Who's tending your city?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about how people are caring for their communities. This year's winners of the Flyaway Productions 10 Women Campaign are being honored for changing and improving classrooms, the media, bike lanes, health services, and local policies. How are members of your community engaged in the making the city a better place to live? Join us at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Who's making a difference in your area? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and You.

Guests:
Patsy Montgomery, associate vice president for legislative campaigns with Planned Parenthood Mar Monte
Rene Rivera, executive director of the East Bay Bicycle Coalition
Jo Kreiter, dancer, choreographer and founder of Flyaway Productions

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OCCUPY BAY AREA: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK! As the Occupy Wall Street movement unfolds in the Bay Area, KALW is trying something new. We're using the sound-sharing platform SoundCloud to collect perspectives on the movement from Bay Area residents. Tell us what's happening in your city and what you think about it. Share it with us using your Android, iPhone or iPad and the SoundCloud App. Record yourself, tag your location and include the hash tag #OccupyBayArea in the title. Your story will appear on our Bay Area map with everyone else's! Check out what we've collected so far at www.kalw.org!

How must cities adapt as the average age of citizens increases?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about what it's like to age in an urban setting and how cities can evolve to embrace older generations, who are living longer. By 2050, 1 in 5 Americans will be seniors. So how can sectors like the job market, urban design, and health care evolve to meet our changing demographic? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are the best ways to integrate elders into daily life in the city? It's Your Call with Holly Kernan and you.

Guests:
Allen Glicksman, Ph.D., Director of Research and Evaluation at the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging

David Bank, vice president of Civic Ventures, a think tank on boomers, work and social purpose

Laura Keyes, Senior Principal Program Specialist in the Aging Division of the Atlanta Regional Commission

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What's the value of local redevelopment agencies?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about how redevelopment agencies work and whether they should be saved. Governor Jerry Brown's proposal would eliminate funds for redevelopment agencies which are responsible for improving blighted areas. The plan would take billions of dollars out of city coffers and send it to school districts, counties, and the state. So what's at stake if we lose these agencies? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's an example of urban redevelopment you've seen? How did it change the neighborhood? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Jean Quan, mayor of Oakland

Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of SPUR

Richard Walker, professor of Geography and co-director of Global Metropolitan Studies at UC Berkeley

Amy Neches, manager of project area planning and development for the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency

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How do roads and buildings reflect our values?

How do the physical places and structures around us reflect our society's values? On the next Your Call we'll have a conversation with historian Gray Brechin about the past, present, and future of common goods and services in California and nationwide. What does the health of our physical infrastructures like water systems, highways, and bridges say about our society and its values? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. And what will it take to improve our parks, libraries, and schools? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Gray Brechin, historical geographer and author; project scholar of California's Living New Deal Project with U.C. Berkeley Department of Geography

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Is it time to put our streets on a diet?

On the next Your Call: how projects that are re-thinking street design not only make them safer for bikes and pedestrians, but can also have a significant positive impact on the local economy. Can rethinking our streets help make our communities better places to live? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Is there a street near you that's been narrowed, calmed, or shut down to traffic altogether? What stands in the way of changing our streets? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Dan Burden, founder of Walkable and Livable Communities Institute, Inc.

Brian Ulaszewski, project design director for Studio 111

Kit Hodge, SF Great Streets campaign coordinator for SF Bicycle Coalition

Andrea Aiello, executive director of the Castro Community Benefits District

Kevin Carroll, executive director of the Fisherman's Wharf Community Benefit District

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What Will America Look Like in 2050?

Urban or suburban, what will the U.S. look like in forty years? On the next Your Call we'll be joined by Joel Kotkin, author of the new book The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050. Kotkin celebrates a vision of the country that looks increasingly more like the suburbs of Los Angeles and less like San Francisco or New York. He argues that significant increases in population and sprawling development will make America, "the most affluent, culturally rich, and successful nation in human history." Where do you see yourself living over the coming decades -- the city, the country, or somewhere in between?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to Feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's your vision of America in 2050? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Joel Kotkin is a journalist, formerly at the Wall Street Journal and currently at Forbes.com, and a development consultant with The Brookings Institution, The New America Foundation and The Center for an Urban Future. He has authored several books; his most recent is The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050.

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Your Call 081709 What fills the hole where the abandoned Wal-Mart was?

What fills the hole where the abandoned Wal-Mart was? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Julia Christensen, author of Big Box Reuse. Communities across the country are transforming their vacant big box stores into libraries, indoor racetracks, museums, and more. Could the collapse of big box retail in your town have a silver lining?

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What would you transform your city's Big Box store into? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Julia Christensen, author of Big Box Reuse

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Your Call 071609 Can we green the American Dream?

Can we green the American Dream? On the next Your Call we speak with John Wasik, author of The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream. Wasik, a personal finance columnist for Bloomberg, sees the sub-prime mortgage crisis as the first of a wave of problems we'll see as the dream suburb of the 1950's dissolves. Too far away, too expensive, too wasteful. What's next? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. Is freedom and independence possible when you never own your own piece of land? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
John Wasik in northside Chicago
Personal finance columnist for Bloomberg News and the author of several books. His last book, The Merchant of Power, was praised by both Studs Terkel and the New York Times.

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Your Call 070909 Are bicyclists revolutionizing American cities?

