Welcome to Plan to Talk. The Carolina Planning podcast at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I'm your host Udo Reisinger, Carolina Planning's Information Specialist. Located in the booming Research Triangle, Carolina Planning is an epicenter of collaboration and innovation in the economic housing community development, transportation, land use, and environmental planning fields that shape our cities. Carolina Planning is one of the most established and well respected planning programs in the country. Our faculty members, world class scholars leading cutting-edge research, are redefining the field of planning. Our student body brings diverse skills and international experiences to the classroom, where the low student to faculty ratio allows for high levels of engagement and collaboration.

Our 2,000 plus member alumni network is out in the field helping communities across the globe and influencing the future of our cities.

In this episode, we talk with former DCRP faculty member, and now Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Director of the Institute for Sustainable Communities at Texas A&M. .  They researched together, they wrote together, Dr. Berke describes their time together and some of the important lessons he learned from Dave Godschalk.

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Episode 1: Phil Berke rememebers David Godschalk. Colleagues and friends for decades

Welcome to Plan to Talk. The Carolina Planning podcast at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I'm your host Udo Reisinger, Carolina Planning's Information Specialist. Located in the booming Research Triangle, Carolina Planning is an epicenter of collaboration and innovation in the economic housing community development, transportation, land use, and environmental planning fields that shape our cities. Carolina Planning is one of the most established and well respected planning programs in the country. Our faculty members, world class scholars leading cutting-edge research, are redefining the field of planning. Our student body brings diverse skills and international experiences to the classroom, where the low student to faculty ratio allows for high levels of engagement and collaboration.

Our 2,000 plus member alumni network is out in the field helping communities across the globe and influencing the future of our cities.

In this episode with speak with Dr. Todd BenDor.

Todd BenDor, Carolina Planning Professor and Director of the Ph.D. program, studies the intersection of urban and regional growth and efforts to mitigate impacts to sensitive ecosystems, and he teaches courses in watershed planning, impact assessment, and system dynamics modeling. We ask him how he got into planning, what projects he’s currently working on and how he brings his research into the classroom.

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Episode 2: Bringing the latest research to class with Professor Todd BenDor

Welcome to Plan to Talk. The Carolina Planning podcast at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I'm your host Udo Reisinger, Carolina Planning's Information Specialist. Located in the booming Research Triangle, Carolina Planning is an epicenter of collaboration and innovation in the economic housing community development, transportation, land use, and environmental planning fields that shape our cities. Carolina Planning is one of the most established and well respected planning programs in the country. Our faculty members, world class scholars leading cutting-edge research, are redefining the field of planning. Our student body brings diverse skills and international experiences to the classroom, where the low student to faculty ratio allows for high levels of engagement and collaboration.

Our 2,000 plus member alumni network is out in the field helping communities across the globe and influencing the future of our cities.

In this episode with speak with Dr. Roberto Quercia.

Dr. Quercia is an affordable housing expert who has published numerous articles in the economics and financing of housing. Primarily on the topics of low income home ownership, affordable lending, and the assessment of lending risks. Dr. Quercia is a Trudier Harris Distinguished Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning.

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Episode 3:  Professor Roberto Quercia discusses home ownership education and counseling

Welcome to Plan to Talk. Carolina planning podcast at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I'm your host Udo Reisinger, Carolina planning information specialist. Located in the booming Research Triangle. Carolina planning is an epicenter of collaboration and innovation in the economic housing community development, transportation, land use, and environmental planning fields that shape our cities. Carolina Planning is one of the most established and well respected planning programs in the country. Our faculty members, world class scholars leading cutting edge research are redefining the field of planning. Our student body brings diverse skills and international experiences to the classroom where the low student to faculty ratio allows for high levels of engagement and collaboration.

Our 2,000 plus member alumni network is out in the field helping communities across the globe and influencing the future of our cities.

We talk with Carolina Planning’s Allie Thomas, Associate Professor in Transportation Planning.  As a new faculty member, we ask her what attracted her to Carolina Planning, how she’s settled in the the department and learn more about how the South has defined her research agenda.  The field of transportation planning is undergoing dramatic changes, listen to the podcast to learn more about the fresh perspective Dr. Thomas brings to Carolina Planning.

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Episode 4: How “best practices” in transportation travel the globe and where they land

We talk with Nikhil Kaza, Associate Professor, Land Use and Environmental Planning.  Dr. Kaza works at the intersection of urbanization patterns, local energy policy, and equity. He takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying how institutional innovations help or hinder cities, and the differential impacts felt by various groups. We ask him how he got into planning, what projects he’s currently working on and how he brings his research into the classroom.

Episode 5: We learn about energy planning

Part of the series “Viewpoints on Resilient and Equitable Responses to the Pandemic” from the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing people around the world to question how this virus will affect the many public and private systems that we all use. We hope this collection of viewpoints will elevate the visibility of creative state and local solutions to the underlying equity and resilience challenges that COVID-19 is highlighting and exacerbating. To do this we have asked experts at UNC to discuss effective and equitable responses to the pandemic on subjects ranging from low-wage hospitality work, retooling manufacturing processes, supply chain complications, housing, transportation, the environment, and food security, among others.

Hannah Gill is an anthropologist and oral historian with a specialization in Latin American and Caribbean migration studies. She is an associate director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas at UNC-Chapel Hill and author of the book "The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina: New Roots in the Old North State." She'll talk about the roles of immigrants in our labor force, particularly those considered essential workers.

Viewpoints on Resilient & Equitable Responses to the Pandemic. Hannah Gill: Immigrant Workers

Created in 1957, the Center for Urban and Regional Studies is one of the oldest university-based research centers of its kind. The Center’s mission is to promote and support within UNC-Chapel Hill, high-quality basic and applied research on urban, regional and rural planning and policy issues.

Viewpoints on Resilient & Equitable Responses to the Pandemic. Hannah Gill: Immigrant Workers

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