

Urbanistica Podcast - Cities for People
Mustafa Sherif
A podcast about how we plan and design cities for people. Tune in and join listeners from over 145 countries.
I'm Mustafa Sherif, an Urbanist, Placemaker and studio manager based in Sweden. In this podcast, I interview people working in architecture, Palcemaking, urban planning and design about their projects, processes, methods, handbooks, challenges, leadership, and passions in life.
It’s not just about projects, it’s about the people behind projects.
In collaboration with AFRY (Urban Planning and Design section in Stockholm).
I'm Mustafa Sherif, an Urbanist, Placemaker and studio manager based in Sweden. In this podcast, I interview people working in architecture, Palcemaking, urban planning and design about their projects, processes, methods, handbooks, challenges, leadership, and passions in life.
It’s not just about projects, it’s about the people behind projects.
In collaboration with AFRY (Urban Planning and Design section in Stockholm).
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Feb 11, 2024 • 1h 47min
425.SWE Theory Into Practice - Anna Sundman
Anna Sundman (Partner, VD, Arkitekt SAR/MSA, på Theory Into Practice AB)
Vi pratar om:
- Theory Into Practice
- Vad är affärsmodellen?
- Vidga arkitektensroll, till vad?
- Vad är innovation inom arkitektur?
- Vad är kopplingen till Svenska Arkitekturinstitutet?
- Vad ska arkitekter sluta göra? varför?
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Keep Up the Good Work. Keep Loving Cities ❤️️
All opinions expressed in each episode are personal to the guest and do not represent the Host of Urbanistica Podcast unless otherwise stated.
Let's connect and talk further about this episode Mustafa Sherif Linkedin.
Visit Mustafasherif.com for collaborations and nominations or email me at info@mustafasherif.com
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Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRY (Urban Planning and Design)
AFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure.

Feb 4, 2024 • 1h 26min
424. Smart in the City - Tamlyn Shimizu
Tamlyn Shimizu (Global Partnerships & Communications Lead at BABLE Smart Cities, Germany).
We are talking about:
-Smart City and the podcast
-What is a smart city?
-Based on Tamlyn and what she hears from her guests: what should urban planners stop doing when they plan smart cities? why?
-What skills should urban planners learn? why?
Everyone is invited to explore the BABLE Use Case database and join the community here.
Join BABLE Academy here.
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Keep Up the Good Work. Keep Loving Cities ❤️️
All opinions expressed in each episode are personal to the guest and do not represent the Host of Urbanistica Podcast unless otherwise stated.
Let's connect and talk further about this episode Mustafa Sherif Linkedin.
Visit Mustafasherif.com for collaborations and nominations or email me at info@mustafasherif.com
Follow Urbanistica on Instagram, Facebook & Youtube channel.
Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRY (Urban Planning and Design)
AFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure.

Jan 28, 2024 • 2h 28min
423.SWE Arkitektens roll, resan från Neapel till Stockholm - Alessandro M. Lucca
Alessandro M. Lucca (Arkitekt och Partner, Brunnberg & Forshed Arkitektkontor AB)
Vi pratar om:
- Vilka kompetens behöver arkitekter idag för att möta dagens utmaningar?
-Hur skiljer det sig mellan att jobba som arkitekt i Italien och i Sverige?
- Vad kan arkitekter i Sverige lära sig från arkitekter i Italien?
- Vad är Sandros filosofi om arkitektur och stadsutveckling? hur skapas en levande stad?
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Keep Up the Good Work. Keep Loving Cities ❤️️
All opinions expressed in each episode are personal to the guest and do not represent the Host of Urbanistica Podcast unless otherwise stated.
Let's connect and talk further about this episode Mustafa Sherif Linkedin.
Visit Mustafasherif.com for collaborations and nominations or email me at info@mustafasherif.com
Follow Urbanistica on Instagram, Facebook & Youtube channel.
Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRY (Urban Planning and Design)
AFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure.

