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 Open City

Open City is a charity dedicated to making architecture and built heritage more open, accessible and equitable.


Providing you with essential listening, inspiring voices and built environment insights – the Open City Podcast covers news and current events as well as in depth studies of landmark buildings, and cities around the UK and world.


At the centre of our line-up is our flagship show The Brief – an award-winning review of the big stories in architecture, planning and housing news – hosted by Sahiba Chadha and Fran Williams on a fortnightly basis.


Alongside this is Deconstructed – a monthly podcast hosted by Matthew Lloyd Roberts taking apart the architecture of individual buildings and InterCities – a monthly podcast hosted by Owen Hatherley exploring municipal transformation around the world. 


All three shows profile new, expert and diverse voices from across industry, journalism, academia and beyond. The Open City Podcast is produced by Hunter Charlton and Paige Reynolds. The commissioning editor is Merlin Fulcher. 


The Open City Podcast is supported by Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture platform and produced in association with the Architects’ Journal, London Society, C20 Society and Save Britain's Heritage. The Open City Podcast is recorded and produced at the Open City offices located in Bureau. 


To help support excellent and accessible, independent journalism about the buildings and the urban environment, please become an Open City Friend.


Photo credit: Owen Hatherley portrait © Antonio Olmos

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Update frequency
every 6 days
Average duration
35 minutes
Episodes
249
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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Lighting up London's bridges

Lighting up London's bridges

Hosts Merlin Fulcher and Lara Kinneir will be talking about the architecture of London’s bridges. Specifically this episode will be focussing on Illuminated River, an ongoing £20 million project to c…
00:40:08  |   Wed 28 Oct 2020
Why is Architecture so Political?

Why is Architecture so Political?

In this episode Merlin Fulcher and Arman Nouri are joined by Emma Dent Coad, former Labour MP for Kensington to discuss why architecture and housing is so political. Dent Coad -- who remains a counci…
00:48:29  |   Thu 15 Oct 2020
Unleashing Londoners' imagination

Unleashing Londoners' imagination

In this Open House special episode we will be talking about how imagination -- such as myths which celebrate our real or fictional past -- can transform how we see the city around us, and in turn cre…
00:39:48  |   Mon 28 Sep 2020
Rethinking London's Green Spaces

Rethinking London's Green Spaces

In this Open House special episode hosts Merlin Fulcher and Zoe Cave are joined by Ed Green from Grosvenor and Catherine Greig of make:good to discuss green spaces and their future during a time of c…
00:42:44  |   Thu 24 Sep 2020
The Alternative Guide To London Boroughs

The Alternative Guide To London Boroughs

For this episode of the Open City podcast, we speak to the guest-editor of the book, critic and author, Owen Hatherley, who talks about why this guide and its focus on the extraordinariness of the mo…
00:37:08  |   Fri 18 Sep 2020
The New Pedestrian and Cyclist City

The New Pedestrian and Cyclist City

We know active travel is good for health and limiting infection, improves air quality and the quality of our public spaces -- yet even now some of London’s busiest streets remain choked with traffic …
00:31:24  |   Mon 14 Sep 2020
Green Cities Start Here

Green Cities Start Here

No industry contributes more to global warming than construction. To fight climate change we must radically reform how our cities are designed. In this episode of the Open City podcast, we dive into …
00:41:22  |   Mon 07 Sep 2020
Public Artworks for our Past and Future

Public Artworks for our Past and Future

London's historic monuments and statues are in the spotlight following the Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd. As we re-interpret Britain's imperial and slave trad…
00:37:08  |   Mon 24 Aug 2020
Introducing the Open City Podcast

Introducing the Open City Podcast

The new Open City Podcast will be hosted by a roster of rising stars in architectural criticism, planning and public engagement, and will feature interviews and discussions with leading experts from …
00:05:20  |   Thu 13 Aug 2020
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