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Marwa Al-Sabouni: The Architecture of Peace
Cityspeak - September 21, 2022 18:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsMarwa Al-Sabouni is an architect born, raised, and presently living in Syria. Despite the outbreak of the civil war in 2011, Al-Sabouni chose to remain in her home country, a decision which has shaped her philosophy as an architect. Al-Sabouni explains how architecture can influence whether a s...
Brad Hargreaves: The Co-Living Movement
Cityspeak - September 12, 2022 21:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsLiving with roommates is no longer a lifestyle reserved for college students. In the last five years, as many as one in five individuals aged 40 and above lives with roommates, depending on the location. Capitalizing on this trend are companies like Common, a real estate developer and operator...
Emily Hamilton: Inclusionary Zoning and Its Exclusionary Effects
Cityspeak - September 05, 2022 19:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsInclusionary zoning is a policy born of good intentions. On its face, inclusionary zoning policies mandate that real estate developers allocate a certain percentage of new residential units to affordable housing. But do these policies achieve their intended aim? Emily Hamilton, a senior resear...
Viggy Ganapathy: If R2-D2 Delivered Pizza
Cityspeak - August 29, 2022 16:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsFamed urbanist Jane Jacobs once compared the city sidewalk to a ballet, calling it a "complex order...always replete with new improvisations." Soon, this ballet will feature a new dancer: robots. Viggy Ganapathy is the head of government relations at Serve Robotics, a company designing small, f...
Alex Israel: The Shape of Parking to Come
Cityspeak - July 12, 2022 01:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAlex Israel is the CEO and founder of Metropolis, a mobility technology company that has set its sights on the one of the largest, but frequently overlooked fixtures of the modern city: parking.
Dylan Casey: Suing Cities for Housing
Cityspeak - June 22, 2022 16:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhat does one do when cities stop permitting housing? Sue them. Dylan Casey is the Executive Director of the California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund, an organization that has set out to compel cities through legal action to permit new housing in California.
Anne-Claire Binter: Urban Design and Child Cognitive Health
Cityspeak - June 14, 2022 16:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsAny parent knows that it is during a child's earliest years that one ought to be the most careful. What they eat, what they watch, even what they listen to are all factors known to have an effect on a child's development. Now, according to a new study, there is yet another factor to add to the l...
Jordan Justus: Decongesting the Curb
Cityspeak - June 07, 2022 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe rise of e-commerce and on-demand delivery has jammed up the curbside with delivery vehicles. Frequently, these vehicles are left double-parked as their drivers race to drop off everything from large packages to personal-size pizzas. Jordan Justus is the founder and CEO of Automotus, a compan...
Bjarke Ingels, Roni Bahar, Nick Chim: Homes Should Be Products, Too
Cityspeak - May 24, 2022 17:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsHow to solve as stubborn a problem as housing affordability? Perhaps start by putting an entrepreneur, a technologist, and a world-famous architect in the same room. Bjarke Ingels, Roni Bahar, and Nick Chim talk about their latest venture Nabr, a startup on a mission to put more people on a path...
Ritu Narayan: Upgrading the Yellow School Bus
Cityspeak - May 10, 2022 14:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThe design of school buses in the U.S. has remained mostly unchanged for decades, yet school buses make up the largest public transportation system in the country, moving 27 million children every day. Hear from Ritu Narayan, the founder and CEO of Zūm, a startup that has set out to give the yel...
Joel Klein: Why Public School Is the Best Place to Learn from Others (Especially in NYC)
Cityspeak - May 03, 2022 14:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsJoel Klein graduated from public high school in Queens in 1963. Nearly 40 years later, he was appointed Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education. Tune in for the former Chancellor's views on public education in the nation's biggest cities.
Bert Kaufman: Make Way for the Self-Driving Cars
Cityspeak - April 26, 2022 02:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsBert Kaufman is the head of corporate and regulatory affairs at Zoox, the autonomous vehicle arm of Amazon. He discusses what's in store for cities when self-driving cars eventually roam the earth.
U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy: Infrastructure, Infrastructure, Infrastructure
Cityspeak - April 19, 2022 02:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsU.S. Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana was part of a coterie of ten Senators largely responsible for getting the $1 trillion infrastructure package to the President's desk. In this special edition of Cityspeak, he discusses the importance of infrastructure spending for U.S. cities and towns and ...
Sheila Foster: A Fresh Approach to Urban Governance
Cityspeak - April 12, 2022 01:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsProfessor Sheila Foster is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Urban Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center, where she researches and lectures on environmental law and justice, urban land use law and policy, and state and local government. In her upcoming book, Co-Cities, she proposes...
William Butler-Adams: How the Brompton Bicycle Redefined City Living
Cityspeak - April 05, 2022 15:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWill Butler-Adams is the CEO of Brompton Bicycle, the manufacturer of the world-renowned Brompton folding bike. The Brompton is beloved by urban cyclists around the world and is for many the embodiment of city living.
