REDESIGNING CITIES: The Speedwell Foundation Talks @ Georgia Tech
38 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsREDESIGNING CITIES: The Speedwell Foundation Talks @ Georgia Institute of Technology is a series of presentations + conversations between leading urbanists that address 21st Century urban challenges: social capital, equity, climate change, outdated infrastructure, disruptive technologies, and money. The series is hosted by Ellen Dunham-Jones, professor and director of the Master of Science in Urban Design degree in the Georgia Tech School of Architecture.
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Episode 37: Episode 37: Place-Based Activism and Democracy
April 09, 2024 00:00 - 27 minutes - 38.2 MBHow have youth organizations in disinvested neighborhoods reinvigorated models of democratic citizenship and collective life? Can the exercise of collective agency in the physical space of “the commons” provide young people with the practical skills to engage with today’s economic, racial, and ecological crises? Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton’s newest and sixth book, Pedagogy of a Beloved Commons: Pursuing Democracy's Promise Through Place-Based Activism, makes that case and we discuss h...
Episode 36: Episode 36_Calthorpe_Ending Global Sprawl
March 26, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 112 MBAs urban population growth across the globe continues to sprawl outwards, how do we promote healthier development patterns in diverse economies and cultures? With a particular focus on corridors, Peter Calthorpe presents the strategies he developed in association with the World Bank to address the three dominant types of sprawl: high-income sprawl as found in the US, low-income sprawl as found in Mexico, and high-density sprawl as found in China. A prolific author, visionary urban ...
Episode 33: Episode 35_Gil Penalosa
December 12, 2023 00:00 - 57 minutes - 79.4 MBEpisode 35_Gil Penalosa
Episode 32: Episode 34_David Dixon
November 24, 2023 00:00 - 43 minutes - 59.3 MBRedesigning Suburbs How and where are North American suburbs being redesigned to address dramatically changing demographics, technology, market preferences, and climates? The pandemic and Work-From-Home accelerated earlier trends of the urbanization of dead malls and office parks. But they also renewed leapfrog exurban development. Join this conversation between academic host Ellen Dunham-Jones who researches suburban retrofits, and David Dixon FAIA, an award-winning professional w...
Episode 32: Episode 32_Transition Modes
November 24, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 111 MBWhat Transit Modes Where? New modes of getting around are exploding. Now, in addition to fixed rail, bus, and streetcar, smartphones and algorithms have expanded on-demand mobility such as microtransit vans, scooters, and e-bike rentals. Some of our streets already have robotaxis and AV shuttles. Will the skies soon include podcars and UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles)? What kind of city, social equity, and neighborhood form do these different modes shape? In Atlanta, the Beltline is...
Episode 32: Episode 33_Robert Fishman
November 24, 2023 00:00 - 50 minutes - 68.9 MBRedesigning Cities for the 2nd Global Urban Revolution What does it mean for humanity that we are transitioning from a rural to an urban species? This is the fundamental question that Professor Robert Fishman is exploring. Professor Emeritus from the University of Michigan, he was trained as an urban historian at Stanford and Harvard, and is the author of the highly influential books Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier and Bo...
Episode 31: Episode 31: Redesigning Cities for Ubiquitous Wetness
August 04, 2023 00:00 - 35 minutes - 48.4 MBHow do we think about the boundaries between land and water? Dilip da Cunha argues that those boundaries have always been much more fluid—literally. And he argues that the history of how we’ve organized cities is one of ever-increasing efforts to control, subjugate, and manage water while colonizing the land into administered parcels of private property. Dilip and his late partner, Anuradha Mathur, argue that climate change is actually helping us recognize how uncertain it is that t...
Episode 30: Episode 30: Redesigning Cities with Social Infrastructure
April 01, 2023 00:00 - 39 minutes - 53.8 MBKai-Uwe Bergmann, partner at BIG, the Bjarke Ingels Group, and host, Ellen Dunham-Jones, discuss the how, what, and why of designing joyful social functions into practical infrastructure at all scales. How did their ideas of hedonistic sustainability embolden them to convince clients to build a ski slope on top of a power plant in Copenhagen, build a concert hall on a highway intersection, turn storm surge fortifications around lower Manhattan into public parks and gardens – let alo...
