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Knight Cities podcast
by Carol Coletta
Carol Coletta of Knight Foundation unearths innovative ideas for making cities successful and interviews the people behind them.
Episodes
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Knight Cities podcast: Mixed-income neighborhoods build better communities, with Joe Cortright (episode 56)
City Observatory is a daily source of data analysis and policy recommendations on how to make cities successful. The site helps readers separate fact from fiction when it comes to cities. This week, we talked with City Observatory founder and economist Joe Cortright.
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Knight Cities podcast: David Maraniss tells the story of how Detroit exported innovation (episode 55)
Detroit was once the innovation center of America. Ingenuity propelled a booming auto industry, Motown synthesized and popularized a new form of music, and social change poured out on race and workers’ rights. In his new book, “Once in a Great City,” David Maraniss has captured this story of...
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Knight Cities podcast: Using the design of public spaces to increase civic engagement, with Joanna Frank (episode 54)
The Center for Active Design has led the development of design guidelines for promoting physical activity.
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Knight Cities podcast: Bringing renewal to Newcastle (Australia) (episode 53)
While between projects in late 2007 and early 2008, Marcus Westbury, a maker, festival director and writer, was exploring his hometown of Newcastle, Australia, and found dozens of buildings and once-vibrant streets that 'had fallen into disrepair and despair.' Today, however, Lonely Planet...
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Knight Cities podcast: Sowing Detroit’s future in the fertile ground of vacant lots, with Erin Kelly (episode 52)
Erin Kelly is program manager of Innovative Landscapes, an initiative of Detroit Future City.
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Knight Cities podcast: Renaissance of Detroit riverfront invites public participation (episode 51)
Make your way to the edge of downtown Detroit, and you will find a river. Until recently, it wouldn't have been a very inviting experience. But today, the Detroit riverfront has become one of America's best waterfront parks. Mark Wallace is president and CEO of the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy,...
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Knight Cities podcast: Campus Philly connects students—and inspires deep connections to Philadelphia (episode 50)
Attracting and retaining talent is at the top of the economic development agenda in many U.S. cities. And the organization that probably knows best how to do that is Campus Philly. Deborah Diamond is president of Campus Philly, and she joined us this week to talk about what the organization has...
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Knight Cities podcast: Authentic experience attracts shoppers to Philly’s Reading Terminal Market (episode 49)
Who doesn't love a great market? And there is none livelier than Reading Terminal Market in Center City Philadelphia. Anuj Gupta is the market's new general manager, and I talked to him about what makes the market so special.
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Knight Cities podcast: Philly park with renewed sense of purpose packs in the crowds (episode 48)
Until last summer, Philadelphia’s Spruce Street Harbor was moribund, lacking people and energy. That is, until David Fierabend and his colleagues at Groundswell Design transformed it with inexpensive, temporary design changes that have made it the place to go in the city. He discusses the project...
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Knight Cities podcast: The Underline, a good idea on the move in Miami, with Meg Daly (episode 47)
Meg Daly is founder and president of Friends of The Underline.
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Knight Cities podcast: Miami Science Barge, a showcase for environmental education, with Alissa Farina (episode 46)
Alissa Farina is an innovation associate at CappSci, a foundation that applies “science and engineering to real-world problems, and one of the organizers of the Miami Science Barge.
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Knight Cities podcast: Nonprofit boards have power to influence policy – if they will seize the opportunity, with Anne Wallestad (episode 45)
If you serve on a nonprofit board this week’s “Knight Cities” is especially for you. Raising money is part of the job for nonprofit board members, but there’s also a significant opportunity that isn’t taken advantage of nearly enough: influencing policy. This week on “Knight Cities,” we talk to...
