446. How can the arts build community resilie...

Together with Sophie, an AI guest, we talk about the year’s biggest topics and trends, from AI and digital tools to climate resilience, placemaking, community voices, and the future of the profession. We also discuss what cities should stop doing, which skills planners need going ...  Show more

Hur kan man egentligen gestalta trygghet i våra städer – och vad innebär det i praktiken för en landskapsarkitekt? I det här avsnittet möter vi Elli Standström, landskapsarkitekt på AFRY, som delar med sig av sina tankar om att skapa platser som känns säkra, öppna och välkomnande ...  Show more

As London Fashion Week kicks off, BoF founder and editor-in-chief Imran Amed sits down with four London-based creative talents to explore how the city’s rich creative scene stems from its unique cultural diversity and the sense of community and collaboration this provides.

Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know about a city. A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban ...  Show more

Underlying every great city is a rich and vibrant culture that shapes the texture of life within. In The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles (U Minnesota Press, 2021), Susanna Phillips Newbury teases out how art and Los Angeles shaped one anot ...  Show more

How might we navigate and negotiate the skins of the Earth in the face of climate change? What can Byzantine architecture and Plato's Khôra teach us about urban living in the 21st Century? What is the role of the architect in current cultural production? This week, we have a fasc ...  Show more