A Swarm of ROBOTS Has Built a Tunnel - #23

This week, we're digging into The B1M's recent video "This Subway Will Change Canada's Most Important City". Together, we're discussing how Toronto is desperate for the Ontario Line to be a success.This episode is sponsored by Trimble. Learn more about Trimble’s ProjectSight 360 ...  Show more

This week, we're digging into some recent construction news stories, including:Vancouver’s first supertall skyscraperEcuador’s tree-lined apartmentsPre-order Fred's book MEGA BUILDS now 👉 https://bit.ly/3Y63G6XJoin Fred for a special book-signing event in London on Thursday 21st ...  Show more

The first episode in a two-part series on Jane Jacobs, a profoundly influential writer, thinker and campaigner on issues of urbanism, whose magnum opus 'The Death and Life of Great American Cities' (1961) forms the backbone of our discussion. In it, Jacobs lays out an idealised v ...  Show more

On 30 October, 1990, with little fanfare and without any cameras present, the first connection was made between the French half and the British half of the Channel Tunnel, when a two-inch metal probe broke through to link Great Britain with the European mainland for the first tim ...  Show more

We had an important conversation with the Director of Sursock Museum, Zeina Arida about the museum’s history and work, as well as the challenges facing the museum after being hit with the disastrous Beirut port explosion.

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Our second episode on Jane Jacobs' canonical work, 'The Death and Life of Great American Cities'. In this second half we further discuss her vision for the ideal city, based on her experiences in Greenwich Village in the 1950s. We focus on her ideas around 'unslumming', her alter ...  Show more