

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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Nov 19, 2022 • 56min
345.SWE Barnvänliga stadsdelar! Analys av barnvänlighet, barntäthet och barnandel i Sverige - Karin Lobo Lundgren
Karin Lobo Lundgren (Samhällsplanerare, Spacescape, Stockholm)Vi pratar om rapporten: Barnvänliga stadsdelar! Analys av barnvänlighet, barntäthet och barnandel i SverigeLäs mer om projektet här! Länk till rapporten här!Länk till kortversion (presentationen från seminariet) här.På uppdrag av HSB har Spacescape studerat var och hur barn bor i svenska städer och vad som är och upplevs barnvänligt. Omfattande geografiska analyser har genomförts av hela Sverige. Barntätast stadsdelar återfinns i innerstäder och miljonprogram. Barntätast (0–9 år) i Sverige är Möllevången, Örtagården/Rosengård i Malmö och Olivedal i Göteborg. Stadsdelar med högst andel barn återfinns i nybyggda stadsdelar, småhusområden och miljonprogram. Högst barnandel i Sverige har de nybyggda stadsdelarna Lindbacken i Uppsala, Järvastaden i Solna och Riksten i Botkyrka.En enkätundersökning har genomförts i Stockholmsregionen och med hjälp av regressionsmodell och GIS har alla bostadsområden i Stockholms län klassats i barnvänlighet (0–10). Småhusområden med högst barnvänlighet i Stockholm enligt modellen är Silverdal, Södra Ängby och Höglandet. Flerbostadsområden med högst barnvänlighet är medeltäta förorter i innerstadens krans: Gröndal, Abrahamsberg och Björkhagen. En medelhög täthet på 3–6 våningar där det finns rikligt med friytor, service och begränsad biltrafik är gemensamma nämnare för barnvänliga stadsdelar.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.comFollow Urbanistica on Instagram, Facebook & Youtube channel.Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRYAFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure.Read more about AFRY https://afry.com/en KEEP UP THE GOOD WORKKEEP LOVING CITIES https://plus.acast.com/s/urbanistica.

Nov 13, 2022 • 51min
344. Place Led Development (PLD) - David Brito
David Brito (Freelance Urban Planning Consultant, Barcelona, Spain)In collaboration with Placemaking week Europe in Pontevedra (sep 2022)Read more https://placemaking-europe.eu/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.comFollow Urbanistica on Instagram, Facebook & Youtube channel.Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRYAFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure.Read more about AFRY https://afry.com/en KEEP UP THE GOOD WORKKEEP LOVING CITIES https://plus.acast.com/s/urbanistica.
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Nov 10, 2022 • 39min
343. Placemaking X, what is next? - Ethan Kent
Ethan Kent (Executive Director, PlacemakingX)In collaboration with Placemaking week Europe in Pontevedra. (sep 2022)Read more https://placemaking-europe.eu/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.comFollow Urbanistica on Instagram, Facebook & Youtube channel.Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRYAFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure.Read more about AFRY https://afry.com/en KEEP UP THE GOOD WORKKEEP LOVING CITIES https://plus.acast.com/s/urbanistica.
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Nov 6, 2022 • 1h 51min
342. What it's like moving in a wheelchair in a city? - Rim Alexandra Halfya
Rim Alexandra Halfya (Cofounder & COO at Combify, Stockholm, Sweden)We are talking about:-What are the main elements in the city that make it not accessible for a person on a wheelchair?-What are Rim's main challenges now in the city of Stockholm?-What are Rim's main challenges when you travel abroad?-How does the situation of being in a wheelchair limit her movement? work? social relations and dreams?-How about technology? are there new devices that can help her and make her life easier?Keep Up the Good Work. Keep Loving 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.comFollow Urbanistica on Instagram, Facebook & Youtube channel.Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRYAFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure.Read more about AFRY https://afry.com/en KEEP UP THE GOOD WORKKEEP LOVING CITIES https://plus.acast.com/s/urbanistica.
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Nov 1, 2022 • 34min
341. Toxic discussion about the built environment - Filemon Wolfram
Filemon Wolfram (Urban Designer, Sweco, Helsinki)In collaboration with Placemaking Europe Week in Pontevedra.Read more https://placemaking-europe.eu/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.comFollow Urbanistica on Instagram, Facebook & Youtube channel.Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRYAFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure.Read more about AFRY https://afry.com/en KEEP UP THE GOOD WORKKEEP LOVING CITIES https://plus.acast.com/s/urbanistica.
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Oct 30, 2022 • 36min
340. A political capital of a public space - Peter Smith
Peter Smith (CEO City of Darebin Australia, Chair PlacemakingX)In collaboration with Placemaking week Europe in Pontevedra.Read more https://placemaking-europe.eu/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.comFollow Urbanistica on Instagram, Facebook & Youtube channel.Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRYAFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure.Read more about AFRY https://afry.com/en KEEP UP THE GOOD WORKKEEP LOVING CITIES https://plus.acast.com/s/urbanistica.
