Female Chinese Australians: A Feminist Tale of Multiculturalism by SoundMinds Radio. Stella Sun is a Chinese Australian woman who was born on Thursday Island in 1931. Stella travelled to mainland Australia when she was 17 years old. Dr Alanna Kamp has been interviewing women like Stella about their experiences of belonging and exclusion as female Chinese Australians during the White Australia Policy era. The women Alanna is interviewing piece many memories together to tell rich stories about mig...
Mar 28, 2018•15 min
In this episode of the The Urban Squeeze, Tony and Jason talk about the rise of sport and leisure in the city and the role of sport in city-building, with particular attention on large-scale sporting events, including the 2018 Commonwealth Games, being held in Gold Coast City, Australia. They ask what role can planners play in fostering sport and leisure activities in the city? How does sport contribute to city-making and the lives of residents? What are some advantages and disadvantages of larg...
Mar 28, 2018•19 min
This must be the place on everything I needed to know about life I learned from an old British comic strip. Actually it’s an interview by David Nichols in Helsinki at the International Conference on Urban History with Lucie Glasheen, a PhD student at the School of Geography, Queen Mary University at London. Lucie’s research looks at the representation of children in urban environments in British children’s comics of the 1930s. The episode also features an intro with Elizabeth discussing, with he...
Mar 28, 2018•45 min
In this episode of Radio Reversal, Anna (@annajcarlson), Jo (@joanna_horton) & Nat (@DrNatOsborne) talk about privacy, particularly philosophies, politics, and technologies of privacy. They explore questions of digital and spatial forms of privacy and ‘publicness’ & of surveillance and facial recognition & how these intersect with race, gender, colonialism & labour, the Internet of Things, Smart Cities & gentrification, data breaches, and what your Data Doppelgänger is saying...
Mar 28, 2018•1 hr 10 min
There are more than 24 million pets in Australian homes. But our cities are not the easiest places to own a pet. You can’t take your dog on the train in Australia, and if you’re a renter owning a pet, well that can make things really difficult when you try to secure a home. In this episode of City Rd Podcast we talk with Drs Emma Power from the University of Western Sydney and Jen Kent from Sydney University, about why Australian cities don’t necessarily share Australians’ love of pets. Dr Jenni...
Mar 28, 2018•24 min
‘Smart cities’ represent the integrated, digital future of cities. Also called the “wired”, “networked” or “ubiquitous” city, the “smart city” is the latest in a long line of catch-phrases, referring to the development of technology-based urban systems for driving efficient city management and economic growth. These can be anything from city-wide public wifi systems to the provision of smart water meters in individual homes. In this episode of The Urban Squeeze, Tony and Jason discuss the journe...
Mar 28, 2018•21 min
This Must Be the Place (for now): In this episode of This Must Be the Place Elizabeth speaks with Robin Chang, a Research Associate and Lecturer in the Department of European Planning Cultures at TU Dortmund in Germany. Robin’s research looks at temporary urbanism: uses that contravene formal zoning, which last for a time frame that is not intentionally permanent, and which are spontaneously initialized. ‘Temporary urbanism’ is a growing field of study including tactical urbanism, pop-up shops, ...
Mar 28, 2018•26 min
SoundMinds Radio What the Antarctic teaches us about the science of space exploration By SoundMinds Radio It’s 2026 and you are on board the Ares. The largest interplanetary spacecraft ever built. You are on the first colonial voyage to Mars and your crew will be the first hundred Martian colonisers. This is how Kim Stanley Robinson opens his award-winning science fiction Mars trilogy – a set of three books about the colonial settlement of Mars. For Associate Professor Juan Francisco Salazar, th...
