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City Nestmaking
by Beth Sanders
Who do our cities need to be to serve us well? Who do we need to be to serve our cities well? In the City Nestmaking podcast, you'll hear Beth alone and in conversation with citizens, city government, business and community organizations. Always looking for ways to navigate the complexity of city life, so we can better hear each other and make better cities for ourselves as a result. Our cities are as good as we make them, so who do we need to be, alone and together?
Episodes
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E48 How much ballast?
A “just right” amount of ballast provides steadiness so people can choose where they want to go—and choose a course to get there. Images in this episode can be found in this blog post. Reflection: In what ways do you feel out of ballast? How are you susceptible to capsizing, unable to steer…
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E47 Speaking From (vs talking about)
It feels good to fight and argue, but when there’s no pressure to convince others or be convinced, we listen in ways that allow us to improve our communities. Images for this episode can be found in this blog post. Reflection About what subjects do you “talk about” what you know rather than…
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E46 Housing as Community Social Enterprise
Beth Sanders and Yasushi Ohki explore how being a land developer can be good for a community’s well-being, rather than the maligned role many believe. Yasushi innovates, pilots and demonstrates new housing forms with a dogged entrepreneurial spirit. He believes that building housing can be an...
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E45 It's All in the Cards
City making, the weaving of city building and city caring, only happens when we have a social habitat in which we choose to weave these perspectives together. Images for this episode can be found here.
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E44 Community Learning
We only organize together if we are in the push and pull of conversation, wrestling with the action we feel we need to take. If not, we are being organized, passive participants in the status quo doing others’ bidding. Images for this episode can be found here.
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E43 Stepping Into Vulnerability
An impromptu check-in invited awe in self, others and a beautiful place. Images for this episode can be found here.
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E42 Radical Reflection
Receiving a big award made me notice how integrity and values shape my life and work, from the scale of me to the scale of communities, neighbourhoods, and cities. Images for this episode can be found here.
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A1 A Moment of Quiet
Think about an activation like a guided meditation. You can listen to them in order or in response to your intuition--which one catches your eye? In listening to the activations, you'll get a few benefits: Calm. When we spend time connecting ourselves to our place and our work, we cultivate a…
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E41 Do it Scared
Is it possible that being more honest about what I don't know and what I don't know how to do makes me feel less scared? It looks like radical honesty with my ski patrol colleagues makes me feel less scared. And more capable, too. NOTE: You can find a video of the chair lift ride mentioned in…
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E40 The Inconceivable Inconceivable
There are two kinds of inconceivable: 1) the one I tell myself isn’t possible and 2) the one I can’t imagine. In this episode, Beth reveals a 35-year-old wish that came true and where that wish fulfilled is taking her. There are great images that accompany this episode; they can be found here.
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E39 Change as a Verb
Beth has landed in perimenopause, asking herself the question she asks others everywhere she goes: How do I make my way through this transition with care and compassion? The answer is in thinking not of The Change but of changing. Change as a verb. Images for this episode can be found here.
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E38 Intersectionality, GBA+ and City Making
What on earth are intersectionality and GBA+? And what do they have to do with city making? Beth Sanders and Soni Dasmohapatra explore intersectionality and Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) in their work as city makers; they land on this understanding: GBA+ is a means to be in a conversation…
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E37 The Agony of Conversation
How do you design a public meeting when you believe that everyone has something to say, not just the vocal few? Images for this episode can be found here.
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E36 Transition-Making is Choosing Changing
When we avoid sharing opportunities to make meaning of our experiences and make choices from the meaning we've made, we avoid the challenges and brilliance of community. And the choice, in every moment, rests with each of us. Images created for this episode can be found here.
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E35 Transition Bypassing
We want change to happen without changing ourselves, without having to do anything differently. Yet, choosing transition means choosing to participate in our changing. Images created for this episode can be found here.
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E34 Community Bypassing
We level up our experience of community by growing beyond sharing an experience to shared choice-making. Podcast episodes mentioned in this episode: connection bypassing, conversation bypassing, and relationship bypassing. Images created for this episode can be found here.
