The CityChangers Podcast

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The CityChangers Podcast: Inspiring Liveable, Equitable, Sustainable Cities “The CityChangers Podcast” explores innovative ideas, showcases success stories (and, importantly, the failures), and delves into the strategies that contribute to positive urban transformations. Each episode features a new thought leader, expert, or visionary who shares their experiences and expertise in making cities better places to live, work, and thrive.

  1. 03/20/2025

    #19 Just Streets

    We sit down with Marco te Brömmelstroet and Adrian Fratila from the Just Streets project to talk about what justice has to do with city streets, how to deal with the naysayers, and whether the Dutch urban mobility model is really the one cities should be aspiring to. You can find out more about the project here: https://www.just-streets.eu/ Featuring: Marco te Brömmelstroet, Adrian Fratila

    19 min

  2. 02/20/2025

    #18 Cities of Making

    Urban Future’s Karl Dickinson is in conversation with Adrian Hill, a social designer and lead researcher for the Cities of Making project, talking about the nature of production in the post-industrial city. They discuss why manufacturing still has a – maybe surprising – place in urban centres, what it really takes to kick off a circular economy, and how shrinking cities that transfer their manufacturing skills base into new productive industries just may get the social and economic boost they need. Featuring: Adrian Hill The Cities of Making pattern language is available in full at citiesofmaking.com. It's also available to order as a printed 50 card set.

    17 min

  3. 01/30/2025

    #17 Heart and 'Seoul': A River Revitalisation

    How did Seoul turn a backed-up expressway into a tranquil urban stream? We take a look at the landmark Cheonggyecheon River Restoration project and ask why, almost 20 year later, this peaceful pocket in the middle of the city is still so beloved.   Featuring: Meggie Yu, Dr Soo Hong Noh

    22 min

  4. 01/02/2025

    #16 Why Politics Needs Young People

    Urban Future’s Cornelia Forsthuber-Aumayr talks to Maral Koohestanian – former Young Leader and now the youngest ever Deputy Mayor for the city of Wiesbaden, Germany – about everything from why we need more young people in politics to what inspires her to keep going in difficult times. Featuring: Cornelia Forsthuber-Aumayr, Maral Koohestanian

    17 min

  5. 10/21/2024

    #15 Defensive Urbanism: Who's Defending Whom?

    How truly public are our public spaces? In this episode, we take a look at the rise of ‘defensive urbanism’ in our cities and ask what it would take to stop designing people out of public space and start designing them back in.   Featuring: Cara Chellew, Rebecca Rutt, Kenneth Balfelt

    25 min

  6. 09/26/2024

    #14 Haus der Statistik

    You’ve been pushing your city to make some changes for years. So, what happens when they suddenly reach across the aisle and give you the reins? We take a look at the Initiative Haus der Statistik – the unlikely story of how a group of activists and artists found themselves co-planning a multi-million Euro development with the Berlin government.    Featuring: Harry Sachs, Leona Lynen, Regula Lüscher, Urs Kumberger

    24 min

  7. 09/12/2024

    #13 Cake, Brew and Mend

    In our throwaway culture, binning a broken object and buying a replacement is often the easiest, and cheapest, solution. But the take-make-waste economy has serious costs – for the environment and also for the community. So, what would the alternative look like? We visit a repair café in Graz, Austria, to understand what it means to give an item a new lease of life, and why it often pays to repair rather than simply recycle. Featuring: Heimo Hartlieb, Andreas Höfler, Steven Toast

    13 min

  8. 08/22/2024

    #12 The Gendered City

    After centuries in charge, men have made a mess of our cities! Gender bias is present in almost every element of urban planning and design, from mobility networks right down to the way we build houses. So what does it take to dislodge gendered microaggressions from the built environment? How can we reimagine municipal processes so that women are fairly represented? And what does infrastructure that benefits everyone actually look like? With a focus on Umeå in Sweden, we eek out the often-surprising answers. Featuring: Nourhan Bassam and Linda Gustafsson

    16 min
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The CityChangers Podcast: Inspiring Liveable, Equitable, Sustainable Cities “The CityChangers Podcast” explores innovative ideas, showcases success stories (and, importantly, the failures), and delves into the strategies that contribute to positive urban transformations. Each episode features a new thought leader, expert, or visionary who shares their experiences and expertise in making cities better places to live, work, and thrive.

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  • Creator
    Urban Future
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    19
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