Episode 108: West Side Elevated Highway

Episode 108: West Side Elevated Highway

truck go vroom *thump* (bonus episode is late, will be arriving next week, i'm sorry - roz)

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Some sources: Konvitz, J. W. (1989). William J. Wilgus and Engineering Projects to Improve the Port of New York, 1900-1930. Technology and Culture, 30(2), 398. doi:10.2307/3105110 https://forgotten-ny.com/2001/06/millers-crossing-the-west-side-elevated-highway/ https://www.nyc-architecture.com/GON/GON020.htm Caro, Robert (1974). The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Knopf. ISBN 978-0-394-48076-3. OCLC 834874.

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Episode 6: MS Estonia

Episode 6: MS Estonia

Today, @donoteat01, @aliceavizandum, and @oldmananders0n head to the Baltic Sea to learn about Ro-Ro ferries, and the deadliest accident in European waters. And we make some jokes too! Slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eMfv1i3eFk Here's that Atlantic article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/05/a-sea-story/302940/ Listen to Trashfuture, also on Podbean: https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/ Here's the Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/wtyppod

13 Marras 201954min

Episode 5: The Politics of Traffic Engineering

Episode 5: The Politics of Traffic Engineering

In this episode we (@aliceavizandum, @donoteat1, @oldmananders0n, and guest @DA_banks) critically examine the whole field of traffic engineering, and how efforts to make streets and highways safer and more functional have achieved directly the opposite. also we talk about digging a hole to combat sea level rise Slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oq0u2i4iHc Check out David's podcast: https://ironweeds.podbean.com/ and his work at Real Life Magainze: https://reallifemag.com/ and also Trashfuture: https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/

13 Marras 20191h 36min

Episode 4: Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse

Episode 4: Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse

Today @aliceavizandum, @donoteat1, @oldmananders0n, and special guest Kate Wagner from McMansion Hell discuss the 1981 Kansas City Hyatt Regency walkway collapse. Slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw2t0MOGnVc And we also talk about other things, including Estonian Ferries! Rem Koolhaas! Planes! Drinking on Planes! 11foot8! Vinyl siding! TERFs! go to kate's website and read it https://mcmansionhell.com/ she also has a patreon! https://www.patreon.com/mcmansionhell oh right listen to Trashfuture, it's good, folks https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/

13 Marras 201947min

Episode 3: SEPTA Regional Rail Meltdown 1979-1992

Episode 3: SEPTA Regional Rail Meltdown 1979-1992

Featuring the one and only American Pacer! Slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkWxbAoOK2o Today @aliceavizandum, @donoteat1, and @Landerson112358 talk about how what could have been the greatest public transit improvement in American history was completely bungled, due to mismanagement, lack of foresight, and union-busting.

13 Marras 201947min

Episode 2: Sampoong Department Store

Episode 2: Sampoong Department Store

Welcome to the second episode of our patented podcast-with-slides. Today @aliceavizandum, @donoteat1, and @Landerson112358 talk about the 1995 Sampoong Department Store collapse and the events leading up to it, and also talk about the Olympics. Slides located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9SETplgPYc

13 Marras 201935min

Episode 1: The Silver Bridge Disaster

Episode 1: The Silver Bridge Disaster

So @AliceAvizandum and I (@donoteat1) are trying to do an engineering disasters podcast, but with slides, because like, engineering is visual. mothman (Slides located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TOS68qWHhw)

13 Marras 201939min