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between leading urbanists that address 21st Century urban challenges: social capital, equity, climate change, outdated infrastructure, disruptive technologies, and money.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 24: Episode 24: Atlanta’s Parks and Greenways as Agents of Urban Transformation
How are younger cities leveraging the renewed importance of urban parks in the pandemic? Adrian Benepe of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Trust for Public Land, Clyde Higgs of the Atlanta Beltline, a…
00:54:09 |
Thu 17 Mar 2022
Episode 23: Episode 23: Redesigning Cities with Affordable Housing
Today, a minimum-wage earner can afford a one-bedroom apartment in only 145 out of 3,143 counties in America. Andrew Ross of NYU and author of Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing (2021) an…
00:57:25 |
Thu 17 Mar 2022
Episode 22: Episode 25: Redesigning Cities for Public Health
Dr. Richard Jackson, emeritus professor of public health at UCLA and former Director of the CDC National Center for Environmental Health and has argued that architects and planners can have more impa…
01:08:12 |
Sat 12 Mar 2022
Episode 22: Episode 22: Redesigning Streets Post-Pandemic
Lock-downs, work from home, and fears of crowded indoor space during the pandemic have shifted how many of us use streets. From “streateries” and street racing, to drive-by birthday parades and outdo…
01:11:28 |
Sat 12 Mar 2022
Episode 22: Episode 20: Redesigning Cities to Tackle Structural Racism
How can we undo the ways economic policies have contributed to structural racism? And how should we redesign cities to reflect and advance equitable economies? Raphael Bostic, President and CEO of th…
01:24:27 |
Sat 12 Mar 2022
Episode 21: Episode 21: Redesigning Cities in Science Fiction
What can urbanists learn from how Sci-Fi authors have reimagined cities? GT Regents Professor in Science Fiction Lisa Yaszek discusses with host Ellen Dunham-Jones how diverse voices from around the …
00:55:48 |
Fri 12 Nov 2021
Episode 19: Episode 19: Redesigning Cities for a Tele-Everything World
Post-pandemic, how might we leverage tele-work-medicine-education-everything to even the playing field between rich and poor places instead of exacerbating the digital divide? University of Arizona …
01:08:06 |
Fri 12 Nov 2021
Episode 18: Redesigning Cities with Green Infrastructure
Josiah Cain, Director of Innovation at Sherwood Design Engineers presents the firm’s advanced techniques for regenerative site design before Mike Messner, Professor in Practice at Georgia Tech’s Sche…
01:16:00 |
Wed 31 Mar 2021
Episode 17: Redesigning Cities with Neuroscience
Sarah Williams Goldhagen, critic and author of the award-winning Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives, Sonit Bafna, associate professor and director of the Georgia Tech S…
01:10:54 |
Tue 23 Feb 2021
Episode 16: Redesigning Critical Infrastructure for Climate Change
As climate change and urban heat islands compound the impacts of non-climatic events such as pandemics and blackouts, critical infrastructure too often fails just when it is needed most. How do we re…
00:49:52 |
Tue 16 Feb 2021
Episode 15: Redesigning Cities and Suburbs for Women
Dolores Hayden, professor emerita of Yale, kicks off this episode with her seminal research on the history of feminist architecture and urbanism and how it contrasts to suburbia’s construction of wom…
00:55:46 |
Thu 19 Nov 2020
Episode 14: Redesigning Cities with the Green New Deal
What is the Green New Deal and what might its advancing of equity, jobs, and justice in relation to climate change mean for redesigning cities? Billy Fleming of the University of Pennsylvania and Nan…
00:58:07 |
Wed 14 Oct 2020
Episode 13: Redesigning Cities’ Integration of Ecology with Technology
Marcel Wilson, founder of the San Francisco-based landscape architecture firm Bionic, presents his work in the REDESIGNING CITIES video, extracted from his presentation of the 2020 Doug Allen lecture…
00:28:58 |
Wed 20 May 2020
Episode 12 - Building Carbon Positive Cities
Alan Organschi, partner in Gray Organschi Architecture and on the faculty at Yale University, and Scott Marble, Chair of the School of Architecture and partner in Marble Fairbanks, discuss Organischi…
00:53:04 |
Mon 20 Apr 2020
Episode 11: Redesigning Cities with Philanthropy
Carol Coletta, President and CEO of the nonprofit Memphis River Parks Partnership, and Ellen Dunham-Jones, Director of the Master of Science in Urban Design degree at Georgia Tech and Co-author of Re…
00:41:48 |
Sun 02 Feb 2020
Episode 10: Redesigning Low-Status Communities
Majora Carter, a revitalization entrepreneur, presents her decade-long work on 'self-gentrification' and incremental development as a means to stem the stigmatization and brain drain out of low-statu…
00:41:50 |
Sun 02 Feb 2020
Episode 9 (Part 2 of 2) - Newsweek Momentum Awards
Listen to award winners, Reuben Abraham and Carlo Ratti, discuss their initiatives for smart mobility and inclusive innovation as they relate to cities.
Watch Reuben Abraham accept his award on YouTu…
00:34:24 |
Tue 12 Nov 2019
Episode 9 (Part 1 of 2) - Newsweek Momentum Awards
Listen to award winners, Deputy Consul Juan Tellez, Janette Sadik-Khan, Jan Gehl, and Seleta Reynolds, discuss their initiatives for smart mobility and inclusive innovation as they relate to cities.
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00:37:19 |
Tue 12 Nov 2019
Episode 8 - Redesigning Cities' Investments in Transportation Infrastructure
Chuch Marohn, President and Founder of Strong Towns, is a civil engineer and city planner who addresses a growing movement that questions the fiscal responsibility of sprawl development patterns.
Wat…
00:52:31 |
Tue 12 Nov 2019
Episode 7: Redesigning Cities with Carbon Pricing Markets
A conversation about carbon pricing and how it relates to the built environment through offset marketing strategies.
00:33:19 |
Sun 20 Oct 2019
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