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1 June 2023

Episode 607

31 minutes


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We assess some novel city plans and the obstacles that they have to overcome, from safer autonomous cars to dying downtown cores. We then look at what happens when the best features in a design phase are ignored once built.

1 June 2023

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Chapter 1

10 minutes


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Chapter 1

Redesigning downtown DC

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Eran Chen joins ‘The Urbanist’ to discuss some community-minded masterplan ideas to help bring life back to Washington DC’s downtown core.

10 minutes

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Chapter 2

6 minutes


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Chapter 2

Autonomous vehicles and the Great Exhibition Road Festival

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Monocle’s Helmi Pillai explores the autonomous vehicle laboratories at London’s Imperial College in advance of the Great Exhibition Road Festival taking place in June.

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Chapter 3

13 minutes


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Chapter 3

Underutilised architecture

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Robin Partington joins Andy Jones to discuss two of his climate-minded London tower designs that were never used to their full potential.

13 minutes

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