The War on Cars

EPISODE 94: Walking the Walk with Jonathon Stalls

Added 2022-11-01 11:02:04 +0000 UTC

Hey, Patreon supporters! This week you'll hear my talk with Jonathon Stalls, the author of a new book called Walk: Slow Down, Wake Up, and Connect at 1-3 Miles per Hour.

It was a chance for me to totally geek out on one of my favorite subjects: why we need to reclaim our streets from cars and make them safe for human bodies and human interactions. Jonathon (like me!) believes that walking can help to heal our relationship with each other and the planet.

As he puts it, when he walks, "I can be a little more clear in my mind, in my heart. So I'm not suppressing everything all the time. It's going to help me show up more spacious, more open, more relational to the voices and stories of people who are different than me."

Enjoy the conversation!

—Sarah

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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.

LINKS:

Visit Jonathon's website to connect with him on social media and find out more about the work that he does.

Buy Walk and books by other podcast guests at Bookshop.org.

This episode is sponsored by the ModeShift podcast from PostScript media, and by Cleverhood.

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This episode was produced, recorded and edited by Sarah Goodyear. Our theme music is by Nathaniel Goodyear. Our logo is by Dani Finkel of Crucial D Designs.

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