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 | 128 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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Challenger Cities EP82: The Purpose is Not the Function with Sam Peart
There’s a moment in this week’s conversation with Sam Peart, Global Head of Sustainability at Hassell, where she describes a question she asks design teams when a brief lands.
“What’s the purpose of this project?”
“Oh, it’s to deliv...
Challenger Cities EP81: A Chair in the City and a Stool at the Rouge with Ken Greenberg
One of the most useful thing Ken Greenberg has done for cities is not really a building, a park or a masterplan. It might be a room.
Specifically, it is a series of rooms, in three different cities, over decades. They might have had a mode...
Challenger Cities EP80: The Materials of Cities with Saurabh Mangla
I met Saurabh Mangla in Singapore on a day I was hot, tired and kinda ready to just go for a beer. Then he showed me his lab, and the beer had to wait. He started a furniture brand called Ipse Ipsa Ipsum about a decade ago … think affordabl...
The Value Nobody Currently Owns ... on Lovability and People Who Notice.
A lot of the recent episodes of the podcast episodes have come back, in a few different ways, to the idea of permission. Sometimes where we lack it, or maybe where we have it but act or think as though we don’t. In some cases it could be so...
Challenger Cities EP79: The Best Practice Industrial Complex with Gerald Babel-Sutter
There’s a sentence that absolutely slaps in this conversation. Gerald Babel-Sutter is describing a beer he had with a city official in Graz (that’s in Austria), about fifteen years ago … a conversation that, without either of them knowing 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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