Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Jenni Rahkonen – Environmental Coordinator at The city of Lahti and discuss the formula of Lahti's success - How it became Environmental Green Capital of Europe? Lahti, the capital of the Päijänne Tavastia region of Finland, has a population of 119,068. Lahti is situated approximately 100 kilometres to the no...
May 17, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Rickard Granath – Stormwater Solution expert at Uponor Infra. All human activities create pollution for stormwater coming down to the drain. Usually it is polluted with building materials, traffic, industrial and commercial activities. How to treat stormwater correctly? There are several ways of stormwater tr...
May 03, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Welcome to Infra Stories. Stories about places all across Nordics, where infrastructure projects with significant impact for the local communities have been built. Stories about innovative and sustainable solutions. Today we travel to the city of Norrköping, Sweden. Where the municipality is trying to filter contaminated stormwater before it gets to the Baltic Sea. Located at the mouth of the Motala River in Bråviken Bay, Norrköping is Known as the Manchester of Sweden. It’s an industrial city, ...
Apr 19, 2023•4 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Päivi Raivio , Helsinki-based designer who has dedicated her career to creating better public spaces through urban interventions and placemaking. Päivi Raivio works with Daniel Bumann in the multidisciplinary urban design and placemaking agency RaivioBumann. The duo has also founded modular urban furniture company ...
Apr 05, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 13
Welcome to Infra Stories. Stories about places all across Nordics, where infrastructure projects with significant impact for the local communities have been built. Stories about innovative and sustainable solutions. This is a story about wastewater treatment plant in Swedish village of Överklinten. When the existing ground-based wastewater system of the Swedish village of Överklinten was condemned, the residents needed to find a new solution and an Uponor Infra WehoPuts treatment plant was chose...
Mar 22, 2023•5 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Natalia Rincón – Co-Founder and CEO at CHAOS, an AI startup focused on location intelligence forecasts to improve the liveability of cities. She is an architect and computer science engineer and currently holds a PHDc in smart cities. Ranked in the top 10 EU women entrepreneurs who foster the industry, Natali...
Mar 09, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Welcome to Infra Stories. Stories about places all across Nordics, where infrastructure projects with significant impact for the local communities have been built. Stories about innovative and sustainable solutions. This is a story about safe drinking water for an old shipyard and sawmill area. The Pateniemi waterfront area in Oulu, Northern Finland, has played a major role in the history of Finnish industrialisation. In the mid-19th century, its shipyard built large merchant vessels, and later ...
Feb 23, 2023•6 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Patryk Wójtowicz – Research Manager at Savonia University of Applied Sciences and Water network modelling expert in the field of environmental engineering. Fireside chat recorded at World Water Congress 2022, in Copenhagen, Denmark. During this insightful conversation we discussed important topics such as mon...
Feb 08, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners, where we discuss city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Franz Cuculiza , Business Director of Denmark’s first plastic recycling company, Aage Vestergaard Larsen A/S. They are the Nordic region's largest high-quality plastics recycling company, where the raw material of recycled plastic can be used for products that can be reused again and again. They are also one of th...
Jan 25, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Nicklas Kaskeala , Co-Founder & Chief Impact Officer at Compensate . Compensate combats climate change by offering everyone easy access to the highest quality carbon projects. They provide tools to calculate and offset emissions both for businesses and individuals. During this inspiring conversation we di...
Jan 11, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Gregory Norris . Greg directs SHINE , the Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and teaches LCA at Harvard University . He co-founded and is Director of Science at Earthster.org, a web-based platform democratizing LCA. He also founde...
Dec 14, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Klara Ramn – Executive Committee member of EurEau. The European federation of national associations of water services. Representing Europe's drinking and wastewater service providers from 30 countries, from both private and public sectors. Fireside chat recorded at World Water Congress 2022, in Copenhagen, De...
Nov 30, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Lars Nørgård Holmegaard – CEO of the water utility of Lemvig, Denmark. This is a fireside chat recorded at World Water Congress 2022, in Copenhagen. Lars told us about the challenges they are facing in north Denmark with rising sea levels. What sustainable solutions they are considering and how he sees the fu...
Nov 16, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Rickard Granath – Stormwater Solution Manager and Jean Saarinen – Stormwater Sales Manager at Uponor Infra. Fireside chat recorded at World Water Congress 2022, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Rainfall keeps increasing due to climate change. Storms become heavier amid dry seasons. This poses a very real flood risk. M...
Nov 03, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Hei, Welcome to the Urbanista! The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Ilari Aho – VP of Sustainability and Regulatory Affairs at Uponor. Recorded at World Water Congress 2022, in Copenhagen, Denmark to summarise the learnings from the IWA High-Level Summit, which theme this year was "Partnerships for Smart Liveable Cities – water as a key to Action on Climate and SDGs." Join ou...
Oct 21, 2022•19 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners who want to know more about city water management and sustainable urban development. In these podcast series we will be looking answers for questions like: - How do we renovate efficiently our water infrastructure? - How do we ensure the quality of drinking water in Nordic cities? - How do we reuse water in a more sustainable way? - How is the circular economy influencing the shape of our cities? And, how do we do a...
Oct 19, 2022•3 min•Season 1Ep. 1