Mar 14, 2018•15 min
The Urban Squeeze What are child friendly cities? Are we forgetting the needs of children when we plan cities? How can we make cities more pleasant for their youngest residents? What are the design features of child friendly cities? Tony Matthews discusses these and other questions, as well as the value of involving children in decisions about the cities they live in. Twitter: @drtonymatthews @CityByrne @MattWebberWrite
Mar 14, 2018•19 min
This Must Be The Place In this episode of “This Must Be The Place” David and Elizabeth visit the small Goldfields town of Clunes for the annual Clunes Booktown Festival. As you may pick up from the introduction, Elizabeth was slightly confused about the distinction between “Booktown” and “Booktown Festival”. Whereas (she realised later) “Clunes is a Booktown all year round”, the weekend Festival in May is in addition to this appellation and sees the town taken over by book stalls, author talks, ...
Mar 14, 2018•1 hr
The Urban Squeeze What sorts of actions do planners take in response to immigration trends and immigration policy? Can cities be more proactive in influencing immigration? What have past trends in immigration told us about how we need to respond to urban growth pressures today? Jason Byrne discusses these and other questions, as well as how current patterns of immigration might shape the future of Gold Coast city, Australia’s tourism hot-spot. Twitter: @drtonymatthews @CityByrne @MattWebberWrite...
Mar 14, 2018•15 min
This Must Be The Place In this episode of This Must Be The Place Elizabeth reports from the Rhine-Ruhr region of Germany. The area’s recent history is famously characterised by industry – coal, steel, cars – and its present by post-industrial restructuring and by new forms of tourism. The introduction to the podcast includes some soundscapes from the Ruhr Museum, housed in the Zollverein, a former coal works near Essen. The Rhine-Ruhr is a huge urban agglomeration and while the public transport ...
Mar 14, 2018•16 min
SubUrbanista Podcast Episode 2 of The Suburbanista Podcasts focuses on politics and sex! Not the sexual proclivities of democratically elected representatives, but rather the political proclivities of Fiona Patten MLC, leader of the Reason Australia Party, formerly known as the Australian Sex Party. I explore with Fiona why and how she decided to run for state politics; and how the Australian Sex Party was formed and why it has evolved into the Reason Australia Party. Furthermore, we discuss Fio...
Mar 14, 2018•45 min
Radio Reversal In this episode of Radio Reversal, Jo, Nat, and Anna, and special guest Dr Stefanie Fishel, Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama, put the body back into the body politic. Drawing on Stef’s new book The Microbial State: Global Thriving and the Body Politic, they consider what the body politic looks like when microbiology, immunology, and parasitology have discredited the idea of the bounded, contained human subject, and consider the complex, messy relationships between ...
Mar 14, 2018•1 hr 3 min
14. Airbnb and Cities_CR by Urban Broadcast Collective
Mar 14, 2018•28 min
Urban Squeeze How high should urban populations go? Is there an ideal population size for a city? Should we have population limits and how would they work? How do we plan for growing population? Tony Matthews and Jason Byrne discuss these and other questions against a backdrop of public concern over rapidly increasing urban populations. Twitter: @drtonymatthews @CityByrne @MattWebberWrite
Mar 14, 2018•21 min
This Must Be The Place In this installment of This Must Be the Place Elizabeth and David give a post-film review, along with Rebecca Clements (and also a bit of help from Trent and Casper), of the Jane Jacobs documentary “Citizen Jane: Battle for the City”. As is discussed, the film features a fantastic variety of archival footage and also has very high production values. It tells the iconic mid-20th century story of battles over freeways, slum clearances, high rise housing towers, the ‘cancer’ ...
Mar 14, 2018•29 min
The Green Bans and Gentrification by SoundMinds Radio In this episode, we take to the streets of Sydney. We meet public housing resident Barney Gardner at his house in the suburb of Millers Point, which is just under Sydney Harbour Bridge. I’ve spent a bit of time with Barney over the last couple of years, interviewing him for various research projects on inner city gentrification. Barney was born in Millers Point and has lived there all his life. In 2014, he was told he had to move out of his h...
