Whose City?
Arts & Culture Podcasts
WHOSE CITY… is a podcast produced at the University of California, San Diego Design Lab. Join host and co-producer Dr. Lawrence Herzog as he and his guests explore the latest urban and environmental planning & design issues facing 21st century cities. Post-pandemic shifts in urban living, the digital revolution, social media, smart vehicles, and new technologies are altering the way city dwellers move around, inhabit, work and think about their urban lifestyles. Meanwhile, climate change, escalating housing costs, shortages of land, homelessness, urban sprawl, air pollution, and scarcity of natural resources challenge our futures. Tune in as our podcast explores these issues in the globalizing cross-border regions of California-Baja California.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
WHOSE CITY… is a podcast produced at the University of California, San Diego Design Lab. Join host and co-producer Dr. Lawrence Herzog as he and his guests explore the latest urban and environmental planning & design issues facing 21st century cities. Post-pandemic shifts in urban living, the digital revolution, social media, smart vehicles, and new technologies are altering the way city dwellers move around, inhabit, work and think about their urban lifestyles. Meanwhile, climate change, escalating housing costs, shortages of land, homelessness, urban sprawl, air pollution, and scarcity of natural resources challenge our futures. Tune in as our podcast explores these issues in the globalizing cross-border regions of California-Baja California.
Language:
English
Website:
http://www.lawrenceaherzog.com/
Episodes
Art, Culture and the Landscape of Tijuana
3/22/2024
Host Dr. Larry Herzog chats with artist Daniela de Leon, Binational Coordinator for IMAC (Municipal Institute for Arts and Culture), Tijuana about how Tijuana artists project the daily life and culture of the city in their art work; Daniela discusses her role at IMAC in facilitating art exchanges between Tijuana and other parts of the world.
Duration:00:35:14
Border Art, Culture and the San Diego-Tijuana 2024 World Design Capital.
3/13/2024
Host Larry Herzog interviews Susanna Peredo (artist and Executive Director of Vanguard Culture) and Rudy Argote, Tijuana artist, about their roles and exciting projects in leading the Design Action Network in the Arts and Culture area for the World Design Capital.
Duration:00:34:39
New Challenges Crossing the Border
3/13/2024
Podcast host Larry Herzog has a conversation with Joaquin Luken, Executive Director of the Smart Border Coalition, about the variety of delays, going north or south, currently facing border crossings at the Tijuana-San Diego border, and the potential role of technology to facilitate cross-border flows in the future.
Duration:00:44:26
A Visionary Cross-border Transit Project
2/8/2024
Podcast host Larry Herzog speaks with Jacqueline Reynoso, Director of Policy and Projects at Cordoba Corporation about the BTX Border Crossing project, a plan to build a light rail transit connection from the San Ysidro border trolley station to downtown Tijuana.
Duration:00:47:43
Border art and the Transformation of Tijuana
12/21/2023
Host Larry Herzog interviews border scholar Norma Iglesias to address the impact of artists in Tijuana, Mexico.
Duration:00:48:06
Border Architecture, History and Tijuana's Urban Identity
12/18/2023
Host Dr. Larry Herzog speaks with Tijuana architect Sharline Ceniceros; they discuss Tijuana's historic buildings, historic preservation and the identity of the city through the lens of architecture.
Duration:00:38:45
Urban planning and design for social justice
12/8/2023
Larry Herzog speaks with UCSD professor John Arroyo about creative placemaking and racial justice equity planning for Latin immigrant communities in the U.S.
Duration:00:45:01
Transport and mobility in Tijuana-San Diego
11/21/2023
Host Larry Herzog talks with Tijuana-based transportation expert and scholar Dinorah Gonzalez about transportation planning in Tijuana, traffic congestion around the border crossings, and sustainable mobility solutions for the future.
