbanist and across our other platforms, we will either highlight a great video on placemaking or début one of our own videos, much like we do now on #AudioThursdays. I want to start this series by showing the video below, a very cute and light way to highlight not only working as a community and a team, but the idea of traveling in a group, say on the bus, train or walking together Have a great weekend everyone!
Thursdays at The Black Urbanist are now audio days, where either I share great audio on placemaking topics, or I podcast. In lieu of me podcasting this week, I wanted to share my visit to Andy Boenau’s Urbanism Speakeasy, one of the fun podcasts in our neck of the woods. I talked about why I started The Black Urbanist, as well as several of the theories I’ve presented over the years on the blog. Head here to take a listen.