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Knight Cities podcast: Positioning libraries for the future, with Miguel Figueroa (episode 44)
Miguel Figueroa heads the American Library Association Center for the Future of Libraries
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Knight Cities podcast: Mining science to shift public behavior, with Ted Robertson (episode 43)
Can behavioral science nudge us into better behavior? A growing number of government leaders think so. And they are being assisted by ideas42, a firm that uses behavioral science to design scalable solutions for social impact. Our guest this week on “Knight Cities” is **Ted Robertson**, managing...
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Knight Cities podcast: Pop-up Pool Project adds a splash of cool in Philly, with Ben Bryant (episode 42)
Ben Bryant and the Pop-up Pool Project in Philadelphia
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Knight Cities podcast: How communities can benefit when big developments move in, with Ralph Rosado (episode 41)
When big development comes to a neighborhood, how can the neighbors benefit?
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Knight Cities podcast: Resilience and recovery in the Big Easy, with Roberta Gratz (episode 40)
Roberta Brandes Gratz is the author of a new book on post-Katrina New Orleans on the 10th anniversary of the hurricane.
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Knight Cities podcast: Educating communities on the value of repurposing vacant schools, with Lindsey Scannapieco (episode 39)
Lindsey Scannapieco, is the enthusiastic developer of the Edward Bok Technical School in South Philadelphia.
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Knight Cities podcast: 5 things you need to know about our economic future, with Kathi Vian (episode 38)
Kathi Vian leads Institute for the Futures’ Ten-Year Forecast,
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Knight Cities podcast: Rebalancing the cost-of-living equation to build better communities, with Scott Bernstein (episode 37)
Scott Bernstein, president and co-founder of the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago
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Knight Cities podcast: Philly media site pursues ‘active’ citizenship, with Jeremy Nowak (episode 36)
A new kind of journalism is being born in Philadelphia. It’s manifested in The Philadelphia Citizen, and its purpose is nothing less than to spark a new movement of citizens who refuse to outsource leadership to a political class. With Jeremy Nowak.
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Knight Cities podcast: Prototype Festival hacks traditional methods of city planning, with Neil Hrushowy (episode 35)
Joy. Play. Whimsy. Those are words not often used to describe city planning and the associated public engagement it usually requires. But with its Market Street Prototyping Festival, San Francisco inverted the traditional planning model and turned its main street into a canvas for testing ideas...
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Knight Cities podcast: Insights from Down Under in making government bureaucracy open to change, with Erma Ranieri (episode 34)
Are “creative” and “bureaucracy” mutually exclusive terms? Erma Ranieri is working hard to prove otherwise. As commissioner for public sector employment in South Australia, she is leading Change@SouthAustralia to speed change in government. For her efforts to make government bureaucracy creative...
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Knight Cities podcast: Philly’s Fairmount Park Conservancy shows value of public-private partnerships, with Kathryn Ott Lovell (episode 33)
Kathryn Ott Lovell is responsible for one of the nation’s largest non-commercial public-private partnerships. She is executive director of the Fairmount Park Conservancy, an independent nonprofit organization that champions Philadelphia’s vast park system, where she orchestrates the daily dance…
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Knight Cities podcast: Reimagining Philadelphia’s civic commons, with Shawn McCaney (episode 32)
Shawn McCaney, program director of creative communities at the William Penn Foundation, has been a leader in reimagining Philadelphia’s civic commons, those places that together encourage us to cross paths with our neighbors, encounter new ideas and make broader connections.
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Knight Cities podcast: Building a new kind of economy, with Tessy Britton (episode 31)
Is it time for a new kind of local economy in our cities, one that's based on people sharing their knowledge? Tessy Britton believes it is. Tessy and her colleagues at Civic Systems Lab are building a city framework where people can teach skills to those around them and learn new ones. It's part...
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Knight Cities podcast: The case of the vanishing neighbor, with Marc Dunkelman (episode 30)
Are neighbors vanishing in America? Marc Dunkelman thinks so. Marc is a fellow in public policy with the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions at Brown University and author of “The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community.”
