Latest Livable Podcast Episodes
Mashup of Debates: Designing the Irresistible Circular Society
Bloxhub Debates - August 31, 2022 13:06 - 36 minutesThis episode of Circular Passions is a mashup of four debates we held in the fall of 2021 on designing the irresistible circular society. In it you will hear from a whole range of experts and professionals about circular economy and how we can reach a circular transition. The debates and panel...
LEADING THE WAY TO MAXIMUM STANDARDS FOR HEALTHY BUILDINGS
Bloxhub Debates - August 06, 2021 12:56 - 1 hourWe have a lot of knowledge about healthy buildings, what is a healthy building and why should we all live, work, and spend time in healthy buildings. From light, indoor air quality, temperature, acoustics to space – we know a lot. But why do we not build healthy buildings as the most natural t...
WATER SAFE CITIES
Bloxhub Debates - July 27, 2021 10:57 - 1 hourThe COVID-19 pandemic has exposed how vulnerable cities are to extreme events and has brought the inequalities that exist in our societies into stark focus. It has demonstrated that the poorest and most vulnerable are often exposed to greater risk and find it harder to access essential services....
IS USER-CENTRIC ARCHITECTURE A GOOD INVESTMENT?
Bloxhub Debates - July 11, 2021 13:04 - 1 hourThe situation: Architecture is about more than designing building envelopes to protect our belongings from the outside world. Buildings affect our lives, our health and our ability to restitute. More and more studies show that even simple building design decisions can have a significant impact o...
GREEN BUILDINGS - GREEN JOBS
Bloxhub Debates - July 06, 2021 12:27 - 1 hourBuilding retrofits and clean construction are key to a greener, healthier future with opportunities for everyone. Buildings typically represent the biggest source of emissions in C40 cities. And recent C40 research shows that while a green and just recovery could create over 50 million good, s...
CITY OF POSSIBILITIES
Bloxhub Debates - June 15, 2021 09:55 - 1 hourCity of Possibilities - How can we ensure adaptive re-use of urban space to fit the current needs of cities? During Covid-19 we have gotten used to images of deserted cities under lockdown and news of people moving out of the city centres. Recalling memories of vibrant urban spaces this debate...
HOW INDOOR LIGHTING IS AFFECTING YOUR HEALTH
Bloxhub Debates - April 22, 2021 12:38 - 1 hourHow indoor lighting is affecting your health: a look beyond aesthetics and energy efficiency. Just as air, food, and water – light is a natural and vital source to our health. To most people, the absorption of light is an unconscious choice in life. It’s everywhere, always. But often not in a ...
THE AIR WE BREATH
Bloxhub Debates - April 15, 2021 12:51 - 1 hourWe know healthy buildings depend on good air quality. But what is good air quality and just how advanced are we on knowledge, technology and in the business of running buildings on an everyday level? Join us for our BLOXHUb Debates where we focus on the latest research findings, the state of...
THE AIR WE BREATHE
Bloxhub Debates - April 15, 2021 12:51 - 1 hourWe know healthy buildings depend on good air quality. But what is good air quality and just how advanced are we on knowledge, technology and in the business of running buildings on an everyday level? Join us for our BLOXHUb Debates where we focus on the latest research findings, the state of...
THE VALUE OF SOUND - HOW DO WE GET BETTER ACOUSTICS IN ARCHITECTURE
Bloxhub Debates - April 13, 2021 14:00 - 1 hourOur indoor climate has a significant impact on our health and cognitive functions. Study after study shows that our wellbeing and performance improves dramatically with higher rates of ventilation, optimal humidity, lightning, noise control and well-designed spaces. So, what does it take to turn...
CAN CITIES FIX A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD ORDER?
Bloxhub Debates - March 18, 2021 09:08 - 59 minutesMoving towards a green and just recovery What does it take to deliver an equitable and sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic? Which role can cities play in delivering a green and just recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic? And what will it take to create green jobs, invest in public ...
A Bottom Up Revolution - Chuck Marohn
Livable City - August 18, 2020 13:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhat do city budgets, wise infrastructure investments and mom and pop shops have to do with a livable city? Turns out, quite a lot. If our cities and our towns can’t make wise and measured investments in the right things, then it’s going to struggle to be a place that people can thrive in....
Ecodesign for Cities & Suburbs (Part II) - Larry Beasley & Jonathan Barnett
Livable City - August 04, 2020 01:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsPart II of the conversation with Larry Beasley and Jonathan Barnett. Why do we even live in cities? There's been a lot of criticism about them during the pandemic which makes this the perfect time to reflect on this very question. Larry and Jonathan discuss this and much more in this second ha...
Ecodesign for Cities & Suburbs (Part I) - Larry Beasley & Jonathan Barnett
Livable City - July 22, 2020 02:49 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIf you were in a position to lead a plan to make your city more livable, how would you do it, what would you do? How would you go about instilling your vision for greater livability but in close collaboration with your fellow city residents, how would you do that? My two guests today for part o...
