# Challenger Cities Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558.md RSS feed: https://media.rss.com/challengercitytoronto/feed.xml Official site: https://challengercities.substack.com/ Author: Iain Montgomery Episodes: 88 ## Resource Iain Montgomery of Now or Never Ventures interviews urbanists, creatives, transit and development types to explore how cities can punch above their weight and create distinctive new futures outside of the tired playbooks. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/challenger-cities-6959558 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558.md ## Episodes - [Challenger Cities EP86: How the Robocars Meet the Curb with Bern Grush](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep86-how-the-robocars-meet-the-curb-with-bern-grush) — 2026-06-11T16:30:26+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP85: Canada Needs a Railway Architect with Michael Schabas](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep85-canada-needs-a-railway-architect-with-michael-schabas) — 2026-06-08T11:47:00+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP84: The De-Risking Industrial Complex with Richard Fisher](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep84-the-de-risking-industrial-complex-with-richard-fisher) — 2026-06-03T12:13:00+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP83: A Little Piece of Switzerland in the Derbyshire Hills](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep83-a-little-piece-of-switzerland-in-the-derbyshire-hills) — 2026-05-27T20:17:42+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP82: The Purpose is Not the Function with Sam Peart](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep82-the-purpose-is-not-the-function-with-sam-peart) — 2026-05-22T15:22:29+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP81: A Chair in the City and a Stool at the Rouge with Ken Greenberg](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep81-a-chair-in-the-city-and-a-stool-at-the-rouge-with-ken-greenberg) — 2026-05-15T17:20:20+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP80: The Materials of Cities with Saurabh Mangla](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep80-the-materials-of-cities-with-saurabh-mangla) — 2026-05-12T13:24:00+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP79: The Best Practice Industrial Complex with Gerald Babel-Sutter](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep79-the-best-practice-industrial-complex-with-gerald-babel-sutter) — 2026-05-05T15:55:51+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP78: Saying Yes More with Jen Angel](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep78-saying-yes-more-with-jen-angel) — 2026-05-01T13:30:36+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP77: The Will To Build with Alex Bozikovic](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep77-the-will-to-build-with-alex-bozikovic) — 2026-04-28T11:55:00+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP76: Urban Troubleshooting with Heath Gledhill & Tom Shield](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep76-urban-troubleshooting-with-heath-gledhill-tom-shield) — 2026-04-23T16:07:00+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP75: What a Rock Off a Rock Can Teach the Rest of Us with Tasha Freidus](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep75-what-a-rock-off-a-rock-can-teach-the-rest-of-us-with-tasha-freidus) — 2026-04-21T14:22:41+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP74: Embrace the Chaos with Bronwyn Williams](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep74-embrace-the-chaos-with-bronwyn-williams) — 2026-04-17T14:11:15+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP73: Showing a City to Itself with Phil Tabah](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep73-showing-a-city-to-itself-with-phil-tabah) — 2026-04-14T19:36:21+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP72: The Case for Civic Joy with Ilana Altman](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep72-the-case-for-civic-joy-with-ilana-altman) — 2026-04-07T12:22:18+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP71: Welcome to Your Agentic City with Alistair Croll](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep71-welcome-to-your-agentic-city-with-alistair-croll) — 2026-03-30T20:44:46+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP70: Building a Village in the Sky with Anson Kwok](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep70-building-a-village-in-the-sky-with-anson-kwok) — 2026-03-16T05:40:22+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP69: Designing for Intimacy with Paul Meyers](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep69-designing-for-intimacy-with-paul-meyers) — 2026-03-16T05:40:20+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP68: The Bus Deserves Better with Ray Stenning](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep68-the-bus-deserves-better-with-ray-stenning) — 2026-03-03T13:23:00+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP67: Watching a World From Behind the Window with Füsun Aydın](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep67-watching-a-world-from-behind-the-window-with-f-sun-ayd-n) — 2026-02-25T22:23:56+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP66: Urbanism Without the Excuses with Mikael Colville-Andersen](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep66-urbanism-without-the-excuses-with-mikael-colville-andersen) — 2026-02-19T11:33:57+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP65: Sitopia with Carolyn Steel](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep65-sitopia-with-carolyn-steel) — 2026-02-16T09:59:04+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP64: Tourism as a Stress Test with Maryam Siddiqi](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep64-tourism-as-a-stress-test-with-maryam-siddiqi) — 2026-02-10T14:28:06+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP63: The Pub Is a Public Service with Pete Brown](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep63-the-pub-is-a-public-service-with-pete-brown) — 2026-02-06T12:56:00+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP62: Cities for People Who Want to Try Things with Patti Baston](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep62-cities-for-people-who-want-to-try-things-with-patti-baston) — 2026-02-02T18:54:09+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP61: Sweat and the City with Glenn Auerbach](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep61-sweat-and-the-city-with-glenn-auerbach) — 2026-01-27T12:36:17+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP60: Designing Cities in Pencil, Not Pen with Jasmine Palardy (again)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep60-designing-cities-in-pencil-not-pen-with-jasmine-palardy-again) — 2026-01-19T20:04:38+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP59: Building Faster Than Memory with Ruchita Bansal](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep59-building-faster-than-memory-with-ruchita-bansal) — 2026-01-19T19:56:21+00:00 - [Challenger Cities EP58: The World's Best Cities with Chris Fair](https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep58-the-world-s-best-cities-with-chris-fair) — 2026-01-19T19:52:33+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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