Best School Of Architecture Ellen Dunham Jon Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 38: Episode 38: The Mobility Revolution 1:23:25

2M ago1:23:25

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This episode continues the discussion begun during Episode 32: What Transit Modes Where? and is co-hosted by Better Atlanta Transit. Atlanta-based experts give Pecha Kucha/Lightning Talks on innovations in micromobility, micro-transit & communication technologies, inclusive transportation, transit policy and legislation. Opening and closing remarks…

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Episode 37: Episode 37: Place-Based Activism and Democracy 27:46

3M ago27:46

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How have youth organizations in disinvested neighborhoods reinvigorated models of democratic citizenship and collective life? Can the exercise of collective agency in the physical space of “the commons” provide young people with the practical skills to engage with today’s economic, racial, and ecological crises? Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton’s newest a…

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Episode 36: Episode 36_Calthorpe_Ending Global Sprawl 1:21:23

4M ago1:21:23

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As urban population growth across the globe continues to sprawl outwards, how do we promote healthier development patterns in diverse economies and cultures? With a particular focus on corridors, Peter Calthorpe presents the strategies he developed in association with the World Bank to address the three dominant types of sprawl: high-income sprawl …

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Episode 33: Episode 35_Gil Penalosa 57:47

7M ago57:47

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Episode 35_Gil Penalosa

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Episode 32: Episode 34_David Dixon 43:08

8M ago43:08

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Redesigning Suburbs How and where are North American suburbs being redesigned to address dramatically changing demographics, technology, market preferences, and climates? The pandemic and Work-From-Home accelerated earlier trends of the urbanization of dead malls and office parks. But they also renewed leapfrog exurban development. Join this conver…

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Episode 32: Episode 33_Robert Fishman 50:08

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Redesigning Cities for the 2nd Global Urban Revolution What does it mean for humanity that we are transitioning from a rural to an urban species? This is the fundamental question that Professor Robert Fishman is exploring. Professor Emeritus from the University of Michigan, he was trained as an urban historian at Stanford and Harvard, and is the au…

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Episode 32: Episode 32_Transition Modes 1:21:06

8M ago1:21:06

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What Transit Modes Where? New modes of getting around are exploding. Now, in addition to fixed rail, bus, and streetcar, smartphones and algorithms have expanded on-demand mobility such as microtransit vans, scooters, and e-bike rentals. Some of our streets already have robotaxis and AV shuttles. Will the skies soon include podcars and UAVs (unmann…

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Episode 31: Episode 31: Redesigning Cities for Ubiquitous Wetness 35:14

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How do we think about the boundaries between land and water? Dilip da Cunha argues that those boundaries have always been much more fluid—literally. And he argues that the history of how we’ve organized cities is one of ever-increasing efforts to control, subjugate, and manage water while colonizing the land into administered parcels of private pro…

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Episode 30: Episode 30: Redesigning Cities with Social Infrastructure 39:07

1+ y ago39:07

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Kai-Uwe Bergmann, partner at BIG, the Bjarke Ingels Group, and host, Ellen Dunham-Jones, discuss the how, what, and why of designing joyful social functions into practical infrastructure at all scales. How did their ideas of hedonistic sustainability embolden them to convince clients to build a ski slope on top of a power plant in Copenhagen, build…

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Episode 29: Episode 29: Carfree Urbanism and Missing Middle Housing 29:52

1+ y ago29:52

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Dan Parolek and his team at Opticos Design coined the term and wrote the book on Missing Middle Housing to describe house-sized buildings with multiple units. These duplexes, quadplexes, cottage courts, etc. are essential tools in creating equitable walkable urbanism. In this episode, Ellen Dunham-Jones talks with Dan about their implementation at …

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Episode 28: Episode 28: Redesigning Cities With Public Art 42:30

1+ y ago42:30

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Whether heroic commemorative bronze statues, contemplative experiences of transformed materials, or vibrant activist murals, public artworks give cities cultural and economic value and provide meaningful identity to communities. But how do different kinds of public spaces and community identities influence public artwork? Stephanie Dockery, manager…

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Episode 27: Episode 27: Redesigning The House 1:05:30

1+ y ago1:05:30

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Change the house, change the city? The American Dream of ownership of a detached single-family house is increasingly under attack. It has a racist history and ongoing legacy of segregation, a high environmental footprint, fosters sprawl and loneliness in ever-smaller households, and is increasingly unaffordable. Diana Lind, of the Penn Institute fo…

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Episode 26: Episode 26: Redesigning Cities for Local Entrepreneurs 47:40

1+ y ago47:40

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What if developers thought of themselves as farmers, reviving their neighborhood’s abandoned buildings, planting locally symbiotic uses, and growing small business entrepreneurs? And what if they wanted to teach you how to do the same in your neighborhood? Monte Anderson of the Incremental Development Alliance and Options Real Estate in South Dalla…

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Episode 24: Episode 24: Atlanta’s Parks and Greenways as Agents of Urban Transformation 54:09