Duration:00:40:18
Smart Borders in the California-Baja California Region
10/30/2023
Podcast host Larry Herzog breaks down the many challenges and solutions for people and goods crossing the California-Baja California border with Gustavo de la Fuente, who served as Executive Director of the Smart Border Coalition (San Diego-Tijuana) for nearly six years.
Duration:00:46:21
Livable Streets and a Sustainable San Diego-Tijuana Future
10/29/2023
Podcast host Dr. Larry Herzog talks with urban and transportation design scholar Bruce Appleyard about the idea of designing efficient, safe, environmentally friendly, and economically viable streets on both sides of the California-Baja California border.
Duration:00:32:17
Heal the Gash: The San Diego Commons Vision for Freeway Lids
6/15/2023
Podcast host Larry Herzog chats with architect Rob Quigley and community activist Roger Lewis about the non-profit San Diego Commons, which is seeking to raise funds to build green freeway covers over I-5 (and I-94) to mitigate the negative impact of the freeway on communities like Sherman Heights, Barrio Logan and Cortez Hill near downtown San Diego.
Duration:00:45:56
Border Witness
6/6/2023
Whose City host Larry Herzog talks with geographer and border scholar Michael Dear about his pathbreaking new book Border Witness, which uses film to better understand the changing Tijuana-San Diego border region.
Duration:00:44:31
Urban Interventions
5/27/2023
Podcast host Larry Herzog speaks with artist/entrepreneur Pete Garcia about his non-profit Urban Interventions, and the Bay to Park Paseo project which seeks to enhance the pedestrian experience in downtown San Diego, along the Park Blvd. corridor, from the San Diego Bay to Balboa Park.
Duration:00:34:31
Speculative Ecology, Bio-architecture and Art
5/21/2023
Podcast host Larry Herzog speaks with Pinar Yoldas, Associate Professor of Visual Arts at U.C. San Diego, about her vision as an environmental artist, and her use of architectural installations, kinetic sculpture, sound, video and drawing to challenge our understanding of the ecological crisis facing the planet.
Duration:00:41:58
Design, Equity and Planning
4/4/2023
Podcast host Larry Herzog welcomes Mai Nguyen, Director of the Design Lab at University of California, San Diego and Professor of Urban Studies & Planning to speak about the importance of design and urban planning for the future of cities, and her vision for the World Design Capital project in the California-Mexico border region.
Duration:00:46:31
Townscapes, Place and Mexican Border Cities
4/1/2023
Podcast host Larry Herzog speaks with cultural geographer and writer Daniel Arreola about his four-book collection on the visual historical geography of Mexican border towns, including his recent book Postcards from the Baja California Border.
Duration:00:40:36
Dollars and Design
2/23/2023
Podcast host Larry Herzog chats with urban planning expert and former city of San Diego Planning Department Director William Anderson, about the economics of urban planning and design, and his views on some key development projects in San Diego, including the Uptown District in Hillcrest, the Midway Sports Arena redevelopment, and the Seaport San Diego project along the downtown San Diego waterfront.
Duration:00:52:13
The World Design Capital Project
2/23/2023
Host Larry Herzog welcomes guest Carlos de La Mora, CEO of the San Diego-Tijuana World Design Capital (WDC) 2024 on the podcast. De La Mora, a bi-cultural architect trained in Mexico and the U.S., discusses the WDC vision, and shares thoughts on design innovation as well as challenges in the San Diego-Tijuana cross-border region.
Duration:00:48:18
Walk n Roll: Walkability and urban planning
12/27/2022
Podcast host Larry Herzog speaks with Harvard-trained urban planner Chloe Lauer about her recently launched non-profit-- Walk’n Roll, and strategies to promote better places for walking, cycling, and other slower forms of everyday urban travel.
Duration:00:37:00
Cross-border muralism and public art
12/27/2022
Podcast host Larry Herzog talks with artist and educator Tatiana Ortiz Rubio about her art practice, and specifically her recent public art works, including the much discussed “Stop the Spread” mural on the silo of Bread and Salt art gallery in Barrio Logan.
Duration:00:49:34