03 / Car calculus, landscape architecture, and TikTok / with creator Paul Stout

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/