Episodes
July 21, 2025
Low Carbon Cities
In this episode of ON CITIES, host Carie Penabad will be speaking with Hèléne Chartier, Director of Urban Planning and Design at C40 Cities, a leading global organization dedicated to sustainable urban development. At the for...
July 21, 2025
Regulating Design: Zoning and the Shaping of Cities
In this episode of ON CITIES, host Carie Penabad speaks with notable lawyer Jeff Bass on the relationship between urban design and its pivotal tool, zoning regulations. The conversation will explore the historical evolution o...
July 21, 2025
Exploring Architecture & Material Culture with Nader Tehrani
In this episode of ON CITIES, host Carie Penabad speaks with acclaimed architect and educator Nader Tehrani. In this illuminating conversation, Tehrani delves into the intricate relationship between material culture and tecto...
July 21, 2025
Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns
Architect and urbanist, John Massengale knows how to fix America’s neighborhoods, cities and towns by making them walkable again. In this next episode of ON CITIES, Massengale will share his insights on how good street design...
July 21, 2025
The Making of Art: Place, Culture & Identity
“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions” stated the great Renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci. Thus, perception and place are integral in the making of art. In this episode of ON CITIES, host Carie Penabad will ...
July 21, 2025
The Underline: Public Space in America
According to the 19th century writer John Ruskin, “The measure of any great civilization is its cities; and the measure of a city’s greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces- its parkland and squares.” In t...
July 21, 2025
Architecture in the Era of Finance Capitalism
In this episode of ON CITIES, host Carie Penabad speaks with educator and architect Matthew Soules on the connection between contemporary architecture and capitalism in the twenty-first century. In his book, Icebergs, Zombies...
July 21, 2025
THE VALUE OF DOWNTOWN
In this next episode of ON CITIES, host Carie Penabad speaks with Joe Minicozzi, Principal of Urban 3, about the keys to creating financially sustainable communities by design. Minicozzi and his team delve into municipal fina...
July 21, 2025
Preserving the Cultural Legacy of Our Built Environment
In this episode of ON CITIES, host Carie Penabad speaks with esteemed architect, preservationist and educator, Jorge Hernandez. With nearly forty years of experience in the field, Hernandez discusses the integral role of arch...
July 21, 2025
Urban Informality & Why it Matters
Today, informal settlements are home to over a billion people (nearly 1/7 of the world population); and that number is projected to triple by 2050. These growing settlements are the result of rapid urbanization and present us...
July 21, 2025
Idea City: How To Make Boston More Livable Equitable & Resilient
Racial strife, increased social and economic discrimination, amplified political friction, and growing uncertainty around the impacts of the pandemic and climate change have increased inequalities within the city of Boston. H...
July 21, 2025
SHAPING RURAL FUTURES
Join us on the next episode of ON CITIES, as we delve into the work of Liminal, a non-profit research and design group dedicated to revitalizing Italy’s rural towns. We will explore how Liminal leverages the rich cultural and...
July 21, 2025
Léon Krier: The Architecture of Community
In this episode of ON CITIES, host Carie Penabad will be speaking with Léon Krier, one of the most provocative architectural and urban thinkers of our time. Krier’s career has been a long-standing critique of the legacy of mo...
July 21, 2025
SINKING CITIES
In this next episode of ON CITIES, host Carie Penabad speaks with Anthony Acciavatti on the complex relationship between water, urban development and environmental sustainability. Acciavatti’s work straddles the realms of lan...
July 21, 2025
Hungry Cities: How Food Shapes our Lives
Acclaimed author, Carolyn Steel joins ON CITIES for a thought-provoking conversation on the relationship between food and cities. The feeding of cities has greater social and physical impact on us and our planet than anything...
July 21, 2025
How Shall We Live?
In this next episode of ON CITIES, host Carie Penabad discusses the evolving concept of domesticity with architect and educator Tatiana Bilbao. Bilbao scrutinizes the traditional norms surrounding our living spaces, reshaping...
July 21, 2025
The City: Between Theory and Practice
In this next episode of ON CITIES, host Carie Penabad will speak with Francisco Javier Rodríguez-Suárez, architect and current director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The convers...
July 21, 2025
Artificial Intelligence and the future design of cities
In this next episode of ON CITIES, host Carie Penabad will speak with Olivia Ramos, the visionary founder and CEO of Deepblocks, an AI-driven real estate platform that is transforming the way we think about the future develop...
July 21, 2025
New Urban Responses to Climate Change
How will our cities respond to the rising threats of climate change? Internationally recognized urban designer and co-founder of the New Urbanism movement, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk discusses the two main categories of climate ...
July 21, 2025
Building Small: The Power of Incremental Urbanism
In this next episode of ON CITIES, host Carie Penabad speaks with Andrew Frey, Director of the City of Miami's Department of Real Estate. As a former developer and zoning lawyer, Andrew brings a wealth of experience to the ta...
July 21, 2025
Filmmaking in service of social transformation
In this episode of ON CITIES, host Carie Penabad will dive into the fascinating world of documentary filmmaker and educator, Sanjeev Chatterjee. Chatterjee’s thought-provoking, cinematic vision strives to unite viewers in an ...
July 21, 2025
Dignity in Design: The Work of MASS DESIGN GROUP
Welcome to ON CITIES, where we explore the ways that the design of the built environment shapes the quality of our lives. Today, we will be speaking with Alan Ricks, the co-founder and chief operating officer of MASS Design G...