Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future
Episodes
Citizen One S2 E12: Two Blocks from My Apartment
20 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Two blocks from where I live in El Raval, there’s an archaeological excavation underway. I pass it often enough now that it’s become part of my da...
Citizen One S2:E11 – Barcelona: A Field Study in Urban Literacy
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future. I’m Douglas Stuart McDaniel. Today, I want to tell you a bit about my neighborhood in Barce...
Premium Pulp Fiction S1:E4 Ukrainian Philosophy and Poetry Put on a Spacesuit
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Premium Pulp Fiction podcast, my guest is Maksym Van Shamrai — millennial novelist, cultural theorist, and Ukrainian expat.In...
Redlining Didn’t Disappear. It Learned New Software
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, I sit down with Derek Lumpkins to talk about cities and neighborhoods—but not in the way...
Premium Pulp Fiction S1 E3: A Citizen One Literary Imprint
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future and—I am excited to say—Premium Pulp Fiction. I’m your host, Douglas Stuart McDaniel, an...
Citizen One S2 E9: Taş Tepeler, 9000 BCE
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Cities are a form civilization often takes. They were never its starting condition.Since my first travels to Türkiye several years ago—through Ista...
David Bowie, Prince, Timothy Leary, and an AI-Powered Race With Time
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I recorded this episode on Christmas Eve, not out of allegiance to any particular religious institution, but because Christmas Eve still does somethin...
McDaniel Road - Tiny Homes, Big Ideas, and a Not-So-Simple Life
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, I return, unexpectedly, to a place I thought I had metabolized years ago: Western North Ca...
Citizen One S2 E6: The Smart City Industrial Complex in an Age Defined by Moore’s Law
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, I take you deep inside the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona—a place that, for...
Citizen One S2:E5 – The Civic Brand: Reclaiming the Honest Soul of the City
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if cities stopped marketing themselves and started remembering who they are?That’s the question at the heart of this week’s episode of Citize...
Citizen One S2:E4 – Go Home: Rural Urbanism Between Storms, Saints, and Sinners
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext original podcast series, host Douglas Stuart McDaniel traces a single day on ...
Citizen One S2:E3 The River Serpent
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext original podcast series, I return to my ancestral grounds of East Tennessee t...
Citizen One S2:E2 – 8 Minutes 20 Seconds – Housing After Banking
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if housing were designed not for banks, but for photons? This deceptively simple question sits at the heart of Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong’...
Citizen One S2:E1 — Waffle House Urbanism, Resilient Cities, and a New Literary Frontier
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to the Season Two premiere of Citizen One, Exploring Our Urban Future. I'm your host, Douglas Stuart McDaniel, currently back on the Miss...
Unearthing the Future
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some places feel like they’ve been waiting for you. Others barely tolerate your presence, indifferent to your wonder. I’ve traveled enough—acros...
Citizen One: E12 - Fault Lines of Feeling
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext original podcast series, host Douglas Stuart McDaniel speaks with architect a...
Citizen One E14: Heraclitus in the City
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext original podcast series, I’m joined once again by author, architect, and ur...
Citizen One Episode 13: We Have Never Been Private
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext original podcast series, author, architect and urban theorist Ioanna Piniara ...
Citizen One E11: Robotic Translations
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext original podcast series, host Douglas Stuart McDaniel speaks with Venezuelan ...
Citizen One E10: Memory, Stone, and Silence
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext original podcast series, host Douglas Stuart McDaniel sits down with independ...
Citizen One E9: The City as a Living Organism
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext original podcast series, host Douglas Stuart McDaniel sits down with Dr. Assi...
Citizen One Episode 8: The Reasonable City
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A Citizen One Journal Before diving into this next Citizen One episode—a short-form, audio-only reflection I’m calling a Citizen One Journal—I w...
Citizen One Episode 7: PCF's Michael W. Bischoff
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext original podcast series, host Douglas Stuart McDaniel sits down with Michael ...
Citizen One Episode 5, Part 1: Fractals, Entropy, and the Future of City Science
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SummaryIn this first of a two-part episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext original podcast series, host Douglas Stuart McDan...
Citizen One Episode 4: Digital Transformation in Global Engineering and Construction
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext original podcast series, host Doug McDaniel sits down with Misha Nikulin, a d...
Citizen One Episode 3: Metaverse Urbanism
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Citizen One: Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext original podcast series, host Douglas Stuart McDaniel sits down with leading ...
Citizen One Episode 2: Hollywood Meets NEOM
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Citizen One, Exploring Our Urban Future, an urbanNext original podcast series, world-renowned concept artist Olivier Pron (Doctor S...
Citizen One Spotlight: Falling Forward
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this Citizen One Spotlight episode, we sit down with Alex McDowell, the visionary production designer behind Fight Club, Minority Report, and Man o...
Worldbuilding the Street Corner of the Future
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Citizen One Podcast – Episode 1 SummaryTitle: Worldbuilding the Street Corner of the Future: The Fight Club of UrbanismGuests: Alex McDowell & Olivi...
Citizen One Podcast: Series Trailer
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cities are humanity’s grandest experiment—where ambition, architecture, and technology collide. But what happens when we stop adapting cities to t...