Future of the American City

20:27

Ashley Simone on Architectural Design

Future of the American City ·

2026/09/24

Ashley Simone is a New York–based editor, writer, and educator whose work explores the intersections of architecture, art, and culture. She is the Editorial Director of Architectural Design Magazine and Axiomatic Editions, where she steers books and journals from concept through production. Simone joins our host, Charles Waldheim, to discuss her role at Architectural Design.

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49:06

Claire Martin and Wendell T. Joseph on Envision...

Future of the American City ·

2026/07/09

Claire Martin, Executive Director, and Wendell T. Joseph, Design Studio Manager, of Envision Resilience join our host, Charles Waldheim, to discuss their work to advance planning and design for climate change through student and community partnerships.

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28:12

Pamela Conrad on Climate Positive Design

Future of the American City ·

2026/05/28

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 Architecture 2030 Senior Fellow. Conrad joins our host, Charles Waldheim, to discuss her research and design firm Climate Positive Design.

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45:18

Alexander Gorlin and Victoria Newhouse on Housing the...

Future of the American City ·

2026/04/16

Alexander Gorlin is the principal and founder of Alexander Gorlin Architects and fellowof the American Institute of Architects. Victoria Newhouse is an architectural historian and founder of the Architectural History Foundation. Gorlin and Newhouse join our host, Charles Waldheim, to discuss “Housing the Nation: Social Equity, Architecture, and the Future of Affordable Housing,” 2024.

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39:16

Jerold S. Kayden on the Master in Real Estate

Future of the American City ·

2026/04/02

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 law, public and private development in cities, public space, urban disasters, and climate change. Kayden joins our host, Charles Waldheim, to discuss his role as the founding director of the new Master in Real Estate Program at the GSD.

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33:04

Gary Hilderbrand and James Nozar on Water Street Tampa

Future of the American City ·

2026/02/26

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 Nozar is a real estate development executive who served as Chief Development Officer at Method Co. and founding CEO of Strategic Property Partners before his current appointment as President of Development at KETTLER. Hilderbrand and Nozar join our host,

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47:49

Ximena Caminos on the Miami Reef Line

Future of the American City ·

2025/10/30

Ximena Caminos is a curator and cultural entrepreneur whose work integrates public art with marine conservation and sustainable urban development. Caminos joins our host, Charles Waldheim, to discuss her vision for the Miami Reef Line.

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24:54

Stephen Goldsmith on Data-Smart City Solutions

Future of the American City ·

2025/09/25

Stephen Goldsmith is the Derek Bok Professor of Urban Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and director of the Bloomberg Center for Cities’ Data-Smart Cities Solutions. His work focuses on improving government-citizen relationships. Goldsmith joins our host, Charles Waldheim, to discuss data analytics and community input.

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41:11

Jha D Amazi on Collective Memory

Future of the American City ·

2025/05/01

Jha D Amazi is a principal at MASS Design Group, a nonprofit organization focusing on social justice and public space. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her work as head of MASS’s Public Memory and Memorials Lab.

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54:40

Mark Lamster on Architecture and the City

Future of the American City ·

2025/04/03

Mark Lamster is an award-winning architecture critic and author. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss Dallas architecture and his role as architecture critic at the Dallas Morning News, his writing on Philip Johnson, and the state of contemporary architectural criticism.

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50:58

Elisa Iturbe on Carbon Form

Future of the American City ·

2025/03/06

Elisa Iturbe is an architectural designer, writer, and educator. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her research on “carbon form,” an urban and architectural paradigm unique to the carbon age.

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37:14

Joel Sanders on Inclusive Design

Future of the American City ·

2025/02/06

Joel Sanders is an architect and educator and the founder of JSA/MIXdesign. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his work in inclusive design.

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41:34

Landscapes of Retreat

Future of the American City ·

2023/12/10

Rosetta Elkin is a landscape architect and author. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her new book Landscapes of Retreat. Future of the American City is a project of the Office for Urbanization at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. It is produced by Charlie Gaillard, Olani Ewunnet, Aziz Barbar, Jeffrey S. Nesbit, and Mercedes … Continued

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50:53

The Architecture of Disability

Future of the American City ·

2023/11/17

Designer, historian, and theorist David Gissen joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book The Architecture of Disability. Future of the American City is a project of the Office for Urbanization at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. It is produced by Charlie Gaillard, Olani Ewunnet, Aziz Barbar, Jeffrey S. Nesbit, and Mercedes Peralta.

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51:45

Manual of Biogenic House Sections

Future of the American City ·

2023/10/27

Architects Paul Lewis and Marc Tsurumaki, principals of the New York-based practice LTL Architects, join Charles Waldheim to discuss their recent book Manual of Biogenic House Sections.

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44:20

New York Review of Architecture

Future of the American City ·

2023/10/06

Author and publisher Nicolas Kemper and architectural historian and critic Phillip Denny join Charles Waldheim to discuss the publication New York Review of Architecture.

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46:37

Jeff Hou

Future of the American City ·

2023/05/12

Jeff Hou is an author, advocate, and educator. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his research on urban resistance and popular protest movements in the public realm.

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53:41

Shannon Mattern

Future of the American City ·

2023/04/27

Shannon Mattern is a media theorist and design anthropologist. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her new book A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences.

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51:50

Ed Wall

Future of the American City ·

2023/04/13

Ed Wall is a landscape architect and urbanist. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book Contesting Public Spaces: Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London.

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48:44

Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara

Future of the American City ·

2023/03/30

Architect Jennifer Bonner and structural engineer Hanif Kara join Charles Waldheim to discuss their new book Blank: Speculations on CLT.

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