City Centric is a podcast series from the Centric Lab, a neuroscience research lab working at the intersection of health x climate change x cities. We believe that a person can only have agency over their health when they are part of a supportive ecosystem, which includes the places they inhabit. The podcast focuses on conversations around how our understanding of health needs to improve in order to overcome present day health challenges and prepare our urban environments for future changes. ...
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Welcome to a new episode of Healing Futures, part of the Urban Health Council.This conversation is between neuroscientist and health activist Araceli Camargo, data ethics and facilitator Daniel Akinola-Odusola, and medical student and climate campaigner Amit Singh. It is based on a body of work being produced within the Urban Health Council on what…
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Healing Imaginations | "I am The Extension Of My Territory", A Conversation With Angela Camacho
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“I am the extension of my territory, that’s healing”- Angela Camacho--------------------------------------------------------Healing Imaginations is project that provides a time and space to Peoples to think about healing.In time this space will turn into a robust digital library of healing practices rooted in Kinship and Solidarity.You can read mor…
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Healing Imaginations | Our Invisible Friends With Dr. Jake Robinson
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"Every time we take a breath, we really must be grateful to these microbial life forms. They've produced the oxygen, allowing us to breathe"Dr. Jake Robinson--------------------------------------------------------Healing Imaginations is project that provides a time and space to Peoples to think about healing. In time this space will turn into a rob…
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Planetary Dysregulation, Capitalism, And Healthcare | Episode 4 - Capital Systems
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The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has …
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Planetary Dysregulation, Capitalism, And Healthcare | Episode 3 - Health Systems
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The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has …
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Planetary Dysregulation, Capitalism, And Healthcare | Episode 2 - Epistemologies
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The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has …
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Planetary Dysregulation, Capitalism, And Healthcare | Episode 1 - Definitions
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The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised. We also aim to dismantle the individualised health narrative propagated by western medicine as it has …
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Healing Futures | All About Obesity With Sarah Le Brocq
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Sarah Le Brocq is a person living with obesity and is the founder of All About Obesity http://allaboutobesity.org, is a Director & Lay Member at NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, and member of the All Party Parliamentary Group of Obesity in the UK.Charlotte Kemp sat down with her to speak on her experience with the disease a…
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Welcome to our first audio report as part of the Healing Futures programmeThis is a discussion on the history of disease, part research and part discussion, between Araceli Camargo, Elahi Hossain, Hannah Yu-Pearson, and Rhiannon Osborne.When we look at the history of human health and disease, research suggests there have been three epidemiological …
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Healing Futures | Discussing Ecological Health & Disease With Amit Singh
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Welcome to a new series on the City Centric channel: Healing Futures.Healing Futures are various futures created by all Peoples in Kinship with Nature for equitable access to various healing practices and knowledges.We launch with Amit Singh, a medical student and climate justice advocate, he is also part of the Punjabi community. All of these fact…
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Communities, Air Quality Data & Equity with Breathe London
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Delighted to Andrew Grieve & Kayla Schulte from Breathe London onto the show to discuss community ownership of air pollution monitoring, collection and research design.Andrew's interests lie at the intersection of emerging digital technologies and air quality communication. He is the Senior Air Quality Analyst for Breathe London based at School of …
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15 Minutes With [ Martin Prince - Parrott ]
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Episode #5 of (slightly more than) 15 Minutes with features architect turned good client real estate developer Martin Prince-Parrott.Martin is an award-winning Architect and Development Director for SUB\URBAN WORKSHOP. An innovative ESG led developer + consultancy. Martin believes that property should enrich lives. He enthuses his projects with the…
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Equitable Engagement With Community Expertise w/ Juwairia R. Quazi & Suwen Chen of Uni of Edinburgh
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This episode is a conversation between Centric’s Araceli Camargo and Juwairia Rafique Quazi & Suwen Chen, both PhD candidates at University of Edinburgh on how they see equitable engagement with communities as researchers and practitioners. Juwairia Rafique Quazi is a PhD candidate in Global Health at the University of Edinburgh and is the co-found…
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How To Equitably Engage With Community Expertise With Prof. Ilan Kelman Of UCL
