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Episode 101: Mondays at The Overhead Wire - Auto Nostalgia and the Oil Crisis

Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
Episode • Dec 7, 2021 • 59m

This episode of Mondays we're joined by Gabrielle Esperdy, a professor of architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and a contributing writer for Places. This episode was produced in partnership with Places Journal.

Gabrielle discusses her piece 'Twilight of Autopia' in Places, which includes a deep dive into nostalgia, thoughts on the word sprawl, and the ultimate cultural impact of the 1970s oil crisis.