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Today, the Grimshaw Cities podcast is pleased to launch the first episode of our new, fourth series: The Intelligent City. Dr Tim Williams welcomes Dr. Sarah Barns, founder and director of ESEM Projects, a leading expert in experiential art, design and digital storytelling for urban precincts. Sarah Barnes was recently awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellowship from RMIT to further her work as an urban strategist. She is known for her facilitation of community, creative and digital programs that connect people, places and habitat. Grimshaw’s Head of Design Technology, Andy Watts, joins Tim and Sarah in this conversation.
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In this episode Oxford University’s Professor Michael Keith talks about his unique experience as someone who has combined analysing cities across the globe with leadership of a major London council.
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Professor Billie Giles-Corti of RMIT is a global expert on the links between how cities are structured and public health and climate outcomes. In this podcast we discuss her research but also the strategies she identifies to improve cities - and public health.
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In this edition, Tim Williams interviews Professor Alex Krieger of the influential Harvard School of Design about his recent book City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present. Visions drive city-making and in this podcast we learn about the diverse visions that have shaped US cities.
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In this episode of the Building the City series, Julie Wagner, President of The Global Institute on Innovation Districts, discusses her new report on the seven key factors in designing effective governance of innovation districts – crucial new foundations of the next stage of the urban economy. Listen to Episode 9 Governing Innovation with your host, Tim Williams.
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In the latest episode of the Building the City series for the Grimshaw Cities podcast, Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas, a global leader in green finance tells us "Box-ticking and greenwashing won’t achieve the scale of the transformation required to meet the challenges of the climate emergency. Cross-sector collaboration and the focused application of the creativity, innovation and skills of the financial services industry to finance the global transition will". Listen to Episode 8: Financing the Green City with your host Tim Williams.
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This is the seventh episode in the Building the City podcast series. Hear from your host Tim Williams in conversation with Kate Davies CBE who ran one of the largest and most dynamic Community Housing Providers in Europe, with over 60,000 properties in its portfolio by 2022. In this podcast, she describes the impact of Notting Hill Genesis Housing Association and how to deliver ‘homes for all in the city for all’.
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The Net Zero City is the sixth episode in the Building the City podcast series. In this episode, your host Tim Williams interviews Peter Newman AO, Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. Peter has written 20 books and 300 papers on sustainable cities and is well known for creating the term "automobile dependence". As a key author on transport on the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Peter is a global leader at the interface of urban policy and transport on the journey to the net zero city.
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Asia and the Urban Future is the fifth episode in the Building the City podcast series. In this episode, Professor Richard Hu of Canberra University and author of Reinventing the Chinese City (2023) and Smart Design (2021) gives us an impressive overview of key city trends in Asia and indeed across the world.
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Cities by Design is the fourth episode in the Building the City podcast series. In this episode, your host Tim Williams interviews David Hutton, Group Head of Development with global firm Lendlease. Based in Singapore David has worked on major city-shaping projects all over the world and oversees the company's Urbanisation Practice, focused on sharing best practice in design and development across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia.
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Regenerating Cities is the third episode in the Building the City podcast series. Your Grimshaw host, Tim Williams, discusses urban regeneration and planning with Dame Alison Nimmo DBE who has a distinguished career in the field of UK cities and urbanism. She spent eight years helping to win and subsequently deliver the London 2012 Summer Olympics as a Director in the Olympic Delivery Authority and has led major city centre regeneration projects in Manchester and Sheffield. Listen to Tim Williams and Alison Nimmo DBE’s conversation on regenerating cities.
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As cities grow, affordable housing options need to be made available for all communities. In Episode 2 of the Building the City podcast series, Grimshaw talks to an internationally acknowledged expert in social and affordable housing who is the former Group Chief Executive of Places for People Group, one of the largest social and affordable housing providers in the world. If anyone knows the way forward for affordable housing, it’s David Cowans. Listen to David and Grimshaw’s Tim Williams, himself a former UK government advisor on housing, discussing the future of building more inclusive and affordable cities.
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Building Cities is the third Grimshaw podcast series about our cities. In this series we interview leaders from around the globe about their role in our built environment from architects, urban designers, and developers to infrastructure providers or indeed builders. We kick off our first episode with a special guest–a leader working from behind the scenes as a key advisor to the city builders who reshaped London in the last 25 years: Richard Brown, former advisor to the London Mayor on urban design and Olympic planning and former Deputy Director at the Centre for London.
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The 10th episode in the Culture and the City series of the Grimshaw podcast finds Tim Williams, Practice Lead of our Cities Group in conversation with Kate Meyrick, a director with major planning consultancy Urbis.
