Latest Urbandevelopment 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 ...
VPCP #25 | Bertram at Bernard Block in Kelowna by Mission Group with Luke Turri
Vancouver Presale Condos Podcast - February 12, 2020 17:02 - 11 minutesBertram at Bernard Block is the newest building coming to downtown Kelowna’s historic core. Bertram is the second offering in Mission Group’s incredible Bernard Block Urban Village Plan and a nice complement to the previous offering, Brooklyn. Bertram at Bernard Block is a 34-story concrete con...
Bonus Episode: Mark Truman Appeals To Investors To Rescue The Arc Vector
Merge Now - October 04, 2019 04:33 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsI first discovered the Arc Vector in a series of intriguing patent filings that led first to a story about the high-end electric motorcycle's mind-blowing tech, and then to an episode of MergeNow with the founder Mark Truman. Today Mark is back on the show under difficult circumstances: a major ...
#14: Tarani Duncan of Shared on "Scooter 2.0"
Merge Now - October 03, 2019 22:10 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsThee "Year Of The Scooter" brought cheap little Xiaomi and Ninebot standup scooters to cities around the world, opening the public's eyes to the joys of micromobility in places where the concept of lightweight, shared electric vehicles had never been considered. In the nine months since, howeve...
Episode #13: Jon Mullen of Righthook, Introduces his Open Scenario Language
Merge Now - September 25, 2019 16:09 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsAs autonomous drive development marches forward and collaboration accelerates, a new need is emerging: a language that can standardize descriptions of driving scenarios. Not only is such a language important for inter- and intra-team collaboration, but it will someday make it possible for regul...
Episode #12: Hong Quan of Karmic Bikes on the eBike Business and Micromobility's Future
Merge Now - September 18, 2019 14:55 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsThanks to the explosive growth of scooter companies during 2018's "Year of the Scooter," a lot of the American public's understanding of Micromobility seems to begin and end with tiny-wheeled, semi-disposable Limes and Birds.Outside the US, however, eBikes are booming and companies like Karmic B...
VPCP #24 | The Theodore in Calgary by Graywood Developments with Heather Lloyd and Patrick Briscoe
Vancouver Presale Condos Podcast - September 12, 2019 18:32 - 20 minutesA landmark building is coming to Calgary’s Kensington neighbourhood – The Theodore by Graywood Developments. 10 storeys, 115 units, with 8,000 sq.ft. of new commercial space in an amazing location. The building offers 2 bedroom, 1 bedroom and junior 1 bedroom homes boasting quality finishings, g...
Episode #11: Jason Stinson of Renovo on Selling the Picks and Shovels of the Autonomous Gold Rush
Merge Now - August 21, 2019 20:23 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsWould you be surprised to learn that a number of autonomous vehicle development programs offload data from their test vehicles by physically pulling out a hard drive and shipping it by snail mail to a cloud services provider? When Jason Stinson, the co-founder of the AV ecosystem company Renovo,...
VPCP #23 | SEAandSKY in Squamish by BlueSky Properties with Dale Bosa and Daryl Simpson
Vancouver Presale Condos Podcast - August 02, 2019 16:13 - 11 minutes53 acres, 8 kilometers of trails, 4 acres of parkland on the water, located underneath the Chief Mountain. This is the new SEAandSKY development by BlueSky Properties in Squamish! 2 and 3 Bedroom, ground oriented, wood-frame townhomes and apartments tucked between Howe Sound and the mountains o...
Episode #10: Alysin Malek of May Mobility on the Autonomous Urban Shuttle Business
Merge Now - July 31, 2019 17:45 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsAs The Drive's recent reporting on the struggles of the French autonomous low-speed shuttle company Navya demonstrate, building a business around autonomous drive technology in the short term is tough. Growing without overextending, deploying while continuing to develop and weighing cost pressur...
Episode #9: Mike Granoff of Maniv Mobility
Merge Now - July 17, 2019 19:14 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsI was covering the traditional auto industry when I first met Mike Granoff of Maniv Mobility, and looking back I realize that he was the person who introduced me to the way of thinking about cars and mobility that has grown into my obsession with "mobility technology." At the time Mike was work...
VPCP #22 | Soleil in White Rock by RDG Management with Craig Anderson
Vancouver Presale Condos Podcast - July 09, 2019 03:53 - 21 minutesSoleil in White Rock is all about location – amazing water views in an amenity rich building in the heart of downtown, just steps from all the shops and services you will ever need. This 26-floor, concrete, air-conditioned building has been designed with the established White Rock resident in mi...
Episode #8: Bryan Salesky of Argo AI On The Evolution Of Autonomy
Merge Now - June 26, 2019 18:11 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsIn 2007, Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing team won the DARPA urban challenge and kicked off the push for autonomous vehicles that now has real cars driving on real roads and will soon birth real businesses. Bryan Salesky was a key contributor to Tartan's victory, and he has taken the expertise h...
Episode #7: Building The Motorcycle Of The Future, with ARC Vehicles CEO Mark Truman
Merge Now - June 20, 2019 13:59 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsThe most exciting new mobility technologies are most typically being used to make vehicles safer and more efficient, but why aren't more being used to take the enjoyment of enthusiast driving to new levels? At the new electric motorcycle startup ARC Vehicles, that's exactly what's happening. On...
Episode #6: Dan Albert on The Automobile's Past, Present and Future
Merge Now - June 12, 2019 18:08 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 12 ratingsWhen you stand on the brink of staggering change, the path forward can often be found by looking back. That's the premise of Dan Albert's excellent new book Are We There Yet? The American Automobile Past, Present and Driverless, which scours the history of cars in the United States for clues abo...
Episode #5: Why HD Mapping Matters, With Shaun Stewart
Merge Now - June 05, 2019 21:17 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsElon Musk's lidar bashing has grabbed public attention and dominated conversations about autonomous drive technology, but his dismissal of high definition mapping has flown under the radar. According to Shaun Stewart, a Waymo veteran and new advisor and investor at the mapping startup Carmera, w...
Episode #4: Trevor Reed of INRIX on Traffic and Mobility
Merge Now - May 29, 2019 18:03 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsINRIX collects a huge amount of location-based data that it turns into insights into parking and traffic, powering popular apps like Waze and helping cities manage mobility challenges. In its recent Global Traffic Scorecard, INRIX looks into its massive horde of data to understand where and how ...
Episode #3: Oliver Bruce On The Year Of The Scooter
Merge Now - May 22, 2019 14:51 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratings2018 was without doubt "the year of the scooter," as brand-new startups grew at dizzying rates and micromobility replaced autonomous vehicles as the hottest trend in mobility technology. Oliver Bruce has been at the center of all the excitement, partnering with the legendary Horace Dediu to lau...
Episode #2: Dr Missy Cummings on MIT's Autopilot Study
Merge Now - May 17, 2019 18:24 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsLex Fridman's recent Autopilot study has received a lot of attention, both for its provocative claims about how the Tesla driver assistance system is used in the real world and for its questionable methodology. This week, Dr Missy Cummings of Duke University joins the show to help walk us throug...
Episode #1: Doubting Driverless Dilemmas with Sam Anthony and Julian De Freitas of Harvard
Merge Now - May 08, 2019 17:19 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsOne of the most popular topics related to driverless cars is the idea of moral dilemmas, often presented in terms of the "trolley problem" where a driving agent must decide between two bad choices. Beyond the popular discourse, academics have even devoted considerable time to the issue of moral ...
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