THE GRIMSHAW PODCAST
Episodes
DOWNTOWN RENEWAL - SAN FRANCISCO
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
City centres everywhere are seeking renewal. In this episode Robbie Silver, President and CEO of Downtown SF Partnership. tells us what’s creating S...
REBEL URBANIST
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist, author and activist Elizabeth Farrelly, is the best known urbanist in Australia, with an international reputation. The title of her recent...
HOUSING: PLACE MATTERS
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The international drive to increase housing supply is an opportunity to improve existing communities but also to design and deliver new high-amenity, ...
BETTER HOMES, THRIVING COMMUNITIES
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
A BIG & CLEVER IDEA: AUSTRALIA’S HIGH SPEED RAIL
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Parker has massive experience of successfully managing big urban infrastructure and development projects.In this episode, he shines a light on his...
BUILDING CITIES OF HOPE
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest Grimshaw Cities podcast, Dr Tim Williams interviews Syrian architect and best-selling author Marwa al Sabouni. Unable to practice her pr...
BREAKING THE HOUSING-FINANCE CYCLE
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tim talks with international housing expert Professor Josh Ryan-Collins of UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. Hosted on Acast. See a...
CHINA'S URBAN REVOLUTION
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Williams talks with Austin Williams, director of Future Cities and author of China’s Urban Revolution: Understanding Chinese Eco-Cities. What ca...
A MANIFESTO FOR OUR CITIES
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Aruna Sathanapally, CEO of Australia’s leading urban thinktank, the Grattan Institute, talks about the key policy priorities to make a more produ...
CITIES: AVOIDING 'NEO-FEUDALISM'
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joel Kotkin, a fellow in urban studies at Chapman University in California, is the author of the best-selling book The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warn...
TEXTS AND THE CITY: LIBRARIES AS PUBLIC SPACES
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode features Dr. Caroline Butler-Bowden, State Librarian for the State Library of New South Wales, alongside Dr. Tim Williams and Grimshaw...
TAKING BACK THE STREETS
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On today's episode, Dr. Tim Williams examines how America's largest city has grappled with the tensions between cars and public transit since the 1960...
THE ESSENCE OF CITIES
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Hila Oren has an international reputation as a city-making and branding expert. In her work in Tel Aviv over decades she has helped make that ‘sm...
ON TRACK: RESHAPING LONDON, WINNING THE STIRLING PRIZE
09 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are excited to share this unique episode to begin the fifth series of the Grimshaw Cities Podcast, The Resurgent City. Today we speak with our very...
HOMES FOR ALL
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Making sure that cities provide enough social and affordable housing has become a global priority. Rebecca Pinkstone, head of new government agency Ho...
DESIGNING THE FUTURE CITY
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cities are in flux in the wake of the pandemic with further disruption imminent in the era of Urban AI. On today's episode of the Grimshaw Cities Podc...
THE RESILIENT CITY
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode's guest is Beck Dawson, who has an international reputation in her crucial role as Chief Resilience Officer for Australia's global city, ...
MOBILITY AND THE CITY: NEW THINKING
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Todd Litman, Executive Director of the Victoria Transport Policy Institute, based in Canada. Todd is recognised internationally as a ...
PARRAMATTA: INDIGENOUS MEETING PLACE TO WORLD STAGE
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest is Gail Connolly, urban planner and now CEO of one of the most important councils in Australia, Parramatta, at the fast-growing heart of the...
URBAN INNOVATION AND PUBLIC-PRIVATE COLLABORATION
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Tim talks with Andrew Chappell, the Head of Origination at international developer, LendLease about his current, broad real estate, p...
RUNNING A BIG CITY
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Tim talks to the Chief Executive of Leeds City Council, Tom Riordan CBE about managing the services for and economic development of L...
SMART ADVOCACY FOR THE CITY
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Wright, President of the storied and influential Regional Plan Association of New York talks about their impact, current campaigns – a...
SOCIAL HOUSING ANALYTICS: VIENNA AND LONDON
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Architects Gustavo Maldonado-Gil and Christina Lenart, both Masters in Space Syntax from the Bartlett School, do a deep dive into data analytics, hous...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE CITY
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today, the Grimshaw Cities podcast is pleased to launch the first episode of our new, fourth series: The Intelligent City. Dr Tim Williams welcomes Dr...
SHAPING THE URBAN FUTURE
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Oxford University’s Professor Michael Keith talks about his unique experience as someone who has combined analysing cities across th...
THE HEALTHY CITY
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Billie Giles-Corti of RMIT is a global expert on the links between how cities are structured and public health and climate outcomes. In this...
VISIONS OF THE CITY
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this edition, Tim Williams interviews Professor Alex Krieger of the influential Harvard School of Design about his recent book City on a Hill: Urba...
