Future of the American City
Episodes
Alexander Gorlin and Victoria Newhouse on Housing the Nation
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Alexander Gorlin is the principal and founder of Alexander Gorlin Architects and fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Victoria Newhouse is ...
Jerold S. Kayden on the Master of Real Estate
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jerold S. Kayden is an urban planner and lawyer serving as the Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard University ...
Gary Hilderbrand and James Nozar on Water Street Tampa
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Gary Hilderbrand is the founding principal of Reed Hilderbrand LLC, Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture and Chair of ...
Ximena Caminos on the Miami Reef Line
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ximena Caminos is a curator and cultural entrepreneur whose work integrates public art with marine conservation and sustainable urban development. Cam...
Stephen Goldsmith on Data-Smart City Solutions
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Goldsmith is the Derek Bok Professor of Urban Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and director of the Bloomberg Center for Cities’ Data...
Jha D Amazi on Collective Memory
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jha D Amazi is a principal at MASS Design Group, a nonprofit organization focusing on social justice and public space. She joins Charles Waldheim to d...
Mark Lamster on Architecture and the City
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Lamster is an award-winning architecture critic and author. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss Dallas architecture and his role as architecture...
Elisa Iturbe on Carbon Form
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elisa Iturbe is an architectural designer, writer, and educator. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her research on “carbon form,” an u...
Joel Sanders on Inclusive Design
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joel Sanders is an architect and educator and the founder of JSA/MIXdesign. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his work in inclusive design.
Landscapes of Retreat
10 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rosetta Elkin is a landscape architect and author. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her new book Landscapes of Retreat. Future of the American Ci...
The Architecture of Disability
17 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Designer, historian, and theorist David Gissen joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book The Architecture of Disability. Future of the American C...
Manual of Biogenic House Sections
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Architects Paul Lewis and Marc Tsurumaki, principals of the New York-based practice LTL Architects, join Charles Waldheim to discuss their recent book...
New York Review of Architecture
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Author and publisher Nicolas Kemper and architectural historian and critic Phillip Denny join Charles Waldheim to discuss the publication New York Rev...
Jeff Hou
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Hou is an author, advocate, and educator. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his research on urban resistance and popular protest movements in ...
Shannon Mattern
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shannon Mattern is a media theorist and design anthropologist. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her new book A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urba...
Ed Wall
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ed Wall is a landscape architect and urbanist. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book Contesting Public Spaces: Social Lives of Urban Redev...
Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Architect Jennifer Bonner and structural engineer Hanif Kara join Charles Waldheim to discuss their new book Blank: Speculations on CLT.
Peggy Deamer and Quilian Riano
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Architects Peggy Deamer and Quilian Riano join Charles Waldheim to discuss their advocacy for architecture as a form of labor and their various roles ...
Abby Spinak
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abby Spinak is an environmental historian and planning scholar whose work focuses on energy histories and the politics of infrastructure. She joins Ch...
Sam Stein
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Stein is a geographer and housing policy analyst. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Esta...
Laurie Olin
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Laurie Olin is a landscape architect, author, and founding partner of the landscape architecture and urban design firm OLIN. He joins Charles Waldheim...
Marshall Brown
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Marshall Brown is an architect and urbanist and the principal of Marshall Brown Projects. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book Recurrent ...
Signe Nielsen
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Signe Nielsen is a landscape architect and principal of MNLA. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss Little Island, her role on the New York City Publi...
Eric Rodenbeck
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Rodenbeck is the founder and Creative Director of Stamen, a data visualization and cartography studio based in the Bay Area. Eric joins Charles W...
Sara Zewde
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Zewde is a landscape architect and founding principal of Studio Zewde, a landscape, urban design, and public art practice based in New York City....
Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi are principals and founders of Weiss / Manfredi Architecture / Landscape / Urbanism. They join Charles Waldheim to d...
David Gissen
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David Gissen is a designer, author, and educator. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his interest in architecture and the bodies it imagines.
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes is an urban designer and educator. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her proposal for a global moratorium on new constr...
Jorge Otero-Pailos
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jorge Otero-Pailos is an artist, architect, and educator whose work is concerned with the future meaning of the past. He joins Charles Waldheim to dis...
Grahame Shane
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Grahame Shane is an architect, urbanist, and educator. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his career in urban design.
Lisa Servon
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Servon is Penn Presidential Professor and Chair of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. She joins Charles Waldheim to di...
Alex Krieger
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Krieger is an architect, urbanist, and author. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book, City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from ...
Amale Andraos
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Amale Andraos is co-founder and principal of the architecture firm WORKac. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her recent work.
Fritz Steiner
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fritz Steiner is Dean of the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his work in ecological...
Vishaan Chakrabarti
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Vishaan Chakrabarti is an architect, urbanist, and founder of the Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU). He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss h...
