Green Urbanist - Sustainable Placemaking, Planning and Urban Design
100+ episodes exploring climate action in cities and neighbourhoods.
This show provides actionable advice and case studies on:
- Sustainable urban design and placemaking principles.
- How to design cities and neighbourhoods for biodiversity net gain and wildlife.
- Climate adaptation: How to build resilience to climate change in cities.
- Net zero carbon masterplanning and architecture.
- Circular economy: How to minimise waste and emissions in new development.
- Transport: How to transition cities away to sustainable and active travel.
- Regenerative Design: Delivering positive benefits for the environment and communities.
Who is it for? Urban designers, planners, developers, architects, landscape architects, urban ecologists, engineers, transport professionals and urban citizens.
The Green Urbanist podcast is hosted by Ross O'Ceallaigh, an urban designer and sustainable placemaking consultant.
Latest Episode
Nature-led Urban Design - Join our study tour and masterclass in London on 25 September (12.08.2025)
Previous Episodes
- #119: Timber-first Development, with Bywater Properties 27.05.2025
- #118: Sustainable Street Furniture for Joyful Public Spaces, with Furnitubes 19.05.2025
- #117: (WILD) Wilding Campuses 12.05.2025
- #116: A Climate of Truth, with Mike Berners-Lee 08.05.2025
- #115: (WILD) Urban Rewilding with Communities, with Citizen Zoo 05.05.2025
- #114: Regenerative Design in Practice, with Scott McAulay (Architype) 28.04.2025
- #113: The UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard explained 22.04.2025
- #112: How to make sustainability irresistible 14.04.2025
- #111: Engaging Communities with the Future of Place and Nature, with the Place Bureau 07.04.2025
- Nature-led Masterplanning and Placemaking + Webinar Announcement 03.04.2025
- #110: Wild Cities - Lessons from cities where biodiversity thrives 31.03.2025
- #109: (WILD) Rewilding and Reconnecting Towns with the Landscape 24.03.2025
- Free Tool: Your City's Climate in 2050 21.03.2025
- #108: (WILD) Rewilding for Urban Flood Resilience 11.03.2025
- #107: Strategies for Communicating Sustainability with Clients and Communities 06.03.2025
- #106: Sustainable Placemaking - creating places where people and nature thrive 28.02.2025
- #105: (WILD) Wilding the City, with Sophie Thompson (LDA Design) 17.02.2025
- #104: Local Energy Solutions: Case Studies + Interactive Map 10.02.2025
- #103: The 5 Types of Sustainable Change-Maker and Your Role in Systems Change 03.02.2025
- #102: (WILD) Rewilding Urban Parks with Lost Species - Sean McCormack, Ealing Beaver Project 27.01.2025
