The BDP Podcast highlights and debates the biggest challenges facing designers today. From sustainability and carbon-free building to designing for a more inclusive world, each episode welcomes international experts from architecture, engineering and urbanism professions to discuss the most prominent issues in the industry.
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The BDP Podcast highlights and debates the biggest challenges facing designers today. From sustainability and carbon-free building to designing for a more inclusive world, each episode welcomes international experts from architecture, engineering and urbanism professions to discuss the most prominent issues in the industry.
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March 30, 2026
The Good City: Rotterdam - Climate Adaptation
<p>Welcome to <strong>The Good City </strong>podcast series, where we bring together designers, planners, engineers, environmental thinkers, academics, and community voices to explore how design can help cities tackle their biggest challenges and create better places for people and the planet.</p> <p><strong>In our first episode, Rotterdam: Climate Adaptation,</strong> we spotlight a city that has turned its greatest climate risks into a platform for innovation. With around 85% of Rotterdam sitting below sea level, water is an everyday reality. By embracing rather than resisting it, the city is transforming into a forward‑looking metropolis where nature, design, and resilience work hand in hand.</p> <p>Joined by the people behind The Good City - Rotterdam paper, we explore how community driven adaptation, experimental field labs, and climate adaptive public places are turning climate stress into opportunity - showing how liveable, nature positive spaces can be designed and scaled - <strong>offering practical lessons to cities worldwide.</strong></p> <p><strong>Panellists</strong></p> <ul> <li>Michelle Xuereb (Host), Innovation Director, BDP Quadrangle</li> <li>Johan Verlinde, Program Manager, Rotterdam Climate Adaptation Plan</li> <li>Lindsey Schwidder, Programme Manager, The Green Village at Delft University of Technology</li> <li>Yasmin Stip, Citizens Initiative Leader, Iedereenaanboord</li> <li>Björn Bleumink, Architect Director, Head of Rotterdam Studio, BDP</li> </ul> <p>This podcast forms part of The Good City, a global initiative by BDP and Nippon Koei to help cities across the world become better. Find out more: https://www.bdp.com/in-depth/the-good-city</p>
March 10, 2026
The Good City: Toronto - Growing Pains
Welcome to The Good City podcast series, where we explore the ideas, innovations, and individuals reshaping urban life around the world. In our first episode, Toronto - Growing Pains, we turn to one of North America’s most dynamic and pressured cities. Every year, more than 120,000 people arrive in the Toronto region, testing the limits of its housing, infrastructure, and public services. But behind the headlines of rising costs and crowded streets lies a bigger question: can rapid growth become a force for good? Joined by the authors of The Good City - Toronto paper, we unpack the opportunities hidden within the city’s growing pains - how smarter density, better transit, new forms of housing, and genuine community involvement can transform Toronto into a more inclusive, resilient, and future focused city.
August 23, 2024
Innovation Applied: Episode 1 - How do we make the UK's innovation districts successful?
With a booming life sciences industry leading the way, investment in R&D infrastructure is already delivering positive socio-economic benefits in many parts of the UK. We're witnessing a boost in social mobility, attraction of talent, and cultural changes in dynamic hubs like Liverpool’s Knowledge Quarter and Manchester’s Oxford Road Corridor. These areas are becoming beacons of activity, creativity, and modern discovery. And with a general election just four days away, there is a good chance we will see the proliferation of more innovation districts in other major UK cities like Leeds and Birmingham. But how do we ensure that good design, placemaking, and planning are at the forefront of these new Innovation Districts? How can cities harness these developments to benefit everyone, and what lessons can we learn from other global tech and science cities like Toronto, Zug, Lille, and Lisbon?
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