Episode 29: Episode 29: Carfree Urbanism and Missing Middle Housing
February 28, 2023 00:00 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MBDan Parolek and his team at Opticos Design coined the term and wrote the book on Missing Middle Housing to describe house-sized buildings with multiple units. These duplexes, quadplexes, cottage courts, etc. are essential tools in creating equitable walkable urbanism. In this episode, Ellen Dunham-Jones talks with Dan about their implementation at Culdesac, Tempe, the country’s first and largest carfree and mobility rich community built from scratch. For those interested in images, ...
Episode 28: Episode 28: Redesigning Cities With Public Art
February 28, 2023 00:00 - 42 minutes - 58.4 MBWhether heroic commemorative bronze statues, contemplative experiences of transformed materials, or vibrant activist murals, public artworks give cities cultural and economic value and provide meaningful identity to communities. But how do different kinds of public spaces and community identities influence public artwork? Stephanie Dockery, manager of Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge and Tristan Al-Haddad, architect and founder of Formations Studio will present and disc...
Episode 27: Episode 27: Redesigning The House
December 08, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 90 MBChange the house, change the city? The American Dream of ownership of a detached single-family house is increasingly under attack. It has a racist history and ongoing legacy of segregation, a high environmental footprint, fosters sprawl and loneliness in ever-smaller households, and is increasingly unaffordable. Diana Lind, of the Penn Institute for Urban Research and author of Brave New Home: Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing, Ellen Dunham-Jones and Andrew Bruno of Ge...
Episode 26: Episode 26: Redesigning Cities for Local Entrepreneurs
November 27, 2022 00:00 - 47 minutes - 65.5 MBWhat if developers thought of themselves as farmers, reviving their neighborhood’s abandoned buildings, planting locally symbiotic uses, and growing small business entrepreneurs? And what if they wanted to teach you how to do the same in your neighborhood? Monte Anderson of the Incremental Development Alliance and Options Real Estate in South Dallas, TX and Bernice Radle of Buffalove Development in Buffalo, NY will discuss each of their work and its impacts as Season 5 of Redesignin...
Episode 23: Episode 23: Redesigning Cities with Affordable Housing
March 17, 2022 00:00 - 57 minutes - 78.9 MBToday, a minimum-wage earner can afford a one-bedroom apartment in only 145 out of 3,143 counties in America. Andrew Ross of NYU and author of Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing (2021) and Shelley Poticha of the NRDC and former Director of Sustainable Housing and Communities at HUD will discuss how ineffective government planning, property market speculation, and poverty wages have created this housing crisis -- and the policy and design measures needed to pull us out of...
Episode 24: Episode 24: Atlanta’s Parks and Greenways as Agents of Urban Transformation
March 17, 2022 00:00 - 54 minutes - 74.4 MBHow are younger cities leveraging the renewed importance of urban parks in the pandemic? Adrian Benepe of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Trust for Public Land, Clyde Higgs of the Atlanta Beltline, and Tim Keane from the City of Atlanta will discuss how Atlanta’s investments in new parks and greenways are building on its Olmsted legacy while radically transforming development patterns, trip modes, and local ecology.
Episode 22: Episode 22: Redesigning Streets Post-Pandemic
March 12, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 98.2 MBLock-downs, work from home, and fears of crowded indoor space during the pandemic have shifted how many of us use streets. From “streateries” and street racing, to drive-by birthday parades and outdoor schools, our streets have become significantly more social. Will these shifts last if and when the pandemic eases – and what do they mean for public space, transit, and mode-splits? Professor Vikas Mehta of the architecture and urban design programs at the University of Cincinnati, To...
Episode 22: Episode 20: Redesigning Cities to Tackle Structural Racism
March 12, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 116 MBHow can we undo the ways economic policies have contributed to structural racism? And how should we redesign cities to reflect and advance equitable economies? Raphael Bostic, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Catherine Ross, Regents Professor of City Planning and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology will discuss solutions to these and other questions.
Episode 22: Episode 25: Redesigning Cities for Public Health
March 12, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 93.7 MBDr. Richard Jackson, emeritus professor of public health at UCLA and former Director of the CDC National Center for Environmental Health and has argued that architects and planners can have more impact on the health of the next generation of kids than all the physicians in the world. His words are best proven correct through the work of renowned architect Michael Murphy of MASS Design Group, dedicated to the construction of dignity and rooted in healthcare design. Listen in on their...
Episode 19: Episode 19: Redesigning Cities for a Tele-Everything World
November 12, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 93.6 MBPost-pandemic, how might we leverage tele-work-medicine-education-everything to even the playing field between rich and poor places instead of exacerbating the digital divide? University of Arizona Professor Arthur C. Nelson and Debra Lam, Executive Director of Georgia Tech’s Partnership for Inclusive Innovation will help me, Redesigning Cities host Ellen Dunham-Jones, think through this question.