Jan 21, 2024 • 40min
422. How a difficult childhood developed a passion for cities - Mustafa Sherif
After many requests from listeners, I am sharing some parts of my story. In this episode you will hear about me, my childhood, and how I was moving from one city to another because of war. Moreover, how did this develop a passion in me for making cities for people?
This is the first episode of the new season (4th) of the Urbanistica podcast. Keep Up the Good Work. Keep Loving Cities ❤️️
You can also listen to the episode 99. EN. Dream City - Mustafa Sherif. There I talk about my top favorite cities.
Let's connect and talk further about this episode Mustafa Sherif Linkedin.
Visit Mustafasherif.com for collaborations and nominations or email me at info@mustafasherif.com
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Dec 24, 2023 • 43min
421. Toyota Woven City - Giulia Frittoli
Giulia Frittoli (Partner and Landscape Architect at BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group)
We are talking about Toyota Woven City. Read more about the project here.
Together with Toyota Motor Corporation, BIG unveils Toyota Woven City as the world’s first urban incubator dedicated to the advancement of all aspects of mobility at the foothills of Mt. Fuji in Japan. Envisioned as a living laboratory to test and advance mobility, autonomy, connectivity, hydrogen-powered infrastructure and industry collaboration, Toyota Woven City aims to bring people and communities together in a future enabled by technology yet grounded in history and nature. Located at a 175-acre former factory site in the city of Susono in Shizuoka, Toyota Woven City creates a new equality among vehicles, alternate forms of movement, people and nature, streamlined by the promise of a connected, clean and shared mobility. The city will utilize solar energy, geothermal energy, and hydrogen fuel cell technology to strive towards a carbon neutral society, with plans to break ground in phases beginning in 2021.
The three street types are woven into 3×3 city blocks, each framing a courtyard accessible only via the promenade or linear park. The urban fabric of the woven grid expands and contracts to accommodate a variety of scales, programs and outdoor areas. In one instance, a courtyard balloons to the scale of a large plaza, and in another, to become a central park providing a city-wide amenity. Hidden from view in an underground network lies the infrastructure of the city, including hydrogen power, stormwater filtration and a goods delivery network dubbed the ‘matternet’.
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Keep Up the Good Work. Keep Loving Cities ❤️️
All opinions expressed in each episode are personal to the guest and do not represent the Host of Urbanistica Podcast unless otherwise stated.
Let's connect and talk further about this episode Mustafa Sherif Linkedin.
Visit Mustafasherif.com for collaborations and nominations or email me at info@mustafasherif.com
Follow Urbanistica on Instagram, Facebook & Youtube channel.
Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRY (Urban Planning and Design)
AFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure

Dec 18, 2023 • 1h 50min
420. Solar power and renewable energy - Glenn Karlsson
Glenn Karlsson (Market Area Manager Civil at AFRY, Inspirational Indoor Cycling Instructor, Environmentalist).
We are talking about:
-What is renewable energy? How do we produce it?
- How does solar power work?- The latest and the largest solar power park with AFRY.- How can cities start scaling up their work with solar parks? - What should cities stop doing when working with renewable energy?- What skills should we engineers learn within the renewable energy area?
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Keep Up the Good Work. Keep Loving Cities ❤️️
All opinions expressed in each episode are personal to the guest and do not represent the Host of Urbanistica Podcast unless otherwise stated.
Let's connect and talk further about this episode Mustafa Sherif Linkedin.
Visit Mustafasherif.com for collaborations and nominations or email me at info@mustafasherif.com
Follow Urbanistica on Instagram, Facebook & Youtube channel.
Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRY (Urban Planning and Design)
AFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure.

Dec 10, 2023 • 49min
419. Changing car ownership in cities - Mathias Holst
Mathias Holst (Chief Financial Officer på Lynk & Co International)
Lynk & Co is the mobility company that aims to challenge outdated norms of car ownership and transform the way we use and own our cars. The company was formed to provide flexible and sustainable mobility solutions to a connected generation. Lynk & Co manufactures high-quality cars and allows its members to use them in entirely new ways. Whether one wants to subscribe, borrow, or lease a car, with Lynk & Co’s flexible solutions – they can be on the road in no time. Recently, the brand also launched its updated car-sharing service, with the idea that cars can and should be used more efficiently without adding new vehicles to already congested urban spaces.
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Keep Up the Good Work. Keep Loving Cities ❤️️
All opinions expressed in each episode are personal to the guest and do not represent the Host of Urbanistica Podcast unless otherwise stated.
Let's connect and talk further about this episode Mustafa Sherif Linkedin.
Visit Mustafasherif.com for collaborations and nominations or email me at info@mustafasherif.com
Follow Urbanistica on Instagram, Facebook & Youtube channel.
Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRY (Urban Planning and Design)
AFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure.

