REDESIGNING CITIES: The Speedwell Foundation Talks @ Georgia Tech

Marcel Wilson, founder of the San Francisco-based landscape architecture firm Bionic, presents his work in the REDESIGNING CITIES video, extracted from his presentation of the 2020 Doug Allen lecture. In the podcast, he and host Ellen Dunham-Jones discuss shifts in how we’re redesigning the integration of nature as amenity, performative ecology and infrastructural technology into cities and landscapes.

Watch Episode 13 on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-qUhjDfqq8

Alan Organschi, partner in Gray Organschi Architecture and on the faculty at Yale University, and Scott Marble, Chair of the School of Architecture and partner in Marble Fairbanks, discuss Organischi’s research on the potential of timber construction combined with forest management to turn cities into massive carbon sinks.

Watch Episode 12 on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg3X-G0qw_c&t=2016s

Carol Coletta, President and CEO of the nonprofit Memphis River Parks Partnership, and Ellen Dunham-Jones, Director of the Master of Science in Urban Design degree at Georgia Tech and Co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia, discuss the utilization of philanthropy to improve the public realm with an emphasis on parks.

Watch Episode 11 on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6B6M3e0w2A&t=5s

Majora Carter, a revitalization entrepreneur, presents her decade-long work on 'self-gentrification' and incremental development as a means to stem the stigmatization and brain drain out of low-status communities.

Watch Episode 10 on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEEX7S675cA

Listen to award winners, Reuben Abraham and Carlo Ratti, discuss their initiatives for smart mobility and inclusive innovation as they relate to cities.

Watch Reuben Abraham accept his award on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAQFvItjM6s.

Watch Carlo Ratti accept his award on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqlz14Lvy8g&t=12s.

Listen to award winners, Deputy Consul Juan Tellez, Janette Sadik-Khan, Jan Gehl, and Seleta Reynolds, discuss their initiatives for smart mobility and inclusive innovation as they relate to cities.

Watch Juan Tellez accept his award on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy-ermqNX2g&t=1s.

Watch Janette Sadik-Khan accept her award on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6QrxREpVB0&t=30s.

Watch Jan Gehl accept his award on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1nK3dBSAD0.

Watch Seleta Reynolds accept her award on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYyOKUGiMVs.

Chuch Marohn, President and Founder of Strong Towns, is a civil engineer and city planner who addresses a growing movement that questions the fiscal responsibility of sprawl development patterns.

Watch Episode 8 on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyUDS3jxlEQ&t=2s

Episode 6 is a discussion between Jess Zimbabwe, Principal of Plot Strategies, and Joseph P. Riley, former Mayor of Charleston (for 40 years) and founder of the Mayors Institute on City Design. The focus is on the approaches and resources for addressing and preventing gentrification and displacement as well as associated racial and class concerns.

Watch Episode 6 on youTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge1Y7G4XCd0