2+ y ago54:09

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How are younger cities leveraging the renewed importance of urban parks in the pandemic? Adrian Benepe of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Trust for Public Land, Clyde Higgs of the Atlanta Beltline, and Tim Keane from the City of Atlanta will discuss how Atlanta’s investments in new parks and greenways are building on its Olmsted legacy while radica…

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Episode 23: Episode 23: Redesigning Cities with Affordable Housing 57:25

2+ y ago57:25

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Today, a minimum-wage earner can afford a one-bedroom apartment in only 145 out of 3,143 counties in America. Andrew Ross of NYU and author of Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing (2021) and Shelley Poticha of the NRDC and former Director of Sustainable Housing and Communities at HUD will discuss how ineffective government planning, prope…

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Episode 22: Episode 25: Redesigning Cities for Public Health 1:08:12

2+ y ago1:08:12

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Dr. Richard Jackson, emeritus professor of public health at UCLA and former Director of the CDC National Center for Environmental Health and has argued that architects and planners can have more impact on the health of the next generation of kids than all the physicians in the world. His words are best proven correct through the work of renowned ar…

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Episode 22: Episode 22: Redesigning Streets Post-Pandemic 1:11:28

2+ y ago1:11:28

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Lock-downs, work from home, and fears of crowded indoor space during the pandemic have shifted how many of us use streets. From “streateries” and street racing, to drive-by birthday parades and outdoor schools, our streets have become significantly more social. Will these shifts last if and when the pandemic eases – and what do they mean for public…

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Episode 22: Episode 20: Redesigning Cities to Tackle Structural Racism 1:24:27

2+ y ago1:24:27

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How can we undo the ways economic policies have contributed to structural racism? And how should we redesign cities to reflect and advance equitable economies? Raphael Bostic, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Catherine Ross, Regents Professor of City Planning and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institu…

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Episode 21: Episode 21: Redesigning Cities in Science Fiction 55:48

2+ y ago55:48

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What can urbanists learn from how Sci-Fi authors have reimagined cities? GT Regents Professor in Science Fiction Lisa Yaszek discusses with host Ellen Dunham-Jones how diverse voices from around the world have challenged racial and gender norms in science and technology while proposing alternative kinds of cities, spaces, and social justice. Yaszek…

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Episode 19: Episode 19: Redesigning Cities for a Tele-Everything World 1:08:06

2+ y ago1:08:06

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Post-pandemic, how might we leverage tele-work-medicine-education-everything to even the playing field between rich and poor places instead of exacerbating the digital divide? University of Arizona Professor Arthur C. Nelson and Debra Lam, Executive Director of Georgia Tech’s Partnership for Inclusive Innovation will help me, Redesigning Cities hos…

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Episode 18: Redesigning Cities with Green Infrastructure 1:16:00

3+ y ago1:16:00

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Josiah Cain, Director of Innovation at Sherwood Design Engineers presents the firm’s advanced techniques for regenerative site design before Mike Messner, Professor in Practice at Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business, leads their conversation on the implementation, financing, and future prospects of these high-performing sustainable strategi…

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Episode 17: Redesigning Cities with Neuroscience 1:10:54

3+ y ago1:10:54

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Sarah Williams Goldhagen, critic and author of the award-winning Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives, Sonit Bafna, associate professor and director of the Georgia Tech SoA Ph.D. program, and Harrison Fraker, Dean Emeritus at UC Berkeley and author of Minding The City: Field Notes on the Poetics of Sustainable Public Sp…

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Episode 16: Redesigning Critical Infrastructure for Climate Change 49:52

3+ y ago49:52

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As climate change and urban heat islands compound the impacts of non-climatic events such as pandemics and blackouts, critical infrastructure too often fails just when it is needed most. How do we rethink and redesign critical infrastructure at the city, neighborhood, and microclimate scales? Brian Stone presents new research findings from the Urba…

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Episode 15: Redesigning Cities and Suburbs for Women 55:46

3+ y ago55:46

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Dolores Hayden, professor emerita of Yale, kicks off this episode with her seminal research on the history of feminist architecture and urbanism and how it contrasts to suburbia’s construction of women’s roles. Eva Kail then presents how she has implemented gender mainstreaming in the design of parks, housing, transit and neighborhoods while workin…

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Episode 14: Redesigning Cities with the Green New Deal 58:07

3+ y ago58:07

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What is the Green New Deal and what might its advancing of equity, jobs, and justice in relation to climate change mean for redesigning cities? Billy Fleming of the University of Pennsylvania and Nancy Levinson of Places Journal inform, interrogate, and invite designers to figure it out in this co-hosted Places Event.…

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Episode 13: Redesigning Cities’ Integration of Ecology with Technology 28:58

4y ago28:58

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Marcel Wilson, founder of the San Francisco-based landscape architecture firm Bionic, presents his work in the REDESIGNING CITIES video, extracted from his presentation of the 2020 Doug Allen lecture. In the podcast, he and host Ellen Dunham-Jones discuss shifts in how we’re redesigning the integration of nature as amenity, performative ecology and…

