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Date Title & Description Contributors
2023-06-21

  The Future of Gas Stations

Just in time for your summer road trip, we're talking about gas stations and their uncertain future as the world moves towards electric cars. Will they adapt to electrification or become relics operating on the fringes of society? And what will become ...
  Amanda King author
2023-02-07

  Cop City

On this episode, we·re discussing the 85-acre, $90M+ planned urban development located at the edges of Atlanta known as Cop City. We talk about the significance of the land it is being planned on, how it upends some VERY RECENT urban plans sponsored by...
  Amanda King author
2022-11-10

  Geography of Breakfast

Mmmmm. The geography just doesn't get much more casual than this, folks. This episode is all about the geography of breakfast. And I, for one, could go for an extra side of casual this week. Where did the concept of the American breakfast even come fro...
2022-03-17

  Pirate Radio

On this episode, we dive into the pirates and the guerillas of radio and how they have used the spaces available to them - be it ships or public housing units - to find and create communities big and small around the radio dial.
2021-03-11

  Geography of Vaccination

The geography and politics of administering vaccine rollouts have always needed to be masterminded to be successful. With the current COVID-19 vaccine campaign underway, we discuss the geography of past and current inoculations efforts and what made th...
  Amanda King author
2019-06-13

  Geography of Belonging

Perhaps the biggest goal of urban planning and community development is creating a sense of place - a sense of belonging. But defining “belonging” can be tricky, and sometimes we’re better at defining what we avoid. On this episode, we discuss the sub...
  Amanda King author
2019-05-09

  Tactical Urbanism, Interview with Roger Cummings

Tactical Urbanism refers to projects done without permission from the local government or with any formal planning – it is DIY, low cost, and temporary. Tactical Urbanism is a tool anyone can use to get the public to pay attention to something the comm...
  Amanda King author
2019-04-18

  Local Control

We often think of our cities and towns as their own entities in control of what they do, and for a good part history they have been. On this episode, we're going to look at how emerging tensions with states and the erosion of Local Control has been pla...
  Amanda King author
2019-04-04

  Secret Tunnels

There are countless miles of hidden tunnels under our feet that we don't really think about. In this episode of Isn't That Spatial, we're going underground to discover the tunnels - from the little-known to the downright mysterious - in our cities and ...
  Amanda King author
2019-03-21

  Vacant Lots

This episode is all about vacant lots - where did they come from and what are we doing with them? We'll explore uses of vacant lots from the perfectly pragmatic to the more... creative.   You can view the Show Notes and related content on our website a...
  Amanda King author