Vince Bertoni: How to Plan the City of Angels
Cityspeak - June 09, 2021 17:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn the season finale of CitySpeak, Los Angeles City Planning Director Vince Bertoni shares some of the joys and challenges of running one of the largest urban planning organizations in the nation.
Yan Krymsky: Gas Stations in the Age of Electric Vehicles
Cityspeak - May 25, 2021 19:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWith nearly 600 gas stations dotting the Los Angeles landscape, the rise of the electric vehicle presents an opportunity for the city to repurpose a significant portion of its urban fabric. Yan Krymsky, a design director at Perkins&Will, discusses some of his ideas for what L.A.—and other car-ce...
Eric Jaffe: Sidewalk Labs and Its Vision for Urban Innovation
Cityspeak - April 28, 2021 17:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsEric Jaffe is the Editorial Director at Sidewalk Labs, an urban innovation company with a plan to tackle sustainability and affordability in cities around the world. Eric joins Max to highlight some of the company’s revolutionary technologies.
Ken Steif: Data and Decision-Making in the Public Sector
Cityspeak - April 06, 2021 20:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsKen Steif is a data scientist, city planner, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, where he leads the school’s Master of Urban Spatial Analytics program. In his new book Public Policy Analytics, he explains how the public sector can catch up to private indust...
Saskia Sassen: The City’s Sociologist
Cityspeak - March 23, 2021 17:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsSaskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University where she researches globalization and migration in the context of global cities, a term which she coined in her 1991 book of the same name. Professor Sassen looks back on the three decades since the publication of...
Tyler Duvall: Roads Become Autonomous
Cityspeak - March 09, 2021 19:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsTyler Duvall is the CEO of Cavnue, a company that is designing and building roads optimized for autonomous vehicles. He joins Max to answer a central question: What will the infrastructure of the future look like?
Carlo Ratti: Where the Digital and Physical Worlds Collide
Cityspeak - February 23, 2021 18:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn the season premiere of CitySpeak, Max Masuda-Farkas is joined by engineer, architect, and inventor Carlo Ratti. Ratti is the head of MIT’s Senseable City Lab, where he leads a team of researchers designing technologies for the cities of tomorrow.
Karin Liljegren: Restoring the Past Through Adaptive Reuse Architecture
Cityspeak - August 18, 2020 18:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsKarin Liljegren is the founder and principal of Omgivning, an architecture and interior design firm that specializes in taking old buildings and giving them a new life. This practice is known as adaptive reuse architecture, and a quick glance at Omgivning’s portfolio will reveal that it is at th...
Jonathan Lee: Mortgage Banking and Lending During the Pandemic
Cityspeak - August 04, 2020 18:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsJonathan Lee is a Principal and Managing Director of George Smith Partners, a national provider of capital market services to the commercial real estate industry. Jonathan joins Max to discuss the impacts that the pandemic has had on real estate lending and the changes he foresees for the wider ...
Samantha Millman: The L.A. City Planning Commission, Where Developers and Neighbors Square Off
Cityspeak - July 21, 2020 17:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsSamantha Millman is the President of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, the central forum for members of the public to voice their opinions on the real estate development projects under consideration in their city. Tensions run high at the Commission—the casual observer could easily mista...
Doane Liu: COVID-19, Convention Centers, and Our New Fear of Flying
Cityspeak - July 07, 2020 17:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsDoane Liu is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Department of Convention and Tourism Development. His sole mission—to raise up Los Angeles’ status as a convention and tourism destination—has been dealt a serious setback ever since the coronavirus spread across the Southland. Max and Doane...
James Arnone: Regulating Land Use During a Housing Crisis
Cityspeak - June 22, 2020 22:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsJim Arnone is in his thirtieth year as a partner at international law firm Latham & Watkins. As the firm’s Global Chair of the Environment, Land & Resources Department, Jim has helped his clients navigate the uncertain and treacherous terrain that is California land use law. Over the course of h...
Bruce Katz: The Local Economy Meets the Global Pandemic
Cityspeak - June 09, 2020 18:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn the season premiere of CitySpeak, Max Masuda-Farkas is joined over Zoom by Bruce Katz, co-author of The New Localism and Executive Director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab. Bruce has spent his career churning out new ideas for how cities can maintain their preeminence as the engines of economi...
Season 2 Trailer - Bruce Katz
Cityspeak - May 28, 2020 19:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsCitySpeak is back. In the season premiere of CitySpeak Season 2, Max is joined by Bruce Katz, co-author of The New Localism and Executive Director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab. Tune in June 9.
Eric Owen Moss: The Architect Who Reads the Classics
Cityspeak - September 16, 2019 19:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsEric Owen Moss is the principal and lead designer of his eponymously named architecture firm Eric Owen Moss Architects. Alongside his formidable portfolio of international projects, Mr. Moss is widely known for almost single-handedly designing the Culver City neighborhood known as the Hayden Tra...
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