Kate is the former CEO of the Hornery Institute, and a passionate urbanist and place maker with more than 25 years of international experience across Australia, Asia, Europe and the United States. She is a respected expert in visioning and positioning city scale precincts, working sensitively with stakeholders and the community to co-create powerful new futures for well-loved places.
The podcast reviews international examples of cultural precincts and Transit Oriented Developments as well as the exciting prospects for Brisbane arising from the city being the location for the 2032 Olympics.
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Mark Davy is the founder of Futurecity, a global cultural placemaking agency. Futurecity create cultural strategies for public and private sector organisations, broker cultural partnerships and deliver major art projects. Recent projects include the development of a prospectus for the new Arts Quarter in London’s famous West End; a new program called ‘Preview’ consisting of ‘Living Labs’ in property developments across the UK to encourage creative incubation in spaces designed to attract young and emerging talent; and the curation of a landmark cultural partnership between the Centre Pompidou and leading international developer Beulah International as part of ‘STH BNK By Beulah’ – an ambitious vertical city development in the heart of the Arts Precinct of Melbourne. Mark, who has a long term relationship with Grimshaw, talks about these and other great cultural placemaking projects.
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John Montgomery is an internationally renowned planner and urbanist who has published four books on cities and urban policy, with perhaps his best known one being The New Wealth of Cities. Currently based in Brisbane, Dr Montgomery began his career in the UK where he directly influenced government policy on town and city centre revitalisation, night time economies, the 24 Hour City, and the role of the ‘creative class’ and culture in city dynamics. John has helped design cultural and innovation precincts internationally, including Dublin, Manchester, Birmingham, Brisbane and Sydney. John speaks with passion, deep insight and humour about the challenges facing cities today.
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In this latest episode of our Grimshaw podcast, Culture and the City series, Tim Williams interviews Rose Hiscock, Director of Museums and Collections at The University of Melbourne. Prior to this, Rose was Director of Science Gallery Melbourne and Director of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (Powerhouse Museum), Australia’s contemporary museum for excellence and innovation in applied arts and sciences. Rose is recognised as a national leader in her field with an international reputation. The discussion focuses on her role and the amazing collections she curates; her passion for the arts and for her city Melbourne; her innovative engagement with First Nations’ communities and cultures; and her great work in enabling young people, often from disadvantaged backgrounds, to access the city’s key galleries and collections. Rose is a city-shaper combining expertise and soul, which is why this interview is called: The Art of the City.
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Architecture can embody and project power. But it can also, especially in our cities, be a tool in the hands of those who resist, expressing the creativity and resilience of their cultures. In Episode 6 of our Culture and the City Series, Tim Williams speaks about this and much more with Sumayya Vally, Johannesburg-born founder of Counterspace. In 2021 Sumayya designed the Serpentine Pavilion and in 2022-23, she will curate the inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah. In this powerful and compelling conversation, Sumayya traces the paths of her career trajectory and sources of inspiration, revealing why the city is the place where diverse peoples gather and co-create.
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Episode 5 in the Culture and the City podcast series finds our host Dr Tim Williams in conversation with Andrew Burmeister, Assistant Commissioner for Capital Projects in New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA). DCLA is the largest municipal funder of culture in the United States and is “committed to providing access to art and culture for all New Yorkers”. It supports world famous cultural assets which attract visitors from across the globe. In this discussion, Andrew talks engagingly and insightfully about the strategy behind the investments in cultural infrastructure, and also of the delights and challenges of his work before, during and in the wake of the pandemic. We love New York and the cultural institutions that are core to its brand. This podcast provides special insights into the work which Andrew and his department undertake, ensuring that New York’s cultural institutions thrive.
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Michael Rodrigues is the inaugural 24 Hour Economy Commissioner for New South Wales. As the former Chair of the Night Time Industries Association and Managing Director of Time Out Australia, Michael is both passionate about arts, culture and cities – and Sydney in particular - deeply knowledgeable and highly engaging. His post-Covid strategy is to unlock Sydney’s cultural and economic potential. It includes a 24-hour Economy Acceleration Program, where the Government will work with councils and industry to activate unique and thriving hubs across this global city of 5 million. It envisages a ‘Neon Grid’ of vibrant hubs across the city to represent Sydney’s diverse and active night economies, from its CBD to its suburban centres. Michael sees the opportunity not only to restore Sydney’s cultural life but to improve on delivering a nightlife that’ll sit alongside New York, London and Tokyo. While Michael is a passionate Sydneysider – born in its diverse and fast growing West – what he has to say is of international relevance.
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