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The Super Urban Podcast

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SUP – The Super Urban Podcast is a conversation about cities and how they’re designed; how we imagine them and how we could re-imagine them. Cities are the most complex things ever constructed and they are also our everyday, barely noticed environment. We’re here for a talk about cities from as many perspectives as possible. Each episode will focus on a specific theme, blending diverse viewpoints and engaging with broader contexts like history, economics, politics, and current social issues. The

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01:00:37

Australian Cities: Adelaide with Ian McDougall

The Super Urban Podcast ·

2025/10/30

In this episode of the Super Urban Podcast, we focus on Adelaide. A city of clarity. Streets framed by gardens. Squares laid out with foresight. A river threading quietly through civic life. Unlike other Australian settlements born from convicts or ports, Adelaide was conceived as a civic experiment — a city designed to reflect ideals, not just occupation. Colonel William Light imagined a place that was orderly, hygienic, and morally structured, yet flexible enough to grow with its people. Families

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00:56:44

Australian Cities: Gadigal Country/Sydney with...

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2025/10/03

In this episode of the Super Urban Podcast, we focus on Sydney— the metropolis on the edge of the Pacific. When we mention Sydney, we can’t escape the picturesque: the glint of the harbour, or of the coast, Potts Point, Surry hills or Elizabeth Bay - Utzon’s spellbinding Opera House crowning the foreshore like a sculpture of civic ambition, or harry Seidler’s – Australia square and MLC centre. And now even Barangaroo. But beneath this lineage is perhaps a city of stark contradictions—dense yet

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01:01:30

International Cities: Hong Kong with Betty Ng

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2025/08/08

Hong Kong is a city drawn in section—stacked, stepped, suspended. A culture of building that has learned to fold terrain and threshold into one continuous surface. Architecture here is not a discrete object but a system of adjacencies—markets pressed beneath housing blocks, temples nested into retaining walls, gardens hovering above malls. It is a vertical choreography, where the street has been lifted, buried, replicated, and rerouted. Its history plays out as a sequence of layers, traces, and

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00:50:15

International Cities: Saigon/Ho Chi Minh with Tu...

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2025/07/17

Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City is a metropolis of intense fascination for many of us. A city of close to 10 million which has experienced explosive growth in the 21st century after coming out of a turbulent 20th century. It was under French colonial occupation as Indo China until 1954 and of course reunited with North Vietnam in 1975, when it was almost instantly renamed Ho Chio Minh city. It is now a city with a famously intense street life, incredibly fine grained density and is an increasingly

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00:57:04

Australian Cities: Naarm/Melbourne with Gary Presland

The Super Urban Podcast ·

2025/07/09

As we walk around built-up cities of today, it’s easy to forget that nature laid the groundwork long before the first brick was laid. Ancient volcanic eruptions shaped the land and waterways we now build around. These deep-time forces still influence where we place our cities—and how they grow. And as cities grow, natural environments become increasingly altered, sometimes beyond recognition, but nature continues to exert a powerful influence on the shape and size of cities. In an era of climate

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01:04:29

Planet City: Liam Young

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2025/07/03

We’re living through a polycrisis - a moment where cascading ecological, technological, social, political and economic pressures are reshaping the world in the latency of the present. Complexity is not an anomaly of our time but its default setting. The challenge is not merely to decode it, but to engage with its temporalities, influence its exchanges, and anticipate reactions before they spiral beyond control. The future is not a thing you stumble into - but rather a continuous act. It is the

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00:52:46

Australian Cities: Perth with Emma Jackson

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2025/06/23

Perth, the capital of Western Australia sites as the most geographically isolated capital city on earth, and sits on the time zone of two thirds of the worlds population. It one of the largest and least dense metropolises. Its bigger and smaller than it seems. Emma Jackson, our guest today is an architect and now tapestry designer. We studies together in Western Australia, and she has been our colleague at RMIT, where she carried out a series of projects under the title of the Strange- exploring the

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00:51:26

Indy Johar (S02-EP01)

The Super Urban Podcast ·

2025/06/04

Ask a physicist, and they’ll tell you that the universe is mostly made of something we cannot see. Ordinary matter—everything tangible, measurable, visible—makes up less than 5% of reality. The rest is dark matter—an unseen force shaping galaxies, bending space, governing what is possible. But what about the urban and architectural consciousness? What unseen forces—economic, legal, institutional—shape the city before a single form emerges? If we begin to make these forces visible, architecture