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This episode is a conversation between Centric’s Araceli Camargo and Prof Ilan Kelman, of University College London on how he sees equitable engagement with communities as researchers and practitioners. Ilan is a Professor of Disasters and Health, researching islands, disasters, health, migration, inclusivity, polar areas, development, and sustaina…
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Episode 4 is with Professor Nick Tyler CBE of University College London.Nick Tyler is the Director of the UCL Centre for Transport Studies and Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering, and investigates the ways in which people interact with their immediate environments.He is involved in projects in several countries in Latin America, Japan, China an…
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Episode #3 of 15 Minutes With features architect and founder of Matter Architecture, an award winning London based architecture practice.A big focus of Matter Architecture's work is research, which has drawn them to join the Urban Health Council. Roland has more than 20 years experience working as an Architect, an urban designer and as a public sec…
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Episode #2 is with Becka Hudson, a doctoral researcher and campaigner around issues related to criminal justice institutions, racism and inequality based in London. Becka is currently an Associate of the End Solitary Confinement campaign, and have previously worked as Lead Coordinator at the Radical Housing Network, co-founder of the Reclaim Hollow…
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15 Minutes With [ Jake Heitland ] - Episode #1
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15 minutes with [ ] is a new series interviewing members from the Urban Health Council about their work. Episode #1 is with Jake Heitland, Commercial Manager & Urban Strategist at Lendlease. Originally from small-town Wisconsin Jake landed in London a few years ago and supports multi-disciplinary teams to apply new models of thinking and working to…
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Informed Consent, Decolonisation, And The Covid - 19 Vaccine | Part 3
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This episode is the 3rd of a 3-part mini series recorded with 3 medical students from University College London on Covid-19 and the vaccine process.The vaccine has been a disputed and politicised issue, and to our belief this could have been avoided with better communication, better relationships with medicine and decolonised frameworks of healthca…
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Informed Consent, Decolonisation, And The Covid - 19 Vaccine | Part 2
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This episode is the second of a 3-part mini series recorded with 3 medical students from University College London on Covid-19 and the vaccine process.The vaccine has been a disputed and politicised issue, and to our belief this could have been avoided with better communication, better relationships with medicine and decolonised frameworks of healt…
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Informed Consent, Decolonisation, And The Covid - 19 Vaccine | Part 1
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This episode is the first of a 3-part mini series recorded with 3 medical students from University College London on Covid-19 and the vaccine process.The vaccine has been a disputed and politicised issue, and to our belief this could have been avoided with better communication, better relationships with medicine and decolonised frameworks of health…
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Urban Health Council - Living Symbiotic With Nature
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This episode is a special summary from a recent Urban Health Council talk and roundtable titled 'Living Symbiotic with Nature'.We are delighted to be joined byJOSINA CALLISTE (https://twitter.com/Jo_zinaC)Josina runs Land In Our Name (LION) a grassroots Black-led collective committed to reparations in Britain by connecting land and climate justice …
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Decolonising Real Estate For Mental Health Change With Priya Shah
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This episode we’re joined by Priya Shah from BAME in Property. The conversation centres around the additional burden people of colour or those from marginalised background face through work stress from the real estate industry and the need to decolonise its behaviours, frameworks and language. This show was made possible by our Patreon subscribers …
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Urban Health Council - Air Pollution x Race x Health
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This is a new format introducing audio summaries from the roundtables held through the Urban Health Council. We have taken snippets from the conversation and weaved them together into a short summary.This conversation was on the theme of Air Pollution x Race x Health. In December 2020 a UK court ruled that air pollution made a material contribution…
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Child Friendly Urban Planning With Magali Thomson of Great Ormand Street Hospital
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Magali is one of the 3rd cohort of Public Practice associates and has been placed at Great Ormond Street Hospital, where she is Project Lead for Placemaking. She will be leading a transformational approach to public realm as an integral part of the planning process for Great Ormond Street's new Children's Cancer Centre.Her work at The Children's Tr…
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Health Effects Of Air Pollution & Equitable Solutions With Kate Langford Of Guys & St. Thomas's
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This interview is with Kate Langford, The Impact on Urban Health’s Programme Director for health effects of air pollution. A ten-year programme focusing on mitigating the disproportionate effect that exposure to poor air quality has on the health and wellbeing of those most susceptible to it. The Impact on Urban Health is a specialist division part…