Dec 3, 2023 • 1h 18min
418. A bike design philosophy - Fredrik Palmblad and Marijn Molenaar
Fredrik Palmblad (Creative Lead at AFRY Experience Studios)
and Marijn Molenaar (Design Project lead, AFRY).
We are talking about:
- The design process of a bike?
- 100 years doing the same thing, what is beyond a traditional bike?
- How can we use a bike more than just a way to transport ourselves, can we have e.g. accessories, app integration, etc?
- How can we integrate people into a design process? and use their input actively in the design?
- How much have digitalization and (digital tools) changed the way a designer works? like a design process.
Useful links:
- The family e-bike that meets the needs of urban living and sustainable mobility
-How do cars fit in the sustainable city of the future?
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Keep Up the Good Work. Keep Loving Cities ❤️️
All opinions expressed in each episode are personal to the guest and do not represent the Host of Urbanistica Podcast unless otherwise stated.
Let's connect and talk further about this episode Mustafa Sherif Linkedin.
Visit Mustafasherif.com for collaborations and nominations or email me at info@mustafasherif.com
Follow Urbanistica on Instagram, Facebook & Youtube channel.
Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRY (Urban Planning and Design)
AFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure.

Nov 26, 2023 • 1h 4min
417. Women Reclaiming the City book
Women Reclaiming the City, International Research on Urbanism, Architecture, and Planning, Edited by Tigran Haas.
We are talking with:
- Professor Loretta Lees (FAcSS, MAE), Director of the Initiative on Cities, Boston University Initiative on Cities.
- Setha Low, Distinguished Professor of environmental psychology, anthropology, geography, and women’s studies and director of the public space research group at the graduate center of CUNY.
- Karen A. Franck, Professor Emerita, Hillier College of Architecture and Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
- Dr. Tigran Haas, Associate Professor, Lab Director, the Editor of this book.
Order the book from Amazon.
About the Book:
The originality of Women Reclaiming the City lies not only in the variety of themes being presented, but also in the variety of all these different highly respected women researchers. This book is the first in which current societal themes revolving around urbanism, architecture, and city planning are put forth solely through female perspectives. It reveals the importance of having female lenses on certain societal debates. Twenty-five leading female urban scholars draw on principles, concepts, and positions that are foundational to other frameworks and fields specifically, critical studies, indigenous and ethnic studies, postcolonial theory, queer theory, feminist theory, progressive urban theory, social ecology, urban planning and design, architecture, urban economics and urban social geography, landscape urbanism, new urbanism, heritage management and urbanism, political ecology, and cultural studies— to present alternatives to the current classical theories and conceptualizations that have failed to engage a truly intersectional analysis of dominant city and urban discourses, policies, and practices. The book is intended for scholars of urban and regional studies, policy makers, and city planning professionals and advocates.
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Keep Up the Good Work. Keep Loving Cities ❤️️
All opinions expressed in each episode are personal to the guest and do not represent the Host of Urbanistica Podcast unless otherwise stated.
Let's connect and talk further about this episode Mustafa Sherif Linkedin.
Visit Mustafasherif.com for collaborations and nominations or email me at info@mustafasherif.com
Follow Urbanistica on Instagram, Facebook & Youtube channel.
Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRY (Urban Planning and Design)
AFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure.

Nov 19, 2023 • 1h 20min
416. Storytelling and Urban Design - Patrick Verhoeven
Patrick Verhoeven, Partner at MANDAWORKS, Stockholm, discusses the significance of storytelling in urban design, exploring the DNA of projects, and the importance of curiosity, experimentation, and visualization. They also talk about the challenges of working on international projects and the benefits of pushing out of the comfort zone.