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Knight Cities podcast: Trial by fire in Chicago, with Jim Lasko (episode 29)
An estimated one third of adults can be called soloists, people who work in non-traditional relationships with their employers. And the rate is growing rapidly, 15 to 17 percent every year. A soloist is, as George Gendron puts it, an extreme version of an entrepreneur and requires much of the…
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Knight Cities podcast: How to Go Solo, with George Gendron (episode 28)
An estimated one third of adults can be called soloists, people who work in non-traditional relationships with their employers. And the rate is growing rapidly, 15 to 17 percent every year. A soloist is, as George Gendron puts it, an extreme version of an entrepreneur and requires much of the…
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Knight Cities podcast: Paul Grogan of The Boston Foundation (episode 27)
Paul Grogan is one of the nations great civic innovators. He has had a 360-degree view of what makes cities tick—from his early service as aide to two Boston mayors, to the creation of the nation’s first national intermediary for community development, to the founding of CEOs for Cities, then to...
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Knight Cities podcast: Charles Leadbeater on why empathy is essential for city success (episode 26)
Each week, it seems someone publishes yet another list of essentials for city success. In fact, at Knight, we have our own list of these essentials: talent, opportunity and engagement. But Charles Leadbeater, a leading authority on innovation and creativity, believes empathy should be right at…
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Knight Cities podcast: Miami developer Avra Jain shares insights on real estate revitalization (episode 25)
Do you ever look at an abandoned building in your city and think, why doesn’t someone fix that up? Do you ever imagine that you might be the one to bring it back to life? Avra Jain is a Miami-based real estate investor and developer. Her latest project is the redevelopment of the famous Vagabond...
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Knight Cities podcast: Dennis Scholl on how art brings vibrancy to communities (episode 24)
Making art general in cities across America is the charge of Dennis Scholl, vice president for arts at Knight Foundation. Dennis and his colleagues are the brains behind the Knight Arts Challenge (which is currently open for ideas in South Florida), the enormously popular Random Acts of Culture,...
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Knight Cities podcast: Sandra Kulli on creating community (episode 23)
How do you create a sense of community in a brand new development? Its a question Sandra Kulli, a real estate marketing strategist, has been wrestling with for years. She is president of Kulli Marketing, and we had a chance to catch up recently in Todos Santos, Mexico, the site of one of her…
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Knight Cities podcast: Shaun Abrahamson, on how startups can solve the challenges cities face (episode 22)
Can business muster the will, the know-how and the capital to take on the problems cities face? Shaun Abrahamson is betting on it. He is co-founder of Urban.us, a new public benefit corporation based in Miami - and a Knight Foundation grantee - that supports companies working to solve the most...
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Knight Cities podcast: Matt Lerner on Walk Scores and why neighborhood walkability matters (episode 21)
What’s your Walk Score? Thats a question that has become increasingly popular among urbanists since the founding of Walk Score seven years ago. Now real estate agents prominently display the number on their listings, knowing the value it adds to properties. Matt Lerner is a co-founder of Walk…
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Knight Cities podcast: Paul R. Levy on how Philadelphia transformed its Center City (episode 20)
He’s been called the shadow mayor of Center City Philadelphia, and there is no one in America today who knows more about how to cultivate a downtown than Paul R. Levy. Paul is president and CEO of Center City District, the organization supported by property owners that makes the district appeal…
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Knight Cities podcast: Jason Roberts on building better blocks in our communities (episode 19)
Before planning fatigue sets in, why not just build a better block? That’s the approach of Jason Roberts who leads Team Better Block. Jason is a charismatic man who works with communities – first his own in Oak Cliff, Texas, and now with communities around the world – to turn vacant properties…
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Knight Cities podcast: Scott Stowell on designing for people (episode 18)
Scott Stowell runs Open, a design studio in New York. He is in the final days of a Kickstarter campaign for his new book, “Design for People,” which is filled with the stories behind the stories of the firm’s biggest design projects. In this week’s “Knight Cities,” Scott and I talk about his book...
