Latest #urbaninnovation Podcast Episodes
Post-Pandemic City
Technopolis - July 08, 2021 11:38 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsWhen startups want to fight city hall, many turn to Bradley Tusk. Fresh off advising Andrew Yang in his unsuccessful mayoral bid in New York City, the political “fixer” and host of the Firewall Podcast talks with Molly and Jim on this collaborative, joint episode on how the pandemic may have perm...
Climate Resilient City
Technopolis - May 14, 2021 12:04 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsMolly and Jim are back with a special collaboration episode with "pod-friend" Shayle Kann from The Interchange podcast. They chat about the challenges of making our cities more climate resilient and the role of tech, government, insurance companies, and the public in securing our communities aga...
Open Street City
Technopolis - September 22, 2020 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsFor the final episode of our COVID miniseries, Molly and Jim consider the disparities in how people are getting around cities during the pandemic, and who is benefitting from closed streets and new forms of mobility. They talk to urban mobility expert Tamika Butler, who shares why she thinks bic...
Care City
Technopolis - September 15, 2020 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsThe people who go to work in other people's homes perform essential jobs - like house cleaners, nannies, elder care workers - but lack the same rights and protections as other workers. In the second installment of our coronavirus miniseries, Jim and Molly talk with Palak Shah of the National Dom...
Restaurant City
Technopolis - September 07, 2020 11:24 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsIn this first installment of our COVID miniseries, Jim and Molly explore how the pandemic might transform our cities and focus on something we're all missing right now: going out to restaurants. They talk to Yi Chen from the restaurant tech startup Toast about how the pandemic will change the wa...
Wired City
Technopolis - June 11, 2019 04:01 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsAre we at risk of creating a permanent digital underclass? Internet access has become essential for modern American life, but current policies don't treat it that way. In this special bonus episode, Jim and Molly talk to Maya Wiley about a core piece of the infrastructure for our tech future: br...
Golden City
Technopolis - June 04, 2019 06:23 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsCan Wakanda's capital city teach us to build better cities in the real world? For as long as there have been movies, there have been fictional visions of tech-forward futures. But few cities on film have inspired the awe of urbanists like Black Panther's Golden City, devised by production design...
Sponsor Content - The Future of Work
Technopolis - April 25, 2019 04:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsHow are cities who once relied on a single industry adapting to the demands of the changing 21st Century economy? On this sponsor content episode, the CityLab marketing team partnered with WeWork to explore how cities are creating dynamic private and public spaces to answer the challeng...
Feedback City
Technopolis - April 16, 2019 04:20 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsIs tech making it easier for us to talk to our cities? Changed bus routes. A shuttered park. How many times has your city made a decision affecting you that you didn't know about until after it happened? This persistent communication gap is one of the great conundrums for many city leaders. And ...
Delivery City
Technopolis - April 09, 2019 04:01 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsWill food delivery apps kill your favorite neighborhood restaurant? The tech-fueled delivery economy is already having a dramatic impact on how some restaurants do business. Will it also transform our neighborhoods? And should we feel guilty about ordering that coffee and donut directly to our d...
Nudge City
Technopolis - April 02, 2019 04:01 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsCan tech help cities nudge us to live better lives, without things getting weird? In this episode, we look at how technology is making the popular behavioral science tool known as a "nudge" more prevalent in cities, from tackling sign-ups for food stamps to reducing congestion downtown. Molly an...
Techlash City
Technopolis - March 26, 2019 04:01 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsWhen a new tech innovation comes to town, we can't always know what its impacts will be before it floods the market. And yet, increasingly, some city governments and residents are having a particularly strong reaction to certain kinds of tech startups: Shut. It. Down. Is that the right reaction?...
Battery City
Technopolis - March 19, 2019 04:01 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsWill every building in your city one day be powered by a battery? Are batteries the key to our cities' energy future? In this episode, Molly and Jim look at how energy storage could change everything about how we turn on the lights and get around town. And they'll explore how renewable energy mi...
Disruptor City
Technopolis - March 12, 2019 04:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsShould startups ask permission from cities before they drop their tech on city streets? Or are they right to just show up and seek forgiveness later? Molly and Jim wrestle with the legacy of Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb—and the real-time dramas playing out in cities today with dockless scooters and bi...
Self-Driving City
Technopolis - March 05, 2019 05:01 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsWhat does our future really look like when autonomous vehicles take over the roads? Molly and Jim take us on a tour of the less-considered effects: vomit, sex, and criminalized pedestrians. But also: Will self-driving cars carry our groceries before they carry us? They talk with Nan Ransohoff, t...
Venture-Backed City
Technopolis - February 26, 2019 01:58 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsWhy are investors pouring so much cash into urban startups? On this first episode of Technopolis, hosts Molly Turner and Jim Kapsis follow the money behind the explosion in urban tech. When did investors decide to get so involved in our sidewalks? Jim and Molly speak with Jason Calacanis, early ...
Trailer
Technopolis - January 08, 2019 22:16 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 212 ratingsTechnology is reshaping our cities—often without permission and sometimes without a clue. Hosted by urban innovation expert Molly Turner and startup advisor Jim Kapsis, the new podcast from CityLab will ask the questions nobody is asking about what needs to change for tech to help solve more pro...
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