Listen now (63 mins) | Why every project in the built environment is effectively a prototype, how we fail to learn from what we build and 4 futures that could follow. Once you see Chain Drain, you not...

Listen now | We were sold convenience, only to have bought disconnection instead. So what happens when you stop treating loneliness as a health problem and start treating it as a design one?

An agency's after-hours reveal more about how cities work than most masterplans. A bumper episode on nightlife as infrastructure, networks as luck machines and the clubhouse everyone dreams of.

Listen now | Sussex has an old motto that means "we won't be pushed around like sheep" ... and it makes for a rather good conversation about how to create distinctive, worthwhile change in real places...

What a drive from Montreal to Cincinnati ... via Rochester, Buffalo, Buc-ee's, the Waffle House and taxidermied train stations ... reveals about America's accounting problem.

You can't build a warm, human city with people who've been trained out of being warm and human themselves. A conversation on a workshop trying to put that back into the professional realm.

Listen now | Everyone in urbanism is arguing about the form of the city like the piazzas, the towers or the transit lines. But what if that the form was never really the point?

Listen now | You can't manufacture serendipity, but you can widen your exposure to it and get better at catching it when it lands. Applying a shuffleable book about Random to the platform of place.

Listen now | A journalist, a few thousand pounds and forty people working for free want to build a city for a million people next to Cambridge. The maddest thing about it is how sane it is.

Listen now | Lots of people want to be mayor. Very few want to actually do the job though. But what if almost everything worth doing turns out to start cheap, reversible and already within the mayor's...

Listen now | North America forgot how to build an apartment worth desiring. Alicia Pederson's fix is a thousand years old, hidden in plain sight behind the buildings and almost entirely illegal in man...

What we learned from a night with Jacquelyn West, Phil Tabah, Greg Lindsay and Andy Nulman in conversation with ~70 hot Montréalers.

Podcast · Iain Montgomery · Iain Montgomery of Now or Never Ventures interviews urbanists, creatives, transit and development types to explore how cities can punch above their weight and create distin...

Listen now | A quarter trillion dollar industry Canada doesn't teach, nor promote and is almost embarrassed about those with a passion for. This is a conversation with two gentlemen intent on fixing t...

Listen now | Fifty years of building railways taught Michael Schabas one rule above all, and it's the one Canada keeps ignoring on the way to spending $100 billion.

Listen now (73 mins) | Innovation in public transport is hard. Because not only are transport operators almost allergic to what is novel and therefore risky, but the venture funding ecosystems have th...

Utopian Hours in Rotterdam was a rare event about cities that would captivate anyone who's ever loved a place without needing a planning degree.

Listen now | On building a small piece of Switzerland in the Derbyshire hills, why trams really do matter, and what happens when you start designing transport around people instead of vehicles.

Listen now | Having spent the best part of 50 years putting the right people in the same room. The Pickering Lands are the latest test to bring people with different needs and desires around a common ...

Listen now | Most urbanism conferences celebrate what cities got right. Urban Future was built specifically for everything they got wrong, and that turns out to be where the real insights are to be fo...

Toronto keeps telling itself it's world class. It should be asking why it keeps underperforming what it already has. A genuinely diverse, economically…

Listen now | Canada has the money, the expertise and, for the first time in a generation, the public appetite. What's missing is enough realisation that we do have the permission to say yes.

Listen now | Toronto has the talent, the money and the bones of a great city. What it keeps failing to find is the will to build one.

How a system built for growth turned everyday life into a debt-fuelled endurance test ... and why cities are now feeling the strain.

Listen now | Beyond postcard Paris lies a city of charlatans, supercharged suburbs, and astonishing state capacity. Simon Kuper's new(ish) book is the ideal guide to the current superstar poster child...

Hewison defined culture as a public good. Paul Owens explains how the cities that believe that become far more vibrant, creative, prosperous and self-assured.

Listen now | What thousands of hours creating a transit YouTube channel can teach us about how to build better cities.

Can we stop lecturing people about what makes good urbanism, and start selling the feeling of better places to play, live and work?

Listen now (75 mins) | Urban design often focuses on hardcore infrastructure, but what about the people who use it? We explore how psychology, neuroscience and philosophy can make urban spaces work be...

Bicycles are more than a mode of transport—they’re a tool for creating liveable, inclusive cities. Why cities need to learn from the Dutch, and get brave with their leadership.

Hayden Clarkin argues that North America’s cities are stuck in a cycle of over-planning & under-delivering. We must prioritise outcomes, streamline governance and rebuild trust in public institutions.

What some cities get so right about transportation, why some cities get it wrong, and how we can go about making the whole thing much better.

We never made the utopian future the tech and urbanist types promised us. We likely still won't ever see it, but we can at least get building bits of it again.

Planning is seductive. It's also necessary. But when we lean so hard into the plan, we seem to forget all the things we didn't think of, or could never possibly control.