Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future

Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future

Douglas Stuart McDaniel

Episodes 30
Avg. Duration 48m
Activity Declining
Since Feb 2025
Latest Episode Mar 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
Format
Episodic
Consistency
59%
Hosting
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About This Podcast

Welcome to Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future. I’m Douglas Stuart McDaniel—author, innovation veteran, and accidental urbanist—exploring the forces shaping the cities of tomorrow. It’s not just a conversation—it’s a call to action. Here, we challenge assumptions, explore bold ideas, and rethink what cities can be—both now and in the future.

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Recent Episodes

Citizen One S2 E12: Two Blocks from My Apartment

Mar 20, 2026 18m

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

Feb 26, 2026 28m

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

Feb 12, 2026 1h 3m

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

Feb 06, 2026 1h 18m

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

Jan 16, 2026 13m

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

Jan 16, 2026 36m

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

Dec 24, 2025 23m

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

Dec 11, 2025 17m

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

Dec 05, 2025 15m

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

Nov 11, 2025 1h 15m

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

Oct 22, 2025 25m

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

Oct 07, 2025 24m

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

Sep 23, 2025 1h 33m

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

Sep 09, 2025 41m

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

Aug 12, 2025 27m

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

Jul 15, 2025 1h 1m

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

Jul 08, 2025 1h 1m

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

Jun 24, 2025 59m

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

Jun 19, 2025 1h 4m

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

Jun 10, 2025 1h 21m

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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