Planning Podcasts
Podcasts have become a popular, engaging, and effective way to learn about a wide variety of topics, including timely and topical planning issues. Curated and reviewed by the PIBC Communications Committee, the podcasts listed below explore a variety of planning issues including climate change, housing, community engagement, and more. Podcasts summaries are featured in each issue of Planning West magazine and shared online here. Take a listen and let us know what you think!
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Featured Planning Podcasts
Planning West, Winter 2025. Click here to read summaries of the podcasts below.
Climate Imaginary Podcast: Planning for Community Resilience (run time 35:00) - SFU's Below the Radar Podcast
Host: Am Johal
Guest: Dr. Andréanne Doyon RPP, MCIP, Assistant Professor at the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University
AI for Social Good Series (run time 9 minutes per episode, 7 episodes totalling to an hour) - The Walrus Lab Podcast
Host: Acast
Guests: Various
Planning Podcasts (Past Issues)
Urban Indigenous Peoples (run time 56:00) - Warrior Life Podcast
Housing Climate Migrants (run time: 20-25:00 per episode, 4 episodes) - mini-podcast series by Jeff Quirk
Click here to read the podcast summaries from Planning West, Fall 2024
Road Reallocation and Beyond - Episode 9 (run time 51:00) - Dense City Podcast
Planning with Empathy - Episode 35 (run time 49:00) - 360 Degree City Podcast
Click here to read the podcast summaries from Planning West, Summer 2024
Walkable City Design is Critical for Economic Health (run time 1:24:00) - Strong Towns Podcast
Paved Paradise (run time 27:00) - 99% Invisible Podcast
Click here to read the podcast summaries from Planning West, Spring 2024
A Conversation with British Columbia’s Minister of Housing, Honourable Ravi Kahlon (run time 21:00) - Let’s Talking Housing: A BC Housing Podcast
The Next Urbanism (run time 65:00) - The Messy City Podcasts
Click here to read the podcast summaries from Planning West, Winter 2024
Arbitrary Lines (run time 30:00) - American Planning Association’s “People Behind the Plan" Podcasts
Majority of Canadians Support a Price on Housing Inequity (run time 37:00) - Generation Squeeze Podcast
Click here to read the podcast summaries from Planning West, Fall 2023
Planner and City Official Nithya Raman's Vision to End Homelessness In Los Angeles (run time 27:00) - American Planning Association (APA) Podcast
The Push for Middle Housing (run time 40:00) - Urban Land Institute (ULI) Toronto’s Electric Cities Podcast
Click here to read the podcast summaries from Planning West, Summer 2023
Is An Integrated Approach a Game Changer for Urban Water Management? (run time 9:34) - The Water Insider podcast series by DHI Group (Danish Hydraulic Institute)
Water and Reconciliation – Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA) Live Taping (run time 34:29) - Porcupine Podcast series by Porcupine Media
Click here to read the podcast summaries from Planning West, Spring 2023

