Paul Stout - @TalkingCities on TikTok, prolific creator, future landscape architect, and Culdesac alum - sits down for a chat on all-things content, cities, cars, and crafting practical places for people.

We discuss:

Being THE original TikTok urbanist.
Sharing the Gen-Z perspective on walkable cities at the United Nations this summer.
Introducing hundreds-of-thousands to urban planning and design.
Admiring cars... just not in cities.
Most of your favorite urban planners were landscape architects.
Mexico City's stellar Bus Rapid Transit, and what New York City and others can learn.
A dreamy, simple bike commute in Salzburg, Austria.
The economic arguments against car ownership.
Utrecht's last 20 years of human-centered planning.
The power of precedents in design and rallying support.


Connect with Paul:

On TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talkingcities


Connect with me:

On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bbiehl/


On TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@citiesforpeople


On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradbiehl/