Green Urbanist Podcast

Green Urbanist Podcast

Sustainability strategies for urban designers, planners and place-makers.


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#119: Timber-first Development, with Bywater Properties

#119: Timber-first Development, with Bywater Properties

A conversation with Theo Michell (COO) and Joe Jack Williams (Head of sustainability) at Bywater Properties. We talk about: A timber-first approach to development A case study of 'Paradise', a six-storey timber-led off...

#118: Sustainable Street Furniture for Joyful Public Spaces, with Furnitubes

#118: Sustainable Street Furniture for Joyful Public Spaces, with Furnitubes

This episode is a conversation with Catherine Barratt, Managing Director of Furnitubes. Furnitubes create modular street furniture that helps to bring communities together. In this episode we discuss how they are innov...

#117: (WILD) Wilding Campuses

#117: (WILD) Wilding Campuses

This episode is a conversation about the 'Wilding Campuses' programme, led by Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK). We talk about the practicalities of applying a 'wilding' approach on highly altered and des...

#116: A Climate of Truth, with Mike Berners-Lee

#116: A Climate of Truth, with Mike Berners-Lee

Mike Berners-Lee is a consultant and author of the new book A Climate of Truth. In this episode we discuss the polycrisis and how raising standards of honesty is essential to respond to the challenges we are facing. Le...

#115: (WILD) Urban Rewilding with Communities, with Citizen Zoo

#115: (WILD) Urban Rewilding with Communities, with Citizen Zoo

This is a conversation with Elliot Newton and Ben Stockwell of Citizen Zoo, a Community Interest Company that are rewilding urban areas with communities. We talk about: What rewilding in the city meansGrazing animals i...

#114: Regenerative Design in Practice, with Scott McAulay (Architype)

#114: Regenerative Design in Practice, with Scott McAulay (Architype)

This is a conversation with Scott McAulay, Regenerative Design and Infrastructures Specialist at pioneering architecture studio Architype. We talk about: What 'regenerative design' means in practice for an architecture...

#113: The UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard explained

#113: The UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard explained

This episode is a conversation with Salem Qunsol, Principal Sustainability Consultant at Verte, about the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard. Salem was one of the contributors to the standard. He joined me to discus...

#112: How to make sustainability irresistible

#112: How to make sustainability irresistible

My guest is Virginia Cinquemani, a coach, trainer and Director at Green Gorilla. In this episode we discuss strategies from her book The Good Communicator on how to communicate sustainability with clients, communities ...

#111: Engaging Communities with the Future of Place and Nature, with the Place Bureau

#111: Engaging Communities with the Future of Place and Nature, with the Place Bureau

My guests today are Rosanna Vitiello, Chief at the Place Bureau, and Domenica Landin, Associate Design Researcher at Place Bureau. Place Bureau is a research, strategy and design studio that defines new frontiers for p...