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Matthew Mazzotta
Playful, wondrous public spaces built for community and possibility
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Jun 2021
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The Power of Spaces
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Mar 2021
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Elizabeth Diller
A stealthy reimagining of urban public space
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Jan 2021
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Stefan Al
What happens if you cut down all of a city's trees?
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Apr 2020
11:07
Amanda Schochet
How bumble bees inspired a network of tiny museums
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Feb 2020
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Eli Pariser
What obligation do social media platforms have to the greater good?
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Nov 2019
4:04
Janelle Peters
How Romans flooded the Colosseum for sea battles
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Jun 2019
5:05
Brian A. Pavlac
Ugly History: Witch Hunts
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Jun 2019
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Brian D. Avery
How rollercoasters affect your body
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Oct 2018
5:13
Krishna Sudhir
How do cigarettes affect the body?
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Sep 2018
14:14
Walter Hood
How urban spaces can preserve history and build community
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Aug 2018
14:01
Ian Firth
Bridges should be beautiful
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Jun 2018
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tobacco brown
What gardening taught me about life
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May 2018
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JR
Undocumented lives, inside out
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Apr 2018
13:33
John Cary
How architecture can create dignity for all
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Feb 2018
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Christian Benimana
The next generation of African architects and designers
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Dec 2017
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Karoliina Korppoo
How a video game might help us build better cities
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Sep 2017
12:18
Daan Roosegaarde
A smog vacuum cleaner and other magical city designs
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Sep 2017
14:20
Peter Calthorpe
7 principles for building better cities
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Aug 2017
12:39
Justin Davidson
Why glass towers are bad for city life — and what we need instead
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Jun 2017
12:46
Siamak Hariri
How do you build a sacred space?
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Apr 2017
11:53
Dan Bell
Inside America's dead shopping malls
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Mar 2017
18:37
Jeff Speck
4 ways to make a city more walkable
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Feb 2017
11:55
Jeanne Gang
Buildings that blend nature and city
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Jan 2017
15:38
Michael Murphy
Architecture that's built to heal
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Sep 2016
10:25
Marwa Al-Sabouni
How Syria's architecture laid the foundation for brutal war
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Jul 2016
7:20
Tom Hulme
What can we learn from shortcuts?
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Jun 2016
5:30
Magda Sayeg
How yarn bombing grew into a worldwide movement
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Mar 2016
16:26
Ole Scheeren
Why great architecture should tell a story
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Jan 2016
6:20
Candy Chang
Before I die I want to ...
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Nov 2012
15:56
Antony Gormley
Sculpted space, within and without
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Sep 2012
11:35
Wolfgang Kessling
How to air-condition outdoor spaces
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Jun 2012
6:31
JR
One year of turning the world inside out
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May 2012
5:41
Robert Hammond
Building a park in the sky
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Jun 2011
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