Urban governance & placemaking
A second interview with the urbanist and scholar, Alain Bertaud
A second interview with the urbanist and scholar, Alain Bertaud
A second interview with the urbanist and scholar, Alain Bertaud
(Interview date - April 2025)
In this interview with the urbanist Alain Bertaud, as a follow-up to the interview of March 2023, fresh aspects of urban planning and urban development are discussed, including aspects noted in Alain's book Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities...
A first interview with the urbanist and scholar, Alain Bertaud
A second interview with the urbanist and scholar, Alain Bertaud
A second interview with the urbanist and scholar, Alain Bertaud
(Interview date - March 2023)
In this first interview with Alain Bertaud, the linked subjects of urban economics and how to use data for decision-making is discussed. Urban planners need to think: how efficient is this city or town for all our individual clients and what can I do to improve it...?
An interview with Gil Penalosa, founder of 8 80 Cities
A second interview with the urbanist and scholar, Alain Bertaud
An interview with Gil Penalosa, founder of 8 80 Cities
(Interview date: April 2025)
Gil Peñalosa, founder of 8 80 Cities and Cities4Everyone, has worked in over 350 cities around the world. In this interview, Gil provides some practical and powerful ideas and examples for engaging everyone in urban development and placemaking...
An interview with Mike Henderson of Arup
Talking with Wendy Saunders of the Natural Hazards Commission
An interview with Gil Penalosa, founder of 8 80 Cities
(Interview date - April 2025)
Mike Henderson is the Resilient Cities Lead for the global sustainable development consultancy, Arup. In this interview we discuss the Arup-led City Resilience Framework, how to make best use of it and how to tackle some of the key urban challenges of today...
An interview with Esteban Leon of UN-Habitat
Talking with Wendy Saunders of the Natural Hazards Commission
Talking with Wendy Saunders of the Natural Hazards Commission
(Interview date - April 2025)
Esteban Leon heads up the City Resilience Global Programme (CRGP) for UN-Habitat. In this interview we discuss the programme including the City Resilience Profiling Tool (CRPT) and lessons learned from cities on how to use it...
Talking with Wendy Saunders of the Natural Hazards Commission
Talking with Wendy Saunders of the Natural Hazards Commission
Talking with Wendy Saunders of the Natural Hazards Commission
(Interview date: May 2025)
Wendy Saunders, Champion of Land Use Planning at the Natural Hazards Commission Toka Tū Ake in New Zealand, talked about how we can improve urban development through better land use planning, and ways to make change happen...
Ideas & innovation
An interview with Adam Millard-Ball of UCLA
An interview with Elen Sahradyan (UNDP Armenia, now UN DPPA)
An interview with Elen Sahradyan (UNDP Armenia, now UN DPPA)
(Interview date: February 2025)
Adam talks about his research on urban planning and development, in particular relating to street networks and design. The online Street-network Sprawl Map that has been developed can be used by anyone who wants to analyse street sprawl...
An interview with Elen Sahradyan (UNDP Armenia, now UN DPPA)
An interview with Elen Sahradyan (UNDP Armenia, now UN DPPA)
An interview with Elen Sahradyan (UNDP Armenia, now UN DPPA)
(Interview date: April 2023)
This interview with Elen Sahradyan, formerly of UNDP Armenia and now with UN DPPA-DPO-SS, explores how Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, has used The Doughnut Model and taken a smart cities approach to engage citizens to drive effective urban change...
An interview with Melodie Yashar of ICON
An interview with Elen Sahradyan (UNDP Armenia, now UN DPPA)
An interview with Melodie Yashar of ICON
(Interview date: Dec 2024)
Melodie Yashar discusses the innovative approach of ICON in using robotics for construction to benefit planet Earth and beyond. ICON are using their technology to create resilient urban environments and to support community disaster resilience...
Urban resilience
An interview with Terry Gibson of Inventing Futures
An interview with Terry Gibson of Inventing Futures
An interview with Terry Gibson of Inventing Futures
(Interview date: May 2025)
In this interview, Terry talks about his research and about his book, Disaster Makers, which focuses on how disasters are made, and what we can do to learn lessons properly and stop them from happening...
An interview with Marcos Concepcion Raba of GNDR
An interview with Terry Gibson of Inventing Futures
An interview with Terry Gibson of Inventing Futures
(Interview date: Mar 2025)
Marcos Concepcion Raba, Executive Director at GNDR, the Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction, discussed this network including their urban-focused work....
An interview with Aaron Clark-Ginsberg of RAND
An interview with Terry Gibson of Inventing Futures
An interview with Aaron Clark-Ginsberg of RAND
(Interview date: April 2025)
This interview with Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, a Behavioural / Social Scientist at RAND, explores the challenges of informal settlements in urban environments examples of positive local action to achieve resilience...
An interview with Rajeev Issar of UNDP
An interview with Peter Williams & Ben Ryan about disaster risk
An interview with Aaron Clark-Ginsberg of RAND
(Interview date: Mar 2024)
Rajeev spoke about the work of UNDP in urban resilience and disaster risk, and how people can and should work together to make cities and towns around the world resilient and sustainable.....
An interview with Peter Williams & Ben Ryan about disaster risk
An interview with Peter Williams & Ben Ryan about disaster risk
An interview with Peter Williams & Ben Ryan about disaster risk
(Interview date: Sept 2023)
Peter and Ben spoke about the work of the UNDRR network, ARISE-US, to support cities with a disaster resilience scorecard to assess resilience and act on vulnerabilities and exposures...