Mayor's Manual Podcast

Today we have a very special episode of the Mayor’s Manual Podcast. On the fourth floor of the Krasnapolsky Hotel, overlooking the Dam square, we are joined by Dr. Victor Santiago Pineda. Dr. Pineda is a globally recognized author, urbanist, speaker at House of Balance in Davos, presidential appointee and one of the driving forces behind Amsterdam for All and above all a very engaged person. 

Inclusive cities do not only mean that designers should look at ramps in the city, because did you know that Uber in Amsterdam does not offer wheelchair accessible rides, whilst the city of Chicago does? 

In this episode we also talk about financing innovation for the inclusive city. If we want to design radically inclusive and fiercely attractive cities, we also need radically inclusive and fiercely attractive budgets to pay for this. We discuss the opportunities that blockchain technologies offer to city budgets and how Mayor’s can help drive inclusive innovation forward. 

Athens, Melbourne, Freetown and Los Angeles share the uncomfortable honor of being the first cities to appoint a Chief Heat Officer in the fight against Urban Heat Stress. This week we share a second conversation with a Chief Heat Officer about this silent urban killer in need of equitable solutions.  

Our guest is Marta Segura, director of the Los Angeles Climate Emergency Mobilization Office and Chief Heat Officer. Marta takes us back to the beginning of her career as an environmental justice advocate which began around the time she finished graduate school and has its roots in childhood experiences of displacement and environmental assaults on her community. In this podcast she shares her experience on the use of climate vulnerability assessment and public buildings as resilience hubs and the importance of involving the community in designing equitable climate solutions. 

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Urban heat stress has been identified as a consequence of climate change and a major cause of harmful changes in the urban climate. The negative impact in cities ranges from economic, social, environmental to public health. We talk about this deadly urban challenge with Eleni Myrivili, one of the world’s first Chief Heat Officers.

Eleni takes us to the City of Athens as she explains how heat stress impacts daily life, what research is currently undertaken, what solutions are available and most important, what measures should be taken today. Earlier on Eleni gave a Ted Talk on heat stress, which you can find here. 

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This week tune in to the our second episode in the Digital Human Rights series, produced in partnership with Digital Rights House. Together with Jake Blok, co-founder of Digital Rights House, we talk with entrepreneurs, policymakers and researchers about digital human rights and gather advice to accelerate the adoption of digital human rights in the city. 

We sat down for a longer conversation with Grace Simrall, Chief of Civic Innovation for the City of Louisville, and Ric Edinberg, a Chicago based designer specialized in Human Centered Design. We spoke about the difficulties of navigating the blurry line between digital and non-digital human rights and the benefit of applying consideration and intention where digital innovation seems to find forward momentum on its own accord. What do our guests think about the current state of digital rights and what advice for the future of the digital city comes from their experience? 

Find episode 46 of the Mayor's Manual Podcast now on all streaming services.

In this episode of the Mayor’s Manual Podcast we take a trip all the way down to Chicago. During the Bloomberg CityLab event we were joined by one of its speakers, TikTok Historian Shermann Dilla Thomas. His TikTok videos tell us all about one of the big cities of the United States, Chicago. In this conversation we talk about how art can inspire cities to grow and also realize that cities are made up of a sum of all the small stories within. Mayor’s should embrace and portray the rich history of the city.

If you want to listen to all the stories of Chicago, there is no place better than Dilla’s TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@6figga_dilla 

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In deze aflevering hebben we het over het Nederlandse voedselsysteem met fotograaf en documentairemaker Kadir van Lohuizen en duurzame ondernemer en boer Kees Jongens. Kadir voerde afgelopen maanden een visueel onderzoek uit naar de Nederlandse voedselindustrie, een industrie waarin Kees als veehouder jaren geleden al besloot dat het roer om moest. We bespreken hoe het mogelijk is dat wij als klein land de op-een-na grootste voedselexporteur ter wereld kunnen zijn, of er grenzen zijn aan de groei van ons voedselsysteem en het verlaten van onze voedsel-comfort zone. 

Lees hier meer over het onderzoek in trouw en kijk de aflevering van tegenlicht op maandag 7 november. Meer weten over het bedrijf van Kees Jongens, klik dan hier. 

We are delighted to welcome Mayor Todd Gloria of the city of San Diego and Carolien Gehrels, Arcadis’ Global director for the Energy Transition, in this weeks episode. We spoke to them about global and local climate challenges, how these issues can be addresses in an inclusive manner and that we have moved past the happy talk regarding these issues. Mayor’s and cities around the world should not spend any time reinventing the wheel, a good Mayor steals. Though San Diego and Amsterdam aren’t exactly neighbours, it is clear good and innovative ideas are ready to be translated and shared across oceans.

This week we welcome Stephen Lorimer and Paul Voskuilen for a conversation about urban energy systems. Stephen works as manager for the Clean Energy Cities program at the Centre for Net Zero. He focuses on cities as accelerators of the energy transition through the building of future energy systems. Paul Voskuilen works as the programme developer Urban Energy at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions. He is responsible for exploring, initiating and developing relevant energy projects in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area, connecting science, business and practice. 

With global uncertainty in the energy market as a backdrop and winter approaching, we discuss challenges and opportunities for the future of urban energy systems. The global uncertainty and price increase might act as an accelerator for the transition towards renewable energy. How can cities seize the opportunity rather than solely suffering the consequences of the risks involved. Urban infrastructure, urban consumers and business models might not yet be ready for an accelerated shift towards new energy systems. So what advice do Stephen and Paul offer Mayor’s globally? 

 In deze aflevering verwelkomen we Otto Raspe en Wouter Jan Verheul voor een gesprek over duurzame stedelijke ontwikkeling. Hoe zorgen we ervoor zorgen dat de grootschalige bouwopgave samen gaat met een hoge kwaliteit van leven én de leefomgeving? 

Samen verkennen we de begrippen brede welvaart en sociaal duurzame gebiedsontwikkeling. We bespreken verschillende benaderingen en voorbeelden uit de praktijk bespreken en schetsen een toekomstbeeld van de stad over 100 jaar. Benieuwd wat Otto en Wouter Jan burgemeesters adviseren? Luister deze week aflevering 41 van de Mayor’s Manual!