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Episode 12 - Building Carbon Positive Cities 53:04

4y ago53:04

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Alan Organschi, partner in Gray Organschi Architecture and on the faculty at Yale University, and Scott Marble, Chair of the School of Architecture and partner in Marble Fairbanks, discuss Organischi’s research on the potential of timber construction combined with forest management to turn cities into massive carbon sinks. Watch Episode 12 on YouTu…

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Episode 11: Redesigning Cities with Philanthropy 41:48

4+ y ago41:48

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Carol Coletta, President and CEO of the nonprofit Memphis River Parks Partnership, and Ellen Dunham-Jones, Director of the Master of Science in Urban Design degree at Georgia Tech and Co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia, discuss the utilization of philanthropy to improve the public realm with an emphasis on parks. Watch Episode 11 on YouTube at: htt…

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Episode 10: Redesigning Low-Status Communities 41:50

4+ y ago41:50

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Majora Carter, a revitalization entrepreneur, presents her decade-long work on 'self-gentrification' and incremental development as a means to stem the stigmatization and brain drain out of low-status communities. Watch Episode 10 on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEEX7S675cA

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Episode 9 (Part 2 of 2) - Newsweek Momentum Awards 34:24

4+ y ago34:24

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Listen to award winners, Reuben Abraham and Carlo Ratti, discuss their initiatives for smart mobility and inclusive innovation as they relate to cities. Watch Reuben Abraham accept his award on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAQFvItjM6s. Watch Carlo Ratti accept his award on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqlz14Lvy8g&t=12s…

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Episode 9 (Part 1 of 2) - Newsweek Momentum Awards 37:19

4+ y ago37:19

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Listen to award winners, Deputy Consul Juan Tellez, Janette Sadik-Khan, Jan Gehl, and Seleta Reynolds, discuss their initiatives for smart mobility and inclusive innovation as they relate to cities. Watch Juan Tellez accept his award on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy-ermqNX2g&t=1s. Watch Janette Sadik-Khan accept her award on YouTub…

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Episode 8 - Redesigning Cities' Investments in Transportation Infrastructure 52:31

4+ y ago52:31

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Chuch Marohn, President and Founder of Strong Towns, is a civil engineer and city planner who addresses a growing movement that questions the fiscal responsibility of sprawl development patterns. Watch Episode 8 on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyUDS3jxlEQ&t=2s

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Episode 7: Redesigning Cities with Carbon Pricing Markets 33:19

4+ y ago33:19

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A conversation about carbon pricing and how it relates to the built environment through offset marketing strategies.

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Episode 6: Gentrification without Displacement? 46:29

5y ago46:29

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Episode 6 is a discussion between Jess Zimbabwe, Principal of Plot Strategies, and Joseph P. Riley, former Mayor of Charleston (for 40 years) and founder of the Mayors Institute on City Design. The focus is on the approaches and resources for addressing and preventing gentrification and displacement as well as associated racial and class concerns. …

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Episode 4: Redesigning Cities for the Collaborative Economy 35:11

5y ago35:11

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Episode 4: Redesigning Cities for the Collaborative Economy features Robin Chase, founder of Zipcar and author of Peers Inc., and Gabe Klein, author of Start-Up City and former Commissioner of Transportation for both Washington DC and Chicago. Together they draw on their broad expertise to discuss both the role of cities in shaping entrepreneurial,…

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Episode 5: Redesigning Cities Against Climate Change 39:21

5y ago39:21

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Episode 5: Redesigning Cities Against Climate Change is a conversation between Peter Calthorpe, author of Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change, planner, and developer of Urban Footprint, and Rob Kunzig, Senior Environment Editor at National Geographic and author of Fixing Climate. This podcast features a candid and sobering discussion on climate c…

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Episode 3: Redesigning Cities' Parks as Social Infrastructure 46:05

5+ y ago46:05

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Episode 3: Redesigning Cities' Parks as Social Infrastructure is a discussion between Mitch Silver, Parks and Recreation Commissioner of New York City, and Maurice Cox, Planning Commissioner of Detroit, on building social equity through the development of parks. Watch Episode 3 on Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NofvgOGdPGo&t=15s…

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Episode 2: Retrofitting Suburbia Too 41:13

5+ y ago41:13

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Episode 2: Retrofitting Suburbia Too explores the redesign of outdated, suburban infrastructure and associated aging malls, office parks, and other auto-oriented property types with June Williamson, Associate Professor of Architecture at The City College of New York and author of Designing Suburban Futures and co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia, an…

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Episode 1: Redesigning Cities with Autonomous Vehicles 41:42

5+ y ago41:42

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Episode 1: Redesigning Cities with Autonomous Vehicles is a conversation between Jeff Tumlin, Principal and Director of Strategy at Nelson Nygaard, and Harriett Tregoning, immediate past Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of CPD at HUD, on the convergence of mobility, technology, and design. Watch Episode 1 on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/…

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