Welcome to CitySCOPE, a podcast about cities and inclusive economic development from Kate Cooney and her students at the Yale School of Management.
In Season 1, Remaking the City: Charting the Opportunity in Opportunity Zones, we spoke with developers, community organizers, housing experts, impact investors, foundation fund managers and public sector officials to learn more about how Opportunity Zones might be utilized for community benefit. In Season 2, the theme is Rethinking Community Engagement: Investigating the Role of Narratives in Inclusive Economic Development. In Season 3, we explored the history and research on efforts for Supporting and Scaling Black Businesses. Season 4 is organized around the theme Infrastructure and Equity. Take a listen!
April 13, 2026 live recording of the CitySCOPE podcast with a community audience in New Haven, CT featuring guests Richard Townsell and Whittney Smith from LCDC in Chicago and Sandra Lobo from Our Bronx in New York for the event Future City: Community Control of Real Estate.
14 Dec 2023
Childcare as Infrastructure
Childcare is essential to the productivity of the economy locally and nationally. Often overlooked in conversations about infrastructure, in episode 10, we explore the idea of childcare as essential infrastructure. With Jessica Sager, Co-Founder and CEO of All Our Kin, we discuss childcare systems - or really non-systems and how recent legislation has sought to develop a functioning system, but how there is still work to be done. Matthew Archuleta and Payal Saini co-host.
30 Nov 2023
Critical Examination of the Built Environment
In episode 9, we feature a wide ranging conversation with Elihu Rubin, Associate Professor at the Yale School of Architecture. We discuss both the market and power dynamics at play in decisions for remaking the city over time. With Faye Phillips as host, topics include: the crisis of the post-industrial city, the Prudential Center in Boston as both architectural form and symbol, the Goffe Street Armory in New Haven and it's potential as public infrastructure, and the role of historic heritage in everything from adaptive reuse to ghost towns.
Show notes:
Elihu Rubin’s personal website here (http://www.elihu.info/) and faculty website here
More of Elihu Rubin’s work on ghost towns
Spring 22 IEDL project featuring the Goffe Street Armory in New Haven
Elihu Rubin’s 2012 book, Insuring the City: The Prudential Center and the Postwar Urban Landscape
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