Curbed?s Urbanism Editor talks living in L.A. car-free and advocating for dense, transit-friendly cities It?s a presidential election year (we can hear you all groaning), which means that the future of our cities, housing, and infrastructure are all hot topics, right" Of course not! But here at Curbed, where such issues are central to our daily coverage?from the latest in sustainable design to the future of transportation, and everything in between?we are setting things right by carrying on the conversation on our own.
It helps that our L.A.-based Urbanism Editor, Alissa Walker, is on the front lines of such issues, talking the talk and walking the walk (often literally) to defend public transit and pedestrians? rights in her car-oriented city. On the latest episode of the Appeal, the Curbed podcast, we sat down with Walker and got her insight into the most pressing infrastructure issues in the U.S., the future of American transportation, and what it?s like to live car-free (with kid in tow, to boot!) in Los Angeles. Read the interview, or listen to the episode in full, below:

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Asad Syrkett:
It?s an election year as you all very well know from painful personal experience, and transportation and infrastructure are just not sexy election year issues, especially in a cycle that has provided a lot of fodder for other conversation.

Zoe Rosenberg:
Yet at that, they are incredibly important to t...