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Here There Be Dragons
by Jessica Myers
Podcast by Jessica Myers
Episodes
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Odes[s]a: Getting Around [шлятись]
We're very excited to bring you this new episode after a bit of a break. While the first half the of the season was very focused the built environment, the second will focus on urban intangibles in Odes[s]a. The vibe, if you will. And what better way to start off than taking a walk? Instagram:...
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Off-Cut: Gorky Park [Парк Горького]
To return from a bit of a hiatus, let's take a walk with Boris through Gorky Park in the south of the city by Cheremuski District. Here surrounded by peaceful family moments, Boris reflects on the war's lack of trace on the park even as it deeply impacts his orientation towards public space....
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Odes[s]a: Interiors [Інтер'єри]
Although much of the conflict of urban life is focused on public space there’s a lot to be said for the negotiations we all maintain indoors. Through the restaurant kitchen downstairs or the noisy neighbor next door the city tends to extend inside. This episode is sort of an audio gatecrashing…
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Off Cut: Repetition [Повторення]
Every so often we’re going to bring you something we’ve been calling off-cuts and footnotes. These are extended scenes and deep dives that didn’t make the final cut of the main episodes. This is also a place where we can talk about your questions and comments. So feel free to send your thoughts…
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Odes[s]a: Sleeping Districts [Спальні райони]
This episode lets catch the 145 bus to Kotovsky or the 149 to Tairova and end up in the Sleeping Districts, where most Odesiti live. We'll discover the pains and strange pleasures of concrete panel houses and enter the Soviet housing worm hole, where Odes[s]a's shifting demographics meet a...
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Footnote: Housing [Житло]
Every so often we’re going to bring you something we’ve been calling off-cuts and footnotes. These are extended scenes and deep dives that didn’t make the final cut of the main episodes. This is also a place where we can talk about your questions and comments. So feel free to send your thoughts…
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Odes[s]a: Off-Center [молдованка]
In this episode we’re wandering west of the city center to a neighborhood made famous by writers, TV shows, and movies; Moldavanka. However the neighborhood’s story is told and whatever is understood of its reputation, there have always been working people making a life there somewhere in between...
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Off Cut: Starokonnyi Market [староконный рынок]
Every so often we’re going to bring you something we’ve been calling off-cuts and footnotes. These are extended scenes and deep dives that didn’t make the final cut of the main episodes. This is also a place where we can talk about your questions and comments. So feel free to send your thoughts…
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Off-Cut: The Cathedral [Соборна площа]
Every so often we’re going to bring you something we’ve been calling off-cuts and footnotes. These are extended scenes and deep dives that didn’t make the final cut of the main episodes. This is also a place where we can talk about your questions and comments. So feel free to send your thoughts…
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Odes[s]a: Origins [Витоки]
In the second part of our exploration of Odes[s]a's city center, we move through the streets on City Day. From the bars by Cathedral Square to the McDonald's on Derybasivska Street to the street art gallery on Kuznechna Street, residents are thinking about the urban histories that describe or...
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Odes[s]a: Center [центр]
After ten years of conducting interviews for Here There Be Dragons, there’s one question that Jess particularly loves to ask: “Where is the heart of the city for you?” Usually, we wait until the end of the season to reveal the many hearts that residents leave all over their city maps. But in...
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PROLOGUE: Ivan
For our last prologue episode, we're thinking a little more about the sounds of Odes[s]a. When Jess first started interviewing Odes[s]a residents for the show, it became clear that we would need help defining a sound that is specific to the city. This season, Ivan, founder of the indie Odes[s]a...
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PROLOGUE: Adriene
The whole team at HTBD has been working, at this point for years, on a new season about Odes[s]a, Ukraine. While we’re impatient to put out everything we’ve been preparing, we decided to take our time and frame what you will be hearing this season. A prologue if you will. For the next few weeks,...
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PROLOGUE: War
The whole team at HTBD has been working, at this point for years, on a new season about Odes[s]a, Ukraine. While we’re impatient to put out everything we’ve been preparing, we decided to take our time and frame what you will be hearing this season. A prologue if you will. For the next few weeks,...
