Episode
Challenger Cities EP77: The Will To Build with Alex Bozikovic
- Podcast
- Challenger Cities
- Published
- Apr 28, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 4098
- Processing state
not_requested- Canonical source
- https://rss.com/podcasts/challengercitytoronto/2772466
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/challenger-cities-6959558/episodes/challenger-cities-ep77-the-will-to-build-with-alex-bozikovic/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep77-the-will-to-build-with-alex-bozikovic.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Alex Bozikovic is the architecture critic for the Globe and Mail, which in practice means he writes about everything from housing politics to the public realm to the quiet cultural erosion that happens when a city stops expecting much of itself. In this episode, Iain and Alex dig into why Toronto ... a city with extraordinary people, genuine sophistication and real financial muscle ... keeps failing to act on what it already knows. We cover the Spadina Expressway and the identity it left behind, the Ontario Science Centre closure and what it reveals about the state of progressive urban politics, the suburbs as the real story of Toronto's diversity, and what a bar in a 1899 attic has to do with the soul of a city. Plus Montreal, Sugar Beach, the Sanaaq Centre, and why the best things in Toronto tend to happen despite the default settings rather than because of them.