Sophia Silverton (formerly Ian M. Cook and Kate McGinn)
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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 conversations with activists, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and policy-makers in different European cities who are working to create cities that respond to the twin challenges of justice and sustainability. In its recent revival, the podcast chooses to hone in on stories of community-led initiaitves and share voices which are so deserving of a megaphone!Previously a part of three year project, UrbanA - urban arenas for sustainable and just cities, funded by the Euro...
A park tan turns into a question about harassment, and suddenly your picnic blanket has politics.
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A conversation about trust, community practice, and the patient work of building more sustainable, just cities.
Urban Community focuses on the quiet work that sits behind more sustainable and just cities: trust, shared purpose, and the discipline of showing up.
A civic-minded look at planning that makes city design easier for inhabitants to read.
Urban Community turns neighborhood visioning into a plainspoken lesson in perspective-taking. The conversation with Just Hood keeps the focus on an interactive planning process that aims at more equitable, sustainable cities.
A grounded look at how shared spaces can make city life feel more collective.
Urban community-making can sound abstract, but this Rotterdam conversation keeps it grounded in rooms, rituals, and the idea behind Peer Protocol.
New scholarship on Indigenous worlds.
Nilay Patel presses tech and media CEOs on how they actually run their companies.
Physician Shoshana Ungerleider pairs TED talks with interviews on aging, drug prices, and menopause.
Food52 hosts break down recipes and food-business origin stories, from sourdough to Salty Pimp cones.
Host Sophia Silverton interviews Duncan Crawley, Irish architect and climate activist, about his role as network weaver for the Urban Community of Practice.
This episode features Salah, who works to engage Turkish youth in municipal decision-making for climate justice, highlighting projects like climate riddles in Maltepe.
Urban Community’s “Just neighbourhood planning” focuses on Tatiana and Onorata from Just Hood, who describe a three-stage method for participatory master planning that they have already tested in Katowice, Poland.
This episode explores how Peer Protocol in Rotterdam creates physical and digital commons to foster community-led initiatives.
Sophia Silverton interviews Filippos from Pervolades in Thessaloniki, a community initiative using food solidarity to address urban justice and sustainability.
Amy argues that climate storytelling needs collective heroes and visions of beautiful futures, not only dystopian warnings.
Urban Community interviews Linda Gustafsson, a gender equality strategist for the city of Umeå, about applying gender analysis to urban planning, mobility, public space, education, and climate policy.
Urban Community's City Politics features Ian interviewing Tom Meus, Antwerp's Vice Mayor for Social Affairs and Environmental Affairs, about linking social and environmental justice.