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 | 143 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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Manchester ... The Most Self-Narrating City on Earth
Britain is about to do something it almost never does … promote a mayor. Andy Burnham has run Greater Manchester for nearly a decade, and as he becomes Prime Minister this week, he's setting out a stall to run the country the way he ran a c...
Challenger Cities EP93: The Maker is the Medium with Florence Okin and Sam Cohen
You cannot build a humane, serendipitous city with teams who are transactional, risk-averse and don’t really know themselves.
This episode is the sort of argument that can be tough to have with very logical, rational and ‘serious’ types t...
Challenger Cities EP92: Cities Are Mental Weapons with Giacomo Biraghi
Giacomo Biraghi wanted to be a mayor when he grew up. As a little kid, he told me, he wanted to play Lego, build cities and govern them, and somewhere along the way the game became the career. He studied at LSE Cities, has all the books abo...
Challenger Cities EP91: Expanding Your Luck Surface Area with Matt Ballantine
Challenger Cities has been generously described as “the world’s most eclectic podcast about urbanism” … which is something I have deliberately embraced, and intend to keep earning the label. So this episode is deliberately a bit of a random...
Challenger Cities EP90: It Only Sounds Mad Because We Think Small with Shiv Malik
Jackie Sadek thought it was a stupid idea, and she said so in the Telegraph. “This just is not credible. Who are these guys? Do they have any expertise at all? I appreciate that strange things do happen but not in the property development i...
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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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