Yan Krymsky: Gas Stations in the Age of Electric Vehicles
With nearly 600 gas stations dotting the Los Angeles landscape, the rise of the electric vehicle presents an opportunity for the city to repurpose a significant portion of its urban fabric. Yan Krymsk...
25 Maj 202126min
Eric Jaffe: Sidewalk Labs and Its Vision for Urban Innovation
Eric Jaffe is the Editorial Director at Sidewalk Labs, an urban innovation company with a plan to tackle sustainability and affordability in cities around the world. Eric joins Max to highlight some o...
28 Apr 202123min
Ken Steif: Data and Decision-Making in the Public Sector
Ken Steif is a data scientist, city planner, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, where he leads the school’s Master of Urban Spatial Analytics program. In his ne...
6 Apr 202130min
Saskia Sassen: The City’s Sociologist
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University where she researches globalization and migration in the context of global cities, a term which she coined in her 1991 ...
23 Mars 202122min
Tyler Duvall: Roads Become Autonomous
Tyler Duvall is the CEO of Cavnue, a company that is designing and building roads optimized for autonomous vehicles. He joins Max to answer a central question: What will the infrastructure of the futu...
9 Mars 202122min
Carlo Ratti: Where the Digital and Physical Worlds Collide
In the season premiere of CitySpeak, Max Masuda-Farkas is joined by engineer, architect, and inventor Carlo Ratti. Ratti is the head of MIT’s Senseable City Lab, where he leads a team of researchers d...
23 Feb 202123min
Karin Liljegren: Restoring the Past Through Adaptive Reuse Architecture
Karin Liljegren is the founder and principal of Omgivning, an architecture and interior design firm that specializes in taking old buildings and giving them a new life. This practice is known as adapt...
18 Aug 202025min
Jonathan Lee: Mortgage Banking and Lending During the Pandemic
Jonathan Lee is a Principal and Managing Director of George Smith Partners, a national provider of capital market services to the commercial real estate industry. Jonathan joins Max to discuss the imp...
4 Aug 202023min
