Green Urbanist - Sustainable Placemaking, Planning and Urban Design
100+ episodes exploring climate action in cities and neighbourhoods.
This show provides actionable advice and case studies on:
- Sustainable urban design and placemaking principles.
- How to design cities and neighbourhoods for biodiversity net gain and wildlife.
- Climate adaptation: How to build resilience to climate change in cities.
- Net zero carbon masterplanning and architecture.
- Circular economy: How to minimise waste and emissions in new development.
- Transport: How to transition cities away to sustainable and active travel.
- Regenerative Design: Delivering positive benefits for the environment and communities.
Who is it for? Urban designers, planners, developers, architects, landscape architects, urban ecologists, engineers, transport professionals and urban citizens.
The Green Urbanist podcast is hosted by Ross O'Ceallaigh, an urban designer and sustainable placemaking consultant.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 129
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
#8: Planning for the Future - White Paper on a New Planning System for England
This episode provides a summary of the main proposals in the UK government White Paper, Planning for the Future, which sets out a new planning system for England.
I discuss the move away from a discr…
#7: Niall McEvoy - Breathing Life into Cities: Urban Greening, Air Quality, Biophilia and Biodiversity
This episode is a conversation with Niall McEvoy.
Niall is Business Development Manager at Scotscape, a leading green infrastructure and living wall provider. He is an educator and speaker with expert…
#6: Climate Change in Cities - Sea Level Rise and Jakarta, the Sinking Megacity
Welcome to the Green Urbanist Podcast. My name is Ross and this podcast is about how urbanists of all kinds can step up the climate emergency.
This episode is Part 2 in a series on Climate Change is a…
#5: Conrad Richardson - Sustainable Transport, Innovation in the Global South, and Truly Smart Cities
Welcome to the Green Urbanist Podcast, hosted by Ross O'Ceallaigh. This podcast is all about how we can design and manage cities to reduce our carbon emissions, adapt to the climate emergency and liv…
#4: Climate Change in Cities - Heat Waves, Water Shortage and Crime Rates
Today's episode is Part 1 of a series about how climate change is affecting our cities. There are four episodes in this series, coming out over the coming months, with a different topic for each.
Toda…
#3: Giulia Mori - Wellbeing in the Built Environment
Welcome to the Green Urbanist. The podcast for urbanists fighting climate change. I'm Ross.
Today's episode is an interview with Giulia Mori. Giulia is a Senior Energy and Sustainability Consultant wi…
#2: Three Actions for Cities transitioning to Zero Carbon
Many cities around the world have declared a climate emergency and have committed to reducing their carbon emissions to zero. But where should they start? How do cities make the transition from busin…
#1: Zero Carbon Britain
In this episode, I take a look at one scenario for Britain achieving zero carbon emissions put forward by the Centre for Alternative Energy (CAT) in their report called Zero Carbon Britain.
CAT descri…
Introduction to the Green Urbanist Podcast
A short introduction episode for first time listeners.
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