Welcome back to City Road. In this episode, we reflect on 2024's Festival of 'Public' Urbanism and its panel discussion on how the public life of great cities takes place in our cultural buildings and civic spaces – from libraries to museums, town halls, streets, parks and playgrounds. 

This special Denis Winston memorial lecture, delivered by Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon, State Librarian and award-winning author and curator, celebrates our crucial public infrastructure as the cornerstone of public and democratic life. 

The keynote address is followed by an eminent panel conversation between Dr Rob Stokes, former Minister for Planning and Public Spaces, and Professor Jennifer Barrett, Professor in Museum Studies and Pro-Vice Chancellor Indigenous at the University of Sydney. 

The annual Festival of Urbanism is brought to you by the Henry Halloran Research Trust with the assistance of the University of Sydney School of Architecture Design and Planning. 

Thanks for listening. 

See you next time on City Road. 

Host: Bill Code
Editor: Mikayla McGuirk-Scolaro

113. The Golden Thread in Public and Democratic Life

In 2012 a flash flood hit the city of Beijing. Thousands of people surfaced onto the streets from converted air raid bunkers – their underground homes. With 20 million people and a housing affordability crisis, up to 30% of the city’s bunkers have been converted into rental dormitories. The privatisation of housing has made some Chinese extremely wealthy, and their capital is flowing into foreign real estate. But not all Chinese are getting rich on the back of property investments. Dallas Rogers travels to Beijing in search of the Mousetribe, the people who call the air raid bunkers their homes.

Dr Dallas Rogers is an Urban Studies Lecturer at the University of Western Sydney. In 2015, Dallas won the prestigious Federal Minister's Award for Early Career Housing Researcher for his study on the politics of Chinese investment in Australian housing. Dallas writes and speaks on urban and housing policy. His radio documentary 'Searching for the Mousetribe, in the Confucian City' was premiered at the 2015 Festival of Urbanism in Sydney, Australia.

Searching for the Mousetribe, in the Confucian City

Welcome to Antipod: A Radical Geography Podcast and Sound Collective!

This is Episode 0...

In our initial episode, the six members of the Antipod Sound Collective introduce themselves, describe their research, discuss the origins of the podcast and the collective, and share our intentions for Season 1 of the podcast.

The Antipod Sound Collective was conceived at Antipode’s sixth Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), which was held in Montréal/Tiohtiá:ke on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka land.

As we discuss in this episode, our time together at IGJ included a visit to Kanehsatà:ke. You can learn more about the history of Kanehsatà:ke by watching Alanis Obomsawin's landmark 1993 film, "Kanehsatà:ke: 270 Years of Resistance," available for free on YouTube courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yP3srFvhKs

You can learn more about the IGJ and the Antipode Foundation at the Antipode Foundation's website.

https://antipodefoundation.org/
https://antipodefoundation.org/institute-for-the-geographies-of-justice/

Our theme music is "It’s Not Jazz," by Tronx. 
Additional music on this episode is from Frenic.
Music from both artists is available on archive.org's amazing Netlabels collection and is licensed under the Creative Commons 3.0.

https://archive.org/details/netlabels
https://archive.org/details/dystopiaq029/103TronxItsNotJazz.mp3
https://archive.org/details/DWK082/Frenic_-_03_-_Everything_Electric.mp3
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

The vocal sample in Frenic's "Everything Electric" is Jimi Hendrix in conversation with Dick Cavett in 1969.
https://youtu.be/da-969idG7Y

The vocal sample in Tronx's "It's Not Jazz" is Lester Bowie of the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKAi-7MpT8g

Make sure to follow us on Twitter! @ThisIsAntipod 

Want to find out more about Antipod: A Radical Geography Podcast and Sound Collective? Visit our website at: https://thisisantipod.org

Many thanks to The Antipode Foundation for their generous support. 

Episode 0 is hosted by KT Bender, Akira Drake Rodriguez, Allison Guess, Alex Moulton, Darren Patrick a.k.a. “dp” and Brian Williams.

The episode was mixed and edited by dp and Brian.

Season 1

Episode 0: Introduction

In this episode, host Emily Nicol is joined by Yvonne Weldon and Nathan Moran of the Metro Aboriginal Land Council to explore First Peoples’ relationship and deeply spiritual connection to the land, skies and waters of Australia and the remarkable story of Barangaroo, the powerful Cammeraygal leader after whom Barangaroo the place takes its name.

Wellama Podcast Episode 2: Barangaroo the woman

Episode 3 is here! 

Recorded earlier this year. Lorna and Joel Discuss the Issues and trade offs with engaging with the state and the way they do things.

SURVIVAL GUIDE #13: Bureaucratising Cultural Protocol

Reflections from members of the Skid Row community during the COVID-19 Pandemic. 

Music: 
Richard B Keys 
Nobuto Suda

COVID Diaries - Episode 1

Dulwich Hill: Miles 21st April 2020

Informed stories about cities and urban life. Listen live on the Community Radio Network. Podcast on Spotify.

113. The Golden Thread in Public and Democratic Life

CityRoadPod

Related tracks