Category: Interview
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438I_Joris de Leeuw, Regenerative Designer & System Innovator at Protopia Studio
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “We are just the process of the universe becoming more complex.” Are you interested in urban regeneration? What do you think about the challenge of separateness? How can we leverage our transformational times for the best? Interview with Joris de Leeuw, Regenerative Designer & System Innovator at…
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436I_Carina Tenewaa Kanbi, a spatial practitioner
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “The future is very much embedded and designed in local realities.” Are you interested in the involvement of informal settlements in the future of cities? What do you think about the importance of creative industries for urban futures? How can we create more ownership within our spaces?…
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434I_Keith Cooke, Director of Planning & Community Development Markets at Esri
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “One of the encouraging things for me that I’m seeing is that the role of planners and what they’re doing in the strategic decisions they’re making is now greatly overlapped with economic developers.” Are you interested economic mobility and zoning reform? What do you think about the…
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432I_Dr Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, digital and water-based jurisdiction architect
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “We don’t have to have binary answers … and that is something that characterises the future of cities. We will have what I like to call a heterarchy of things.” Are you interested in floating cities? What do you think about startup societies as an innovative form…
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430I_Alain Bertaud, urbanist and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “Nothing really succeeds as planned, but it succeeds on the side of the plan.” Are you interested in market-oriented urban development? What do you think about cities as friends? How can we create projections without making them regulations? Interview with Alain Bertaud, urbanist and Distinguished Visiting Fellow…
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428I_Elizabeth English, founder and director of the Buoyant Foundation Project and Professor at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “We can find ways to live with water instead of against it.” Are you interested in amphibious architecture? What do you think about the aboriginal understanding of water? How can we live with water instead fighting it? Interview with Elizabeth English, founder and director of the Buoyant…
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426I_AJ Perkins, founder, clean energy strategist and award winning author
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “Energy is not one of those silos. Energy is the foundation. You cannot fix any of those challenges at scale if you haven’t fixed the energy beneath them.” Are you interested in why energy is the foundation of our challenges and opportunities? What do you think about…
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424I_Ben Wolf, producer and director of Changing Lanes
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “[Urban transportation] is not just a quality of life issue – it’s a life and death issue.” Are you interested micromobility? What do you think about induced demand? How can we effectively reduce traffic and reclaim streets for public use? Interview with Ben Wolf, producer and director…
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Cities as fusion reactors: Double the people, more than double the ideas?
“A city isn’t an animal. It’s a star.” That single line from this week’s research debate on Louis Bettencourt’s landmark paper stopped me in my tracks. It perfectly captures the shift in thinking we explored across two very different but deeply connected episodes of What is The Future for Cities? podcast. On Tuesday we unpacked…
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422I_Greg Lindsay, urbanist, futurist and author
Check out the episode: Check out the trailer: “We need to do a better job at building places we love, otherwise we will just discard them.” Are you interested adaptation and reuse? What do you think about the cities as the safest zones for climate? How can we maximise serendipity in cities? Interview with Greg…
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