We have a fantastic interview with journalist and Los Angeles tenant organizer Tracy Rosenthal. Tracy and fellow LA Tenants Union founder, Leonardo Vilchis, have a new book out titled Abolish Rent. Abolish Rent is an inc...

Rynn interviews Monte D. Monteleagre, one half of Wolf Mountain Workshop and creator of the audio play The City Unending. We talk about how surreal cities reflect the actual cities we inhabit, what it means to be called to do something...

So I actually got an episode out this month despite saying I wouldn't. Aren't you lucky? This is the second episode in our Catherine Bauer series, covering the first part of her seminal book, Modern Housing. Enjoy learning about her ideas and t...

 We've got Justin Comer from Rock Hard Caucus podcast on to talk all things Iowa - namely the Davenport building collapse that happened a year ago. We finish off with Josh asking Justin and I some questions about Iowa since he has yet to g...

We go long in this episode to talk about a fantastic piece by Tracy Rosenthal in The New Republic about the Supreme Court case that could upend how unhoused people are policed in the US. We follow that with the story of a small town Minnesota m...

The teaser for the Patron-exclusive April bonus episode. In this episode we start with a conversation about Josh's most recent YouTube video on the Transactive Theory of planning before digging in to an Atlantic article about the dual role hous...

In the first new audio essay of the year, we look at the life of Catherine Bauer, housing activist and author of a seminal 20th century piece of housing literature, Modern Housing. We focus on her life leading up to her writing of the ...

New segment where we talk a bit about a city neither of us has been to in the most recent bonus episode! $5 patrons can help pick the city for each episode :)

I've decided to unlock the first ever Zoned Out bonus episode, a review of Garrett Hardin's 1968 essay The Tragedy of the Commons. Enjoy!

In this episode we look at the American Planning Association's 2024 Trend Report for Planners. We look at their housi...

It's Part 1 of the Zoned Out Season 2 Double Feature Picture Show! Here we read an article from Bloomberg about how Minneapolis has tamed housing inflation and discuss the limitations of mainstream reporting on the housing crisis.Part 2...

In this episode I am delighted to have David Cobb, Advancement Manager for the Dishgamu-Humboldt Community Land Trust, as a guest. In this great interview not only do we talk about this incredible CLT project, but we also talk about left moveme...

This episode is an introduction to community land trusts. We talk about their history, how they work, and their benefits/limitations. If you want to find a CLT near you, check out this

Teaser for the Patron-only wrap-up to our queer geography series.Subscribe to the Patreon for $2 per month!The podcast Insta...

This is the final public episode of the queer geography series! We look at three essays about queer life, activism, and politics in Beirut, Lebanon. Thank you so much to the activists, academics, and writers who shared their experience...

This episode we are joined by Tam Guy, PhD. candidate at University of California Los Angeles in urban planning. We have a fantastic conversation about queer cities, the intersections of green infrastructure and house, and their study surveying...

This episode we dig into queer geography! A couple notes about this episode:Some of the topics in this episode may be emotionally challenging or triggering. Specific content warnings are in the episode, but just be kind to yourself ...

This a teaser for the final episode in the Patreon-exclusive series on Fordlandia, Henry Ford's city in the Amazon.Subscribe to the Patreon for $2 per month!The podcast

In this episode, I (Rynn, the host of this operation) get interviewed by Stephen Wallace of the Annapolis, Maryland Sunrise Movement chapter. It's a great conversation covering all the big ideas we like to talk about here: how capitalism makes ...

This episode was originally uploaded with multiple typos, so I'm reuploading it because why not.This is an extended teaser for the second installment in the Patreon bonus series on Fordlandia. Enjoy!

Unlocking this Patreon-exclusive episode so you don't go too long without an episode :)This episode is the first of a series on Fordlandia, the rubber town Henry Ford tried to build in the Brazilian Amazon. In this episode, we look at He...

The original plan for October's episode fell through, so it's a shorter one than usual. This episode jumps around from a little analysis of the biggest tech deal made in Miami in 2020, to a brief introduction to mortgage backed securities, to a...