GOVERNING INNOVATION
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Building the City series, Julie Wagner, President of The Global Institute on Innovation Districts, discusses her new report on ...
FINANCING THE GREEN CITY
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode of the Building the City series for the Grimshaw Cities podcast, Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas, a global leader in green finance tells us...
HOMES AND CITIES FOR ALL
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the seventh episode in the Building the City podcast series. Hear from your host Tim Williams in conversation with Kate Davies CBE who ran one...
THE NET ZERO CITY
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Net Zero City is the sixth episode in the Building the City podcast series. In this episode, your host Tim Williams interviews Peter Newman AO,&nb...
ASIA AND THE URBAN FUTURE
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Asia and the Urban Future is the fifth episode in the Building the City podcast series. In this episode, Professor Richard Hu of Canberra University a...
CITIES BY DESIGN
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cities by Design is the fourth episode in the Building the City podcast series. In this episode, your host Tim Williams interviews David Hutton, Group...
REGENERATING CITIES
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Regenerating Cities is the third episode in the Building the City podcast series. Your Grimshaw host, Tim Williams, discusses urban regeneration and p...
BUILDING PLACES FOR PEOPLE
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As cities grow, affordable housing options need to be made available for all communities. In Episode 2 of the Building the City podcast series, Grimsh...
ABOUT BUILDING LONDON
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Building Cities is the third Grimshaw podcast series about our cities. In this series we interview leaders from around the globe about their role in o...
CULTURE AND PRECINCTS
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The 10th episode in the Culture and the City series of the Grimshaw podcast finds Tim Williams, Practice Lead of our Cities Group in conversation with...
VALUING CULTURE
10 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Davy is the founder of Futurecity, a global cultural placemaking agency. Futurecity create cultural strategies for public and private sector orga...
DYNAMIC CULTURES
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Montgomery is an internationally renowned planner and urbanist who has published four books on cities and urban policy, with perhaps his best kno...
THE ART OF THE CITY
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this latest episode of our Grimshaw podcast, Culture and the City series, Tim Williams interviews Rose Hiscock, Director of Museums and Collections...
CULTURES OF RESILIENCE
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Architecture can embody and project power. But it can also, especially in our cities, be a tool in the hands of those who resist, expressing the creat...
NYC: CULTURAL CAPITAL
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 5 in the Culture and the City podcast series finds our host Dr Tim Williams in conversation with Andrew Burmeister, Assistant Commissioner for...
LIVING THE CITY 24/7
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Rodrigues is the inaugural 24 Hour Economy Commissioner for New South Wales. As the former Chair of the Night Time Industries Association and ...
CULTURE MILE, CITY OF LONDON
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Jones leads the London Culture Mile, an initiative of international significance. This is the UK capitol’s most advanced cultural precinct, at t...
SLAM CITY
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this series we explore a foundational theme of interest across the world and to diverse communities: Culture and the City. Although cities are cruc...
CULTURAL RENEWAL - ISTANBUL
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cities have been at the heart of cultural innovation. They are where peoples from different cultures meet, mix and co-create but also where the m...
MASTER-PLANNING THE CITY
31 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the Grimshaw Podcast Cities series we have interviewed city-shapers of all kind: architects and urban designers, transport specialists, cultural en...
THE REDESIGNED CITY
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 9 of The Grimshaw Podcast ‘The City Series’ features Lance Jay Brown, distinguished architect, urban designer and President of The Consort...
THE RENEWING CITY
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 8 is a fascinating conversation with Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, CEO of one of Australia’s most significant developers Mirvac. She is also Chair of...
THE GARDEN CITY
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 7 of The Grimshaw Podcast ‘The City Series’ launches today with Dr. Wei Yang, President of the prestigious Royal Town Planning Institute i...
THE PROGRESSIVE CITY
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this time is Dan Labbad CEO of the Crown Estate. The Crown Estate’s unique portfolio includes major property interests in London - such as...
CITIES OF PURPOSE
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 5 of The Grimshaw Podcast ‘The City Series’ features Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney, Jess Scully. Hosted by Grimshaw’s Cities Initiative Le...
THE JUST CITY
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Stokes has shown leadership of a kind which many internationally will look to around two key initiatives. One is the fact that he deliberately add...
CITIES OF INNOVATION
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Clark is the doyen of international urbanists. He has over 30 years built up a reputation as a go-to thought-leader and analyst on cities, having...
THE CULTURAL CITY
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Havilah is the powerhouse behind The Powerhouse in Sydney, or as it is officially known, the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences. Were it not for...
CITIES OF OPPORTUNITY
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Visionary American developer Jonathan Rose, author of The Well-Tempered City, offers us his vision for the ‘City of Opportunity’ in the wake of Co...