Chairman and co-founder of New London Architecture, Peter Murray, meets with James to discuss new ideas and solutions to the challenges facing London and the built environment, including the need for high quality architecture and design excellence as some 430 new tall buildings emerge on London's skyline

Talking Cities is in London this week for the hOUR City student design competition, presented by AECOM and Van Alen Institute with 100 Resilient Cities - Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, where James, David and Stephen debate how to make people's lives better and more connected with both the local and global context through good design, place making and measuring the performance of places

James meets Ken Shuttleworth in London to discuss how collaboration, curiosity and an equal sense of ownership, where every employee is a maker and partner in the business, uses design meritocracy to achieve design excellence

That's a wrap - James discusses the international and local guests we have featured on Season 2 of Talking Cities, then hints at a couple of exciting topics to be covered in Season 3.

Ludo Campbell-Reid discusses the transition of Auckland from a city that was "shut" to a walkable, mixed use waterfront city that emphasises its unique natural attributes, embraces people-focused design and enables change through unified local governance.

We are joined by Dr Tim Moonen, Managing Director of The Business of Cities, to learn how insights and data analysis tools they use can help city leadership, global firms and organisations to understand the latest dynamics of urbanisation and globalisation as cities compete to attract the best and brightest talent from around the world. Tim discusses the importance of good DNA and an entrepreneurial culture can foster innovation and provide significant benefit to cities.

Tom Dallessio joins us in Australia to explore how Newcastle, a post-industrial city, is rapidly re-inventing itself to align with the innovation economy and the fourth industrial revolution. At nextcity.org's global Vanguard conference in Newcastle, 100 professionals from around the world investigated opportunities to revitalise its inner city and industrial heritage while rethinking how we plan our cities for the many future generations to come.

Gary White, Chief Planner for New South Wales Department of Planning and Environment leads the team that balances the strategic planning system with  broader government goals and community need. He provides specialist expertise, leadership and advice across government and business sectors. In this episode we explore a place based planning system, innovation precincts and the role of technology in planning.

Property is Australia's number one obsession! What is the special sauce that drives demand and interest in a particular suburb or market? REA Group chief economist, Nerida Conisbee, shares her passion for property and how data from millions of daily searches on realestate.com.au can help predict the next property  hot spot

A chartered engineer, Philip Davies has worked in the infrastructure sector for over a quarter of a century in the UK and in Australia. His mandate as Chief Executive of Infrastructure Australia is to provide independent expert advice to all levels of government on how to prioritise and evaluate the nation's infrastructure needs.