Episode 9 of The Grimshaw Podcast ‘The City Series’ features Lance Jay Brown, distinguished architect, urban designer and President of The Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization in New York City.Lance was a key member of the innovative ‘New Housing New York Legacy Project’ competi[1]tion which appointed Grimshaw to design the award-winning affordable housing project, Via Verde, in the South Bronx, for the ethical developer Jonathan Rose, who featured in the very first podcast of this Cities series. Lance is passionate about public realm and resilience and talks to Tim about his role in Habitat III, the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development. They discuss cities now and post COVID-19 and the trajectory at which cities are now moving as a result of the pandemic.Tim and Lance reflect on the amazing capacity that cities have to replenish themselves, hypothesizing about how cities will be redesigned to attract people back into CBDs through the use of vibrant streetscapes, integrated transport options and the possibility of repurposed commercial spaces into residential dwellings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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