Why a Tenured Professor Went Back to School for AI (with John Renne)

#realestateai #aipodcast In Episode #1039, Prof. John Renne (Professor of Real Estate and Urban Planning at Tulane University) joins @JonKrohnLearns to describe what happens when a tenured full professor goes back to school for a master’s in AI. John is a world-leading expert on transit-oriented development who spent decades pushing the limits of Excel and SPSS; learning Python and then vibe coding has let him scale that research by orders of magnitude, from 4,500 American train stations to more than 110,000 worldwide. In this episode, he traces how walkable communities went from academic here