{"podcast":{"title":"Challenger Cities","slug":"challenger-cities-6959558","podcast_index_feed_id":6959558,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/challengercitytoronto/feed.xml","website_url":"https://challengercities.substack.com/","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/challengercitytoronto/20241125_031154_12bb296aa546a7561a00033f0e685478.png","author":"Iain Montgomery","episode_count":88,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-12T06:17:04.276818+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558"},"episode":{"title":"Challenger Cities EP81: A Chair in the City and a Stool at the Rouge with Ken Greenberg","slug":"challenger-cities-ep81-a-chair-in-the-city-and-a-stool-at-the-rouge-with-ken-greenberg","published_at":"2026-05-15T17:20:20+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep81-a-chair-in-the-city-and-a-stool-at-the-rouge-with-ken-greenberg","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/challengercitytoronto/2828657","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/278784/2828657/challengercitytoronto/2026_05_15_17_15_23_4dd42232-f443-408c-b252-4d0bc602e7b0.mp3","summary":"If you liked our episode with Ilana Altman about The Bentway, then you'll like this one with Ken Greenberg, because he's part of that origin story. Ken is a legend in Toronto urbanism circles, as someone who did pioneering work in his early career in the city and then took it to the likes of St. Paul and Boston in the US. We set up this episode to discuss work he's doing around the newly free'd up airport lands in Pickering, ON and his vision to turn this into a new part of the Rouge National Urban Park. It's a conversation that we hope can breathe life and optimism into the Toronto urban discourse, as many of the components of what Challenger Cities need is right there. It just needs unleashing.","meta_description":"If you liked our episode with Ilana Altman about The Bentway, then you'll like this one with Ken Greenberg, because he's part of that origin story. Ken is…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4122,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/challenger-cities-6959558/episodes/challenger-cities-ep81-a-chair-in-the-city-and-a-stool-at-the-rouge-with-ken-greenberg/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/challenger-cities-6959558/challenger-cities-ep81-a-chair-in-the-city-and-a-stool-at-the-rouge-with-ken-greenberg.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}