Episode 21: Episode 21: Redesigning Cities in Science Fiction
November 12, 2021 00:00 - 55 minutes - 76.7 MBWhat can urbanists learn from how Sci-Fi authors have reimagined cities? GT Regents Professor in Science Fiction Lisa Yaszek discusses with host Ellen Dunham-Jones how diverse voices from around the world have challenged racial and gender norms in science and technology while proposing alternative kinds of cities, spaces, and social justice. Yaszek is the author of Galactic Suburbia and co-editor of Literary Afro-futurism in the Twenty-First Century. Shaunitra Wisdom, GT School of A...
Episode 18: Redesigning Cities with Green Infrastructure
March 31, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBJosiah Cain, Director of Innovation at Sherwood Design Engineers presents the firm’s advanced techniques for regenerative site design before Mike Messner, Professor in Practice at Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business, leads their conversation on the implementation, financing, and future prospects of these high-performing sustainable strategies.
Episode 17: Redesigning Cities with Neuroscience
February 23, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 97.4 MBSarah Williams Goldhagen, critic and author of the award-winning Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives, Sonit Bafna, associate professor and director of the Georgia Tech SoA Ph.D. program, and Harrison Fraker, Dean Emeritus at UC Berkeley and author of Minding The City: Field Notes on the Poetics of Sustainable Public Space present their research on how spatial design impacts meaning, emotions and behavior, before discussing the implications for redesignin...
Episode 16: Redesigning Critical Infrastructure for Climate Change
February 16, 2021 00:00 - 49 minutes - 68.5 MBAs climate change and urban heat islands compound the impacts of non-climatic events such as pandemics and blackouts, critical infrastructure too often fails just when it is needed most. How do we rethink and redesign critical infrastructure at the city, neighborhood, and microclimate scales? Brian Stone presents new research findings from the Urban Climate Lab at Georgia Tech in discussion with Doug Kelbaugh, author of The Urban Fix: Resilient Cities in the War Against Climate Chang...
Episode 15: Redesigning Cities and Suburbs for Women
November 19, 2020 00:00 - 55 minutes - 76.8 MBDolores 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 Ge...
Episode 14: Redesigning Cities with the Green New Deal
October 14, 2020 00:00 - 58 minutes - 80 MBWhat 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.
Episode 13: Redesigning Cities’ Integration of Ecology with Technology
May 20, 2020 00:00 - 28 minutes - 40.3 MBMarcel 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
Episode 12 - Building Carbon Positive Cities
April 20, 2020 00:00 - 53 minutes - 73 MBAlan 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
Episode 11: Redesigning Cities with Philanthropy
February 02, 2020 22:20 - 41 minutes - 60.6 MBCarol 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
Episode 10: Redesigning Low-Status Communities
February 02, 2020 22:13 - 41 minutes - 57.6 MBMajora 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
Episode 9 (Part 1 of 2) - Newsweek Momentum Awards
November 12, 2019 02:33 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MBListen 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?...
Episode 9 (Part 2 of 2) - Newsweek Momentum Awards
November 12, 2019 00:00 - 34 minutes - 47.4 MBListen 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.
Episode 8 - Redesigning Cities' Investments in Transportation Infrastructure
November 12, 2019 00:00 - 52 minutes - 72.3 MBChuch 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
Episode 7: Redesigning Cities with Carbon Pricing Markets
October 20, 2019 00:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBA conversation about carbon pricing and how it relates to the built environment through offset marketing strategies.
Episode 6: Gentrification without Displacement?
June 01, 2019 00:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBEpisode 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
Episode 5: Redesigning Cities Against Climate Change
April 23, 2019 00:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBEpisode 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
Episode 4: Redesigning Cities for the Collaborative Economy
April 23, 2019 00:00 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBEpisode 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 ...
Episode 2: Retrofitting Suburbia Too
April 07, 2019 00:00 - 41 minutes - 31.5 MBEpisode 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=Q0GqNWrPuR...
Episode 3: Redesigning Cities' Parks as Social Infrastructure
April 07, 2019 00:00 - 46 minutes - 34.8 MBEpisode 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
Episode 1: Redesigning Cities with Autonomous Vehicles
April 07, 2019 00:00 - 41 minutes - 31.8 MBEpisode 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