Hosted by Ruben Hanssen · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 60 episodes
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How come our modern cities have become so hostile to humans, so ugly, car-oriented and grey? What is the solution to these problems - how can we return to a more human, beautiful and liveable city? In this podcast, host Ruben Hanssen interviews experts in the fields of architecture, urban planning and urban design to find out how we can improve our cities, our architecture and our streets, in order to create more friendly and beautiful places. The clock is ticking; valuable land is wasted on dreary developments while many beautiful, picturesque urban environments are at risk of being jarred forever by ugly buildings that don't belong there. There are better ways to build; let's explore how!
Ruben Hanssen hosts The Aesthetic City, a arts show with 60 episodes published.
Alexander Rotmensz is an urbanist YouTuber with over 40,000 subscribers and millions of views, known for advocating classical architecture and traditional urban design while documenting the devastating legacy of mid-20th
In today's episode, professor Branko Mitrovic tells us about the battle to teach classical architecture at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway. Here, one student prompted Branko to start teaching Classical architecture, which star
Michael Diamant is the founder and a leading voice of the global "New Traditional Architecture" movement. His background is in urban sociology, but he sparked the "Architecture Uprising": an international campaign to rep
Timothy Smith is an accomplished architect, a partner at Smith and Taylor Architects, and a leading voice in contemporary classical design based in London. He's a tutor at one of Europe's only classical master's programs
Will McCollum is a designer who worked alongside celebrated urbanist Lew Oliver for 10 years to create meaningful and beautiful communities across the United States. He currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts where
Ann Sussman is an architect, author and researcher interested in how buildings influence our behavior. She's president of the Human Architecture and Planning Institute , and also known from the books Cognitive Architectu
Alexandros Lavdas is a is neuroscientist, a tenured Senior Researcher at Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy and head of Psychology at Webster University, Athens Campus, Greece. He is also member of the board of directors of
Jon Jon is an avid urbanist, national speaker, and content creator passionate about decoding what makes spaces great. His TikTok channels have amassed over 8.6 million likes and 406k followers. His website: https://www.t
Diana Trushell is the founder of The Design Professor , an online education platform for creative professionals who are interested in examine design through the lens of psychology, nature and history. Diana is currently
In this special episode, Bart Urban interviews Ruben about the launch of their new course: The Aesthetic City Academy! They discuss: What the course is all about Who's it for (and who it isn't for) How it should help fil
Aaron Lubeck is a designer, builder, and urbanist who’s spent over two decades shaping sustainable, walkable, and affordable communities, with a deep-rooted passion for the US South. He’s the founder of Southern Urbanism
Chuck Marohn is a civil engineer, urban planner, and the founder of StrongTowns: an organization that has been shaking up the world of planning, development, and local governance with one powerful idea: that many of our
Kevin Klinkenberg is an urban designer, planner, and architect from Kansas City with over two decades of experience in creating walkable, human-centered communities. He’s the mind behind The Messy City , a blog and podca
Sabin Howard is a renowned sculptor and author, born in New York, who has emerged as a leading voice in modern classical sculpture. Trained in traditional techniques, he mastered the human form with the precision of the
Guy Courtois is a strategist-turned-visionary who is leading a true urban renaissance in France and worldwide, promoting more beautiful, livable cities. He worked with fashion consortium LVMH and later founded his own co
Coby Lefkowitz returns for his third appearance on The Aesthetic City Podcast . An urbanist, real estate developer, and writer based in New York, Coby is dedicated to crafting beautiful, walkable urban spaces. With his n
Eldin Smajlović is an artist and author born in Pristina to parents from Srebrenica. He grew up in Sarajevo during Yugoslavia’s collapse where he witnessed the horrors of war. Later, he mastered geometry at art school an
Alicia Pederson, Ph.D., known as the Courtyard Urbanist is a passionate advocate for family-friendly cities. With a focus on traditional courtyard urbanism, she champions European-style courtyard blocks to keep young fam
Léon Krier is a renowned Luxembourgian architect and urban planner, often hailed as the godfather of the New Urbanism and Traditional Urbanism movement. He has been a vocal critic of modernist architecture, advocating in
Steve Mouzon is an architect, urbanist and author known for his work in the New Urbanism movement. With several influential books and articles on the subject of sustainable and traditional architecture, including "The Or
Timothy Smith
Senior Policy Advisor · Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
1 appearance on this show
Chuck Marohn
civil engineer, land use planner, advocate, activist, member of the American Solidarity Party's Board of Advisors · Strong Towns
1 appearance on this show
Sabin Howard
artist and sculptor of the new World War I memorial in Washington, D.C.
1 appearance on this show
Coby Lefkowitz
urban planner, developer, and author · Backyard
3 appearances on this show
Nicholas Boys Smith
Director · Create Streets
1 appearance on this show
Austin Tunnell
Founder · Building Culture
1 appearance on this show
Steve Wright
Global Director of Workplace Design at GSK · FBU
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Nir Buras
Classic Planning Institute
1 appearance on this show
Mieke Bosse
Scala Architecten
1 appearance on this show
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