Urbanistica Podcast - Cities for People

Ramon Marrades is an urban economist, writer, and activist with a passion for people and places. He is currently Director of Placemaking Europe and Strategy Advisor to the Creative Bureaucracy Festival. Before, he has served as the Chief Strategy and Finance Officer at La Marina de València, Valencia’s waterfront redevelopment agency, and a board member of the Worldwide Network of P...

Shereen Daver (Founder 108 Ateliers. Co-founder & Director at Royal Park Hospitality & Education Hub) and Margaret Steiner (Architect and Project Manager at White Architects) are sharing the story of their study about Transforming Hospitable Environments. This study was conducted with funding from White Research Lab (WRL) by White Arkitekter and  Royal Park Hospitality Hub . Read more...

Tim Gill (Independent researcher) is sharing the story of his new book Urban Playground: How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities. We are also talking about smart cities and how technology can help us to create a child-friendly city. Tim is sharing with you his recipe for how to develop a child-friendly city. Enjoy your listening. Let's connect and talk further about this episode Mus...

Fredrik Lindstål (Vice Mayor to the City of Stockholm, Founder & Chairman of the board of Sweden's largest placemaking organisation, Glad Stad) is sharing the stroy of his Placemaking journey. Fredrik is now one of the board members at Placemaking Europe. We talk politics and Placemaking in this episode! This episode is in collaboration with Placemaking Europe. Enjoy your listening. Let's conn...

Kristian Skovbakke Villadsen (Partner, Director and Architect MAA at Gehl Copenhagen Denmark) is talking about why function should follow form and how we can change our mindset in order to develop cities for people. Kristian operates in the span between political visions and the detailed urban design, which realizes the visions in the everyday life of cities. His focus is always on livability and...

This episode is done in collaboration with the Centre for the Future of Place at KTH the Royal Institute of Technology. Chuck Wolfe   (Author/photographer, consultant (Seeing Better Cities Group), lawyer, and Guest Affiliate Scholar at CFP.) is sharing the story of his journey from being a lawyer to start doing writing about cities. He is talking about his contribuation to the Center and also...

Young-A Kang (Senior Landscape Architect at AFRY) is talking about why shouldn't we over-program our public spaces? And how can people help Urban Designers to create better public spaces? Enjoy your listening. Let's connect and talk further about this episode Mustafa Sherif Linkedin Keep Up the Good Work. Keep Loving Cities ❤️️. Follow Urbanistica and let's get in touch: Urbanistica Instagram...

Ronald Huikeshoven ( CEO at AM & Placemaking Europe Board member) is talking about his Placemaking journey and also who can cities and land developer think in order to create a better life quality for their citizen & customer by using Placemaking as a method. This episode is a part of the Placemaking Europe Episodes Serie in Urbanistica podcast. Enjoy your listening. Let's connect and talk...

Namo Marouf (Social sustainability expert and an urban planner at Ramboll) is talking about if cities can really breakdown segregation and promote social inclusion. Enjoy your listening. Let's connect and talk further about this episode Mustafa Sherif Linkedin Keep Up the Good Work. Keep Loving Cities ❤️️. Follow Urbanistica and let's get in touch: Urbanistica Instagram Urbanistica Facebook U...

Tigran Haas (Associate professor, docent, the Director of the Centre for the Future of Places) introducing the center and the collaboration with Urbanistica Podcast. The mission is that Centre for the Future of Places, aside from becoming an International Hub for Research on Public Space & Beyond, doing studies on the subject from a global perspective, also becomes a clearing house for ideas a...

Jennie Claesson (CEO Airport City Stockholm) berättar om Airport City Stockholm som utvecklar och bygger hela Sveriges mötesplats för 50 000 arbetstillfällen. Airport City Stockholm vill vara Sveriges och nordens ledande mötesplats för företag att etablera och verka inom, och platsen för de många människorna att mötas. Vision Norra Europas ledande mötesplats Enjoy your listening. Let's connec...

Levente Polyak (Managing director at Eutropian GmbH & Bord member at Placemaking Europe) is telling the story of his journey to and in Placemaking world. We are also talking about how can placemakers be a better storyteller to document placemaking projects. This episode is a part of the Placemaking Europe Episodes Serie in Urbanistica podcast. Enjoy your listening. Let's connect and talk furth...

Sagnik Bhattacharjee (Chief Technology Officer of ECOTEN Urban Comfort) is talking about how using advanced geospatial planning and 3D modeling technologies can help cities tackle Climate Change challenges . Enjoy your listening. Let's connect and talk further about this episode Mustafa Sherif Linkedin Keep Up the Good Work. Keep Loving Cities ❤️️. Follow Urbanistica and let's get in touch: U...

