The Life-Sized City Urbanism Podcast

How can we design a skateboard-friendly city? Is there a template? What cities are ahead of the curve? What are the benefits? You don’t have to be a skateboarder to listen to this episode about Skateboard Urbanism. This is about skateboarding culture but it is also about design, public space, youth culture, citizen engagement, gender and the simple respect for the diversity of activities that our fellow urban citizens take part in.

Interviews with Joel Martell - skateboarder - in Paris, James Thoem - urban planner - in Copenhagen and Gustav Svanborg Edén - the skateboard coordinator for the City of Malmö, Sweden.

Music by Phil Creamer: http://www.hereonout.ca/

With the rise of a new terrorism typology - one that brutally employs vehicles to mow down pedestrians and cyclists - I am wondering if the sudden physical changes appearing in cities might be positive. As more barriers are put into place to stop this threat, are we creating better cities? Is there a design guide for this change? I interview Holly Hixson, an urban planner, writer and researcher from Portland, former head of the Copenhagen DoT, Morten Kabell and bicycle advocate Charles Maguin in Paris about this development and potential outcome.