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#8 Citizens, Assemble!

The CityChangers Podcast - April 11, 2024

Elected officials make decisions that affect millions of people, but beyond voting every few years, what say do citizens really have? Maybe democracy needs a tune-up. Citizens’ Assemblies – a sort of lottery promising better representation...

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#7 How to Move a City

The CityChangers Podcast - March 28, 2024

How do you go about relocating an entire city? The community of Swedish city Kiruna has grown up around the biggest local employer - a mine. But as the pit threatens the town above it,...

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#6 The Tada Manifesto

The CityChangers Podcast - March 14, 2024

How can we ensure that a ‘smart city’ is also a fair, diverse and ethical one? We talk to Douwe Schmidt from the city of Amsterdam about the thorny issues cities face when implementing technological...

Inclusive Cities

#5 The Unlikely Urban Planners

The CityChangers Podcast - February 29, 2024

What would a city designed entirely by children look like? And what could it tell us about the cities we live in now – the good things and the bad? Academic Christina Ergler’s research into...

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#4 Orange Sky

The CityChangers Podcast - February 15, 2024

Turning big ideas into reality is what CityChangers do. But what happens when, against the odds, you finally achieve your goal? What next? Nicholas Marchesi, of charity Orange Sky, launched the world’s first mobile laundry, helping...

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#3 The Tiny Town Hall

The CityChangers Podcast - February 1, 2024

One city in Germany takes a unique approach to civic participation. With declining rates of local democratic engagement around the world, Keil has teamed up with local creatives to try something radical: take their town...

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#2 The Slow Lane

The CityChangers Podcast - January 17, 2024

What links pedestrian crossings in Chicago, USA, with the Sydney Opera House in Australia? Sascha Haselmayer's surprising story provides an unexpected answer to this unusual question, and it's led to positive change in more than...

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#1 Rotterdam Rooftops

The CityChangers Podcast - January 17, 2024

Facing their fair share of challenges on the ground (from housing shortages to climate change) cities like Rotterdam are looking skywards for solutions – to the rooftops. There’s plenty of opportunity but also headwinds...

Construction

Urban Insight Podcast – The World’s Healthiest Building

External Content - September 21, 2021

Sweco's Urban Insight's mission is to share solutions for future city planning and initiate a dialogue about sustainable urban development. Between 2018 and 2021, Urban Insight reached 22.3 million people through news, press and...

Car-Free

“20 Minute Neighbourhoods” With James Mant | Moments of Clarity

External Content - February 27, 2021

Moments of Clarity is a podcast that aims to gather personal and collective insights through conversations that explore the values and beliefs that unite us. In his 29th episode, Mattew Sortino speaks with...

Car-Free

She Drives Mobility Meets Doug Gordon (the War on Cars)

External Content - February 15, 2021

Katja Diehl's podcast #SheDrivesMobility is "dedicated to the mobility transition, the path towards true choice-based mobility that makes the privately owned car replaceable by real alternatives as much as possible. I want everyone...

Car-Free

The War on Cars: Getting the Car Out of Carbon Emissions

External Content - January 27, 2021

"The War on Cars is a new podcast about the epic, hundred years’ war between The Car and The City. We deliver news and commentary on the latest developments in the worldwide fight...

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