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Future of the American City

Office for Urbanization
Urban Planning
Architecture
Water Street
Public Spaces
Tampa
Landscape Architecture
Climate Change
Sustainable Design
Real Estate Development
Housing
Climate Positive Design
Social Equity
Carbon Form
Environmental Degradation
Urbanization
Artificial Intelligence
Data Analytics
Miami Beach
Real Estate
Inclusive Design

An initiative of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design

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Pamela Conrad is a landscape architect and climate advocate with 20 years of experience improving the social and ecological impacts of the exterior built environment. She is Faculty Lecturer at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Arc... more

Alexander Gorlin is the principal and founder of Alexander Gorlin Architects and fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Victoria Newhouse is an architectural historian and founder of the Architectural History Foundation. Gorlin and Newhouse ... more

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 Graduate School of Design. His teaching and scholarship address issues of land use and environmental... more

Gary Hilderbrand is the founding principal of Reed Hilderbrand LLC, Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. James ... more

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Recent Guests

Pamela Conrad
Landscape architect leading Climate Positive Design initiative
Climate Positive Design / Impact Studio
Episode: Pamela Conrad on Climate Positive Design
Alexander Gorlin
Architect
Architectural practice in New York
Episode: Alexander Gorlin and Victoria Newhouse on Housing the Nation
Victoria Newhouse
Architectural historian
Historian and author
Episode: Alexander Gorlin and Victoria Newhouse on Housing the Nation
Jerold Kayden
Professor of Urban Planning, founding director of the Master in Real Estate at Harvard GSD
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Episode: Jerold S. Kayden on the Master in Real Estate
Ximena Caminos
Curator and cultural entrepreneur
Miami Reef Line
Episode: Ximena Caminos on the Miami Reef Line

Host

Charles Waldheim
Host of the conversation and interviewer focusing on the future of cities through design and planning.

Reviews

4.7 out of 5 stars from 35 ratings
  • Worthwhile

    Insightful dialogue about making our cities and towns more resilient.

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    Canada7 years ago

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Listeners describe the show as insightful and equity-focused.
Conversations offer practical, policy-relevant takeaways for urban development.
Guests consistently bring high-caliber expertise from architecture, planning, and real estate.

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#70
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#62
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Apple Podcasts
#9
Spain/Arts/Design
Apple Podcasts
#32
South Korea/Arts/Design
Apple Podcasts
#37
United Arab Emirates/Arts/Design
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#45
Poland/Arts/Design

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Pamela Conrad on Climate Positive Design
Q: What are the primary drivers of greenhouse gas emissions in these projects, and are there feasible alternatives?
Conrad identifies embodied carbon in concrete and steel as major contributors, discusses alternatives like higher recycled content, supplementary cementitious materials (e.g., LC3), expanded clay aggregates, and sourcing materials locally to reduce emissions while maintaining performance.
Pamela Conrad on Climate Positive Design
Q: So what kinds of projects were you working on before focusing on Climate Positive Design?
Pamela Conrad describes leading adaptation projects in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the San Francisco Waterfront Resilience Program and Treasure Island redevelopment, which combined public engagement with large-scale infrastructure planning and implementation.
Jerold S. Kayden on the Master in Real Estate
Q: How does placing real estate in a design school change the approach to education compared with business or public policy schools?
It centers the real estate field around the built environment as a tangible, design-driven object and integrates multiple disciplines, which better prepares students to shape equitable and sustainable places rather than treating real estate merely as an income stream.
Jerold S. Kayden on the Master in Real Estate
Q: Why did you decide to create a one-year Master in Real Estate within a design school?
Because I was asked by the dean to explore how the Graduate School of Design should engage real estate education, and I saw it as a way to advance an interdisciplinary, design-centered approach to the built environment that goes beyond traditional business-school real estate programs.
Stephen Goldsmith on Data-Smart City Solutions
Q: What examples in the United States are using AI in municipal governance?
Programs using AI to layer data for insights into public health and environmental issues, as well as improving city planning and decision-making.

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What is Future of the American City about and what kind of topics does it cover?

A thoughtful series exploring how design, policy, and finance shape cities. Episodes span affordable housing, real estate education, large-scale urban developments, climate-adaptive architecture, and data-driven governance. Conversations combine on-the-ground practice with design history, offering cross-city comparisons (from New York to Vienna to Tampa) and practical tools for building more equitable, sustainable urban futures. The show often features leaders at the intersection of architecture, planning, and real estate, delivering nuanced debates about public vs. private approaches, regulatory tools, and the role of landscape and public spaces in urban strategy. A standout thread is how interdisciplinary collaboration—across design schoo... more

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