The Urbanista

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Magnus Lundin - Business Director, Potable Water Solutions at Uponor.  We discussed the main challenges that we have right now in cities with drinking water.  During this insightful conversation we discussed se...

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista Season 2. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development.  We are starting this season with a new episode that summarizes all the important and hot topics we discussed during Season 1. The main topics for discussion were city water management, water prices (Is the water too cheap in the...

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Judith Masip Calle, Technical Support Specialist & Sustainability Responsible at Uponor. We discussed one of the hot topics nowadays - EPDs (Environmental Product Declaration).  We also talked about:  What...

Welcome to Infra Stories.   Stories about places all across Nordics, where infrastructure projects with significant impact for the local communities have been built. Stories about innovative and sustainable solutions. Today we travel to the Finnish town of Nastola which is trying to build a new community center in an environmentally sensitive location. The construction of a new community centre in...

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Tallulah Lutkin , Utility Performance Editor at Global Water Intelligence. We discussed the main challenges of transition from gray to green infrastructure, new carbon neutrality requirements and regulations. ...

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Jenni Rahkonen – Environmental Coordinator at The city of Lahti and discuss the formula of Lahti's success - How it became Environmental Green Capital of Europe?  Lahti, the capital of the Päijänne Tavastia reg...

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Rickard Granath – Stormwater Solution expert at Uponor Infra.    All human activities create pollution for stormwater coming down to the drain. Usually it is polluted with building materials, traffic, industria...

Welcome to Infra Stories.   Stories about places all across Nordics, where infrastructure projects with significant impact for the local communities have been built. Stories about innovative and sustainable solutions. Today we travel to the city of Norrköping, Sweden. Where the municipality is trying to filter contaminated stormwater before it gets to the Baltic Sea.  Located at the mouth of the M...

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Päivi Raivio , Helsinki-based designer who has dedicated her career to creating better public spaces through urban interventions and placemaking. Päivi Raivio works with Daniel Bumann in the multidisciplinary urban d...

Welcome to Infra Stories.   Stories about places all across Nordics, where infrastructure projects with significant impact for the local communities have been built. Stories about innovative and sustainable solutions. This is a story about wastewater treatment plant in Swedish village of Överklinten. When the existing ground-based wastewater system of the Swedish village of Överklinten was condemn...

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Natalia Rincón – Co-Founder and CEO at CHAOS, an AI startup focused on location intelligence forecasts to improve the liveability of cities.  She is an architect and computer science engineer and currently hold...

Welcome to Infra Stories.   Stories about places all across Nordics, where infrastructure projects with significant impact for the local communities have been built. Stories about innovative and sustainable solutions.    This is a story about safe drinking water for an old shipyard and sawmill area.    The Pateniemi waterfront area in Oulu, Northern Finland, has played a major role in the history...

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Patryk Wójtowicz – Research Manager at Savonia University of Applied Sciences and Water network modelling expert in the field of environmental engineering.  Fireside chat recorded at World Water Congress 2022,...

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners, where we discuss city water management and sustainable urban development.  In this episode we talk with Franz Cuculiza , Business Director of Denmark’s first plastic recycling company, Aage Vestergaard Larsen A/S. They are the Nordic region's largest high-quality plastics recycling company, where the raw material of...

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development.  In this episode we talk with Nicklas Kaskeala , Co-Founder & Chief Impact Officer at Compensate . Compensate combats climate change by offering everyone easy access to the highest quality carbon projects. They provide tools to calcula...

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development.  In this episode we talk with Gregory Norris . Greg directs SHINE , the Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and teaches LCA at Harvard University . He co-founde...

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Klara Ramn – Executive Committee member of EurEau. The European federation of national associations of water services. Representing Europe's drinking and wastewater service providers from 30 countries, from bot...

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Lars Nørgård Holmegaard – CEO of the water utility of Lemvig, Denmark. This is a fireside chat recorded at World Water Congress 2022, in Copenhagen.    Lars told us about the challenges they are facing in north...

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Rickard Granath – Stormwater Solution Manager and Jean Saarinen – Stormwater Sales Manager at Uponor Infra. Fireside chat recorded at World Water Congress 2022, in Copenhagen, Denmark.    Rainfall keeps increas...

Hei, Welcome to the Urbanista!  The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Ilari Aho – VP of Sustainability and Regulatory Affairs at Uponor. Recorded at World Water Congress 2022, in Copenhagen, Denmark to summarise the learnings from the IWA High-Level Summit, which theme this year...

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. The podcast for urban designers and city planners who want to know more about city water management and sustainable urban development.  In these podcast series we will be looking answers for questions like:  - How do we renovate efficiently our water infrastructure?  - How do we ensure the quality of drinking water in Nordic cities?  - How do we reuse water in a more...