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Knight Cities podcast: Ryan Gravel discusses community engagement and Atlanta’s BeltLine (episode 17)
The Atlanta BeltLine is a massive development turning 22 miles of historic railroad corridors circling downtown into a network of parks, trails and transit to link 45 of the city’s neighborhoods. It is among the largest and most wide-ranging urban development and mobility projects in the United...
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Knight Cities podcast: Alice Cabaret on innovating to improve neighborhoods (episode 16)
Imagine a globally connected set of urban studios inviting citizens to work on their best ideas for regenerating disinvested neighborhoods. That’s the ambitious vision of South African Alice Cabaret, founder and director of GRIND, the Global Regeneration Initiative for Neighbourhood Development....
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Knight Cities podcast: Leslie Koch on transforming New York’s Governors Island into a vibrant public space (episode 15)
How do you create a radically open platform for building new cultural capital in cities? That's been the job of Leslie Koch, president of the Trust for Governors Island, a nonprofit organization created by the city of New York to run what is an historic former military base being transformed into…
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Knight Cities podcast: A conversation on race and inclusion with Angela Glover Blackwell of PolicyLink (episode 14)
The quest to be a “just and fair” nation seems like a goal every American can rally around. But when you start unpacking the racial implications of that ambition, things can get complicated fast. Angela Glover Blackwell is founder of PolicyLink, a national organization that continues to lead the...
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Knight Cities podcast: Terry Mazany on what's next for Chicago (episode 13)
What would happen if thousands of people in your city got together with friends, neighbors, even strangers on a single day over a meal to discuss the future of your community? That’s the question the people at the Chicago Community Trust asked on the occasion of the foundation's 99th anniversary....
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Knight Cities podcast: Mary Kramer discusses the catalytic effect of the catalytic effect of The Detroit Homecoming (episode 12)
Imagine a homecoming that brought more than 100 of your city’s native luminaries back to town to see for themselves what life is like now. Then imagine you invited their investment in real estate, in businesses, in the people of your city. That's what happened in Detroit when Mary Kramer of…
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Knight Cities podcast: Jeff Risom of Gehl Architects on improving the quality of public life (episode 11)
Public life is making a comeback in U.S. cities after more than 50 years of decline, inspired, in large part, by the work of Gehl Architects in Copenhagen. Helping cities accelerate that movement and get the details of public space right is a special talent of Jeff Risom. He is partner and…
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Knight Cities podcast: Talking livability and sustainability with Vin Cipolla (episode 10)
Not many nonprofits have been around more than 100 years, especially ones dedicated to creating a more livable city. But the Municipal Art Society of New York (www.MAS.org) – or MAS NYC as it is now known - has defied the odds and continues to thrive in a fast-changing city. With a storied…
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Knight Cities podcast: Phil Cooley shares insights from Detroit's comeback (episode 9)
Phil Cooley is one of Detroit's most enthusiastic champions. Phil, the owner of Slows Bar-B-Q and developer of Ponyride, an incubator for social innovators, was an early investor in the revitalization of the city. He has been an insider to Detroit’s do-it-yourself comeback and has lessons to…
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Knight Cities podcast: Neil G. Ruiz on tapping the talent pool of foreign students (episode 8)
One of the most important sources of talent for U.S. cities is foreign students enrolled in our universities. That's why Neil Ruiz is taking a closer look at where they come from and the impact they are having. Neil is a senior policy analyst and associate fellow at The Brookings Institution...
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Knight Cities podcast: Cathy Ho on how the pop-up movement is changing communities (episode 7)
It seems that every city has its own version of pop-up parks, parklets, better blocks and other temporary design interventions intended to add life and fun to city streets. Cathy Ho curated a celebration of these clever urban actions in a major exhibition, 'Spontaneous Interventions: Design…
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Carol Coletta of Knight Foundation unearths innovative ideas for making cities successful and interviews the people behind them.
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