Dr. Tigran Haas (Tenured Associate Professor of Urban Planning + Urban Design, Director of the Center for the Future of Places at the ABE School at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, Fall 2019-2021 Visiting Scholar at MIT.). Tigran is talking about urbanizations' different categories/styles and how can we develop a smart city? We are also talking about what do cities learn fro...

Joakim Flink (AI and IoT teacher at ABB high school) and his daughter Ada, 1.5 years old, have visited all (110) municipal playgrounds in Västerås City in Sweden - and rated them all. They have shared their rating of each playground on social media. We are talking about this journey, and about top 5 things that made them love a playground, 5 things that made them don't like a playground and much m...

Karolina Pamp-Sandgren (Strateg kombinerad mobilitet, AFRY) pratar om hur städer kan jobba konkret med kombinerad och hållbar mobilitet. Hon är en av landets främsta experter på kombinerad mobilitet. Karolina har en gedigen bakgrund som omvärldsanalytiker med erfarenhet från marknad- och resenärsundersökningar. Hon är engagerad i nationella och internationella samarbeten kring Mobility as a S...

Laska Nenova (Campaign Manage at NowWeMOVE, Placemaking Europe Board member, founder of two Bulgarian based organizations: WOW Gym functional training gym and BG Be Active Association). This episode is a part of the Placemaking Europe Episodes Serie in Urbanistica podcast. Laska and Mustafa is talking about of Laskas journey to Placemaking world. She is a member of the Placemaking Europe https://p...

Alexander Grabner-Jarlung (Head of Int. business at David Jp Phillips, a Public Speaker, a Lecturer, a PowerPoint Specialist, and a TEDx coach) is sharing his story about traveling to South America pre COVID19. Very interesting conversation about culture, communicating and creating relationship with locals, planning a trip with no plan, and also what is a HOME in our smart world/cities for Alex? I...

Mustafa Sherif (Urban Planner and the host of Urbanistica Podcast) is wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. And also, Happy 1 year of Urbanistica Podcast. Mustafa will share some of interesting statistic from the 1st year of Urbanistica Podcast. Keep Up the Good Work. Keep Loving Cities ❤️️. Let's connect Mustafa Sherif Linkedin Follow Urbanistica and let's get in touch: Urbanis...

Amo Cartwright (Performance Coach, an Inspirational Speaker & a Sales Coach) is talking about how can people have a less stressful life? especially now when we are moving from a city life to a "staying at home" life? We are focusing on the hardware of our cities development and sometimes forgetting about the software, and also about ourselves feeling good and less stressful. So let's reflect a...

Placemaking behind the scenes of 2020. How did placemakers manage 2020? The year of COVID19 pandemic. What did placemakers learn from the pandemic and what did they achieved? Very interesting talk together with Charlot Schans (Urban Sociologist and Advisor at STIPO, Founding start up team member at PlacemakingX, Director of Placemaking Europe). Ethan Kent (Executive Director of PlacemakingX and Se...

Thomas Ahlskog (Trygghetschef MTR Nordic) berättar om sin roll på MTR. Thomas pratar om vad är tryggheten i kollektivtrafiken och vilka aspekter som gör att vi känner oss otrygga? Vi pratar om hur viktigt är samverkan mellan olika aktörer för att skapa en bättre upplevelse för resenärer och även för MTR medarbetare som driver kollektivtrafiken. Follow Urbanistica and let's get in touch: Urban...

Anna W Haapaniemi (Stadsbyggnadschef på Haninge kommun) berättar om hur Haninge kommun växer, utmaningar och framtid planer för att göra Haninge kommun mer levande. Follow Urbanistica and let's get in touch Urbanistica Instagram Urbanistica Facebook Urbanistica Youtube channel Let's connect Mustafa Sherif Linkedin Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRY. AFRY is an international engineerin...

Mustafa sherif (Urban planner at AFRY). Join Urbanistica party. It is your time to be part of this podcast as well. Send me a video or an audio file of you telling : 1. Your name 2. Your city and country 3. work/ studies/ other 4. answer this question: How can we make Smarter and more livable cities? Send the video to the Instagram chat. I will download it. take the audio from it. and put together...

Kai Piippo (Head of Design at Light Bureau) is talking about how to combine lights and darkness in our cities to create a great user experience for people. He is sharing his perspective about what is a smart lighting in a smart city. Follow Urbanistica  Urbanistica Instagram Urbanistica Facebook Urbanistica Youtube channel Let's connect Mustafa Sherif Linkedin Keep up the good work Keep lovin...