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Challenger Cities EP58: The World's Best Cities with Chris Fair

Notes from a Year of Challenger Cities

Challenger Cities EP57: Young People and the New Rules of Money with David Akermanis

Challenger Cities EP56: Why Empty Space Is Never Neutral with Evan Snow

Challenger Cities EP55: Impossible City - Paris in the 21st Century with Simon Kuper

Challenger Cities EP54: Rethinking Ireland, the Too Often Misunderstood Challenger Country with Peter Ryan

Challenger Cities EP53: The Logic Beneath the Madness of Transport with Marcus Mayers

Challenger Cities EP52: Culture as a Form of Wealth with Paul Owens

The First, Forgotten Operating System

Forget Davos. Try Kilkenny.

Challenger Cities EP51: Women Changing Cities with Melissa Bruntlett

Follow the Money (Into the Lobby)

EP50: If a City Can’t Handle a Little Kink ... with Lady Valeska

Challenger Cities EP49: How the Screen Has Killed the City with Greg Lindsay

GUEST POST: Reforming Business Cases: A Response to the Innovation Challenge with Omer Bor

Want To Work With Me?

Challenger Cities EP48: Live, Move, Rest ... The Conscious City with Anupam Yog

More Interestingly Less Wrong (and a Little Bit Kinky)

Challenger Cities EP47: Cities on the Couch with Charles Landry

Challenger Cities EP46: Stitching the Fragmented City with Rashiq Fataar

Challenger Cities EP45: Utopian Hours - Turin’s Festival of the Possible with Luca Ballarini

Cities as Ecosystem, Operating System or Artificial Intelligence?

The Business Case Against Business Cases

Designing Places is Easy. Shaping Behaviour is Hard.

Challenger Cities EP44: Your City Isn’t Crowded, It’s Just Full of Cars with Daniel Herriges

Challenger Cities EP43: Daring To Be Different with Andy Nulman

Challenger Cities EP42: Hauling Towards the Future with Michael Wexler

Challenger Cities EP41: Cities in Limbo with Diana Lind

Challenger Cities EP40: Hovering Above the Status Quo with Erika Potrz

Challenger Cities EP39: A Public Service Steeped in Northern Soul with Alex Hornby

Challenger Cities EP38: The City Fixer's Guide to Messy Momentum with Kevin Klinkenberg

Challenger Cities EP37: The Recipe Book for Cities with Guillermo Bernal

Challenger Cities EP36: From Corporate Innovation to Council Budgets with Charlie Rowat

Referral Bribes, Activated

Copenhagen, Critically: Notes from the WRLDCTY Fellows Residency

Challenger Cities EP35: After Dark and Into the Future with Mathieu Grondin

Challenger Cities EP34: The Magnetic, Messy, Cities People Don’t Leave with Sofia Song.

Challenger Cities EP33: Riding Through Stories, Not Just Spaces with Michela Grasso

Challenger Cities EP32: How to Love a Town Back to Life with Jeff Siegler

Challenger Cities EP31: Building Transit, Trust and Capability with Russell King

Challenger Cities EP30: Is the On-Site, the New Off-Site? Real Estate, Remote Work and Reinventing Cities with Dave Cairns

Challenger Cities EP29: The Charming Housing Rebellion with Naama Blonder

We Named Streets After Wellington. Napoleon Would’ve Built Better Cities.

We'll Get Better Cities If We Stop Treating Offices Like a Factory Floor

Challenger Cities EP28: Why North American Transit is Mediocre ... and How to Make it Actually Good with Reece Martin

Messy, Flawed, Cool and a bit Playful: A Challenger Cities Future Watchlist

Challenger Cities EP27: A Housing Plan for Ontario with Mike Schreiner

One Year Later ... Still a Podcast, but Maybe Something Bigger?

If No One’s Mad, You’re Not Pushing Hard Enough

Tomorrow's Terminal, Forged in Pittsburgh with a Healthy Dose of Creative Conflict by Design.

Joy, Grit, and a Little Bit of Chaos: Lessons from Series 2 of Challenger Cities

Challenger Cities EP26: The Policy Playbook for Challenger Cities with Tom Goldsmith

Challenger Cities EP25: How Nature Can Make Our Cities Thrive with Jan Sumner

Airports; a Case for Mischief, Magic and Memory

Challenger Cities EP24: Reinventing Cities, through Office to Residential Conversions with Steven Paynter

Urbanists Have a Communication Problem, and it’s Costing us Great Cities

Peterborough, ON: The Next Canadian Challenger City ... if it Grabs the Opportunity

Challenger Cities EP23: Fixing Cities Through Momentum, Not Just Masterplans with Rik Adamski

Toronto's Congestion Problem has Simple Fixes, if the Establishment is Willing to Face Them

If We're Serious About Making Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) a Thing in North America, Then We Need to Make the Buses Sexy

Challenger Cities EP 22: The Newcomer Perspective, What Works and What Could Be Better in Toronto with Arthur Smith

Challenger Cities EP21: Learnings from 'the Soo' for Future Healthy Cities with Anna Foat

Challenger Cities EP20: Rethinking Cities Through Lessons from Music, Psychology and Engineering with Nick Tyler

Challenger Cities EP19: Why Localism Fuels Challenger Cities with Mary Rowe

Challenger Cities EP18: How Downsview is redefining Toronto's future by shifting the centre of gravity with Chris Eby