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Clean Air, Construction, & Communities Part 3 | In conversation with journalist Jo Griffin
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Part 3 of our conversations with the CASH community is with journalist Jo Griffin who has been reporting what's been taking place for the Guardian.Jo is a journalist/writer with more than 20 years' experience in national newspapers in the UK, including nine years on staff at the Guardian. Her articles have been published by the Guardian, Observer, …
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Clean Air, Construction, And Communities Part 2 | In Conversation With Sufiyan Abdul-Qayum Of CASH
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Meet Sufiyan Abdul-Qayum, one of the UK's youngest clean air campaigners at 19 years old, who's been campaigning since he was 16.Sufiyan is part of CASH, Clean Air for Southall & Hayes, who are a community group from west London fighting against toxic chemicals being leaked into the air they breathe.This conversation focuses on Sufiyan's experience…
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Clean Air, Construction, And Communities | In Conversation With Angela Fonso Of CASH
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This episode is the first of a three part series in which we interview 3 integral members of the Clean Air for Southall & Hayes (CASH) campaign group based in west London, close to Heathrow Airport.The group started in 2017 when neighbours began noticing a putrid, gasoline like smell in the air and people reported breathing problems. They also noti…
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Data ≠ Lived Experience | A Centric Lab Conversation
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The Centric Lab team come together to discuss the difference between data and the lived experience, namely around health.As authorities clamour for more data as the route to success it feels that decisions become determined by what data is collected rather than what is actually happening. Decisions are being made by data rather than a framework to …
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The Urban Health Index | A Centric Lab Conversation
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This episode features the team discussing our Urban Health Index, a visualisation tool for showing how areas compare for their levels of biological inequality.The conversation is led by Araceli Camargo who was the inventor of the tool alongside Elahi Hossain, our long standing researcher and author of the term biological inequality, and Dan Akinola…
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Discussing ESG & Managing Commercial Real Estate With Carl Brooks Of CBRE
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In this episode we talk with a Carl Brooks who’s a UK director of sustainability at the global real estate services firm CBRE. Our conversation focuses on the impact of Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance, and what this is meaning to how large commercial real estate assets and portfolios are managed given the impending climate crises an…
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"Prisons Are A Monument To Racism" | A Conversation w/ Human Rights Lawyer Kushal Sood On Abolition
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This episode centres on a conversation with Kushal Sood, a human rights solicitor working with marginalised groups, particularly those deprived of their liberty. We recently supported a successful case of his in rights to grant a dying man compassionate release from prison, which we’ll cover in this show. Somehow in society we’ve accepted the dehum…
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Biological Inequality | Covid19, BAME Communities And Urban Stressors
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In this episode the Centric team come together to discuss the background, results and learnings from our recent study: COVID-19 & Biological Inequality; a London data study.For more information on the study please follow this link https://www.thecentriclab.com/covid-19-poverty-a-london-data-studyThe Centric team on this episode are:Araceli Camargo,…
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Covid-19 Deaths, BAME Communities & Biological Inequality | The Townhall 22:07:2020
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COVID-19 & Biological Inequality; a London Data StudyABSTRACTIt is now well understood that poorly designed and planned environments heighten the risk of health issues due to systemic deprivations and stressors. Our recent paper investigates how COVID-19 is interacting with these environments and their communities, specifically Black, Asian and min…
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Cities For Future Humans w/ Tom Lindsay of 100 Resilient Cities
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In this episode we're joined by Tom Lindsay, Senior Strategy Delivery Manager at 100 Resilient Cities, a civic and social organisation powered by the Rockefeller Foundation helping cities around the world become more resilient to the physical, social and economic challenges that a growing part of the 21st Century.Tom joined us on Wednesday 15th May…
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Cities For Future Humans w/ Dr. Daniel Slade of RTPI
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In this episode we're joined by Dr. Daniel Slade, Research Officer at Royal Town Planning Institute. Dr. Slade leads the Institute's work on climate change, resilience, and climate justice.Daniel joined us on Wednesday 15th May to share his views on what improvements are needed from local planning to ensure that cities can adapt in time to protect …
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On 15th May Centric Lab are partnering with [S]City, Connected Places Catapult, and University College London for a 1/2 day conference on climate change and its impact on daily life in cities.| Cities for Future Humans |There is no greater challenge to our habitats than climate change. This man-made phenomena is creating social, biological, geo-pol…