Billy Fleming
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Billy Fleming is an urban planner and Director of the McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design. He joins Char...
Kate Orff
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Orff is a landscape architect and founding principal of SCAPE. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her recent work on the future of the America...
Maurice Cox
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Maurice Cox is the Commissioner of Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his career in public servi...
Danielle Aubert
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Danielle Aubert is a graphic designer interested in the history of design and labor. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her work in Detroit, includ...
New Civics
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rip Rapson is the President and CEO of the Kresge Foundation. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss the Foundation’s work in Detroit.
Common Land and Collective Meaning
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anya Sirota is an architectural designer interested in the intersection of social enterprise and cultural production. She joins Charles Waldheim to di...
Inclusive Design
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anika Goss is the Executive Director of Detroit Future City. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss the organization’s role in the recent history...
Architecture Is a Social Act
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lorcan O’Herlihy is an architect whose practice embraces architecture as a catalyst for social change. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his ...
Advocacy and Redevelopment
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Dittmer is Chief Design Officer at Bedrock Detroit. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss Bedrock’s work developing Detroit’s down...
Reconceiving the Waterfront
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Wallace is President and CEO of the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his work overseeing the transformation o...
Community Engaged Design
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ceara O’Leary is an architect and planner who works at the intersection of design and policy. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her work at ...
Inverse Utopia
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Albert Pope is an architect and urbanist whose research deals with the modern postwar city. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss new and alternative a...
Windows of Opportunity
31 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jennifer Wolch is a Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss urb...
Integrity and Affordability
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Tighe is an architect interested in technology and building innovation. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his work on housing in Los Angele...
Responsible Auteurism
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Neil Denari is an architect interested in the tension and interplay between innovation, preservation, technology, and tradition. He joins Charles Wald...
Advocacy by Design
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mia Lehrer is an urbanist and landscape designer interested in urban revitalization and sustainability. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss communit...
Housing as Lifestyle
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Frances Anderton is an author and broadcaster who has long focused on covering design and architecture in Los Angeles. She joins Charles Waldheim to d...
The Hidden Logic of Cities
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Sherman is an architect and urbanist interested in the visible and invisible logic of cities. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss new models fo...
Street Economies
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Andres Sevtsuk is an architect, urban designer, and educator whose work focuses on urban planning and spatial analysis. He joins Charles Waldheim to d...
Relaxation of Boundaries
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Zago is an architect and educator whose work focuses on art, architecture, and urbanism. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss architecture’s ...
City of Many Cultures
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Maltzan is an architect and educator whose work focuses on affordable urban housing, infrastructure, and the public realm. His most recent pro...
The Politics of Density
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dana Cuff is an author and educator whose research focuses on affordable housing and urban density. As director of cityLAB at UCLA, she has spearheade...
Civic Memory and the Urban Imaginary
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher Hawthorne is the first Chief Design Officer of the City of Los Angeles. Appointed in 2018, he has introduced new measures for shade and st...
The Idiosyncratic and the Irregular
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Thom Mayne is an architect and educator whose practice, Morphosis, engages in cross-disciplinary research and design. He joins Charles Waldheim to dis...
Redesigning the Dream
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Höweler is an architect and educator whose work deals with building technology and the public realm. He recently led a course in Miami on new st...
Urban Typologies
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sean Canty is an architect and educator whose work focuses on building type and geometry. Among other things, he has recently engaged in teaching a co...
Elevating Landscapes
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Laurinda Spear and Margarita Blanco are architects and landscape architects whose work at ArquitectonicaGEO focuses on creating ecologically performat...
Responsive Technologies and the Public Realm
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rodolphe el-Khoury is an architect, historian, and educator whose recent work deals with smart cities and embedded technology. RAD-UM, his lab at the ...
Planning for Adaptation
17 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is a pioneering urban planner, architect, and educator. She has been instrumental in developing the City of Miami’s form-bas...
Curating Neighborhoods
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Craig Robins is a Miami real estate developer whose projects focus on arts, culture, and historic preservation. Most recently, he has repositioned the...
Imagining Retreat
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rosetta S. Elkin is a landscape architect who uses design as a means to address risk, injustice, and instability brought on by climate change. Elkin’...
Race and Place
13 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lily Song is an urban planner whose work aims to center the experiences of marginalized groups in the policy and development process. Her research int...
Work-Life
30 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Reed is a landscape architect specializing in dynamic ecologies and generative processes. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his idea of “Wo...
The Just City
16 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Toni L. Griffin is an urban planner who employs a value-based approach to urbanism, examining the ways design and planning figure into to questions of...
Climate Gentrification
02 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse M. Keenan has spent his career looking at the relationship between urban development and climate adaptation. His concept of “Climate Gentrific...
Future of the American City
18 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mohsen Mostafavi is an architect and urbanist whose work has long focused on cities and modes of urbanization. The “Future of the American City”...