Feb 28, 2018•15 min
Urban Green Space by Urban Squeeze What are the benefits of urban green spaces? What are their costs? Can urban greenery save lives, improve health and reduce health costs? Tony Matthews and Jason Byrne discuss these and other questions, as well as whether more urban greenery can reduce heat stress, Australia's biggest natural killer. @drtonymatthews @CityByrne
Feb 28, 2018•23 min
Lieven Ameel of the University of Tampere (Finland) on the literary unease of urban life by This Must be The Place This episode of This Must Be the Place features an interview by David (a self-confessed Finnophile) with Lieven Ameel at the University of Tampere in Finland, when David was a visiting scholar. They discuss Lieven’s book about literary representations of urban life in Helsinki in Early 20th Century Finnish Literature ("Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature: Urban Experience...
Feb 28, 2018•1 hr
Energy Futures by Urban Squeeze What does the future look like in terms of energy generation? How can we produce cheaper and cleaner energy to power our cities? Should you put solar panels on your roof? Tony Matthews and Jason Byrne discuss these and other questions, as well as the challenges of connecting renewable energy to the grid and new innovations in the sector. @drtonymatthews @CityByrne
Feb 28, 2018•21 min
Round-up of the Urban History Planning History (UHPH) conference, “Remaking Cities” by This Must be The Place In this episode of This Must Be The Place Elizabeth and David do a round-up review of the 14th Urban History Planning History (UHPH) conference, themed “Remaking Cities” and hosted by RMIT University in January-February 2018. The UHPH is a biennial (every 2 years! For anyone else who wonders about that word) conference, and Elizabeth and David contributed in various respects to the plann...
Feb 28, 2018•35 min
Planning La La Land: A Scholarly View by Suburbanista Podcast Los Angeles is generally seen as the prototypical car-dependent, sprawling city. Six to eight lane freeways criss-cross the Los Angeles metropolitan region. What many people don’t realise is that Los Angeles has been leading the way in the USA in terms of public transport investment, especially rail-based transit, over the last decade or so. In this, the inaugural episode of the Suburbanista Podcast (@SuburbanistaPod), Paul Maginn, ak...
Feb 26, 2018•29 min
Natural Disasters by Radio Reversal Natalie and Jo talk about “natural” disasters, and how disasters are constructed and experienced along a variety of intersecting political, economic, social, and spatial lines. They explore environmental justice, what goes into turning an event into a disaster, how disasters intersect with collective trauma and collective identities, and processes and practices of resilience and recovery – with the help of lots of examples and gratuitous scare quotes. @RadioRe...
Feb 26, 2018•1 hr 4 min
Land and Cities by City Road What is the secret life of land title registration? The Torrens system of land title registration, developed in South Australia in 1858, is fast becoming the most popular system of land conveyancing and administration around the world. Sarah Keenan discusses the Torrens system of title registration that was invented for South Australia to assist the project of colonial settlement and land speculation. It was designed to increase efficiency of conveyancing, but title ...
Feb 26, 2018•26 min
Sustainable Housing by Urban Squeeze What are the features of sustainable houses? Is sustainable housing rewarded enough and should it be incentivised? Should you take your house off-grid? Will you be healthier and happier in a sustainable building? Tony Matthews and Jason Byrne discuss these and other questions, as well as some new technologies for sustainable house design. @drtonymatthews @CityByrne
Feb 26, 2018•16 min
Ernest Fooks, Newlands Estate, & Melbourne modern design heritage by This Must be The Place From Viennese Avant Garde to Newlands Pizza Plus: an episode of This Must Be the Place that’s about two things: a place, and a person who was influential in making that place. The place is the Newlands Estate, an area developed by the Housing Commission in the 1940s and 1950s, in Melbourne’s north. The person is Ernest Fooks – to whom Newlands owes part of its design. Fooks was an avant garde European...
Feb 26, 2018•45 min
Welcome to the Urban Broadcast Collective. We are a curated network of podcast and radio shows on everything urban. Our goal is simple, to bring together all the amazing urban focused podcasts on one site. In this episode you’ll hear from some of our podcasters and radio makers. We’ll also tell you how to get involved in the Urban Broadcast Collective. For more information, please contact one of our podcast producers: Natalie Osborne from Griffith University; Elizabeth Taylor from RMIT; Tony Mat...
Feb 15, 2018•10 min