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PROLOGUE: Language
The whole team at HTBD has been working, at this point for years, on a new season about Odes[s]a, Ukraine. While we’re impatient to put out everything we’ve been preparing, we decided to take our time and frame what you will be hearing this season. A prologue if you will. For the next few weeks,...
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PROLOGUE: Methods
The whole team at HTBD has been working, at this point for years, on a new season about Odes[s]a, Ukraine. While we’re impatient to put out everything we’ve been preparing, we decided to take our time and frame what you will be hearing this season. A prologue if you will. For the next few weeks,...
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PROLOGUE: Why Odes[s]a?
The whole team at HTBD has been working, at this point for years, on a new season about Odes[s]a, Ukraine. While we’re impatient to put out everything we’ve been preparing, we decided to take our time and frame what you will be hearing this season. A prologue if you will. For the next few weeks,...
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Odes[s]a: Trailer
We have been beyond impatient to bring you this season of Here There Be Dragons, one of the most work and resource intensive seasons we’ve ever done. Finally it’s here! Thank you for all the support we have received and continue to receive to make this happen. We’re looking forward to getting…
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Audio Essay: A Pause Is Not A Break
As many of you know, in addition to hosting and producing Here There Be Dragons, I also teach architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design. And for the past year, I’ve been working on A Pause Is Not A Break. An exhibition for the architecture department about the intersection of sound and...
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SWAP: Errant Podcast w/ Felipe Altenfelder
Don’t be alarmed. We’re working on a few experiments in between seasons. This is an episode swap with the experimental Berlin-based cultural magazine Errant Journal. We’re swapping an interview they did with Brazilian practitioner Felipe Altenfelder about his project Mida Ninja. We start off with...
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Stockholm: Nature
My city of New York is known more for it’s skyline than its outdoor offering. But in Stockholm, nature seemed to appear out of nowhere, intertwined within the city fabric. Even neighborhoods constantly labeled “dangerous” have pretty stunning views. How has Stockholm grown, and keeps growing…
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Stockholm: T-Centralen
The subway can tell you a lot about the geography of a city. Who gets off where and why? But at the central station all those wires get crossed and people are there for all types of reasons to work, to shop, to hustle, to hand out, to protest, to get out as fast as possible. So T-Centalen ticks a...
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Stockholm: Little Saturday
In a country known for both pragmatic protestantism and Absolut Vodka, you can imagine there is some anxiety around alcohol, that swings between enjoyment and control. A spectrum of emotion that simmers in the background of Stockholm’s night life. So episode we’ll be talking about the party, the...
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Stockholm: Family
Families are a common political battle ground. What’s good or bad for families is a regular explanation for everything from censorship to over-policing to immigration intolerance. So if families are so worth providing for and so worth protecting, what exactly are they afraid of? What do kids and...
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Stockholm: Norms
Knowing the rules and being able to navigate them can be a big part of feeling safe in the city. Whether newly arrived or born and bred, we’ll hear from Stockholmers trying to figure out the norms, how to use them, and how to change them. Will they have to bend to Stockholm or will Stockholm bend...
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Stockholm : On Extremism (MINI)
We are taking a small break from our regularly scheduled programming to give listeners a little taste of the mini episodes that Patreon subscribers receive every other week. That's right, for subscribers Here There Be Dragons is a weekly podcast. Support us at: https://www.patreon.com/htbdpodcast...
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Stockholm: Segregation Part 2
Last episode, we learned about a few key concepts. The design and planning of the Million Program. The increase of working class immigrants in Swedish cities. And the privatization of public housing. These conditions all woven together created a situation where urban immigrant families were stuck...
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Stockholm: Segregation Part 1
The more we poked around the edges of what Stockholmers meant when they talked about the separation in their cities, we realized people were talking about many different things. Because segregation comes in many forms. Racial segregation is often the most obvious. But there is also class...
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Stockholm: Moving
Housing is one of the hairiest urban planning questions. You have to get the balance absolutely perfect. If you build too much the cost of upkeep will bankrupt the state. But if you build too little, you’ll have a human crisis on your hands in no time. Sweden is a case study of this teeter…
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Stockholm: The Malms
No matter how neighborhoods change, old meanings and power structures remain. This episode, we explore how the power and wealth wielded in the neighborhoods of Södermalm, Östermalm, and Gamla Stan, impact city residents today. Check out Ellen Arkbo's music:...
