14 episodes
The Infinite City PLACE
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- Society & Culture
The Infinite City is a podcast about cities. Through it, we tell stories of people and place, design and belonging, survival and celebration in Belfast and beyond.
The Infinite City is a project of PLACE, Northern Ireland's Built Environment Centre. It is produced by Rebekah McCabe and Conor McCafferty, with assistance from Maria Postanogova and Stuart Gray. It is supported by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Arts and Business NI.
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Summer Season 2019 – Episode 5: Sarah Lappin
Sarah Lappin discusses contemporary Irish architecture, the role of architecture centres and keeping things fresh in architectural education.
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Summer Season 2019 – Episode 4: Aaron Coulter
Conor chats to urban designer Aaron Coulter on the connections between urbanism, cycling and smart cities...
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Summer Season 2019 – Episode 3: Barrie Todd
Conor chats to a key figure in architecture in Northern Ireland, Barrie Todd.
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Summer Season 2019 – Episode 2: Darran Anderson and Agustina Martire
Darran Anderson and Agustina Martire join Conor and Rebekah to discuss urban childhoods, junkspace, cars in cities, the grids of Latin America, planned cities, smart cities – and much more...
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Summer Season 2019 – Episode 1: Aisling O'Beirn and Garrett Carr
Part one of our first live episode, with writer Aisling O'Beirn and writer Garrett Carr. We talk maps, edgelands, placenames and much more...
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Marianne - Living in Paradise Land
In this final episode of Season 1, we explore a lesser known chapter in the tumultuous history of housing in Belfast. Marianne Elliott, a retired professor of history, walks us through the place she grew up.
The estate in North Belfast where Marianne’s family lived was built as part of a radical experiment in social housing. Its successes and its failures hold important lessons for a city still struggling with how to build a shared future.
Marianne Elliott's "Hearthlands - A Memoir of the White City housing estate in Belfast" was published by Blackstaff Press in 2017.
We have a special announcement - we will be recording a LIVE episode on 21st October 2018 at SARC in Belfast! We hope you can join us. Listen to the end of the episode for details.