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Episode 600: The Value of Cities

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This week on the Talking Headways podcast we're heading to Austin Texas for the Movability Summit put on by Movability Austin. I'm presenting the keynote speech that I shared at the conference discussing how cities and the proximity of people to one another create long term value, and how auto dependent monocultures impact household budgets by extracting wealth. 

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