Category: Interview
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478I_Moein Nodehi, Founder and CEO of Biotonomy
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “The good news is that the solutions are way easier than the problem.” Are you interested in how to integrate natural cycles into cities? What do you think about water recycling? How can we combine systems instead of creating siloes for the better urban futures? Interview with…
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476I_Howard Kozloff, founder and principal of Agora Partners
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “By their very nature, cities are resilient and adaptive, and they have absorbed every shock we’ve thrown at them over thousands of years.” Are you interested in entrepreneurial planning for urban development? What do you think about developments that are financially viable and civically valuable? How can…
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474I_Laetitia Dablanc, Professor at University Gustave Eiffel
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “E-commerce is much better for CO2 emissions than store retail because there’s no shopping trips, there’s no heating of stores.” Are you interested in urban logistics as warehousing and transportation? What do you think what skills urban planners are missing currently? How can we better educate the…
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472I_Kelly Turner, Associate Director and Professor of Urban Planning and Geography at UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “Heat is often spoken about as this one thing, but if you look at the American Meteorological Society’s definition of heat, it’s a verb. It’s a process.” Are you interested in urban heat and its effects? What do you think about heat as a verb? How can…
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470I_Geoffrey West, theoretical physicist and Distinguished Professor at the Santa Fe Institute
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “The reason that we have cities is because A talks to B talks to C talks back to A, and we build on each other.” Are you interested in the scaling laws of urban areas? What do you think about the population degrowth singularity? How can we…
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468I_Shawn Meyers, Middle East Masterplanning Director
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “We’ve been optimizing what’s familiar rather than asking what’s possible.” Are you interested in the Middle East as a testing ground for urban solutions? What do you think about mistaking innovation for progress? How can we improve our from-design-to-implementation ratio? Interview with Shawn Meyers, Middle East Masterplanning…
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466I_Dr Anne Goodchild, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington and Founding Director at Urban Freight Lab
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “I’ve really been trying to make the case that last mile delivery is a public good that the government should be investing in. You can only exist in a city because of this transport system. It’s bringing you the food you need to eat. You would die…
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464I_Laura Reupke, CEO of BABLE
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “We do have solutions already today. We do see already what works today. We do know what is causing the problem. We do have it all.” Are you interested in liveable cities designed for everyone? What do you think about having conversations about the future of cities…
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460I_Karl R. Rábago, the Principal of Rábago Energy LLC
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “When we rightsize and right site our energy like nature does, not wasting it, using what’s really necessary, we can actually enjoy the benefits of ubiquitous low-cost energy availability.” Are you interested in distributed energy systems? What do you think about energy as one of the crucial…
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458I_Ruthbea Yesner, Group Vice President at IDC
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “Cities are simultaneously the fastest-growing, most economically important areas in the world, and also the most strained and fiscally strained layer of government in the world. And so the future of cities is really resolving some of that tension.” Are you interested in technology helping us making…
