Cities Reimagined
Episodes
Reimagining Cities Beyond Sustainability - with Indy Johar and Caroline Paulick-Thiel
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In August 2025, Johannes sat down with Caroline Paulick-Thiel and Indy Johar deep in the Austrian Alps. During the European Forum Alpbach they discuss...
Reimagining Bruges: Water, green spaces and community
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
If you have ever been to Bruges, or seen it in films or photos, chances are you have noticed at least one of the following: canals, swans, water, tour...
The People Behind Urban Change - with Kristijan Radojcic
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
I have to start with an apology. To the guest of this episode, Kristijan Radojcic. After we had this conversation in a wild hotel room with tacky wall...
Reimagining Urban Biking - with Josip Rotar
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do you remember the first time you learned how to ride a bike? Chances are that you do, and if you kept on kicking those pedals, you might have some f...
Reimagining Ghent: De-sealing the City
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Urban rewilding is more than planting trees. It’s about reshaping cities by de-sealing land and inviting nature back in. In this episode, we head to...
Nature's comeback to Mechelen - with Michiel Van Mele and Maarten De Jonge
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today we go back to the City of Mechelen, to find out how nature is making a comeback in Mechelen’s old town, why that is not only good for house sp...
Reimagining the City at Night - with Simone d'Antonio
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever felt how different cities feel, look, and smell at night? How everything is seems to be so different than during the day… having organ...
Reimagining the 'Unloved' Spaces - with Alenka Korenjak & Zala Velkavrh
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Almost every city has them - spaces and places that feel like they’re waiting. Waiting to be reawakened, reimagined, and reconnected to the people a...
Reimagining Urban Tourism - with Donagh Horgan
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hi and welcome back to the first episode of season 3 of the Cities Reimagined Podcast.To kick things off, I’m joined by Donagh Horgan — a social d...
Still reimagining: Introducing season 3
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Soon after I started the Cities Reimagined podcast 18 months ago, it became a tool for learning, exchange, and inspiration through deep conversations....
Reimagining Urban Education - with Yvonne Franz and Stefan De Corte
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hardly any cities-related university programme gained so much attention over the last 15 years as the 4CITIES Masters in Urban Studies. For good reaso...
Reimagining Mechelen Pt. 2 - Nature as a Stakeholder in the Revival of the River Dijle with Mark Van der Veken
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered how to give nature a voice in urban development? The City of Mechelen in Belgium does exactly that while reimagining the connec...
Reimagining Mechelen Pt. 1 - Water as the Source of Urban Public Space with Nicole La Iacona
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Water as the Source of Urban Public SpaceHave you ever wondered how to give nature a voice in urban development? The City of Mechelen in Belgium does ...
Season Finale: Godzilla's Fury for Reimagining Cities with Jonas Bylund and Johannes Riegler
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Here it is, the finale of the first season of the Cities Reimagined podcast and it is nothing shy of (plot) twists, secrets coming to light and what i...
Reimagining Urban Food in UK and Brazil with Chiara Tornaghi and Marcella Arruda
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As the importance of city foods is growing, this episode of Cities Reimagined is all about the transformative potential of healthy and delicious (urba...
Reimagining Abandoned Urban Spaces into Cultural Centers with Tiffany Fukuma
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s guest on Cities Reimagined is Tiffany Fukuma, Managing Director of Trans Europe Halles, a network of over 160 alternative cultural centr...
Skateboarding for Reimagining Urban Communities with Christian Fischer & Johannes Wimmeder
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Cities Reimagined takes us to Peru and Vienna to discuss skateboarding.My guests this week, Christian Fischer and Johannes Wimmeder stayed ...
Reimagining Urbanism in Post-War Ukraine with Oleksandr Anisimov
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hold tight: This episode of Cities Reimagined is PACKED with condensed knowledge on cities and urbanism in (post-war) Ukraine . In a 60 minute convers...
Bonus: The role of DIY Punk Ethics for Shaping Change with Gerfried Ambrosch
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On episode 6 of Cities Reimagined, Gerfried Ambrosch and I talked about the importance of wildlife habitats in urban areas. Besides being very active ...
Reimagining Urban Wildlife Habitats with Gerfried Ambrosch
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I am very happy to have my good friend Gerfried Ambrosch on Cities Reimagined this week. Besides being a really cool person how plays in a ton of cool...
Reimagining African Urbanism with Paul Currie
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Cities Reimagined takes us to South Africa to speak to Paul Currie, Director of the urban systems unit at ICLEI Africa.In October 2023, Joh...
Reimagining Urban Journalism with Stephan Fugger
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Cities Reimagined takes us very locally. It takes us deep, deep down into a damp, smelly basement (no joke) of the city I was born in,...
Reimagining Urban Futures with Jonas Bylund & Josefin Wangel
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of the Cities Reimagined podcast is all about urban future(s)… but actually also urban presents. With today’s guests, Jonas Bylund (R...
Reimagining Just City Making with Jim Segers & Sofie van Bruystegem
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Whose business is it to shape cities and urban areas and who has the power and resources to reimagine cities? Jim Segers and Sofie van Bruystegem from...
Reimagining Public Spaces with Luisa Bravo
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Reimagining Public SpacesWhat makes cities urban, you might find asking yourself from time to time. Whatever you find appropriate a definition, it mos...
Introducing the Cities Reimagined Podcast
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this introduction of the Cities Reimagined Podcast (yes, you might call it a trailer..), Johannes introduces himself, why he took a year off and st...