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Holdout
Episode 130
Around 2005, a Seattle neighborhood called Ballard started to see unprecedented growth. Condominiums and apartment buildings were sprouting up all ov…
11 years, 6 months ago
Thomassons
Episode 129
Cities, like living things, evolve slowly over time. Buildings and structures get added and renovated and removed, and in this process, bits and piec…
11 years, 6 months ago
Hacking IKEA
Episode 128
IKEA hacking is the practice of buying things from IKEA and reengineering—or “hacking”—them to become customized, more functional, and often just bet…
11 years, 6 months ago
The Sound of Sports
Episode 127
Way back in October 2011 (see episode #38, true believers!), we broadcast a short excerpt of a radio documentary produced by Peregrine Andrews about …
11 years, 6 months ago
Walk This Way
Episode 126
As humans have developed cities and built environments, we have also needed to develop ways to find our way through them. Sam Greenspan went on a way…
11 years, 7 months ago
Duplitecture
Episode 125
The best knock-offs in the world are in China. There are plenty of fake designer handbags and Rolexes, but China’s knock-offs go way beyond fashion. …
11 years, 7 months ago
Longbox
Episode 124
Reporter Whitney Jones argues that R.E.M.’s Out of Time is the most politically significant album in the history of the United States. Because of its…
11 years, 7 months ago
Snowflake
Episode 123
Well before the early 1500s, when Sir Thomas Moore first coined the term “Utopia,” people have been thinking about how to design their ideal communit…
11 years, 7 months ago
Good Egress
Episode 122
When designing a commercial structure, there is one safety component that must be designed right into the building from the start: egress. “Egress” r…
11 years, 7 months ago
Cold War Kids
Episode 121
During the 1961 Berlin Crisis—one of the various moments in the cold war in which we came frighteningly close to engaging in actual war with the Sovi…
11 years, 8 months ago