The Urban Speak Podcast: Recent Episodes
Urban Systems
Urban Systems' Consultants, Jenn and Katie, speak with fellow Urbanites about the creative ways our practice areas collaborate to better serve vibrant communities.
What's a Flex-pert? Episode 4 of UrbanSpeak features Katie and Jenn chatting with down with Jade Arignon (Urban Matters CCC, Kelowna), Mercedes Braun (Branch Steward, Vancouver), and Ryan Segal (Planner, Winnipeg) to talk about their experiences of all things "hybrid" or "flexible" work. We also heard stories from fellow Urbanites about their work experiences in a new segment we called DearUrban. Tune in and turn it up to hear Jade, Mercedes, and Ryan apply their "flex-pert" skills to your work-from-home questions.
Episode 3 has dropped! We sit down with Shasta McCoy, a Landscape Architect, from Kelowna, and Amie McGowan, an Engineer from Fort McMurray to talk about the ways landscape architecture and civil engineering come together to create great places. Tune in to learn what we mean by "langineering" and how it shows up in communities all around us.
Episode 2 is here! We sat down with Laura Creswell, a Civil Engineer from Edmonton and Brie Haley, a Community Sustainability Specialist in Vancouver to talk about building meaningful relationships. Tune in for chat about the characteristics of a good relationship, hot takes on relationship-building with clients and our colleagues, and our relationship-building "ah-ha!" moments.
Our guests for Episode 1 are Brian Patterson, an Active Transportation Planner from Vancouver and Leighton Ginther, an Urban Designer from Calgary. They sit down with us to talk about the relationship between transportation planning and urban design. We talk COVID-19 street rebalancing, public participation in the planning process, and redefining the street beyond curb cuts.