Architecture & Cities episodes
6 episodes so far
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20 min
Cities That Shape Us: How Urban Design Scripts Human Behavior
Why the streets you walk, the squares you cross, and the buildings you pass are quietly directing the drama of your life
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17 min
Frozen Frontiers: Building Homes at the Edge of the Habitable World
A secret Cold War city under the Greenland ice, a coal town that reinvented itself, and what both can teach the first settlers of Mars
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23 min
Shaped by Disease: How Epidemics Built the Modern City
What Venice's plague islands, London's Great Stink and a yellow fever summer in Memphis left behind in the cities we live in
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18 min
Cities Below: The Buried Layers Beneath Our Streets
From Roman sewers to Cappadocian refuges, the hidden underground that makes every city work.
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20 min
The Accidental Anarchists: Great Cities That Grew Without a Plan
Why a capital designed from scratch felt empty, how Mumbai delivers lunches without a single computer, and what one journalist saw from her own street
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18 min
Stone Giants: The Engineering Genius of Ancient Megalithic Builders
How Neolithic people without metal tools or wheels raised monuments that still baffle and inspire us today
Hear any of them in full
Every episode is in the Compound app; Compound+ opens the whole library.