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Challenger Cities EP53: The Logic Beneath the Madness of Transport with Marcus Mayers
Listen now | The clutter, noise, panic and hesitation are failures from a system designed to produce them. Marcus Mayers shows why we've misaligned from…
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Iain Montgomery
Challenger Cities EP52: Culture as a Form of Wealth with Paul Owens
Hewison defined culture as a public good. Paul Owens explains how the cities that believe that become far more vibrant, creative, prosperous and…
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Iain Montgomery
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The First, Forgotten Operating System
An obvious realisation behind every urban challenge - housing, congestion, digital addiction, sprawl, vibe collapse - and the maddening inconsistency of…
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Iain Montgomery
Forget Davos. Try Kilkenny.
No lanyards, no billionaires, just smart ideas and pints. Kilkenny’s and Kilkenomics is what real thought leadership and a Challenger City looks like.
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Challenger Cities EP51: Women Changing Cities with Melissa Bruntlett
Listen now | Melissa Bruntlett doesn’t write policy manuals; she tells stories to make people believe in places. Her new book, Women Changing Cities…
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Iain Montgomery
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Follow the Money (Into the Lobby)
The people who want to change cities rarely control the money. And the people who control the money rarely hang out where change begins.
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EP50: If a City Can’t Handle a Little Kink ... with Lady Valeska
Listen now | What happens when a dominatrix and an innovation strategist start comparing notes? Turns out, both are in the business of boundaries…
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Challenger Cities EP49: How the Screen Has Killed the City with Greg Lindsay
This warning isn’t really about technology, but attention. The more our lives are optimised for convenience and control, the less room we leave for the…
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Iain Montgomery
GUEST POST: Reforming Business Cases: A Response to the Innovation Challenge with Omer Bor
This guest post from Omer Bor picks up where my “Business Case Against Business Cases” left off, asking how we fix the tools of planning without losing…
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Omer Rafael Bor
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Challenger Cities EP48: Live, Move, Rest ... The Conscious City with Anupam Yog
In a world obsessed with moving faster, Anupam Yog argues that cities need to learn how to pause ... because the next great act of urban innovation…
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More Interestingly Less Wrong (and a Little Bit Kinky)
We’ve spent too long building cities that are safe but soulless. The future belongs to the ones bold enough to mix structure with submission.
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Iain Montgomery
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Challenger Cities EP47: Cities on the Couch with Charles Landry
What if cities need therapy as much as infrastructure? Charles Landry thinks their neuroses, confidence tricks and quirks might be what makes them…
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Iain Montgomery
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Challenger Cities EP46: Stitching the Fragmented City with Rashiq Fataar
Listen now | South Africa’s cities are still scarred by design decisions meant to keep people apart. Nation, and city, building are unfinished projects…
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Iain Montgomery
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Challenger Cities EP45: Utopian Hours - Turin’s Festival of the Possible with Luca Ballarini
Listen now | Utopian Hours turns Turin into a three-day laboratory for rethinking how cities are lived and designed. It’s part provocation, part…
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Iain Montgomery
Challenger Cities
Challenger Cities
Interviews and articles exploring how cities can adapt, evolve, innovate & change to become "Challengers", i.e. better places where everyone can live, play, move and work. Initiated in Toronto, now global.
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