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What Makes a Great City?
Blue City Blues•byDavid Hyde, Sandeep Kaushik

What Makes a Great City?

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This Thanksgiving week, Blue City Blues sits down with former traffic engineer and urban planner Ray Delahanty, better known as “CityNerd” on YouTube. We get into the essential question: “what makes a great city?” Ray also shares his insights on the concept of "affordable urbanism" and gives us his honest assessment of one of modern transportation's most divisive projects, the "Vegas Loop."

Our editor is Quinn Waller. 

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Episode Playlist

25 Episodes
What Makes a Great City?
Nov 26, 2025•—

What Makes a Great City?

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Danny Westneat on Why Seattle Can’t Seem to Solve Its Problems

Nick Gillespie on Whether Socialism Is the Future of Blue Cities
Nov 8, 2025•—

Nick Gillespie on Whether Socialism Is the Future of Blue Cities

Can Blue Urban America Find Common Ground with Trump on Homelessness?
Nov 4, 2025•—

Can Blue Urban America Find Common Ground with Trump on Homelessness?

Blue City Crime: What Both Sides Get Wrong According to Criminologist David Kennedy
Oct 28, 2025•—

Blue City Crime: What Both Sides Get Wrong According to Criminologist David Kennedy

Hard Hats and Blue Cities: David Paul Kuhn on the Roots of the Working Class Revolt
Oct 14, 2025•—

Hard Hats and Blue Cities: David Paul Kuhn on the Roots of the Working Class Revolt

Whitney Tilson on Why Kids in Blue City School Districts Are Being Left Behind
Oct 9, 2025•—

Whitney Tilson on Why Kids in Blue City School Districts Are Being Left Behind

Has Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Cracked the Code on Progressive Governance in Blue Cities?
Sep 29, 2025•—

Has Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Cracked the Code on Progressive Governance in Blue Cities?

Did Blue City America Get Covid Wrong, Too?
Sep 22, 2025•—

Did Blue City America Get Covid Wrong, Too?

Nicole Gelinas: Blue City Lessons from NYC’s 100 Years' War Between Cars and Transit
Sep 10, 2025•—

Nicole Gelinas: Blue City Lessons from NYC’s 100 Years' War Between Cars and Transit

Dispatch from an Urban Drug Market
Aug 18, 2025•—

Dispatch from an Urban Drug Market

What’s the Matter with Chicago?
Aug 10, 2025•—

What’s the Matter with Chicago?

Trump Just Defunded Public Media. Did NPR Help Bring This Disaster on Itself?
Jul 25, 2025•—

Trump Just Defunded Public Media. Did NPR Help Bring This Disaster on Itself?

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez on What Urbanites Get Wrong about Rural America
Jul 18, 2025•—

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez on What Urbanites Get Wrong about Rural America

Celinda Lake on What NYC’s Political Earthquake Means for the Politics of Blue Cities
Jul 13, 2025•—

Celinda Lake on What NYC’s Political Earthquake Means for the Politics of Blue Cities

Sherman Alexie: A Res Indian Take on Monsters, Colonizers and the Urban Left's “Minor League Maoism”
Jul 4, 2025•—

Sherman Alexie: A Res Indian Take on Monsters, Colonizers and the Urban Left's “Minor League Maoism”

Katie Herzog on What the Decline and Fall of Twitter Means for Blue Cities
Jun 18, 2025•—

Katie Herzog on What the Decline and Fall of Twitter Means for Blue Cities

Is Abundance the Answer to What Ails Blue Cities?
Jun 5, 2025•—

Is Abundance the Answer to What Ails Blue Cities?

Defund/Abolition Is Dead in Blue Cities. What now?
May 23, 2025•—

Defund/Abolition Is Dead in Blue Cities. What now?

Why Does Progressive Megadonor Nick Hanauer Blame Blue Cities’ Woes on … Barack Obama?
May 11, 2025•—

Why Does Progressive Megadonor Nick Hanauer Blame Blue Cities’ Woes on … Barack Obama?

Why is San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan Breaking So Many Eggs?
Apr 24, 2025•—

Why is San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan Breaking So Many Eggs?

NYT’s Peter Goodman on Tariffs, Trade Wars and the New Crony Capitalism
Apr 16, 2025•—

NYT’s Peter Goodman on Tariffs, Trade Wars and the New Crony Capitalism

Dan Savage: How Blue Cities Should Resist Trump 2.0
Apr 11, 2025•—

Dan Savage: How Blue Cities Should Resist Trump 2.0

The Inside Story on How Tech Billionaires Sparked San Francisco’s Moderate Backlash
Apr 4, 2025•—

The Inside Story on How Tech Billionaires Sparked San Francisco’s Moderate Backlash

Mike Pesca: Is Blue City Media Up to the Challenge of Covering Trump 2.0?
Mar 21, 2025•—

Mike Pesca: Is Blue City Media Up to the Challenge of Covering Trump 2.0?

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