City Makers
First-hand stories of cities in moments of radical transformation, told through the lens of the people who are shaping our cities today. Hosts, Matt Quinn, Anna Nicholls and Lucie Murray ask, 'What can we learn from these moments in our past that will help inform the way we think about the future?'
Episodes
7 episodes
Kabul, Cassiano Sala
Cassiano Sala is a partner at creative studio Squint Opera where he has directed and produced a wide range of large-scale film and digital projects for architects, masterplanners and other key stakeholders shaping cities. Cass shares his story ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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56:16
City of London, Michael Cassidy
In this episode, co-host Anna Nicholls interviews Michael Cassidy CBE - the lawyer, city politician and acclaimed London city maker whose career has had a profound effect on the shape of the City of London and its dominance in financial service...
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Episode 5
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52:23
Santiago, Manuel Toledo-Otaegui
Manuel Toledo-Otaegui is an industrial and public space designer and co-founder of the Architecture Film Festival in London and Santiago, Chile. He grew up in Santiago toward the end of the 17-year military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet - a ...
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Episode 4
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46:24
Zagreb, Rosa Rogina
Rosa Rogina is director of the London Festival of Architecture and teaches architecture at the University of East London. She grew up in Zagreb, Croatia during the Croatian War of Independence (1991 - 1995). With 20,000 lives lost and many more...
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Episode 3
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43:45
Belfast, Lara Kinneir
Lara Kinneir is an architect and urban strategist who grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland toward the end of a 30-year period of conflict known as The Troubles. This was a time when car bombings, sniper attacks and violence in the streets were ...
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Episode 2
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39:20