Urban Community

Urban Community

By Sophia Silverton (formerly Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn)Society & Culture
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Urban Community episodes

  • Food Sharing
    Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Romane Joly from the University of Freiburg speaks with Kaja Zimmermann and David Bachmann from foodsharing Freiburg.
    40 min
  • Venture Capital and Climate Tech
    Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate speaks with Heidi Lindvall from seed stage ClimateTech VC company Pale Blue Dot.  Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at [email protected] // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban ArenasPhoto from here.
    51 min
  • Participation and the Distribution of Urban Space
    Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate and Ian take a break from interviewing as Sophia Silverton chats with Isabell Eberlein and Denis Petri from Changing Cities. They talk about the role of participatory actions in trying to bring about more just distributions of urban space. The conversation is framed around the notion of ‘governance arrangements’, which you can read more about here: http://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_governance_arrangementsDo you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at [email protected] // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban Arenas
    37 min
  • Drivers of Urban Injustice
    Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're joined by Panagiota Kotsila, Isabelle Anguelovski, and Jonathan Luger from the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability.We're talking about drivers of urban injustice: https://wiki.urban-arena.eu/index.php?title=Database_of_drivers_of_injusticeIan was searching the following stat whilst rambling: the richest 10 percent of the world produces more than half its carbon. Thanks Oxfam. !!READ THIS!!Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at [email protected] // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban Arenas
    47 min
  • Racial and Environmental Justice
    Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're joined by  Meera Ghani, ECOLISE Policy Coordinator, and Tamara Steger, Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at Central European University. The topic? Environmental and racial justice.Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at [email protected] // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban ArenasPhoto credit: News Oresund, CC BY 2.0 .
    43 min
  • Urban Design Processes
    Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate talks with Florian Strenge - an urbanist fascinated by spaces, people and processes.Our urban arena podcast correspondent this month is Sophia Silverton. Would you like to follow in her footsteps? If so, please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at [email protected] // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban ArenasPhoto from here
    38 min
  • Networks for Sustainable and Just Cities
    Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month Kate and Ian get lost in the voices of people who have helped sustain, build and critically assess networks that aim to create just and sustainable cities: Matthew Bach, Flor Avelino and Tom Henfrey.Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. Record it on your phone or recording device and send it over. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at [email protected] // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban ArenasImage from here.
    27 min
  • Social Entrepreneurship
    Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. Kate is on interview duty and the moment and she caught up with Kemo Camara, founder and CEO of Omek, a new digital and physical platform dedicated to the social and professional advancement of the African diaspora community. Do you want to become an Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Email us at [email protected] // Find us on twitter or instagram - @arena_urban // Facebook UrbanA - Urban Arenas
    37 min
  • Integral Cities
    Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we’re speaking with Marilyn Hamilton the founder of Integral City and author of the Integral City book series. This month we also launch a new feature - the Urban Arena podcast correspondent! We want your voice on the pod. If you’d like to featured then please answer the question ‘What is a sustainable and just city?’ in a maximum of 3 minutes. It’s up to you what you put in your message, but we encourage you to think about urban sustainability and justice together. Our first correspondent is Marcelline Bonneau CEO and founder at Resilia Solutions.
    37 min
  • Nature Based Solutions
    Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. This month we're talking with Panagiota Kotsila, a political ecologist who works at the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability and is part of the editorial collective with Undisciplined Enviroments. She'll be talking about the article "Nature-based solutions as discursive tools and contested practices in urban nature’s neoliberalisation processes" that she co-wrote with Isabelle Anguelovski, Francesco Baró, Johannes Langemeyer, Filka Sekulova and James J.T. Connolly for the journal Environment and Planning E.Foto
    33 min

About Urban Community

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Urban Community  – a podcast about sustainable and just citiesCities play a crucial role in creating just and sustainable futures. Urban Community (formerly Urban Arena) is a series of critical…