ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Welcome to the Grow Places podcast where we explore the virtuous circle of people growth and place.
Brought to you by Grow Places and hosted by our Founder, Tom Larsson. These short conversations with industry leaders and community figures share insights on the built environment and open up about their purpose and what drives them on a personal level.
Thank you for listening. For more information please visit our website; www.growplaces.com and connect with us @WeGrowPlaces across all social channels.
We cover topics such as real estate, property development, place, urban design, architecture, social value, sustainability, community, technology, diversity, philanthropy, landscape design, public realm, cities, urban development, people, neighbourhoods, anthropology, sociology, geography, culture, circular economy, whole life carbon, affordability, business models, innovation, impact, futurism, mindset, leadership, mentorship, wellbeing.
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Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 16 days
Average audio length:
40 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
70 episodes
since April 10, 2023
episodic
IN THIS PODCAST 🔗
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In this episode of the Grow Places Podcast, Tom Larsson sits down with Max Farrell, founder of LDN Collective. LDN Collective is a values-led network of independent built environment specialists who come together to work on projects in London, across the UK and beyond.
Max spent around ten years as…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
In this episode of the Grow Places Podcast, Tom Larsson sits down with Antony Slumbers, PropTech strategist and advisor, and a pioneer of the sector since launching the UK's first commercial real estate website in 1995.
Antony's central provocation is simple: as AI drives the cost of inte…
Ofri Earon is an architect, urban planner, and the founder and director of Neighborhood Lab, a Copenhagen based strategic advisory working on social impact in housing and neighbourhood design. Her career began in Amsterdam, working on the transformation of the Bijlmermeer, before a PhD in social su…
Nick Searl spent over two decades at Argent, where he played a central role in the development of King's Cross, one of the UK's most significant regeneration projects. He now advises Urban Partners, a Copenhagen based investment business, on large scale urban regeneration across Europe.
R…
In this episode of the Grow Places Podcast, Tom Larsson is joined by Nick McKeogh, co-founder and Chief Executive of NLA, to explore two decades of building a civic institution dedicated to bringing together everyone who shapes the built environment. Nick reflects on NLA's origins around Londo…
In this episode, Tom Larsson is joined by Muyiwa Oki, architect, former RIBA president, and now at Mace, to explore what it takes to reform a 200-year-old institution from the inside, why technical grounding matters more than ever for architects, and how the built environment can better serve the c…
In this episode, Tom sits down with Rose Wangen-Jones, Managing Director for Marketing, Destination and Commercial at London and Partners, the growth agency for London. They meet in Southwark to talk about what makes London genuinely distinctive, how the city manages its brand at scale, and the sha…
This episode takes its title from Henley Halebrown's recently published book, Building for Society, and we are privileged to have worked closely with Simon and the practice for over a decade, aligning elegant and economic buildings with the needs of people and place.
In this episode of the Gro…
In this episode of the Grow Places Podcast, Tom Larsson is joined by Tom Holbrook, Director of 5th Studio, to explore what it means to work across the full spectrum of architecture, urban design and strategic planning. Tom describes how 5th Studio has spent over two decades navigating what he calls…
In this episode of the Grow Places Podcast, Tom Larsson is joined by Stephanie Edwards, Architect, Urban Designer and Co-Founder of Urban Symbiotics, to explore what it truly means to put people at the forefront of meaningful change in the built environment. Stephanie shares how Urban Symbiotics wo…
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