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00:54:10

Cities as Multiples (S01-EP06)

The Super Urban Podcast ·

2025/05/20

In this episode, we explore the idea of Cities as Multiples, a concept that challenges the traditional view of cities as singular, static entities. Instead, we’ll be discussing how cities are intricate, layered, and dynamic spaces, shaped by a multitude of influences—historical, cultural, architectural, and social. From the blending of ancient and modern design principles to the creation of diverse urban experiences that reflect the multiplicity of human life, cities are more than just physical

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00:54:55

Cities as Fragmented and Divided (S01-EP05)

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2025/05/15

Conrad Hamann’s discussion of divided and fragmented cities describes stressed and dystopic places- urban environments that have become irreconcilable through ideologies, difference of religion, or of ethnicity. That discussion is highly charged with terms like ghetto, apartheid or redlining. It is an urban image drawn with walls and barbed wire fences but also with invisible virtual or administrative borders. Names like Berlin, Belfast, Soweto, Harlem, Jim Crow or Gaza all invoke powerful images of

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00:55:25

Cities as Arenas of Social Change (S01-EP04)

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2025/05/08

The fourth episode Cities as Arenas for Social Change will explore the connection between urban design, social transformation, and political ideologies, drawing from historical examples to understand how cities have been reshaped to reflect and influence the societies that inhabit them. Cities and built environments aren’t just backdrops for daily life; they’re battlegrounds for ideas, power, and progress. For social transformation, from utopian experiments to authoritarian spectacles, from radical

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00:53:05

Cities as Theatre (S01-EP03)

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2025/05/05

Cities are theatres. In this third episode we think of cities as the setting or backdrop to drama and events – ideas connected to Berthold Brecht’s development of Epic Theatre in the 1920’s or of Henri Lefebvre’s focus on everyday urban life . Designers of cities have been consciously creating the elements of theatrical urban life through history. Edmond and Corrigan explicitly worked with this theatrical reading of architecture and urbanism, and understood the relationship between architecture and

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00:54:56

Cities as Industry (S01-EP02)

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2025/04/13

SUP – The Super Urban Podcast – is hosted by Ian Nazareth, Graham Crist and Christine Phillips. In this second episode of the Super Urban Podcast, we dissect another fundamental layer of urban development: Cities as Industry. If cities were once defined by ideological and religious order, industrial modernity reconfigured them into factories of progress and production, landscapes of extraction and acceleration. Industry was not merely an economic function; it was a defining urban idea, and a

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00:54:49

Cities as Order (S01-EP01)

The Super Urban Podcast ·

2025/03/18

SUP – The Super Urban Podcast – is hosted by Ian Nazareth, Graham Crist and Christine Phillips.In this episode Cities as Order, we speak to Conrad Hamann as we discuss contemporary perspectives on the emulated city, questioning its role as a symbol of order and an instrument of control.Conrad Hamann explores the impulse to emulate cities as a means of establishing order, authority, stability, and clarity. The enduring presence of Rome and Athens in urban design serves as a prime example, but we also

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00:02:33

The Super Urban Podcast Series Introduction - Urban...

The Super Urban Podcast ·

2025/03/18

Welcome to SUP – The Super Urban Podcast – a discussion on cities from RMIT Architecture & Urban Design, in Narrm, Melbourne, Australia. Hosted by Ian Nazareth, Graham Crist and Christine Phillips.This podcast is made possible by the generous support of the Alastair Swayn Foundation and the RMIT University School of Architecture and Urban Design.Our first series, Urban Emulation, builds on a remarkable six-part urban history series delivered at RMIT University by Conrad Hamann, a legendary

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00:02:41

The Super Urban Podcast: Introduction

The Super Urban Podcast ·

2025/03/18

Welcome to SUP – The Super Urban Podcast – a discussion on cities from RMIT Architecture & Urban Design, in Narrm, Melbourne, Australia. Hosted by Ian Nazareth, Graham Crist and Christine Phillips.We would firstly like to acknowledge the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups on whose unceded Country we are recording this podcast and extend that acknowledgment to all First Peoples ofAustralia who have been caring for the many layers of Country for over 60,000 years. This

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