Deano Roberts is the Senior Director of Global Workplace and Real Estate for Slack. In this conversation, Ian and Deano talk about the building of better workspaces, why your best work is done in eight hours, and the value of learning to work w

Interview: Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake

Dec 20th, 2018 44m 59s

Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake are co-founders of the award-winning architecture firm KieranTimberlake. They are also co-authors of the book Refabricating Architecture. In this interview, Stephen and James told us how prefabricated archite

Interview: Craig Curtis

Dec 13th, 2018 39m 38s

Craig Curtis is the head of architecture at the construction start-up, Katerra. He has an extensive background in innovative architecture. Craig talked to us about the housing crisis, bringing down the cost of construction, and sustainability i

Interview: Clark Manus

Dec 11th, 2018 45m 44s

Clark Manus is the CEO of Heller Manus. In this interview, Clark shares how to plan and design cities when new variables continue to be added. He also shares how building materials are impacting city planning To learn more about The Future of C

Interview: Marty Kooistra

Dec 6th, 2018 31m 39s

Marty Kooistra is the executive director of The Housing Consortium for Seattle and King County. In this interview, Marty explains why we need to build 96,000 more houses per day, and how we can build more affordably. To learn more about The Fut

Interview: Grant Geiger

Dec 5th, 2018 36m 35s

Will your future hospital stays be more like staying at a luxury hotel? That is something we heard from Grant Geiger. Grant is the founder and CEO of EIR Healthcare, a startup that brings modular construction techniques to healthcare facilities

Interview: Zach Scheel

Nov 29th, 2018 30m 38s

On this episode of The Future of Cities, Ian is joined by Zach Scheel. Zach is the CEO of Rhumbix, a data-driven construction technology startup. Zach discussed why buildings cost so much, and how companies like Rhumbix are aiming to lower thos

Interview: Laura Tam

Nov 27th, 2018 53m 30s

Laura Tam is a policy director at SPUR, an organization which focuses on planning and urban research in the San Francisco Bay Area. Laura leads SPUR's policy work on water, energy, climate change, and resilience. Laura talked about what it mea

Interview: Ryan Popple

Nov 15th, 2018 56m 55s

Ryan Popple is the President and CEO of Proterra, a startup that designs and produces electric buses. Ryan worked at Tesla in the early days and was a partner at Kleiner Perkins where he led clean tech investments in mobility and transportation

Interview: Trevor Schick

Nov 8th, 2018 49m 16s

Trevor Schick is the President of Katerra Materials. In this episode, Trevor talks with our host, Ian, about sustainability in building, how to incentivize change in stagnant businesses, and why you need to be optimizing your materials. To lea

Making Progress Last

Nov 2nd, 2018 22m 34s

Over the past ten episodes, we have heard about technologies, innovations, and ideas that will make cities smarter, happier and more productive places than ever before. So how do we make sure it lasts? In this episode, we explore how cities can

How Cities Get Smarter

Nov 1st, 2018 21m 13s

Technology is changing at a faster pace than ever before. So how do cities keep up? In this episode we explore how cities can use technological innovation to provide better services for their citizens, and how some cities are already doing so.

Planning A City Ten Times Bigger Than New York

Oct 31st, 2018 19m 59s

Fifty years ago, Lagos, Nigeria was little more than a village. Today, it is one of the five most populous cities in the world, and it is still growing. Accelerated urbanization is creating a situation where megacities like Lagos arise before f

Leaving The Suburbs

Oct 30th, 2018 18m 25s

Currently, more than 50% of the United States population lives in suburbs. So what role will they play in the future of cities? In this episode, we explore how the suburbs arose, what it has meant for our cities, and how they might change as ci

The World's Last Traffic Jam

Oct 29th, 2018 24m 31s

Traffic creates pollution, makes us miserable, and even harms our health. And yet most of us accept it as a part of daily life? In this episode, we explore how transportation will change in the future of cities, and what it might mean for the f

Where Will We Work In 100 Years?

Oct 15th, 2018 21m 8s

In the last 100 years, we have gone from the farm to the factory line to the cubicle to the open office plan. What is next? (2:19) Why workplace design needs to follow from human needs (3:10) Why workplaces should be beautiful (5:35) The proble

How to Build Rome in a Day

Oct 15th, 2018 21m

Over the past few hundred years, technology has improved at an unprecedented rate. During the same time, construction processes have largely remained the same. Now, that might finally be changing. (1:34) What is prefabrication and why is it so

Why Do Buildings Cost So Much?

Oct 15th, 2018 18m 56s

Nearly 90 years ago, the Empire State Building was completed ahead of time and under budget. Now, the average large construction project is 20 months behind schedule and 80% over budget. What happened? (2:09) How complexity contributes to cost

Where Do You Put 3 Million People Every Week?

Oct 15th, 2018 23m 7s

There is an unprecedented global housing crisis. How is it affecting our cities? And more importantly, how do we solve it? (2:23) Measuring the scale of the problem (4:45) How the housing crisis affects smaller cities (6:50) How transportation,

What Makes A City Great?

Oct 15th, 2018 17m 22s

We speak with experts from technology, construction, urban planning and more to find the answer to one simple question: What makes a city great? Answers from: (2:35) Deano Roberts (Slack) (3:55) Grant Geiger (EIR Healthcare) (4:31) Craig Curti

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About The Future of Cities

Oct 15th, 2018 1m 12s

Welcome to The Future of Cities, a new podcast from The Mission. In Season 1, we deep dive into topics and technology that are vital to creating a better world. We will share stories from history and look to science fiction for clues of what li

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