This is part 1 of my Charles Graves interview, author of newly-published book, The Genealogy of Cities. We ended talking for almost 2 hours, so this is part one of the discussion where we discuss the following:

• The Genealogy of Cities
• Colin Rowe
• Collage City
• The Interactive Nolli Map
• Typologies
• Figure-ground & Herbert Muschamp
• Florentine New Towns: Urban Design in the Late Middle Ages (Architectural History Foundation Book) & Pianta di Palmanova
• Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
• Cartography?
• Forma Urbis Romae by Rodolfo Lanciani

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This is a bit of a rant, so please bear with me; in this episode I discuss the my patriotic duty of paying taxes and those infamous Tea Parties. Here is more information about the faux-grassroots tea parties.
If you don’t like politics, feel free to listen to other podcast episodes. I’m putting together some really interesting people coming up with an interview with a cartographer and professor.
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In this episode, I talk shop with my good friend Jeff Lustig about a whole range of issues:

• Introduction
• Schooling
• Urban Farming
• LEED and Urban Farming
• Williamsburg’s Community Sponsored Agriculture
• Liberal Guilt and Return to Agrarian Lifestyle?
• Living on Elizabeth Street (See more about Moe the Butcher and photos of the butcher shop)
• Restaurants and Eating in the City

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Photo Credits:

• Porter House photo by roryrory
• Hotel Gansevoort photo by Ludovic Bertron
• Park Slope Food Co-Op photo by Joel Zimmer

In this episode I talk transit with writer Benjamin Kabak of Second Avenue Sagas. We discuss the current funding woes of the MTA, the current status of the Second Avenue Subway, transit alternatives, politics of transit and home rule.
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In this episode I find a two year old interview with a street busker in Nashville, TN named Klayton Emmelli who hasn’t had the easiest of lives. During my interview he tells me about a life changing event and I fail to follow up.
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In this episode I interview musician, designer and publisher Joshua Wentz of Sidedown.com – we talk about design history and style, the University of Cincinnati, Joshua’s Music, publishing a monograph, freelancing, Comic Sans, RPM Jukebox portal, and not watching the Television. The music which accompanies this podcast is by Joshua and is available (for free!) .
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In this podcast, I present five songs which represent New York City to me. What are your songs?
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Please listen to my second podcast which I talk about:

1. Pi Day
2. Pantone 186
3. Chicago Municipal Flag
4. MTA Funding Politics
5. Architect’s Employment Problems

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As always, comments are appreciated.

Table of Contents:

1. Welcome
2. Unemployed Architects
3. Ten Canonical Buildings: 1950-2000
4. Sun K. Kwak Enfolding 280 Hours Installation
5. Philip Johnson’s Roofless Church
6. A Plea

I don’t know where this is going, but here is my first podcast. At some point if we do a second podcast, I’ll hook this up to iTunes. You can download the podcast: Smogr Alert 01 – Prologue or listen via the flash player below:
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