{"podcast":{"title":"THE GRIMSHAW PODCAST","slug":"the-grimshaw-podcast-4199160","podcast_index_feed_id":4199160,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6107c17b53204f00192347fa","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-grimshaw-podcast","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/6107c17b53204f00192347fa/1727773806612-87f9bb32-e10e-43c4-b6bc-a2e3f176fbbe.jpeg","author":"GRIMSHAW","episode_count":61,"summary":"The Grimshaw Podcast is focussed on the City – and those who shape our cities. The podcast presents engaging and insightful interviews with architects, city planners, developers, strategists and change-makers. These conversations take place between international guests and your host, Tim Williams, Grimshaw’s Cities Group Lead. Organised into series which reflect a specific overarching topic or theme, the podcasts examine how are cities are evolving, how they have dealt with unprecedented recent growth and how they will adapt to change and regenerate for a better future. The complexities and issues facing our cities have never been so topical and the podcast showcases ideas, experiences and strategies for a contemporary world. Series 1, the inaugural Cities Series features such diverse voices as New York’s urban innovator, Jonathan Rose; Sue Lloyd Hurwitz from Mirvac, one of Australia’s biggest and best developers; Dan Labbad of The Crown Estate; the Hon. Rob Stokes, Minister for Planning in NSW Australia in the Berejiklian Government; Wei Yan, President of the Royal Town Planning Institute; Greg Clark of HSBC; Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney Jess Scully; Lisa Havilah, CEO of the Museu…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T12:19:38.227833+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grimshaw-podcast-4199160"},"episode":{"title":"BUILDING CITIES OF HOPE","slug":"building-cities-of-hope","published_at":"2025-09-14T23:49:16+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grimshaw-podcast-4199160/building-cities-of-hope","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grimshaw-podcast-4199160","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-grimshaw-podcast/episodes/building-cities-of-hope","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6107c17b53204f00192347fa/e/68c74f3444d0096b87708ad2/media.mp3","summary":"In the latest Grimshaw Cities podcast, Dr Tim Williams interviews Syrian architect and best-selling author Marwa al Sabouni. Unable to practice her profession in her battle-ravaged city of Homs, as the buildings and the lives around her and across Syria were reduced to rubble, Marwa Al Sabouni turned her fierce intelligence to chronicling how her city and country were undone through decades of architectural mismanagement and mistakes. The result was The Battle for Home in 2016 and Building for Hope:Towards an Architecture of Belonging(2021). We talk about these important books, her architectural advocacy and the values Marwa believes that architecture needs to embody so as to promote greater civic harmony, humanity and yes beauty in a divided and often ugly world. A really important and challenging conversation about why, what and how we build with someone with a unique voice and standpoint not heard enough in the international discussions about the future of our cities: exactly what the Grimshaw cities podcasts were created to do. Joining Tim and Marwa on this occasion is Grimshaw architect and urbanist, Awkar Ruel, with his own special experience and contribution as an Iraqi-born Sydneysider. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"In the latest Grimshaw Cities podcast, Dr Tim Williams interviews Syrian architect and best-selling author Marwa al Sabouni. Unable to practice her profes…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3788,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-grimshaw-podcast-4199160/episodes/building-cities-of-hope/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grimshaw-podcast-4199160/building-cities-of-hope.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}