Episode Archive

• Housing Expropriation Referendum in Berlin: How it was won and what comes next?

  On the 26th of September over million Berliners voted to expropriate and return to public ownership over 200,000 homes in the city. Deutsche Wohnen und Co Enteignen targeted a number of large re...

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• Urban Political Special: RC21 Conference Antwerp

  In this episode we give you exclusive insights into the RC21 conference 2021 Antwerp. Our guests share their experiences from sessions, keynotes, and discussions on this year's main theme of 'Se...

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• Housing Commons & Collectives: European & US Perspectives

  After discussing expropriation efforts in Berlin recently, this episode will widen the discussion of housing commons to perspectives, differences, and potentials in Europe and the US.

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• Decolonize/Decenter: Planning in the South

  ‘How can academic research be of service to envisioning alternative planning agendas that reflect the realities of the so-called Global South?’ is the central question that our guest host Inhji ...

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• Green Cities and Contemporary Climate Planning: Politics and Practices

  Green cities and green infrastructure have become common planning practices. But why is nature good and how does green matter? Do all people have equal access to nature, or are some left out of ...

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• Housing struggles in Berlin: Part II Grassroots Expropriation Activism

  After Andrej Holm delved into the history of 'Mietendeckel', the rent cap legislation in Berlin, in the previous episode on contemporary housing struggles in Berlin, in this episode Joanna Kusia...

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• Housing Struggles in Berlin: Part I Rent Cap

  This episode, we discuss the social and political consequences of last week's rent cap ("Mietendeckel") ruling of the German Federal Constitutional Court with Andrej Holm. We explore the history...

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• The urban politics of density in and beyond the pandemic

  This podcast explores how the pandemic is changing density around the world and generating forms of politics. With a diverse group of scholars and practitioners from around the world, the podcas...

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• The Urban Hinterlands of Slavery

  The transatlantic slave trade had a lasting impact not only on the development of big ports like Liverpool, London, Nantes or Bordeaux, but also in cities that far less frequently associated wit...

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• Film-Making as Urban Research

  Emerging film-makers and urban researchers Nitin Bathla, Sandra Jasper, and Tino Buchholz speak about their avenues into film-production, why film amounts to a vital medium for urban research, a...

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