REDESIGNING CITIES: The Speedwell Foundation Talks @ Georgia Tech
REDESIGNING CITIES: The Speedwell Foundation Talks @ Georgia Institute of Technology is a series of presentations + conversations between leading urbanists that address 21st Century urban challenges: social capital, equity, climate change, outdated infrastructure, disruptive technologies, and money. The series is hosted by Ellen Dunham-Jones, professor and director of the Master of Science in Urban Design degree in the Georgia Tech School of Architecture.
- Update frequency
- every 42 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 46
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Episode 45: Episode 45: Sustainable Urbanism and Emerging Technologies
As listeners and viewers to Redesigning Cities 40+ episodes should have figured out – urban design is complicated business! It requires integrating a wide range of social, transportation, energy, and…
01:33:46 |
Thu 03 Jul 2025
Episode 42: Episode 42: Creating Beloved and Thriving Communities Now
What roles do homeownership, the affordable housing crisis, and the law play in achieving the goals of Dr. Martin Luther King’s beloved community? Can housing design, land use policy, and activism ov…
01:18:41 |
Thu 03 Jul 2025
Episode 44: Episode 44: Can AI Empower Community Voices in Climate Adaptation?
Can Urban AI activate human agency in the performance and design of cities, particularly in relation to climate change? Can the unfair systems that produce climate vulnerability in the first place, e…
01:17:16 |
Fri 27 Jun 2025
Episode 43: Episode 43: The City as Developer: From Dead Mall to a Downtown
Why are more and more cities buying their dead shopping malls and taking on the role of master (re)developer - rather than leaving that job to experienced real estate developers? Downtown Westminster…
01:23:33 |
Thu 26 Jun 2025
Episode 41: Episode 41: Redesigning Cities for Climate Migration with Abrahm Lustgarten
Wildfires, urban heat, sea level rise, and the many other impacts of climate change are starting to turn desirable communities into high-risk locations and threatening food and water supplies. How, w…
01:11:20 |
Thu 15 May 2025
Episode 39: Episode 39: Redesigning Housing for Cities with Amanda Loper
Amanda Loper, principal of David Baker Architects and director of the Birmingham, AL office is an expert on designing beautiful, affordable and market rate housing that's both contemporary and local.…
00:41:51 |
Thu 15 May 2025
Episode 39: Episode 40 - Joe Minicozzi
Cities only have a finite amount of land – does it make sense that they tax lower density areas at a lower rate? How should cities balance the cost of maintaining infrastructure on a per acre basis w…
01:24:19 |
Fri 08 Nov 2024
Episode 38: Episode 38: The Mobility Revolution
This episode continues the discussion begun during Episode 32: What Transit Modes Where? and is co-hosted by Better Atlanta Transit. Atlanta-based experts give Pecha Kucha/Lightning Talks on innovati…
01:23:25 |
Sat 25 May 2024
Episode 37: Episode 37: Place-Based Activism and Democracy
How have youth organizations in disinvested neighborhoods reinvigorated models of democratic citizenship and collective life? Can the exercise of collective agency in the physical space of “the commo…
00:27:46 |
Tue 09 Apr 2024
Episode 36: Episode 36_Calthorpe_Ending Global Sprawl
As urban population growth across the globe continues to sprawl outwards, how do we promote healthier development patterns in diverse economies and cultures? With a particular focus on corridors, Pet…
01:21:23 |
Tue 26 Mar 2024
Episode 32: Episode 34_David Dixon
Redesigning SuburbsHow and where are North American suburbs being redesigned to address dramatically changing demographics, technology, market preferences, and climates? The pandemic and Work-From-Ho…
00:43:08 |
Fri 24 Nov 2023
Episode 32: Episode 33_Robert Fishman
Redesigning Cities for the 2nd Global Urban RevolutionWhat does it mean for humanity that we are transitioning from a rural to an urban species? This is the fundamental question that Professor Robert…
00:50:08 |
Fri 24 Nov 2023
Episode 32: Episode 32_Transition Modes
What Transit Modes Where?New modes of getting around are exploding. Now, in addition to fixed rail, bus, and streetcar, smartphones and algorithms have expanded on-demand mobility such as microtransi…
01:21:06 |
Fri 24 Nov 2023
Episode 31: Episode 31: Redesigning Cities for Ubiquitous Wetness
How do we think about the boundaries between land and water? Dilip da Cunha argues that those boundaries have always been much more fluid—literally. And he argues that the history of how we’ve organi…
00:35:14 |
Fri 04 Aug 2023
Episode 30: Episode 30: Redesigning Cities with Social Infrastructure
Kai-Uwe Bergmann, partner at BIG, the Bjarke Ingels Group, and host, Ellen Dunham-Jones, discuss the how, what, and why of designing joyful social functions into practical infrastructure at all scale…
00:39:07 |
Sat 01 Apr 2023
Episode 29: Episode 29: Carfree Urbanism and Missing Middle Housing
Dan Parolek and his team at Opticos Design coined the term and wrote the book on Missing Middle Housing to describe house-sized buildings with multiple units. These duplexes, quadplexes, cottage cour…
00:29:52 |
Tue 28 Feb 2023
Episode 28: Episode 28: Redesigning Cities With Public Art
Whether heroic commemorative bronze statues, contemplative experiences of transformed materials, or vibrant activist murals, public artworks give cities cultural and economic value and provide meanin…
00:42:30 |
Tue 28 Feb 2023
Episode 27: Episode 27: Redesigning The House
Change the house, change the city? The American Dream of ownership of a detached single-family house is increasingly under attack. It has a racist history and ongoing legacy of segregation, a high en…
01:05:30 |
Thu 08 Dec 2022
Episode 26: Episode 26: Redesigning Cities for Local Entrepreneurs
What if developers thought of themselves as farmers, reviving their neighborhood’s abandoned buildings, planting locally symbiotic uses, and growing small business entrepreneurs? And what if they wan…
00:47:40 |
Sun 27 Nov 2022
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