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  • Urbanism - Discover the cities reshaping our world with Felix Mercer

    Urbanism - Discover the cities reshaping our world with Felix Mercer
    Apr 16 2026
    Join Felix Mercer as he reveals hidden arguments in streets, buildings, and highways—decisions that shape who belongs in our cities. This podcast explores visionaries, villains, and neighborhoods that make urban spaces brilliant yet isolating, uncovering stories behind the concrete you'll never unsee.

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    1 min
  • Urbanism - The Stranger Next Door: Why Cities Make Us Creative, Lonely, and Free

    Urbanism - The Stranger Next Door: Why Cities Make Us Creative, Lonely, and Free
    Apr 16 2026
    Felix Mercer explores the paradox of urban life: cities foster creativity, tolerance, and freedom while creating anonymity, stress, and isolation. From Simmel's 1903 insights to modern research, he examines how density produces both innovation and loneliness, revealing these opposing forces are inseparable features of city living.

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    34 mins
  • Urbanism - Redlined by Design: How the Built Environment Encodes Inequality

    Urbanism - Redlined by Design: How the Built Environment Encodes Inequality
    Apr 16 2026
    Felix Mercer traces how 1938 redlining maps still dictate American inequality today—from life expectancy to air quality. Exploring hostile architecture, mixed-income housing failures, and the built environment as encoded power, this episode reveals why neighborhoods designed to exclude continue killing people generations later.

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    28 mins
  • Urbanism - The Ghost of Jane Jacobs and the War Over Urban Order

    Urbanism - The Ghost of Jane Jacobs and the War Over Urban Order
    Apr 16 2026
    Felix Mercer explores Jane Jacobs' battle against Robert Moses in 1950s New York, examining how her defense of mixed-use neighborhoods transformed city planning—while inadvertently contributing to the gentrification now threatening the communities she fought to protect.

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    38 mins