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Oct 25, 2022 • 53min
339. Parklet & Shared Spaces Program - Robin Abad Ocubillo
Robin Abad Ocubillo (Director, San Francisco Shared Spaces Program, USA)Robin has been involved for over a decade in civic innovation with public spaces that have transformed not only the physical spaces of the city but our expectations about how streets and sidewalks can serve us. These decades-long experiments, notably the parklet typology, have also prompted us to make sometimes slow, and incremental, but nonetheless radical shifts in governance and policy of the public realm.Robin discusses how places are physical, but also imprinted with socio-psychological histories and memories. He asserts that as Placemakers, we have an opportunity to recentre our work on healing, justice, and reparative work.If public spaces truly do belong to all of us - to all of humanity - and we have a “Right to the City” as Henri Le Febvre famously wrote, Robin believes that we need to start leveraging our practice to break down barriers - be they physical, psychological, regulatory, informal - to access and ownership. If we cast ourselves as practitioners who are trying to bring people together, he says; and create a deeper sense of togetherness and ownership over public spaces, then we need to take seriously that we’ve all inherited customs and structures and expectations formulated in large part by racism, white supremacy, patriarchy and other exclusive, oppressive paradigms.As a placemaker, Robin sees how we also have a responsibility to understand our own individual positinality, identify, and how that colours our approach and philosophy to the work.In collaboration with Placemaking Week Europe in Pontevedra.Read more https://placemaking-europe.eu/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.comFollow Urbanistica on Instagram, Facebook & Youtube channel.Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRYAFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure.Read more about AFRY https://afry.com/en KEEP UP THE GOOD WORKKEEP LOVING CITIES https://plus.acast.com/s/urbanistica.
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Oct 23, 2022 • 1h 31min
338.SWE Framtidens kontor 2.0 - Johanna Munck
Johanna Munck (VD på Strategisk Arkitektur, Stockholm, Sverige)Från min 23 av insplening pratar vi om:- Vad är kontoret nu? är den en mötesplats eller en arbetsplats?- Är det smart att en arbetsgivare bestämmer att alla anställda ska vara på kontoret på X antal dagar? - Hur ska vi göra om våra kontor? vad ska vi tänka på?- Vilka utmaningar har ni när ni jobbar med kontore relaterade uppdrag?- Vad gör vi med extra yta / lediga arbetsplatser som ej anvädens i vår kontor när många jobbar hemifrån? hur kan vi utnyta ytan?- kommer vi till en tid där behöver ej ha ett kontor? dvs att vi jobbar digitalt alla dagar?- Kan du beskriva hur ser framtidens kontor, om 50 år? 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.comFollow Urbanistica on Instagram, Facebook & Youtube channel.Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRYAFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure.Read more about AFRY https://afry.com/en KEEP UP THE GOOD WORKKEEP LOVING CITIES https://plus.acast.com/s/urbanistica.
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Oct 18, 2022 • 48min
337. Public facilities for people - Tiago Mota Saraiva
Tiago Mota Saraiva (architect and urbanist, Lisbon, Portugal)In collaboration with Placemaking Week Europe in Pontevedra.Read more https://placemaking-europe.eu/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.comFollow Urbanistica on Instagram, Facebook & Youtube channel.Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRYAFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure.Read more about AFRY https://afry.com/en KEEP UP THE GOOD WORKKEEP LOVING CITIES https://plus.acast.com/s/urbanistica.
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Oct 16, 2022 • 44min
336. UN-Habitat’s Global Public Space Programme - José Chong
José Chong (Global Public Space Programme Director, Nairobi, Kenya)We are talking about Global Public Space Programmehttps://unhabitat.org/programme/global-public-space-programmeUN-Habitat’s Global Public Space Programme was launched in 2012 with the objective to support local governments in creating and promoting socially inclusive, integrated, connected, environmentally sustainable and safe streets and public spaces, especially for the most vulnerable, promoting a better quality of life for all. The programme has developed an integrated, multi-sectoral and iterative approach to support local governments to create vibrant and inclusive public space networks, long-term urban strategies and national policies, focusing on the most vulnerable groups. Starting from the national and regional scale, the Programme provides technical support and capacity building in public space assessments, policy guides, strategies and design principles, management and maintenance frameworks and using innovative participatory tools. The outcomes of this approach inform city planning frameworks, monitoring of the 2030 New Urban Agenda, SDG 11.7 and thematic aspects such as inequality, prosperity, accessibility, resilience and health.In collaboration with Placemaking Week Europe in Pontevedra.Read more https://placemaking-europe.eu/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.comFollow Urbanistica on Instagram, Facebook & Youtube channel.Thanks to Urbanistica Podcast partner AFRYAFRY is an international engineering and design company providing sustainable solutions in the fields of energy, industry, and infrastructure.Read more about AFRY https://afry.com/en KEEP UP THE GOOD WORKKEEP LOVING CITIES https://plus.acast.com/s/urbanistica.
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