Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future
Douglas Stuart McDaniel
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Citizen One S2 E12: Two Blocks from My Apartment
Two blocks from where I live in El Raval, there’s an archaeological excavation underway. I pass it often enough now that it’s become part of my daily geography — a fenced rectangle of disturbed…
Citizen One S2:E11 – Barcelona: A Field Study in Urban Literacy
Welcome back to Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future. I’m Douglas Stuart McDaniel. Today, I want to tell you a bit about my neighborhood in Barcelona.Not the Barcelona of postcards — not Antoni…
Premium Pulp Fiction S1:E4 Ukrainian Philosophy and Poetry Put on a Spacesuit
In this episode of the Premium Pulp Fiction podcast, my guest is Maksym Van Shamrai — millennial novelist, cultural theorist, and Ukrainian expat.In 2010, Maks had just finished his doctoral studies…
Redlining Didn’t Disappear. It Learned New Software
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, I sit down with Derek Lumpkins to talk about cities and neighborhoods—but not in the way cities usually get discussed.We didn’t start with…
Premium Pulp Fiction S1 E3: A Citizen One Literary Imprint
Welcome back to Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future and—I am excited to say—Premium Pulp Fiction. I’m your host, Douglas Stuart McDaniel, and before we go any further, I want to pause for a…
Citizen One S2 E9: Taş Tepeler, 9000 BCE
Cities are a form civilization often takes. They were never its starting condition.Since my first travels to Türkiye several years ago—through Istanbul, İzmir, and Ephesus—and also across…
David Bowie, Prince, Timothy Leary, and an AI-Powered Race With Time
I recorded this episode on Christmas Eve, not out of allegiance to any particular religious institution, but because Christmas Eve still does something rare in the calendar.It creates a pause that…
McDaniel Road - Tiny Homes, Big Ideas, and a Not-So-Simple Life
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, I return, unexpectedly, to a place I thought I had metabolized years ago: Western North Carolina. The hills that raised me; the place where…
Citizen One S2 E6: The Smart City Industrial Complex in an Age Defined by Moore’s Law
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, I take you deep inside the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona—a place that, for one week each year, becomes the beating heart of…
Citizen One S2:E5 – The Civic Brand: Reclaiming the Honest Soul of the City
What if cities stopped marketing themselves and started remembering who they are?That’s the question at the heart of this week’s episode of Citizen One:Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext…
S2E4 Citizen One S2:E4 – Go Home: Rural Urbanism Between Storms, Saints, and Sinners
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext original podcast series, host Douglas Stuart McDaniel traces a single day on the Mississippi Gulf Coast into an inquiry about…
S2E3 Citizen One S2:E3 The River Serpent
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext original podcast series, I return to my ancestral grounds of East Tennessee to explore the hidden consciousness of a river —…
Citizen One S2:E2 – 8 Minutes 20 Seconds – Housing After Banking
What if housing were designed not for banks, but for photons? This deceptively simple question sits at the heart of Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong’s work, and in this episode of Citizen One:…
Citizen One S2:E1 — Waffle House Urbanism, Resilient Cities, and a New Literary Frontier
Welcome back to the Season Two premiere of Citizen One, Exploring Our Urban Future. I'm your host, Douglas Stuart McDaniel, currently back on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. This season, I'm changing up…
Unearthing the Future
Some places feel like they’ve been waiting for you. Others barely tolerate your presence, indifferent to your wonder. I’ve traveled enough—across continents, cultures, and climates—to know the…
Citizen One: E12 - Fault Lines of Feeling
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext original podcast series, host Douglas Stuart McDaniel speaks with architect and urbanist Marcella del Signore about her…
Citizen One E14: Heraclitus in the City
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext original podcast series, I’m joined once again by author, architect, and urban theorist Ioanna Piniara. In Part 2 of our…
Citizen One Episode 13: We Have Never Been Private
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext original podcast series, author, architect and urban theorist Ioanna Piniara joins me for the first of a two-part conversation…
Citizen One E11: Robotic Translations
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext original podcast series, host Douglas Stuart McDaniel speaks with Venezuelan architect and theorist Daniela Atencio, author of…
Citizen One E10: Memory, Stone, and Silence
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext original podcast series, host Douglas Stuart McDaniel sits down with independent researcher Evelyn Meynard to uncover the…
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