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The Grimshaw Podcast is focussed on the City – and those who shape our cities. The podcast presents engaging and insightful interviews with architects, city planners, developers, strategists and change-makers. These conversations take place between international guests and your host, Tim Williams, Grimshaw’s Cities Group Lead. Organised into series which reflect a specific overarching topic or theme, the podcasts examine how are cities are evolving, how they have dealt with unprecedented recent growth and how they will adapt to change and regenerate for a better future. The complexities and issues facing our cities have never been so topical and the podcast showcases ideas, experiences and strategies for a contemporary world.Series 1, the inaugural Cities Series features such diverse voices as New York’s urban innovator, Jonathan Rose; Sue Lloyd Hurwitz from Mirvac, one of Australia’s biggest and best developers; Dan Labbad of The Crown Estate; the Hon. Rob Stokes, Minist
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- Yesterday1h 2m
THERE GOES THE NEIGHBOURHOOD: CHALLENGE AND RENEWAL
People acquire houses but they live in and come from neighbourhoods. In this timely conversation Andrew talks with Grimshaw's Head of Cities, Tim, about the state of British neighbourhoods and the interventions his Commission, chaired by the well-respected former minister Hillary Armstrong, recommends renewing them. Although the Commission has been focussed on neighbourhoods in the UK, the interventions it recommends are relevant well beyond the UK. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- May 6, 20261h 7m
GIMME SHELTER: THE HOUSING HIJACK
In this special edition, Tim Williams talks with housing expert and author of a best-selling book illuminating the reality behind the headlines, Cameron Murray, CEO of Fresh Economic Thinking. Tim himself has a significant background in housing having advised governments in both the UK and Australia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Apr 8, 202658 min
THE CITY AND AI
AI will transform how we work in the built environment, yet there are still more questions than answers, and many feel unprepared for what comes next. In this episode, Dr Tim Williams speaks with Tom Sanchez, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University, and author of Artificial Intelligence for Urban Planning. He offers a clear and practical roadmap for urbanists navigating this shift. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Mar 13, 202656 min
DOWNTOWN RENEWAL - SAN FRANCISCO
City centres everywhere are seeking renewal. In this episode Robbie Silver, President and CEO of Downtown SF Partnership, tells us what’s creating San Francisco’s new momentum at the city’s heart. Joining us in the conversation is Andrew Byrne, Grimshaw’s Managing Partner for our LA studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Jan 29, 202654 min
REBEL URBANIST
Journalist, author and activist Elizabeth Farrelly, is the best known urbanist in Australia, with an international reputation. The title of her recent best-selling book, Killing Sydney: the Fight for a City’s Soul, speaks eloquently of her concerns but also of her independent spirit and determination to change the direction of the city she loves. A feisty and characterful conversation full of insights not just about Australia’s global city but cities in general and how communities need to be galvanised to ensure they still provide opportunities for all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Dec 19, 202538 min
HOUSING: PLACE MATTERS
The international drive to increase housing supply is an opportunity to improve existing communities but also to design and deliver new high-amenity, higher density, low carbon, mixed use settlements. In this episode Tim Williams talks with Sara Waller – title, of Sovereign Network Group/SNG and Kirsten Lees, architect, masterplanner and Managing Partner, Paris for Grimshaw, about meeting this dual challenge. Though, much of the discussion focusses on the UK, where the government is targeting 1.5 million new homes over the next 5 years, many of them in next-generation New Towns, the discussion will be of interest to all those working internationally to make better, more sustainable and inclusive places. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Dec 4, 20251h 2m
BETTER HOMES, THRIVING COMMUNITIES
In the first of two episodes on social and affordable housing , Tim Williams sits down with Mark Washer the CEO of Sovereign Network Group/SNG, one of the biggest providers in the UK, with an asset base of 85,000 homes, to talk about managing a massive business with a big social purpose: to provide good, affordable homes that are the foundation for a better life – with the aim of sustaining thriving communities, over generations. Joining them in the conversation is architect and master planner Kirsten Lees, Grimshaw’s Managing Partner in Paris and Sara Waller, SNG’s Head of Place, a role showing the significant emphasis SNG puts on supporting sustainable communities. In episode One we talk about the demands of running a big social housing provider and developer of affordable homes, under a new Government with housing as a priority. A specific focus is the role social housing providers can play in delivering the 1.5 million homes the UK Government wants to see built over the next 5 years, some of them in the exciting New Towns program. Episode two, has Sara and Kirsten further developing the focus on ‘housing in place’ and the need to design and deliver not just great housing but also great communities. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Oct 29, 202550 min
A BIG & CLEVER IDEA: AUSTRALIA’S HIGH SPEED RAIL
Tim Parker has massive experience of successfully managing big urban infrastructure and development projects.In this episode, he shines a light on his unique insights from an impressive CV and speaks with both passion and clarity about leading his latest large-scale project: the Federal Government’s initiative to build high speed rail initially between Newcastle and Sydney on Australia’s east cost, with the ambition to build further on this link in future.This is a massive transport undertaking, promoting a low-carbon transition from car and air over to rail, and economic and housing development and community opportunity – a project of national, and we think international, significance of interest to listeners from a wide range of professional and policy backgrounds and countries. Big ambitions for a big country: seems about right to us. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Grimshaw Podcast is focussed on the City – and those who shape our cities. The podcast presents engaging and insightful interviews with architects, city planners, developers, strategists and change-makers. These conversations take place between international guests and your host, Tim Williams, Grimshaw’s Cities Group Lead. Organised into series which reflect a specific overarching topic or theme, the podcasts examine how are cities are evolving, how they have dealt with unprecedented recent growth and how they will adapt to change and regenerate for a better future. The complexities and issues facing our cities have never been so topical and the podcast showcases ideas, experiences and strategies for a contemporary world.Series 1, the inaugural Cities Series features such diverse voices as New York’s urban innovator, Jonathan Rose; Sue Lloyd Hurwitz from Mirvac, one of Australia’s biggest and best developers; Dan Labbad of The Crown Estate; the Hon. Rob Stokes, Minist
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