Vertical City

Founder and President of Preserva Sao Paulo Association, Jorge Eduardo Rubies focuses on protecting historic buildings through public organization and litigation. He is also a leader in the sustainability movement, where he advocates for the creation of a more functional urban environment. In this episode, we discuss the state of Brazil’s cities in terms of sustainability, how politics effect the programs that are created to make cities more livable, and why young people are leading the environmental movements today. Read full show notes and more at verticalcity.org/podcast/08-jorge-eduardo-rubies. Vertical City is building a foundation for a sustainable urban future. If you enjoyed this podcast, or you would like to learn more about urbanism, sustainability, innovation and large-scale architecture, visit us atwww.verticalcity.org.

Bruno Padovano was born in Italy and studied in the US and Europe before become a professor at the University of Sao Paulo. He is a champion for increasing society’s impact on development and sustainability in the urban centers of Brazil. Today on the podcast he discusses his recent project designed to house the homeless population of Sao Paolo. Also a musician, Bruno hopes to fuse the spiritual side of human development with reason and policy to create a brighter future. Read full show notes and more at verticalcity.org/podcast/07-bruno-padovano. Vertical City is building a foundation for a sustainable urban future. If you enjoyed this podcast, or you would like to learn more about urbanism, sustainability, innovation and large-scale architecture, visit us atwww.verticalcity.org.

Dennis Poon has nearly 40 years of engineering experience, and has worked on many of the most iconic superstructures around the world. He is involved in 8 of the 20 tallest structures in the world that will be completed by 2020. Today on the podcast Dennis joins us to talk about the tall multifunction buildings that have been completed to date, and how China is leading the way in the vertical city movement. Read full show notes and more at verticalcity.org/podcast/06-dennis-poon. Vertical City is building a foundation for a sustainable urban future. If you enjoyed this podcast, or you would like to learn more about urbanism, sustainability, innovation and large-scale architecture, visit us atwww.verticalcity.org.

Richard Register is one of the world’s greatest theorists in ecological city design and planning. He’s the author of several books  and in this episode he sits down with Lennon Richardson to discuss what an Eco City is, why they will help many of our planet’s current problems, and what the future of Eco Cities holds. Read full show notes and more at verticalcity.org/podcast/05-richard-register. Vertical City is building a foundation for a sustainable urban future. If you enjoyed this podcast, or you would like to learn more about urbanism, sustainability, innovation and large-scale architecture, visit us atwww.verticalcity.org.

Daniel Safarik is the Asian Director of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), the world’s foremost authority on tall buildings. He chats with Lennon about tall buildings in China today, why China might be the perfect location to experiment with vertical cities, and how vertical cities would be implemented in the real world. Read full show notes and more at verticalcity.org/podcast/03-daniel-safarik. Vertical City is building a foundation for a sustainable urban future. If you enjoyed this podcast, or you would like to learn more about urbanism, sustainability, innovation and large-scale architecture, visit us atwww.verticalcity.org.

Dr. Dickson Despommier is a professor of Microbiology and Public Health at Columbia University, and the author of The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century. In this episode, Dickson describes the advantages of the vertical farms concept, how the concept is already manifested in the real world, and how vertical farms would integrate into a vertical city. Read full show notes and more at verticalcity.org/podcast/03-dickson-despommier. Vertical City is building a foundation for a sustainable urban future. If you enjoyed this podcast, or you would like to learn more about urbanism, sustainability, innovation and large-scale architecture, visit us atwww.verticalcity.org.

Lennon Richardson sits down with Gregory Kiss, an architect and expert in the field of photovoltaics (converting solar into energy we can use). They talk about the milestones solar has already reached as well as how solar might impact our future. Gregory details the importance of architecturally integrated food production, and how buildings and their relationship with the environment are the future of green construction.Read full show notes and more at verticalcity.org/podcast/02-gregory-kiss. Vertical City is building a foundation for a sustainable urban future. If you enjoyed this podcast, or you would like to learn more about urbanism, sustainability, innovation and large-scale architecture, visit us atwww.verticalcity.org.

On our first episode, we chat with Ken King, the founder of Vertical City. Ken discusses how he came up with the Vertical City idea, the challenges to making the book become a reality, and the problems that the Vertical City concept can solve. Read full show notes and more at verticalcity.org/01. Vertical City is building a foundation for a sustainable urban future. If you enjoyed this podcast, or you would like to learn more about urbanism, sustainability, innovation and large-scale architecture, visit us at www.verticalcity.org.