City Centric

City Centric Podcast

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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. Centric is a small team based in London leading a civic movement on health justice. Centric aims to pro...

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// 4 // Talking Finance & Housing with Daneal Bassiouni 03.04.2018 39:54

Episode 4 was original recorded in June 2017 and is the second of a two-part focus of financing innovation in the industry and what that might support. This episode is an interview with startup CEO Daneal Bassiouni of NativeFinance.com and an associated venture called Common Home (www.custombuild.co). These guys are up to some very interesting things where I feel they’re hitting on that triumvirat...

// 3 // Talking Property Finance with Michael Dean 03.04.2018 1:02:13

This episode was originally recorded in May 2017. It was the first in a two-part episode looking at new financing models for property development. Whilst we can look at a variety of means and virtuous ideas for creating cities, it also has to be funded by someone, somehow. Finance is crucial to the industry, certainly as the majority of the business is based in moving private capital around to gen...

// 2 // Talking Neuroscience & Cities with Dr. Hugo Spiers 03.04.2018 36:11

This episode was originally recorded in April 2017 as we Dr. Hugo Spiers and I were preparing for the Conscious Cities conference the month after. Dr. Spiers acts as lead scientific advisor to the Centric Lab to we took this opportunity to sit down and explore where neuroscience is and how it’s being applied to industry. Dr Spiers is a reader in Neuroscience at University College London where is h...

// 1 // Talking PropTech with James Dearsley 03.04.2018 44:23

In this first episode I’m going to be speaking with James Dearsley of the Digital Marketing Bureau and his latest business PropTech Consult with business partner and long time proptech VC Eddie Holmes. Unsurprisingly we’re going to talk PropTech. It first arrived on the scene as a popular term around 2012/2013 it is spawning a whole host of businesses, some with a hope of disrupting and others jus...