Shin-pei Tsay is a Commissioner in the Public Design Commission of the City of New York, former Executive Director of The Gehl Institute, (to just scratch the surface) and a huge proponent of public spaces.

Michael Stepner (FAIA, FAICP) is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the New School of Architecture in San Diego and has 27 years of experience working within the city of San Diego, including the City Architect Role. Michael shares humble advice from a lifetime of work.

Michaele Pride - AIA, NOMA, professor of architecture at the University of New Mexico, whose work focuses on the intersection between design and public health.

Dr. Steven Dow - Associate Professor of Cognitive Science at The University of California San Diego where he researches collective innovation and social computing.

Kevin Klinkenberg - Urban Designer, writer, and former architect out of Savannah Georgia (Now Kansas City) who runs K2 Urban Designs

Vishaan Chakrabarti - Architect, Author, and Ted speaker

Jeff Speck - Urban Designer, City Planner, and Author of Walkable City

Galina Tachieva is the Author of The Sprawl Repair Manual and a Managing Partner at DPZ LLC.

Matt Lewis is the CEO of Simple City Design located in Austin, Texas - specializing in all things Urbanism. Matt is a master of the craft and has enthusiasm we all can feed off of.

Anthony Flint is the author of Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier and Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s master builder. Anthony is a regular contributor to The Atlantic’s CityLab, The Boston Globe, The New Republic and much more.

In this episode we talk about the role of story telling in urban design, traveling in a city versus living in one, the biological component of design, and of course, Le Corbusier and Jane Jacobs.