{"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":"CITIES: AVOIDING 'NEO-FEUDALISM'","slug":"cities-avoiding-neo-feudalism","published_at":"2025-06-02T21:43:53+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grimshaw-podcast-4199160/cities-avoiding-neo-feudalism","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-grimshaw-podcast-4199160","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-grimshaw-podcast/episodes/cities-avoiding-neo-feudalism","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6107c17b53204f00192347fa/e/683e1b19708e9fc9b46815bd/media.mp3","summary":"Joel Kotkin, a fellow in urban studies at Chapman University in California, is the author of the best-selling book The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class . He is widely recognised as a leading international commentator on the future of cities and suburbs. In this episode, Joel joins Tim Williams for a passionate and insightful conversation about key urban trends. They explore Joel’s concern that declining home ownership and growing inequality are leading to a concentration of wealth and power reminiscent of pre-modern Europe. An important and thought-provoking discussion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Joel Kotkin, a fellow in urban studies at Chapman University in California, is the author of the best-selling book The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2494,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-grimshaw-podcast-4199160/episodes/cities-avoiding-neo-feudalism/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/cities-avoiding-neo-feudalism.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}