Vince Bertoni: How to Plan the City of Angels
In the season finale of CitySpeak, Los Angeles City Planning Director Vince Bertoni shares some of the joys and challenges of running one of the large...
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CitySpeak features the visionaries who are designing, building, and reimagining cities as we know them today. From the shimmering skyscrapers of Hong Kong to the stuccoed bungalows of Los Angeles, cities across the globe develop through a familiar pattern. Like the cell cycle of an organism, buildings are constructed, demolished, and reconstructed in a chaotic choreography performed to the rhythm of each city. Join host Max Masuda-Farkas as he interviews the people shaping the cities we love, right down to the parcel, block, and neighborhood.
Yan Krymsky: Gas Stations in the Age of Electric Vehicles
With nearly 600 gas stations dotting the Los Angeles landscape, the rise of the electric vehicle presents an opportunity for the city to repurpose a s...
Eric Jaffe: Sidewalk Labs and Its Vision for Urban Innovation
Eric Jaffe is the Editorial Director at Sidewalk Labs, an urban innovation company with a plan to tackle sustainability and affordability in cities ar...
Ken Steif: Data and Decision-Making in the Public Sector
Ken Steif is a data scientist, city planner, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, where he leads the school’s Ma...
Saskia Sassen: The City’s Sociologist
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University where she researches globalization and migration in the context of g...
Tyler Duvall: Roads Become Autonomous
Tyler Duvall is the CEO of Cavnue, a company that is designing and building roads optimized for autonomous vehicles. He joins Max to answer a central ...
Carlo Ratti: Where the Digital and Physical Worlds Collide
In the season premiere of CitySpeak, Max Masuda-Farkas is joined by engineer, architect, and inventor Carlo Ratti. Ratti is the head of MIT’s Senseabl...
Karin Liljegren: Restoring the Past Through Adaptive Reuse Architecture
Karin Liljegren is the founder and principal of Omgivning, an architecture and interior design firm that specializes in taking old buildings and givin...
Jonathan Lee: Mortgage Banking and Lending During the Pandemic
Jonathan Lee is a Principal and Managing Director of George Smith Partners, a national provider of capital market services to the commercial real esta...
Samantha Millman: The L.A. City Planning Commission, Where Developers and Neighbors Square Off
Samantha Millman is the President of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, the central forum for members of the public to voice their opinions on ...