The Kathleen Sessions

The Kathleen Sessions


374. Kurt Paulsen: Urban Planning and Defying Placelessness

January 01, 2023

Kurt Paulsen is a Professor of Urban Planning in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.



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TIME STAMPS:

1:44 What makes a city great?


6:50 Urban Planning Definition


10:40 Los Angeles as case study


13:25 Cities born out of transportation


14:48 Accommodating the car, ceding control of the streets to the engineers


18:46 Growing up versus out


19:50 The American city has made driving cheap and housing expensive


23:10 Zoning tension


31:17 Soulless


24:21 Small town vitality


34:25 The nationalization of retail


36:05 State DOTs


36:28 We can stop doing stupid


39:04 The impact on humanity, the human experience


43:00 The public realm


46:36 The case for poetry


47:33 Learning what gets built and why


52:13 Breaking out of the scripts