Reimagine Your Neighborhood - Jeffery Tompkins
Livable City - July 06, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsAs they say, a picture is worth 1000 words. And when something in your neighborhood or your city has been a certain way for decades or even hundreds of years, it’s easy to forget that a physical place or the places where neighbors come together to know one another can, in fact, change for the b...
Expand the Conversation - Kea Wilson
Livable City - June 23, 2020 00:54 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHow do we know if our cities are livable? There are many cities that you’ve visited that have felt much more or much less livable to you compared to the one you call home. And this is no different than how livable other peoples’ homes feel to you compared to your own home. But the difference wit...
Transit is an Essential Service - Steven Higashide
Livable City - June 08, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhat’s the role of transportation in the livability foundation of a city? Even more specifically, what’s the role of public transit in making a city more livable? In places where transit has long been neglected, many might even think that public transit might diminish the livability of a place b...
More Human Places - Andre Vasquez
Livable City - May 25, 2020 17:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn the midst of the unpredictability that has come with the COVID-19 pandemic, at least one thing has become quite true: many of the world’s cities desperately need more space. What kind of space are we talking about? Not necessarily private space, like a backyard, but a repurposing of exi...
Streets are for Living First! - Mike Lydon
Livable City - May 11, 2020 15:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsOne of the most powerful and unpredicted outcomes so far from the Coronavirus pandemic has been the immediate change in how the world’s city streets are used. Pre-pandemic, many cities’ streets were mostly dedicated to moving motor vehicles back and forth in a monotonous rhythm of the daily comm...
Should I become a professional urban planner? - Austin Gibble
Livable City - April 28, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsDo you need to become an urban planning professional in order to make more livable cities? Do you need to study civil engineering in order to help design safer neighborhood streets? The answer is, yes sometimes, but not always. The story behind today’s guest, Austin Gibble, will help give you ...
Is Density Making us Sick? - Yonah Freemark
Livable City - April 13, 2020 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThe debate is not a new one and yet it feels like the world wonders for the first time, do dense cities inherently make us more prone to becoming infected with something like a Coronavirus? It turns out, the answer isn’t as simple as it might at first seem to be. I debate this with special guest...
The War on Cars? Part II - Doug Gordon
Livable City - April 06, 2020 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsPart II of my conversation with Doug Gordon, host of The War on Cars podcast and local better streets advocate in Brooklyn, NY. In this part we get even deeper on the way cars have impacted our cities and Doug has some very good advice on how you can begin to push back on cars where you live. ...
The War on Cars? Part I - Doug Gordon
Livable City - March 24, 2020 02:40 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsAre we talking about a literal war on cars here...not quite. Cars do have their legitimate place in our cities. But in many cities they’ve become the only real and viable way of getting around for millions of people and that comes with many, many problems unleashed on society at large. So where ...
Transit Increases Livability - Jeff Wood
Livable City - March 09, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHow does transit affect the livability of a place? Turns out, quite a bit. My guest today, Jeff Wood of the Talking Headways podcast, talks about how important it is to be able to experience your city through as many different transportation options as possible. A commonly held belief, parti...
Calmer, More Enjoyable Cities - Chris & Melissa Bruntlett
Livable City - February 24, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHow calm and enjoyable is your neighborhood, your town, your city? I’m not talking about a sleepy place where very little is going on, but a vibrant place that is still, even while bustling, calm and enjoyable for the vast majority of people who live there or move through it. If not your town or...
Think AND Do - Gary Reiter
Livable City - February 10, 2020 17:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhat does it take to lead change? Ultimately, it means taking action and not just getting stuck thinking about taking action. For my guest today, Gary Reiter, this was a conscious decision that he wrestled with and ultimately decided on if he was to help make a difference in his neighborhood in ...
Bike Lane Uprising! - Christina Whitehouse
Livable City - January 27, 2020 17:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsBike lanes are sometimes controversial in communities because they’re seen as something encroaching on the space, efficiency and our limited time in getting somewhere by car. Love cars or hate them, for many places in the world they’re the primary and many times only current way of getting somew...
Art + empathy heal neighborhoods - Joanna Taft
Livable City - January 13, 2020 17:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsGentrification, cultural shifts, crime, unsafe streets, poverty and disconnection. They all sound pretty bleak especially when considered together. But my guest, Joanna Taft, has been experimenting along with her neighbors in the Herron Morton neighborhood in Indianapolis and have found some re...
Love for all things local - Jacob Moses
Livable City - December 30, 2019 17:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsA tough but real pair of questions: do you know anyone, are you good friends with anyone within a short walk of your home? And how much of your life can you live everyday without needed to leave it to buy something? In this episode, I interview Jacob Moses where he talks about these kinds ...
Trains > Cars, All Aboard! - Mike Christensen
Livable City - December 16, 2019 17:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThat's right, trains are greater than cars if you care about livable places. There, I said it - now for some background... Have you ever experienced something so transformational that it caused you to make a major shift in how you do something? My guest for this episode, Mike Christensen, h...
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