Dolores Hayden, professor emerita of Yale, kicks off this episode with her seminal research on the history of feminist architecture and urbanism and how it contrasts to suburbia’s construction of women’s roles. Eva Kail then presents how she has implemented gender mainstreaming in the design of parks, housing, transit and neighborhoods while working for the city of Vienna, Austria for over thirty years. The rich conversation that follows, led by Julie Kim and Ellen Dunham-Jones of Georgia Tech, ...
Nov 19, 2020•56 min
What is the Green New Deal and what might its advancing of equity, jobs, and justice in relation to climate change mean for redesigning cities? Billy Fleming of the University of Pennsylvania and Nancy Levinson of Places Journal inform, interrogate, and invite designers to figure it out in this co-hosted Places Event.
Oct 14, 2020•58 min
Marcel Wilson, founder of the San Francisco-based landscape architecture firm Bionic, presents his work in the REDESIGNING CITIES video, extracted from his presentation of the 2020 Doug Allen lecture. In the podcast, he and host Ellen Dunham-Jones discuss shifts in how we’re redesigning the integration of nature as amenity, performative ecology and infrastructural technology into cities and landscapes. Watch Episode 13 on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-qUhjDfqq8...
May 20, 2020•29 min
Alan Organschi, partner in Gray Organschi Architecture and on the faculty at Yale University, and Scott Marble, Chair of the School of Architecture and partner in Marble Fairbanks, discuss Organischi’s research on the potential of timber construction combined with forest management to turn cities into massive carbon sinks. Watch Episode 12 on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg3X-G0qw_c&t=2016s...
Apr 20, 2020•53 min
Carol Coletta, President and CEO of the nonprofit Memphis River Parks Partnership, and Ellen Dunham-Jones, Director of the Master of Science in Urban Design degree at Georgia Tech and Co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia, discuss the utilization of philanthropy to improve the public realm with an emphasis on parks. Watch Episode 11 on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6B6M3e0w2A&t=5s
Feb 02, 2020•42 min
Majora Carter, a revitalization entrepreneur, presents her decade-long work on 'self-gentrification' and incremental development as a means to stem the stigmatization and brain drain out of low-status communities. Watch Episode 10 on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEEX7S675cA
Feb 02, 2020•42 min
Listen to award winners, Reuben Abraham and Carlo Ratti, discuss their initiatives for smart mobility and inclusive innovation as they relate to cities. Watch Reuben Abraham accept his award on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAQFvItjM6s . Watch Carlo Ratti accept his award on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqlz14Lvy8g&t=12s ....
Nov 12, 2019•34 min
Listen to award winners, Deputy Consul Juan Tellez, Janette Sadik-Khan, Jan Gehl, and Seleta Reynolds, discuss their initiatives for smart mobility and inclusive innovation as they relate to cities. Watch Juan Tellez accept his award on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy-ermqNX2g&t=1s . Watch Janette Sadik-Khan accept her award on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6QrxREpVB0&t=30s . Watch Jan Gehl accept his award on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1nK...
Nov 12, 2019•37 min
Chuch Marohn, President and Founder of Strong Towns, is a civil engineer and city planner who addresses a growing movement that questions the fiscal responsibility of sprawl development patterns. Watch Episode 8 on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyUDS3jxlEQ&t=2s
Nov 12, 2019•53 min
A conversation about carbon pricing and how it relates to the built environment through offset marketing strategies.
Oct 20, 2019•33 min
Episode 6 is a discussion between Jess Zimbabwe, Principal of Plot Strategies, and Joseph P. Riley, former Mayor of Charleston (for 40 years) and founder of the Mayors Institute on City Design. The focus is on the approaches and resources for addressing and preventing gentrification and displacement as well as associated racial and class concerns. Watch Episode 6 on youTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge1Y7G4XCd0...
Jun 01, 2019•46 min
Episode 4: Redesigning Cities for the Collaborative Economy features Robin Chase, founder of Zipcar and author of Peers Inc., and Gabe Klein, author of Start-Up City and former Commissioner of Transportation for both Washington DC and Chicago. Together they draw on their broad expertise to discuss both the role of cities in shaping entrepreneurial, collaborative economies and in being shaped by them. Watch Episode 4 on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSWuKOW_IL8&t=5s...
Apr 23, 2019•35 min
Episode 5: Redesigning Cities Against Climate Change is a conversation between Peter Calthorpe, author of Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change, planner, and developer of Urban Footprint, and Rob Kunzig, Senior Environment Editor at National Geographic and author of Fixing Climate. This podcast features a candid and sobering discussion on climate change and human nature. Watch Episode 5 on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzJs6AHcAWg&t=1075s...
Apr 23, 2019•39 min
Episode 3: Redesigning Cities' Parks as Social Infrastructure is a discussion between Mitch Silver, Parks and Recreation Commissioner of New York City, and Maurice Cox, Planning Commissioner of Detroit, on building social equity through the development of parks. Watch Episode 3 on Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NofvgOGdPGo&t=15s
Apr 07, 2019•46 min
Episode 2: Retrofitting Suburbia Too explores the redesign of outdated, suburban infrastructure and associated aging malls, office parks, and other auto-oriented property types with June Williamson, Associate Professor of Architecture at The City College of New York and author of Designing Suburban Futures and co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia, and Allison Arieff, Executive Director of SPUR in San Francisco. Watch Episode 2 on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0GqNWrPuRA&t=2s...
Apr 07, 2019•41 min
Episode 1: Redesigning Cities with Autonomous Vehicles is a conversation between Jeff Tumlin, Principal and Director of Strategy at Nelson Nygaard, and Harriett Tregoning, immediate past Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of CPD at HUD, on the convergence of mobility, technology, and design. Watch Episode 1 on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIXY5owFHgM&t=6s
Apr 07, 2019•42 min
