Vishaan Chakrabarti on Creating an Architecture of Belonging

Design and the City

Vishaan Chakrabarti, the founder and creative director of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) as well as the Dean of the William W. Wurster College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley discusses the future of mobility, designing streets as public spaces and creating an architecture of belonging with reSITE founder, Martin Barry. Vishaan has made some thoughtful arguments against banal, processed urban design being detrimental to our ability to thrive as human beings, drawing on imagery from the globe's most iconic cities, contrasting them with the cold anonymity of many modern ones, and applies this to what he see's as an inevitable evolution—the elimination of private cars.

Design and the City, is a podcast produced by reSITE about the ways we can use design to make cities more livable and lovable. reSITE is a global non-profit and platform connecting people and ideas to improve the urban environment. We work at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, politics, culture, and economics, acting as a catalyst for social action and innovative leadership. We encourage the exchange of ideas about making cities more livable, competitive, resilient, inclusive, mobile, and designed with humans in mind to protect and public space, architecture, and sustainable development in cities.

More info on Vishaan Chakrabarti:

• I've Seen a Future Without Cars, and It’s Amazing, New York Times
• TED Talk: How We Can Design Timeless Cities for Our Collective Future
• A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America
  

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This podcast was produced by Alexandra Siebenthal, with support from Martin Barry, Radka Ondrackova, Elizabeth Mills, and Elizabeth Novacek It is recorded at WeWork Prague, with the support of the Prague Ministry of Culture as well as Nano Energies, and edited by LittleBig Studio.