Join Lucas Grindley, executive director at Next City, where we believe journalists have the power to amplify solutions and spread workable ideas. Each week Lucas will sit down with trailblazers to discuss urban issues that get overlooked. At the end of the day, it's all about focusing the world's attention on the good ideas that we hope will grow. Grab a seat from the bus, subway, light-rail, or whatever your transit-love may be and listen on the go as we spread solutions from one city to the Next City .
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Signup to Generate a PitchJoin Lucas Grindley, executive director at Next City, where we believe journalists have the power to amplify solutions and spread workable ideas. Each week Lucas will sit down with trailblazers to discuss urban issues that get overlooked. At the end of the day, it's all about focusing the world's attention on the good ideas that we hope will grow.
Recent episodes include "Not My Narrative Out Now: Ep 1. Birth of a Nation vs Truth and Reconciliation" (19 October 2026, 54 minutes), "Revisiting: Inside the Fight to Save LGBTQ Landmarks and Culture" (7 October 2026, 40 minutes), and "The State of Our Kids: Young People Are The Solution" (30 September 2026, 35 minutes).
Next City publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 34 minutes across 168 episodes.
Booking probability for Next City is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Next City requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Next City's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Next City are Housing & Urban Planning. Next City has a government audience.
Next City is a government podcast with 168 episodes published.
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Not My Narrative, a podcast about the myths we tell ourselves and the people working to prove them wrong, is out now. Links for more Not My Narrative available here: https://nextcity.org/not_my_narrative
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Preserving the stories and spaces that define LGBTQ communities is an act of resilience and resistance. Hear from designers, historians, and activists about the vital work of safeguarding these cultural landmarks...
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Four in 10 students report persistent sadness or hopelessness, and a new KABOOM! report says remedies start with simply listening to young people. In the first of a two-part sponsored series with KABOOM!, we delve into...
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This October, Next City is launching Not My Narrative, a new podcast and essay series about the stories we tell ourselves that are mistaken for facts and the people proving them wrong.
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Public art projects use poems across Philadelphia to help residents process loss, gun violence and grief together.
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A group is working to ensure that the closure of Hester Street in New York City doesn't mean the loss of its wisdom as a trusted facilitator of processes that authentically engaged the community in development projects.
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Next City is on a brief hiatus for the summer. We'll be back at the end of July. Thank you for listening to Next City. Together we can spread good ideas from one city to the next city.
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We are creating a podcast episode about these three episodes related to the Planners With A Purpose conference that Next City sponsored.
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The Next City podcast debuted in November 2021 and has now recorded 150 episodes, with hundreds of interviews about solutions with changemakers. Host Lucas Grindley and Editorial Director Deonna Anderson look back on...
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Sponsored podcast: From Chelsea to the Berkshires, these organizations do the frontline work of caring for their community when federal policy turns hostile. When ICE raids and hostile federal policies destabilize...
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This sponsored series is created in partnership with The Culture & Community Power Fund (C&CPF), a national funders’ collaborative advancing the role of culture in building identity, agency, and collective power. This...
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Today, we're learning about the effort to ensure public school buildings continue serving neighborhoods even after they close.
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A partner episode with the podcast, Real Solutions, produced with The Othering & Belonging Institute.
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As immigrant communities face daily threats from ICE and the Trump administration, they need allies they can trust. And that's why today we're looking at nonprofit newsrooms that speak directly with immigrant...
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Community-owned commercial real estate models are starting to make bigger splashes, thanks in part to building relationships with investors and officials who see their value.
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Examine tenant-led movements and legal strategies to preserve affordability and resist displacement. It could highlight lawsuits like the one in Missouri where tenants fought to keep their homes within the LIHTC...
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Examine tenant-led movements and legal strategies to preserve affordability and resist displacement. It could highlight lawsuits like the one in Missouri where tenants fought to keep their homes within the LIHTC...
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On a daily basis, thousands of Americans are faced with the choice of whether to seek needed medical care, or stay home untreated to avoid sliding further into debt. But one city in Kentucky has found a way to alleviate...
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If we want to imagine a better world, artists might be better than anyone for the job. Today, we are looking at artists-in-residence programs in government.
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One new reality many community leaders are dealing with: Federal funding is rocky, to say the least. So today, we're looking at affordable housing solutions that have located sources of funding outside of the federal...
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