Are bicyclists revolutionizing American cities? On the next Your Call we'll speak with political reporter Jeff Mapes about his new book Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities and SF Weekly political writer Matt Smith. San Francisco is about to implement their long delayed bicycle master plan building 34 miles of new bike lanes on city streets and removing hundreds of parking spaces. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. What would it take to get you out of your car and onto a bike? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Matt Smith in San Francisco
Columnist and political reporter for the San Francisco Weekly, and an avid bicyclist.

Jeff Mapes in San Francisco
Senior political reporter for The Oregonian. He has covered Congress, state government, and numerous local, state, and national campaigns. He is also author of the blog, Mapes on Politics and the new book Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities.

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Your Call 070109 What happens when rural and urban collide?

What happens when rural and urban collide? On the next Your Call we'll speak with Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer. Carpenter bought a dilapidated house next to a vacant lot in West Oakland and converted the open space into an urban homestead with chickens, goats, rabbits, pigs, two turkeys named Harold and Maude and a vegetable garden, all in a neighborhood without a supermarket. We'll take your emails at feedback@yourcallradio.org and your questions live at 11 a.m. Could a city really feed itself? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Novella Carpenter in San Francisco
Author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer and proprietor of Ghost Town Farm, an urban farm in West Oakland

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Your Call 111808 Suburban Blight

Will the mortgage crisis finally make us rethink suburbia? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with author, social critic, and blogger James Howard Kunstler. He is out with a new book entitled World Made By Hand. The ongoing financial crisis and foreclosures have forced many people to give up their homes in the suburbs. How will the economic meltdown change our lifestyle? And what will the future hold for the suburbs? It's Your Call with guest host Ben Temchine, and you.

Guest: James Howard Kunstler, social critic, blogger, and author of World Made By Hand

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Your Call 070808 Victory Gardens

Could planting a garden help save the world? On the next Your Call we'll talk about the pleasures and politics of tending and harvesting your own food right here in the center of our cities. We'll discuss the Civic Center Garden project, where volunteers are transforming a patch of city owned dirt and grass into "a living quilt of plants and people." Is growing your own fruits and vegetables something more than just a healthy hobby? Is there a better use for that small patch of land than a nice green lawn? It's locally grown, organic, and practically free on the next Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Willow Rosenthal is the founder of City Slicker Farms

John Bela, Civic Center Victory Garden Coordinator

Dajuana Turner, Summer intern at City Slicker Farms

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Your Call 070108 Is San Francisco a great city for bicycling?

Is San Francisco a great city for bicycling? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about efforts to get people out of their cars and onto a bike. How effective have measures to encourage biking been so far? Does the proposed stop-and-roll law for bikers at red lights and stop signs make it easier to bike in the city, or risk a backlash against cyclists? Do safer streets for bikes inevitably mean it will be harder to drive cars? What sort of changes can city planners make to improve transportation for everyone in our city? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Leah Shahum in San Francisco
Executive Director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

Bert Hill in San Francisco
Chair of the San Francisco Bicycle Advisory Committee

Dave Snyder in San Francisco
Transportation Policy Director at The San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR)

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Your Call 070108 Is San Francisco a great city for bicycling?

Is San Francisco a great city for bicycling? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about efforts to get people out of their cars and onto a bike. How effective have measures to encourage biking been so far? Does the proposed stop-and-roll law for bikers at red lights and stop signs make it easier to bike in the city, or risk a backlash against cyclists? Do safer streets for bikes inevitably mean it will be harder to drive cars? What sort of changes can city planners make to improve transportation for everyone in our city? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Leah Shahum in San Francisco
Executive Director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

Bert Hill in San Francisco
Chair of the San Francisco Bicycle Advisory Committee

Dave Snyder in San Francisco
Transportation Policy Director at The San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR)

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Your Call 062608 The State of Black San Francisco

What happened to San Francisco's black population? On the next Your Call we talk with the organizers of a conference on the "State of Black San Francisco." Africans Americans were 13.5% of the population in 1970 but only half that now -- the biggest percentage decline in any major American city. With the passage of Proposition G, the last truly black neighborhood in the city, Bayview-Hunters Point, is about to undergo a multi-year, multi billion dollar make over. How many African Americans will call San Francisco home when it's done? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Julian Davis in San Francisco
Founder of the Osiris Coalition, organizer of this weekend's community forum on the State of Black San Francisco, Saturday, June 28th from 9 AM to 12 noon at the West Bay Conference Center at 1290 Fillmore Street in San Francisco

Sean Reynolds in San Francisco
Social worker and health educator and co-founder of the Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, with Rhodessa Jones and Idirs Ackamore.

Malo Hutson in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley.

Dr Raye Richardson in San Francisco
Founder of Marcus Books, former chair of African American Studies at SF State

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Your Call 061008 Commons Series - Public Spaces

What makes a great public space? And how can we create more of them? On the next Your Call, we'll continue with our series on the commons by taking a look at the evolution of public spaces, which allow social interaction between diverse groups of people. But gentrification, policing, and revitalized urban places are changing them. How have the public spaces around you transformed over time? And what do they mean to you? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Gray Brechin, project scholar and writer for the New Deal Legacy Project, which is documenting the physical legacy of the New Deal in California under the aegis of the California Historical Society.

Mona Caron, San Francisco based muralist

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