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WRLDCTY
by WRLDCTY
The world's best ideas from the world's best - and next - cities. Hear urban transformation stories from our collective of urbanists, visionaries, artists, policy shapers, business leaders, activists, and innovators whose diverse ideas, perspectives and lived experiences are shaping the future of global cities.
Episodes
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San Francisco: A Comeback or Reinvention? Guest: Shola Olatoye
Few downtowns have had their post-pandemic struggles examined as closely — or declared dead as confidently — as San Francisco. The city was particularly exposed to the structural changes reshaping downtowns everywhere: remote and hybrid work, high office vacancy, declining transit ridership,...
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Is Burning Man The World's Most Ambitious Urban Experiment?
Every year, more than 70,000 people gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert to build a city from nothing. Roads are laid out. Neighborhoods emerge. Public spaces come alive. Art rises from the dust (and rain). People cook, teach, perform, care for one another, and create the culture of the city...
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Cape Town: Preparing for a Future That Refuses to Behave
In 2018, Cape Town came within months of Day Zero; the potential of running out of water. What followed was one of the most remarkable collective responses to an urban crisis: water use was cut by almost half, the taps stayed on, and the experience permanently changed how the City thinks about...
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Tokyo: Are Snack Bars the Antidote to Loneliness?
In this episode of the WRLDCTY Podcast, we explore Tokyo through the work of PYNT, Nikken Sekkei's collective innovation platform - a social space where designers, researchers, and community builders are experimenting with new ways of bringing people together and rethinking the city. To do so, we...
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London: The Infrastructure of Change with The Conduit & Paul Van Zyl
In this episode, we sit down with Paul van Zyl, co-founder and CEO of The Conduit: a purpose-driven members' community bringing together leaders tackling the world's biggest challenges. Together, we explore how cities create the conditions for collaboration, why physical gathering spaces matter...
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Buenos Aires: The Choreography of the Sidewalk
In this episode, we hear from longtime WRLDCTY friend and Global Fellow Emiliano Espasandin about the "perfectly imperfect" nature of Buenos Aires, a city with a sidewalk-level culture of cafes, retail, food, dance, and community that shows how powerful a city's intangibles can be. In Emiliano's...
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Medellín: The Long Game of Urban Transformation
This episode explores Medellín beyond the familiar “miracle city” narrative. Through the perspective of Alejandro Echeverri, who was a driving force behind many of the city’s foundational projects, we examine the deeper ambitions and tensions behind Medellín’s transformation: dignity, trust,...
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What Ukraine is Teaching Us About Collective Care and Planning
We are honoured to feature Fulco Treffers, co-founder, Ro3kvit as our guest in this week’s podcast. For many outside Ukraine, the country's cities exist largely through headlines. Yet speaking with Fulco, a different picture emerged. Across Ukraine, questions of identity have moved from the…
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Singapore After Dark: Why Letting Loose is Key to a Healthy City
There are few cities more admired by urbanists than Singapore. Yet for all the attention paid to its infrastructure and institutions, there is another story unfolding in Singapore: one that is becoming increasingly relevant to cities everywhere. It is a story about what happens after dark.…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The world's best ideas from the world's best - and next - cities. Hear urban transformation stories from our collective of urbanists, visionaries, artists, policy shapers, business leaders, activists, and innovators whose diverse ideas, perspectives and lived experiences are shaping the future of global cities.
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The world's best ideas from the world's best - and next - cities. Hear urban transformation stories from our collective of urbanists, visionaries, artists, policy shapers, business leaders, activists, and innovators whose diverse ideas, perspectives and lived experiences are shaping the future of...
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