Podcasts by The Life-Sized City Urbanism Podcast
The Life-Sized City Urbanism Podcast is hosted by Mikael Colville-Andersen. As an urban designer working with cities around the world, an author and the host of The Life-Sized City tv series about urbanism, Colville-Andersen hopes curates a wide variety of urban topics. Interviewing passionate urban citizens around the world about issues that affect our cities.
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The Erotic City - a conversation with Bianca Hermansen exploring sensuality in urbanism - Ep 21 from 2021-12-16T14:09:50
In Episode 21 of the Life-Sized City podcast, Mikael Colville-Andersen engages his friend Bianca Hermansen - Danish architect, urbanist and thinker - in the idea of The Erotic City from an urbanist...
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Empowering Women to Cycle - A conversation with Pinar Pinzuti Ep 20 from 2021-11-17T11:05:05
Pinar Pinzuti is a cycling advocate based in Milan. A veritable powerhouse of spreading the word about the importance of reestablishing the bicycle as transport in our cities. Pinar started the Fan...
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Slow, Life-sized Travel - a conversation with Carl Honoré Ep 19 from 2021-10-22T11:31:19
Episode 19: What is slow, life-sized travel? On a visit to an off-the-grid tiny house in the Helsinki archipelago, Mikael discusses the idea with his friend, Carl Honoré. Carl is an author, broadca...
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Hanna Harris - Chief Design Officer for Helsinki - Ep 18 from 2021-09-28T12:13:12
Mikael interviews the Chief Design Officer for Helsinki, Hanna Harris. Not many cities have a Chief Design Officer. Helsinki was the first city in the world to create the position back in 2016. The...
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Urban Greenery NOW!! A conversation with Bianca Hermansen Ep17 from 2021-09-24T11:42:12
Mikael meets up with his friend, Danish architect, urbanist and thinker, Bianca Hermansen again. This time to talk long and hard about the importance of urban greenery.
They cover... brace your...
Urban Greenery NOW!! A conversation with Bianca Hermansen from 2021-09-24T11:42:12
Mikael meets up with his friend, Danish architect, urbanist and thinker, Bianca Hermansen again. This time to talk long and hard about the importance of urban greenery.
They cover... brace your...
A conversation with Bianca Hermansen about Democratic Design in Cities - Ep 16 from 2021-09-08T11:00:03
Mikael has a conversation with his friend and colleague Bianca Hermansen - Danish architect and urban planner - about the oft used phrase “Democratic Design”. What it is supposed to mean and whethe...
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A Conversation with Anni Sinnemäki - Deputy Mayor of Helsinki - Ep15 from 2021-08-29T11:40:08
Mikael interviews Deputy Mayor of Helsinki, Anni Sinnemäki. She is basically the politician you wish you could vote for in your city. They had an all-round conversation about her visions for where ...
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The State of the Urban Cycling Nation in Paris - Ep 14 from 2021-05-11T11:06:42
Mikael discusses the state of the urban cycling nation in Paris with urban designer and mobility consultant Romain Loubiére while sitting on the canal in the spring sunshine on Canal Saint-Martin. ...
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Climaphobia - The B-Movie We're Forced to Watch from 2021-01-20T12:11:54
We've spent outrageous amounts of time and money trying to engineer the weather out of our lives. We suffer from Climaphobia - not a phobia of extreme weather - just the regular stuff that happens ...
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Climaphobia - The B-Movie We're Forced to Watch Ep13 from 2021-01-20T12:11:54
We've spent outrageous amounts of time and money trying to engineer the weather out of our lives. We suffer from Climaphobia - not a phobia of extreme weather - just the regular stuff that happens ...
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The Social Ideology of the Motorcar - Mikael reads the essay by André Gorz Ep12 from 2020-12-04T10:22:52
Mikael reads aloud from the 1973 essay, The Social Ideology of the Motorcar, by French-Austrian philosopher André Gorz. It is a seminal work that is just as relevant today as it was back then and i...
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The Slow Movement, Aging and COVID19 - How it All Relates to Urbanism Ep11 from 2020-10-18T17:00:24
Mikael has a conversation with Canadian writer and thinker, Carl Honoré, about the Slow Movement, ageing, the COVID19 pandemic and how it all relates to urbanism. You can watch the video of this co...
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Bicycle Urbanism by Design - excerpt from the book Copenhagenize Ep10 from 2020-04-11T15:21:45
Mikael reads aloud from the Bicycle Urbanism by Design chapter in his book “Copenhagenize - the definitive guide to global bicycle urbanism” - available wherever you buy your books. Using Design Th...
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Vancouver, Tall Buildings and Brent Toderian Ep09 from 2020-01-17T10:41:19
I’ve never been a fan of tall buildings. On a visit to Vancouver, I needed someone to convince me that they aren’t inherently bad. The most obvious choice is my friend Brent Toderian, urban planner...
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Beirut’s Archaeology Armageddon Ep08 from 2020-01-07T08:00:13
In the race for property development and profit for the few, Beirut is losing its archaeological legacy. The oligarchy has teamed up with developers, investors and even starchitects like Jean Nouve...
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Beirut Inc. - Designing a Non-Place Through Rampant Privatization Ep07 from 2020-01-06T12:43:46
When Beirut emerged from a brutal civil war, it was time to rebuild. Instead of rebuilding for the people, the city was, in effect, privatized, allowing rampant capitalism and cronyism to trump urb...
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Copenhagen's Tree Musketeers Ep06 from 2019-10-25T13:47:27
The importance of having a rich green canopy in a city is well-documented. Trees are vital to urban living for so many reasons. Copenhagen’s brand as a “green” city is, in many ways, deserved. But ...
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Smile! It's Climate Change! Ep05 from 2019-10-17T11:45:19
Belina Raffy is on a mission to make climate change… funnier. She teaches Sustainable Stand-up, in order to enable people to be able to talk about the serious topic of climate change with humour, i...
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Fighting Climate Change with Cities - and Positivity EP04 from 2019-10-12T15:44:32
With the global narrative about climate change being so dark and dismal for so long, it is increasingly difficult to call our citizens to action. But what if we looked at it differently and put a p...
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The Urban Revival Narrative - EP03 from 2019-02-26T12:55:11
Now called The Life-Sized City podcast.
One of the narratives that fascinates us the most is urban revival. A city seemingly down for the count starts the process of rebuilding, rebooting and h...
Gender Issues in Skateboarding EP02a from 2019-01-01T20:26:39
Now called The Life-Sized City podcast.
The massive gender challenges facing skateboarding are mirrored in many other cultures and sports. How can skateboarding - a traditionally male-dominated...
Designing Skateboard-friendly Cities - EP02 from 2018-12-28T21:48:39
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 Ska...
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Terror Urbanism - EP01 from 2018-09-25T12:29:01
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 posi...
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