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// 16 // Discussing the 'Neuroscience for Cities' playbook with Araceli Camargo & Sam Markey
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Episode 16 is with Sam Markey, who as the Future Cities Catapult's Head of Executive Office commissioned the ‘Neuroscience for Cities’ playbook, and it’s lead author our very own Araceli Camargo who is head of R&D for Centric. The purpose of this session was to invite them on to explain in their own words why such a venture was taken and where it’s…
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// 15 // Discussing Cycling & Cities with Robin Mazumder
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Episode 15 is with Robin Mazumder who's in London for the summer working with our scientific partners at UCL. We decided to record this podcast within a few hours so it's a little rough and ready but thanks to modern technology most things are possible! In it we discuss cycling and cities and what it represents to quality of life and its impacts on…
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// 14 // Talking AI, Racial Bias, Diversity and Neuroscience with Alex Fefegha & Araceli Camargo
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This track welcomes Alex Fefegha from Comuzi Lab and our very own Araceli Camargo from Centric as we discuss AI, racial bias and discussing some of Alex's projects concerned with ensuring that decision making form an urban and social perspective is inclusive and not one-directional.Alex is founder + head creative technologist @comuzi_lab. which is …
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// 13 // Talking Neuroscience & Urbanism with Robin Mazumder
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On this show I'm delighted to finally be sitting down with Robin Mazumder who's in London for the summer working with our scientific partners at UCL. This is the first of a few podcasts we're doing together as we embrace and embody the city as we discuss how neuroscience and technology is going to have impacts across all elements of city design. He…
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// 12 // Talking Music & Cities with Kwende Kefentse
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On this show I’m delighted to welcome Kwende Kefentse who I met through a very random and chance encounter. We recently met at a roundtable discussion organised by two creators of an illustrated book called Out of Nothing with the lead being Daniel Locke. The evening was focused around how Daniels love of hip-hop and space exploration led his creat…
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// 11 // Talking Urban Planning and its Technology Revolution with Stefan Webb
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On this show I’m delighted to have Stefan Webb from the Future Cities Catapult. Stefan has a broad career in the world of urban planning and now has a particular remit in co-running the PlanTech strategy for Future Cities Catapult. FCC as I like to call them have a remit from the UK government to help identify the new business opportunities for cit…
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// 10 // Talking Architecture & Cities for Children with Dinah Bornat
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In episode 10 I’m delighted to have Dinah Bornat on the pod to discuss her work as an architect with a specialism in designing for children, which has led her to be working on the Mayor of London’s Design Advocate board. Children have increasingly complex lives in cities. The youthful yearn for exploration and expression is being met with cities th…
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// 9 // Talking Blockchain & Real Estate with Nick Russell
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Episode 9 of the podcast was recorded in February 2018. In this episode I welcome Nick Russell to talk about his experiences in the intersection of technology and real estate and what he’s up to now with his venture PropCoin. Nick and I go back around 5 years when we were, in theory, competition to each other. He was the co-founder of one tech star…
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// 8 // Talking Cities, AI & Machine Ethics with Ben Byford
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Episode 8 was originally recorded in November 2017 and follows a slightly different format. In the quest to learn a little more about the state of artificial intelligence I’ve teamed up with Ben Byford, a technologist that runs the Machine Ethics podcast series. In this episode we interview each other. Amongst many things Ben’s career has focused o…
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// 7 // Talking Politics & Urbanism with Patricia Brown
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This episode was originally recorded in October 2017. In it I had the pleasure to speak with Patricia Brown, director of Central. Patricia’s day job is as Director of Central, a niche consultancy largely centred on the dynamics of cities and the process of achieving change. Central advises business and civic leaders on partnerships, developments an…
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// 6 // Talking Real Estate & Tech Innovation with Savannah De Savary
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Hello and welcome to the Centric Cities podcast from the Centric Lab. Some of this material will be familiar with listeners to the Conscious Cities podcast where it was previously hosted. However, we decided to bring things in house to further our intended direction. Centric are all about enhancing user experience in the built environment, one of o…
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// 5 // Talking Housing Development & Construction with Ashley Perry
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Episode 5 was originally recorded in June 2017. In this episode we're speaking with Ashley Perry, a Canadian calling London home. This show was first recorded when Ashley was at international property services firm JLL, or Jones Lang LaSalle, where he was specialising in providing services to large housing developers on how to deliver build-to-rent…
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