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Most Podern Podcast — 85 episodes

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Affordability Is Not a Dirty Word - Building Housing People Can Actually Afford | Jesse Batus

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3 Building Code Rules That Block Missing Middle Housing

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Why Los Angeles Urban Development Is Built Backwards

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How FutureLot Is Decoding the American Zoning Maze

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This Is Quietly Reshaping How We Build Homes - Dwayne Torrey

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Architecture Off the Assembly Line - with Justin Brechtel

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What's Your Density Appetite?

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Why the Future Is Physical: Real Estate, Loneliness & The Playbook Behind AREA15’s Success

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Why 12 Million Tons of Glass Goes to Landfills Every Year (And How We're Stopping It)

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An Architectural Answer to how Cities can Turn Down the Heat

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A New Era for Sprawl

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Planning Coachella - Reiko Wei

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America can't Build. Can Modular Construction be the Answer?

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Why Affordable Housing Isn’t Affordable

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Design School for The Displaced - With Scott Key

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The Architect Who Healed NYC After 9/11

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The Four Horsemen of Urban Decline

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How Building Codes Shape American Urbanism - Type V City Part II

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Why U.S. Homes Are All Built the Same Way - Type V City Part I

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Why Architects Should Code - With Alex and Libo

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Designing With Intimacy - Dong-Ping Wong

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How Suburbs Are Fueling America’s Wildfire Crisis

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Live Near Friends. Be 40% Happier.

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America’s New Millionaire Class - The Skilled Trades

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How Climate Solutions Are Winning by Making Life Better

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How Mexico is Building Cities Around People

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How to Create Housing for Community over Profit - with Jeremy McLeod of Nightingale Housing

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From Icons to Ecosystems: Rethinking the High-Rise with Antony Wood

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Can Architects Still Shape the Future? - with Evelyn Lee

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Why Digitalize Our Material World? - Manwen Li

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Demystifying Zoning and the Hidden Rules Behind Every City

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BIM to Bots: How Robots can Reshape the Future of Construction with Brian Ringley

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How Outdated Workflow is Stifling Architectural Design with Slantis COO Mercedes Carriquiry

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Designing Dignity: How Scott Key and Every Shelter are Rethinking Refugee Shelters

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City Science and the Future of Urban Design with Ramon Gras

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We Are Pre-iPhone Era: Dr. Murat Melek on AI in Construction

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How America Became Stuck in a Broken Housing System with Yoni Appelbaum

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Autonomous Vehicles and the Future of Cities with Evan Shieh

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How will AI impact our physical world?

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Writing Architecture - Julia van den Hout

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2025 LA Fires

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Jeonse Games - Financing Housing in South Korea

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Looking Back on MoPo's First Year

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Grassroots Development: Building Communities Abroad - KC Hardin

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The Language of Design Technology - Leland Jobson

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A New Era of Landscape Architecture - William Shivers

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Development for Community - Sean Webster

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The State of Housing Design & Development - Sam Naylor

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Finding Your Voice Through Art - Betty Chen

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Shouting Quietly through Architecture - Rob Meyerson and William McKee of Common Office

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"The Architectural Chef" - Ryan Williams

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"AI is a tool for exploration.” - Architect Daeho Lee on Shaping the Future of the Built Environment with AI

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Resiliency Without Borders - Caroline Sorge

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Passive House A-Z with Energy Designer Liz Hauver

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“Concrete buildings can have lower carbon intensity than steel buildings!” - Embodied Carbon in Focus with Jared Friedman

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Carbon Counting

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ESG: Getting Everyone on the Same Page

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Season 4 Intro: Sustainability

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Paris: Olympic Playground or Pricey Party?

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Concrete Cowboys and Green Queens: Who's Winning the City Sustainability Race?

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Rising Tides and Resilient Cities: Navigating Sea Level Rise

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Decoding Development: Who gets to be a developer?

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Integrating Sustainability from Blueprint to Reality - Dr. Irmak Turan

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Shaping Our Material Future - Brian Lee

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The New Urban Equation - Yair Titelboim

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Decisions as a Liquid Democracy - Yasushi Sakai

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The Value of Design - Helena Rong, Juncheng Tony Yang, and Minkoo Kang

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Design as Research - De Peter Yi

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Season 3: Research- Season Preview

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What Makes a Good Building?

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Building or Billboard? The Sphere

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The Business of Design

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What is work?

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Where do buildings come from?

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The Architect’s Journey - Brandon Hall, Season 2: Careers

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Studio to Startup: Architect Founder - Zach Soflin, Season 2: Careers

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Building Businesses and Buildings - Evan Smith, Season 2: Careers

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Building Happiness Through Design and Development - Evan Wiskup, Season 2: Careers

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Towards Beauty and Efficiency: A Career by Design - Andrew Kao, Season 2: Careers

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Architecture Career Specialist: Finding Your Way Towards Meaning and Fulfillment in Architecture - Jacki Schaefer, Season 2: Careers

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Season 2: Careers - Season Preview

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Designing and Teaching With Freedom and Joy: Alex

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How to Go From Architecture to Tech: Libo

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From Design to Finance, to Discovering the Value of Design: Minkoo

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Introduction: Minkoo, Alex, and Libo Start a Podcast