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E33 Upper Mountain Relationships
An emotional upset and a ski trip helped me unearth two limiting beliefs about relationship skills. Images created for this episode can be found here.
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E32 Relationship Bypassing
When we avoid accountability and responsibility, we become untrustworthy and bypass opportunities to be in relationship with each other—in both our personal and professional lives. In this episode: 2 symptoms of, and 7 antidotes to, relationship bypassing. Images created for this episode can be...
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E31 Conversation Bypassing
Assuming that the expertise in the room is in one or a few people disables and minimizes the resilience of a community. In this episode: 4 symptoms of conversation bypassing and 5 antidotes. Images created for this episode can be found here.
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E30 Connection Bypassing
Whether online or in-person, how we gather fosters connection between people only when we design in opportunities for people to make contact with each other. When we don’t, we engage in connection bypassing. Images created for this episode can be found here.
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E29 Explicit Agreements
Agreements about how we’ll talk and relate to each other are a commitment to be responsible for the quality of our relationships. Images created for this episode can be found here. I invite you to explore the following resources for agreements about how a group can work together: The Circle Way…
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E28 I Said YES to Evolving Professionals
To participate in the evolution of our cities and communities, city planners can no longer work the way they’ve worked for decades. In addition to our content expertise, we need to cultivate our social habitat expertise by letting go of our heavy reliance on prescribe and control ways of…
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E27 Transition Thinking to Enable Community (Itch #5)
Community has a vital role to play when emergencies arise: to enable transition from what was to what could be. Images created for this episode can be found here. This episode is the fifth in a series about the relationship between community and emergency: E23 Scales of Emergency Response (Itch...
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E26 Resilience Requires Transition (Itch #4)
When busy rescuing others or looking for others to rescue us, we miss the opportunity to renew ourselves, to engage and embrace the transition from one way of thinking, making and doing, to another. A healthy relationship with transition is necessary for resilience. Images created for this…
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E25 Rescue is Not Resilience (Itch #3)
Rescue embodies resilience only when the rescuer takes action the rescued can't do for themselves (and wants). Whatever the scale of emergency (E23), we have choices to make about how to respond (E24)--and the language we use reflects the choices we make, the roles we play, and the actions we…
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E24 Choices to Enable Our Emergency Response-Ability (Itch #2)
In this episode, six ideas and eight suggestions to be response-ABLE at any scale of emergency. As the scale of emergency grows (E23), the ability of a community to be proactive, responsive and response-ABLE becomes imperative. As the scale of crisis grows from a sprint rescue event to an...
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E23 Scales of Emergency Response (Itch #1)
I had an “allergic reaction” this summer to some language people around me are using to invite climate action: “be a first responder.” And so, I sit and write as a means to scratch the itch. What I found: As the scale of emergency grows, the ability of community to be proactive, responsive and...
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E22 Transportation Infrastructure Privileges People With Power
Beth Sanders and Luis Patricio discuss bicycles to explore mobility and privilege in cities. With his first realization in Brazil that a bicycle IS a means to move around the city, Luis started advocating for a bike-to-work program at work. Bicycling has become a part of his identity and a full...
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E21 I Never Imagined You'd Know So Little
6 questions to ask at any time in your career in Beth's address to the Master of City Planning graduates at the University of Manitoba, June 2021. Images created for this episode can be found here.
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E20 Make People Visible to Each Other
When we use technology like Zoom, even with a panel presentation, when we choose to allow participants to see each other we are allowing the community that has gathered to see each other and make further contact with itself. We choose to enable, rather than disable, community agency.…
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E19 Regenerative City Circles
The new diagrams we use to describe our economic, social and ecological habitats reveal connections and understanding. Images created for this episode can be found here. Resources: Kate Raworths's book: Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist The course: Foundations of...
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E18 Social Habitat Competencies
Let’s release the binary ways we define city planning practice and grow our relationship skills (for the official and unofficial planners out there). Images created for this episode can be found in this article.
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E17 Cities and Citizens are Perpetually Unfinished
9 practices to see, acknowledge and respond to our uneasy world. Images created for this article can be found in this article.
