First-hand stories of cities in moments of radical transformation, told through the lens of the people who are shaping our cities today. Hosts, Matt Quinn, Anna Nicholls and Lucie Murray ask, 'What can we learn from these moments in our past that will help inform the way we think about the future?'
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Cassiano Sala is a partner at creative studio Squint Opera where he has directed and produced a wide range of large-scale film and digital projects for architects, masterplanners and other key stakeholders shaping cities. Cass shares his story of growing up in Kabul, Afghanistan during Soviet control of the country. Born in 1985, he lived through c…
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City of London, Michael Cassidy
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In this episode, co-host Anna Nicholls interviews Michael Cassidy CBE - the lawyer, city politician and acclaimed London city maker whose career has had a profound effect on the shape of the City of London and its dominance in financial services globally. Michael ran the local authority for the City of London following the reform of financial marke…
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Santiago, Manuel Toledo-Otaegui
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Manuel Toledo-Otaegui is an industrial and public space designer and co-founder of the Architecture Film Festival in London and Santiago, Chile. He grew up in Santiago toward the end of the 17-year military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet - a ruler notorious for large-scale torture, killings and abuses of human rights. Manuel talks to Matt Quinn a…
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Rosa Rogina is director of the London Festival of Architecture and teaches architecture at the University of East London. She grew up in Zagreb, Croatia during the Croatian War of Independence (1991 - 1995). With 20,000 lives lost and many more people displaced, this war is also described as a war on architecture. Rosa talks to Lucie Murray about t…
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Lara Kinneir is an architect and urban strategist who grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland toward the end of a 30-year period of conflict known as The Troubles. This was a time when car bombings, sniper attacks and violence in the streets were reported in the news almost every week. Lara shares her experience growing up in a city in conflict, the i…
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Jan Bunge is a landscape designer and partner of creative studio Squint/Opera. Jan grew up in West Berlin during the time that the Berlin Wall famously came down. As this re-unification of Germany created the merging of two cites with two distinct cultures, a wave of euphoria transformed Berlin into an epicenter of sub-culture and creativity. Jan r…
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City Makers is a show about the people and ideas that are shaping our cities.
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