Real estate. Real conversations. Hosted by a teenager trying to understand the world she’s about to inherit.<br /><br />I’m Naomi Cohen, and I created Realtopia — a real estate podcast for teenagers, by a teenager.<br /><br />What began as a podcast about real estate evolved into conversations about something even bigger: how places shape people, and how people shape places. <br /><br />Because real estate was never just about buildings. It’s about the future of places — cities, housing, belonging, design, community, and the people shaping them.<br /><br />Each episode, I ask architects, developers, researchers, founders, and urban thinkers the questions teenagers are not supposed to ask.<br /><br />Welcome to Realtopia.
Realtopia - Real Estate for Teens
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Real estate. Real conversations. Hosted by a teenager trying to understand the world she’s about to inherit.<br /><br />I’m Naomi Cohen, and I created Realtopia — a real estate podcast for teenagers, by a teenager.<br /><br />What began as a podcast about real estate evolved into conversations about something even bigger: how places shape people, and how people shape places. <br /><br />Because real estate was never just about buildings. It’s about the future of places — cities, housing, belonging, design, community, and the people shaping them.<br /><br />Each episode, I ask architects, developers, researchers, founders, and urban thinkers the questions teenagers are not supposed to ask.<br /><br />Welcome to Realtopia.
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Recent Episodes
June 22, 2026
Episode 15: Nolan Gray (Research Director, California YIMBY) — How Zoning Shapes Cities, Housing, and Belonging
What if the reason your neighborhood looks the way it does — who lives there, what gets built, and how expensive it feels — isn't random? <br /><br />In this episode of Realtopia, Naomi sits down with Nolan Gray — city planner, Research Director at California YIMBY, and author of Arbitrary Lines — to unpack the invisible rules shaping our cities. <br /><br />Together, they explore one of the biggest questions facing this generation: if we build more housing, do people actually feel more connected to where they live? <br /><br />In this episode:<ul><li>What zoning really controls</li><li>The ideas behind the YIMBY movement</li><li>Housing, affordability, and displacement</li><li>Whether abundance creates belonging</li><li>Rethinking suburbs and neighborhood identity</li><li>What makes a place feel like home</li></ul>
June 8, 2026
Episode 14: Prof. Greg Clark (Advisor to 400+ Cities) — Cracking the DNA of Great Cities
Why does one city feel instantly recognizable while another could be almost anywhere? <br /><br />In this episode of Realtopia, Naomi sits down with Professor Greg Clark — advisor to more than 400 cities across six continents, author, and co-host of The DNA of Cities — to explore what gives places their identity and why the most successful cities of the future may not be the ones that grow fastest, but the ones that become more fully themselves. <br /><br />Together, they unpack the idea of a city’s DNA — the combination of inherited geography, historical choices, culture, institutions, and new adaptations that shape how places evolve. The conversation moves from global competition to local belonging, asking a bigger question: How do we build cities people can actually imagine staying in? <br /><br />In this episode:<br /><ul><li>The DNA of a city: endowed, inherited, and acquired traits</li><li>Why global sameness is the great risk to cities</li><li>Turin and the cities that defy their reputation</li><li>Building a belonging index: social capital and the social contract</li><li>Affordability vs. global competitiveness and the case for 50% affordable housing</li><li>Climate, AI, and the just transition</li></ul>
June 8, 2026
Episode 13: Dr. Toby Israel (Founder of Design Psychology) — Decoding the Hidden Psychology of Home
Why do some spaces instantly feel right — while others never quite do? <br /><br />In this episode of Realtopia, Naomi sits down with Dr. Toby Israel — environmental psychologist, founder of Design Psychology, and author of Some Place Like Home and Designing Women's Lives — to explore how our earliest experiences of place quietly shape the homes we choose, the spaces we create, and even what makes us feel like we belong. <br /><br />Together, they unpack the idea of an environmental autobiography: the hidden story of childhood places, family environments, and memories that can still influence our design choices decades later. Instead of asking what makes a place beautiful, this conversation asks a different question: what makes a place feel like yours? <br /><br />In this episode:<br /><ul><li>What Design Psychology is — and why psychology can become the primary design tool</li><li>Environmental autobiography and the idea of an environmental family tree</li><li>Why people often recreate — or reject — the homes they grew up in</li><li>How unconscious place memories shape layouts, colors, and objects</li><li>Whether Pinterest, algorithms, and AI are disconnecting us from real preferences</li><li>How renters can still personalize temporary spaces</li><li>What traditional “belonging” metrics may miss about emotional experience of place</li><li>Why two people can experience the exact same place completely differently</li></ul>
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