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E16 Fighting in Infectious
The choice at hand for each of us: Which infection do I choose to spread? The anger and frustration that comes with fight drama, or the generative possibility that comes with exploring conflict? Images created for this episode can be found in this article.
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E15 The Older Person I Want To Be
As Mother’s Day approaches, I want to be more aware of how my behaviour erodes the growth of younger people in my life, especially when I am feeling challenged, hurt, or left behind. Images created for this episode can be found in this article. For more information about Edward Kelly and The…
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E14 The City (and Humans) as Nature
Beth Sanders and Dustin Bajer celebrate Earth Week with a conversation about how the city habitats we create for ourselves make ecological contributions to our planet, Earth. What happens when we think of cities as a part of nature or even a product of nature? What happens when we think about…
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E13 Eight Ways I Engage in City Life
When it comes to improving our cities, we do not each need to be everywhere at once. We do not even need to have the same priorities because we benefit, individually and collectively, from simultaneously addressing multiple challenges. In this episode, I describe 8 choices I see for myself about...
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E12 A Welcoming City has Transportation Choices
Making room for equitable transportation choices involves being open to meeting the movement needs of many. Photos, and images created for this episode, can be found in this article.
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E11 Care Out in the Open
The opposite of lockdown behaviour, which has us operating from fear and insecurity, is connection and relationship. Instead of withdrawing from community life, we contribute; we care out in the open.Protection feeds my fear of other humans. Being neighbourly feeds my desire to connect with other...
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E10 Cities: A Practice of Mutual Agency
Mutual agency fosters sovereignty in self and others because it means actively looking to work with others who have different views. Mutual agency enables a generosity that seeds our regenerative future. Images for this episode can be found in this article.
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E9 Identities Shape City Planners
Beth Sanders and Jason Syvixay investigate how their locational, gender, sexual orientation, age and racial identities shape their experience of cities, their work as city planners and implications for the planning profession. (Note: you don’t have to be a city planner to enjoy this…
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E8 Prescribe and Enable
In my quest to figure out how planners and everyone else in the city can work better together, I’ve learned the magic of finding the minimal critical structure that enables new possibilities. Images created for this episode can be found in this article.
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E7 Stories of the City
Beth Sanders and Soni Dasmohapatra explore heritage, health, hibernation and the creation of community that learns together. Soni Dasmohapatra builds inclusive platforms for transformative change. She works with individuals, public service institutions and community agencies to develop tools that...
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E6 Let's Exercise Our Inquiry Muscles
Improving our cities requires us to be in a better relationship with ourselves: our intentions, actions, and the consequences of our actions. Images created for this episode can be found in this article.
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E5 Down the Rabbit Hole #1
Beth Sanders and Hilary Van Welter explore Alice in Wonderland's Mad Hatter's Tea Party, only to understand that disruption and clarity co-exist. Hilary is CEO of the Ascentia Collaborative, a place of exploration, experimentation and enterprise. She believes that the clues to a wonderful future...
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E4 Choose a Direction for the City
The implementation of Edmonton’s city plan requires a culture change—inside and outside city hall. And it all hinges on how we handle accountability and shame. Images created for this episode can be found in this article.
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E3 Think, Make, Do
Our evolutionary journey—our resilience and adaptability—depends on our ability generate new kinds of work, new ways of thinking, making and doing new things.
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E2 Disrupt the Story of the Land
I am part of the culture that propagates this old story: we settler people are better than Indigenous people. Images created for this episode can be found in this article.
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E1 City Making With Women
How a speaking engagement shifted from city “building for” women to city “making with” women. Images created for this episode can be found in this article.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Who do our cities need to be to serve us well? Who do we need to be to serve our cities well? In the City Nestmaking podcast, you'll hear Beth alone and in conversation with citizens, city government, business and community organizations. Always looking for ways to navigate the complexity of city life, so we can better hear each other and make better cities for ourselves as a result. Our cities are as good as we make them, so who do we need to be, alone and together?
HOSTED BY
Beth Sanders
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