Cities Reimagined

I am very happy to have my good friend Gerfried Ambrosch on Cities Reimagined this week. Besides being a really cool person how plays in a ton of cool bands (you need to wait until the end of the show to hear a sample), Gerfried has an amazing track record of doing volunteer work for regenerating and improving the habitats of (sub-) urban wildlife, particularly amphibian populations with some asto...

This week, Cities Reimagined takes us to South Africa to speak to Paul Currie, Director of the urban systems unit at ICLEI Africa . In October 2023, Johannes had the chance to swing by ICLEI Africa’s offices in Cape Town for this conversation on reimagining African urbanism which turned out extremely rich and exciting. Africa is a continent of astounding diversity and rapid urbanization. With a po...

This episode of Cities Reimagined takes us very locally. It takes us deep, deep down into a damp, smelly basement (no joke) of the city I was born in, #Klagenfurt , Austria to explore the role of local journalism for reimagining futures together with Stephan Fugger, an editor for the local RegionalMedien Austria in Carinthia, Austria. Stephan increasingly covers aspects related to soil sealing and...

This episode of the Cities Reimagined podcast is all about urban future(s)… but actually also urban presents. With today’s guests, Jonas Bylund (Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology) and Josefin Wangel (Senior Research Officer at Formas), both from Stockholm, we will dive into urban utopias, science fiction, safe to fail urbanism, Detroit and much more. Among other things, you will hear...

Whose business is it to shape cities and urban areas and who has the power and resources to reimagine cities? Jim Segers and Sofie van Bruystegem from the Brussels-based NGO CityMine(d) challenge the status quo of who has the right and power to shape urban areas since 1997. In highly co-creative processes, their aim is to engage residents, particularly in disadvantaged neighbourhoods who are too o...

Reimagining Public Spaces What makes cities urban, you might find asking yourself from time to time. Whatever you find appropriate a definition, it most likely has something to do with urban public spaces. There is no way of not addressing issues around urban public spaces when discussing reimagining cities as they are key to healthy, cities. One of the most motivated people working in urban publi...

In this introduction of the Cities Reimagined Podcast (yes, you might call it a trailer..), Johannes introduces himself, why he took a year off and started a podcast, why a show on reimagining urban areas is extremely relevant today and gives you an idea of what to expect from Cities Reimagined. The full first episode will be available in early September 2023.