

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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Mar 3, 2023 • 1h 47min
368. AR. الفن و المدينة
Bashar Shamil Alkhafaji, PhD, A graphic designer and visual artist, his 14 years of education at the University of Technology - Iraq for design and graphic arts teaching in the great departments and a lovely teaching staff that he had felt with, as well as 23 years of professional experience as a VISUAL ARTIST AND Designer, he aspires to make the environment and humanity in the heart of design and architecture, the most impressive in his academic life to get a chance for teaching in 4 universities and proud of his graduate students were successfully joining in Labor economics relevant achievements and extend his business from the local market to the global market. His interests are in environmental Arts and design, Graphic arts & Interior Design as a researcher and as well as a designer in those fields.
في هذه الحلقة نتحدث عن
- ما هي الحقبة او السنة التي بدئت مدن العصر الحديث بالظهور؟
- من الذي ساهم بظهور المدن او تحولها الى حديثة و تقنية؟
- مالي يميز هذه المدن؟ ما هي المعالم التي تمييز هذه المدن عن غيرها؟
- مثال على المدن العصر الحديث؟ و تشرح لنا لماذا؟
- كيف أثرت على الحركة الفنية مثل الفوتوغراف و الرسم و النحت؟
- ما هي سلبيتا هذه المدن؟
- ما هي تحديات التي تواجهها هذه المدن و بالأاخص بغداد؟
- اي من المدن في العراق تعتبر من المدن العصر الحديث؟ لماذا؟
- ما هي الخطوة التالي لهذه المدن؟ مذا سوف نشهد بعد هذه المرحلة؟ هل سوف تظهر لنا مدن مستقبلية اكثر تطورا؟
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 26, 2023 • 21min
367. [Short] Leave no one behind in making cities, Gapminder and fighting global misconceptions - Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Anna Rosling Rönnlund (Co-founder of Gapminder Foundation. UX-visionary. Co-writer of bestseller Factfulness. Public speaker, Stockholm, Sweden)
Gapminder is an independent educational non-profit fighting global misconceptions.
I am asking Anna the following questions:
- What should urban planners stop doing when they plan cities? why?
- What skills should urban planners learn? why?
https://www.gapminder.org/resources/
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.

Feb 26, 2023 • 2h 20min
366. Gapminder and global misconceptions fight - Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Anna Rosling Rönnlund (Co-founder of Gapminder Foundation. UX-visionary. Co-writer of bestseller Factfulness. Public speaker, Stockholm, Sweden)
Gapminder is an independent educational non-profit fighting global misconceptions.
I am asking Anna the following questions:
Gapminder
-Who is the founder?
-What is the mission of Gampminder?
-How big was the team then and how big the team is now?
-who is on the team? Climate experts, Data engineers, or different professions?
-What is Gapminder's mission now?
Misconceptions
-Can you share with us how you change people's view of the world? (tell us more about the world viewer upgrader)
-How do you gather data?
-Can you share with us some facts about what people think of the world?
-Are there specific topics that people have a really big misconception about? maybe like climate? food? etc.
-But why are we like this? how did we people get all this misconception?
-So who is the smartest human or a monkey?
Here you can find all the resources that Anna mentioned during her talk
https://www.gapminder.org/resources/
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.

Feb 19, 2023 • 2h 9min
365. Architecture and architects in Sweden - JP Pereira
JP Pereira (Office director Tengbom Linköping, Sweden)
We are talking about:
Bergs locks visitor center project
-Background, aim, design, the team behind the project etc.
-How was the World Architecture Festival?
-what were the key elements in the team to success in this project?
Architecture in Sweden
- How architecture works in Sweden?
- Who is running the market?
- What is the role of the architect in Sweden? they as having less impact on the building process. is that good? why?
- Is it easy to get a job here within the architecture profession if you are from outside of Sweden?
- How can we elevate the level of quality of architecture in Sweden?
- JP is sharing how was his career and the challenges he faced.
Berg slussar project:
https://tengbom.se/projekt/bergs-slussar-besokscentrum/
https://www.designboom.com/architecture/tengbom-architects-bergs-locks-visitor-center-sweden-06-28-2022/
Porto Academy visiting Sweden:
https://www.portoacademy.info/event.php?event_id=45
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.

Feb 14, 2023 • 1h 41min
364.SWE Kontor och handel - Malin Maria Andersson
Malin Maria Andersson (Kundansvarig Projektuthyrare, NCC Property Development)
Vi pratar om:
Kontor och handel
Vilka önskemål får ni från hyresgästerna?
Vad ser ni som händer på marknaden? Post COVID19
Vilka utmaningar har NCC när ni vill jobba med blandstaden?
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.

Feb 12, 2023 • 46min
363. Reflections from Placemaking week in Pontevedra - Päivi Raivio & Jan Kattein
Päivi Raivio (Urban designer, placemaker, artist, Founder of Parkly urban modules & RaivioBumann design studio, Leader in Placemaking Europe Network) and Jan Kattein (Director at Jan Kattein Architects, London, England, United Kingdom)
In collaboration with Placemaking EU week in Pontevedra 2022. Read more here.
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.

Feb 6, 2023 • 29min
362. Inclusion in a digital world - Sandra Perez & Gyula Torzsok
Sandra Perez & Gyula Torzsok from Inner Circle Consulting.
This episode is from Placemaking Week in Pontevedra 2022.
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.

Feb 5, 2023 • 48min
361. Preparing cities for a next pandemic - Niklas Arnberg
Niklas Arnberg (Professor of virology Umeå University, and co-founder of the Swedish virus and pandemic fund)
We are talking about:
-What are the key learnings from the pandemic?
-When can we expect the next pandemic, and what can be expected?
-What can we do to mitigate or prevent future outbreaks and pandemics?
-Health care suffer not only from the coronavirus, there are also other viruses that cause public health issues and are a burden to healthcare, and society at large. How big are these problems?
-What can be done/what is going on to counteract and mitigate?
-What can we as working with city development do?
-What skills should we learn to deal with the coming pandemics?
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 24, 2023 • 1h 9min
360.SWE JämtJämlikt Certifieringssystem för jämlika offentliga miljöer - Vesna Vasiljkovic
Vesna Vasiljkovic, Planchef, Malmö stad
Vi pratar om: JämtJämlikt - Certifieringssystem för jämlika offentliga miljöer
-Vad är syftet med jämntjämlik? vad ville ni åstadkomma?
-Hur tog projektgruppen fram verktyget?
-Har de testat den i verklighetey?
-Vad var utmaningar som de hade?
-Vad är viktigt att göra när man skriver en ansökan till Vinnova?
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 on:
- Mustafa Sherif Linkedin
- 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 22, 2023 • 26min
359. Placemaking GamingX and resilient cities & communities - Nourhan Bassam
Nourhan Bassam (Ph.D. researcher in the scope of Resilient Just Cities & Communities, GamingX founder, Feminist Urbanist, Milan & Cairo).
In collaboration with Placemaking EU in Pontevedra 2022.
Nourhan is a city enthusiast, a feminist Urbanist, and a community lover, who wants to activate communities and build inclusive sustainable cities for people, She is advocating for Placemaking and Playmaking ideas to activate the role of communities to shape their lives.
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 on:
-Mustafa Sherif Linkedin
-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.