Future of the American City

Future of the American City

Office for Urbanization

Episodes 72
Avg. Duration 44m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.6 (23)
Since Apr 2019
Latest Episode May 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule
Monthly
Format
Episodic
Consistency
66%
Hosting
fotac.gsd.harvard.edu

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About This Podcast

An initiative of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design

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Recent Episodes

Pamela Conrad on Climate Positive Design

May 28, 2026 28m

Pamela Conrad is a landscape architect and climate advocate with 20 years of experience improving the social and ecological impacts of the exterior built environment. She is Faculty Lecturer at the…

Alexander Gorlin and Victoria Newhouse on Housing the Nation

Apr 16, 2026 45m

Alexander Gorlin is the principal and founder of Alexander Gorlin Architects and fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Victoria Newhouse is an architectural historian and founder of the…

Jerold S. Kayden on the Master in Real Estate

Apr 02, 2026 39m

Jerold S. Kayden is an urban planner and lawyer serving as the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His teaching and…

Gary Hilderbrand and James Nozar on Water Street Tampa

Feb 26, 2026 33m

Gary Hilderbrand is the founding principal of Reed Hilderbrand LLC, Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the…

Ximena Caminos on the Miami Reef Line

Oct 30, 2025 47m

Ximena Caminos is a curator and cultural entrepreneur whose work integrates public art with marine conservation and sustainable urban development. Caminos joins our host, Charles Waldheim, to discuss…

Stephen Goldsmith on Data-Smart City Solutions

Sep 25, 2025 24m

Stephen Goldsmith is the Derek Bok Professor of Urban Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and director of the Bloomberg Center for Cities’ Data-Smart Cities Solutions. His work focuses on improving…

Jha D Amazi on Collective Memory

May 01, 2025 41m

Jha D Amazi is a principal at MASS Design Group, a nonprofit organization focusing on social justice and public space. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her work as head of MASS’s Public Memory…

Mark Lamster on Architecture and the City

Apr 03, 2025 54m

Mark Lamster is an award-winning architecture critic and author. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss Dallas architecture and his role as architecture critic at the Dallas Morning News, his writing…

Elisa Iturbe on Carbon Form

Mar 06, 2025 50m

Elisa Iturbe is an architectural designer, writer, and educator. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her research on “carbon form,” an urban and architectural paradigm unique to the carbon age.

Joel Sanders on Inclusive Design

Feb 06, 2025 37m

Joel Sanders is an architect and educator and the founder of JSA/MIXdesign. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his work in inclusive design.

Landscapes of Retreat

Dec 10, 2023 41m

Rosetta Elkin is a landscape architect and author. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her new book Landscapes of Retreat. Future of the American City is a project of the Office for Urbanization at…

The Architecture of Disability

Nov 17, 2023 50m

Designer, historian, and theorist David Gissen joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book The Architecture of Disability. Future of the American City is a project of the Office for Urbanization…

Manual of Biogenic House Sections

Oct 27, 2023 51m

Architects Paul Lewis and Marc Tsurumaki, principals of the New York-based practice LTL Architects, join Charles Waldheim to discuss their recent book Manual of Biogenic House Sections.

New York Review of Architecture

Oct 06, 2023 44m

Author and publisher Nicolas Kemper and architectural historian and critic Phillip Denny join Charles Waldheim to discuss the publication New York Review of Architecture.

Jeff Hou

May 12, 2023 46m

Jeff Hou is an author, advocate, and educator. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his research on urban resistance and popular protest movements in the public realm.

Shannon Mattern

Apr 27, 2023 53m

Shannon Mattern is a media theorist and design anthropologist. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her new book A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences.

Ed Wall

Apr 13, 2023 51m

Ed Wall is a landscape architect and urbanist. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book Contesting Public Spaces: Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London.

Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara

Mar 30, 2023 48m

Architect Jennifer Bonner and structural engineer Hanif Kara join Charles Waldheim to discuss their new book Blank: Speculations on CLT.

Peggy Deamer and Quilian Riano

Mar 16, 2023 54m

Architects Peggy Deamer and Quilian Riano join Charles Waldheim to discuss their advocacy for architecture as a form of labor and their various roles in The Architecture Lobby.

Abby Spinak

Mar 02, 2023 49m

Abby Spinak is an environmental historian and planning scholar whose work focuses on energy histories and the politics of infrastructure. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her research on rural…

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Future of the American City has published 72 episodes since April 2019, covering topics in Arts, Design.

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