Next City
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About this podcast
Join Lucas Grindley, executive director at Next City, where we believe journalists have the power to amplify solutions and spread workable ideas. Each week Lucas will sit down with trailblazers to discuss urban issues that get overlooked. At the end of the day, it's all about focusing the world's attention on the good ideas that we hope will grow. Grab a seat from the bus, subway, light-rail, or whatever your transit-love may be and listen on the go as we spread solutions from one city to the Next City .
Episodes
The newest 20 of 168 episodes
- Not My Narrative Out Now: Ep 1. Birth of a Nation vs Truth and Reconciliation · 54 minNot My Narrative, a podcast about the myths we tell ourselves and the people working to prove them wrong, is out now. Links for more Not My Narrative available here…
- Revisiting: Inside the Fight to Save LGBTQ Landmarks and Culture · 40 minPreserving the stories and spaces that define LGBTQ communities is an act of resilience and resistance. Hear from designers, historians, and activists about the vital work of…
- The State of Our Kids: Young People Are The Solution · 35 minFour in 10 students report persistent sadness or hopelessness, and a new KABOOM! report says remedies start with simply listening to young people. In the first of a two-part…
- Coming Soon: Not My Narrative · 3 minThis October, Next City is launching Not My Narrative, a new podcast and essay series about the stories we tell ourselves that are mistaken for facts and the people proving them…
- Poetry Breaks Through Where Planners Cannot · 36 minPublic art projects use poems across Philadelphia to help residents process loss, gun violence and grief together.
- The Secret Sauce in Democratic Community Engagement · 40 minA group is working to ensure that the closure of Hester Street in New York City doesn't mean the loss of its wisdom as a trusted facilitator of processes that authentically…
- Summer Break · 1 minNext City is on a brief hiatus for the summer. We'll be back at the end of July. Thank you for listening to Next City. Together we can spread good ideas from one city to the next…
- On Being Planners With Purpose · 43 minWe are creating a podcast episode about these three episodes related to the Planners With A Purpose conference that Next City sponsored.
- After 150 Episodes, Revisiting Our Favorite Solutions · 38 minThe Next City podcast debuted in November 2021 and has now recorded 150 episodes, with hundreds of interviews about solutions with changemakers. Host Lucas Grindley and Editorial…
- For Immigrant Communities, These Organizations Build Belonging · 44 minSponsored podcast: From Chelsea to the Berkshires, these organizations do the frontline work of caring for their community when federal policy turns hostile. When ICE raids and…
- How Boston’s Chinatown Turns Culture Into Power · 38 minThis sponsored series is created in partnership with The Culture & Community Power Fund (C&CPF), a national funders’ collaborative advancing the role of culture in building…
- How To Transform Closed Schools for Community · 36 minToday, we're learning about the effort to ensure public school buildings continue serving neighborhoods even after they close.
- Real Solutions Are Everywhere · 38 minA partner episode with the podcast, Real Solutions, produced with The Othering & Belonging Institute.
- Lessons on Serving Immigrant Communities Under Attack · 39 minAs immigrant communities face daily threats from ICE and the Trump administration, they need allies they can trust. And that's why today we're looking at nonprofit newsrooms that…
- Community Power Is Finally Going Big in Economic Development · 34 minCommunity-owned commercial real estate models are starting to make bigger splashes, thanks in part to building relationships with investors and officials who see their value.
- Tenants Rising: Organizing for Housing Justice, Part 2 · 34 minExamine tenant-led movements and legal strategies to preserve affordability and resist displacement. It could highlight lawsuits like the one in Missouri where tenants fought to…
- Tenants Rising: Organizing for Housing Justice, Part 1 · 33 minExamine tenant-led movements and legal strategies to preserve affordability and resist displacement. It could highlight lawsuits like the one in Missouri where tenants fought to…
- This City Spent $1 Million To Erase $90 Million in Residents’ Debt · 33 minOn a daily basis, thousands of Americans are faced with the choice of whether to seek needed medical care, or stay home untreated to avoid sliding further into debt. But one city…
- Artists in Government: Creativity as Civic Infrastructure · 33 minIf we want to imagine a better world, artists might be better than anyone for the job. Today, we are looking at artists-in-residence programs in government.
- Building Affordable Housing Without Federal Dollars · 37 minOne new reality many community leaders are dealing with: Federal funding is rocky, to say the least. So today, we're looking at affordable housing solutions that have located…