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Stockholm: Density
Welcome to Stockholm! For all the city's seeming calm and quiet there were many stories of fear, safety, and identity to be told. We are excited to take you to the big little capital of Sweden, where one in every five Swedish residents call home. Let's find out how Stockholmers feel about their...
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Stockholm: Trailer
This time around Jess Myers returns alongside senior producer Adélie Pojzman-Pontay, to discuss the triumphs and trials of Stockholm, Sweden. Since the Cold War, Sweden has positioned itself as a third way between Soviet collectivism and American capitalism. Through the eyes of Stockholmers we...
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Paris: Centres (Season Finale)
Paris: Centres (Season Finale) by Jessica Myers
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Paris: Utopie (Utopia)
It will come as no surprise to you that Paris, a city that is roughly two thousand years old, has had many plans for urban utopias. Utopias of morality, technology, health, and much more. Plans for the aristocracy, for the poor, for police, for immigrants and on and on. But one person’s utopia…
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Paris: Frontières (Borders)
This episode will focus not just on the identities of people but of places. We’ll be talking about the way that Paris is divided through years of history, politics and design. Cities have significant physical and psychic borders that create local bias and affinities. Paris is no different.
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Paris: Codes
Last episode we talked about “French hipsters” or bobos and the anxiety about being perceived as one. This episode we’ll be expanding our ideas about how people want to be perceived in public space. The stereotype of Parisians being stylish and glamorous trendsetters is nothing new. But the more...
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Paris: BoboLand!(Gentrification)
Bobo means bourgeois-bohème; a left leaning, culture loving elite. Kind of the French version of the hipster. Someone of or joining a more comfortable class who likes to dabble in the cultural spaces of the working class and/or ethnic groups. The bobo like the hipster is the boogieman of...
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Paris: Communautarisme (Community)
Paris: Communautarisme (Community) by Jessica Myers
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Paris: Mixité (Diversity)
Does a good social mix create greater security for urban residents? This episode we're talking mixité or diversity. How does it affect public space socially and politically in the Parisian region.
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Paris: Attentats (Attacks)
Welcome back! This is the first episode of Here There Be Dragons season 2. This season we're listening to Parisians tell their stories of fear and identity in the city of lights. You might remember the horrifying news we’ve heard from Paris as terrorist attacks rocked the city. Three attacks in…
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New York: On The Series
Here There Be Dragons Podcast: On the Series Welcome to Here There Be Dragons, a podcast about safety and identity in cities. For this show I spoke to seven New York natives from all over the city and for the past two months you’ve heard their stories and experiences. This is the final episode...
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New York: the Bronx
Here There Be Dragons Podcast: New Yorkers reflect on the Bronx Welcome to Here There Be Dragons, a podcast about safety and identity in cities. I spoke to seven New York natives from all over the city about their stories and experiences. This is the 5th episode of the series being released…
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New York: Harlem
Here There Be Dragons Podcast: New Yorkers Reflect on Harlem Welcome to Here There Be Dragons, a podcast about safety and identity in cities. I spoke to seven New York natives from all over the city about their stories and experiences. This is the 4th of the series being released weekly on CoLab...
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New York: Violence
Here There Be Dragons Podcast: New Yorkers Respond to Violence Welcome to the first episode of Here There Be Dragons, a podcast exploring safety and identity in cities. I spoke to seven New York natives from all over the city about their stories and experiences. The episodes that follow will be...
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New York: Public Housing
Here There Be Dragons Podcast: New Yorkers Discuss Public Housing Welcome to the third episode of Here There Be Dragons, a podcast about safety and identity in cities. I spoke to seven New York natives from all over the city about their stories and experiences. The six episodes that follow will…
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New York: Gentrification
Here There Be Dragons Podcast: New Yorkers Respond to Gentrification Welcome to the second episode of Here There Be Dragons, a podcast about safety and identity in cities. I spoke to seven New York natives from all over the city about their stories and experiences. The episodes that follow will…
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