Challenger Cities
Iain MontgomeryQuite possibly the world's most eclectic and unconventional urbanism podcast. The sort of thing you'll be into if you like cities beyond the traditional planning, architecture and policy realm. Initiated in Toronto, now global.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 134 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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Challenger Cities EP86: How the Robocars Meet the Curb with Bern Grush
I want to get something out of the way early. I like cars. I really do. I just don’t much like cars downtown. If you spend enough time making the case for cycling or public transport, people assume you’ve declared war on the car and everyon...
Challenger Cities EP85: Canada Needs a Railway Architect with Michael Schabas
Michael Schabas decided at the age of ten that he wanted to build railways, which he cheerfully points out, is a career almost engineered for disappointment. Railways are rather expensive to build, we already have quite a few of them and th...
Challenger Cities EP84: The De-Risking Industrial Complex with Richard Fisher
As I do more work in rail, I keep being reminded that it is sector that does actually love the idea of innovation. There is much funding if you know where to look for it, and some of it will fund you to mock ideas up, invite you to some nic...
What If We Made It Wonderful?
I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again, I don’t like going to conferences.
Most of them are tremendously dull, formulaic and designed to fill an agenda rather than do something somewhat magic by getting a diverse collection of peopl...
Stop complaining about Toronto. Start doing something about it. A story from the Salon.
As I try to push Challenger Cities in some different directions, so that it’s not just another podcast and a series of opinion pieces on cities, a rather fun experiment has been what may or may not pass as a ‘salon’. The latest of which rec...
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I turn frustration with the status quo into strategy, ideas and momentum behind next, rather than best practices. Working with curious leaders in companies and cities to unlock something new, and help them start making it real.
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