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Intro/Outro: “Getting Better,” by Shed Seven == Discussed: People David Gottfried: guest; co-founder of USGBC, founder of WorldGBC (Wikipedia; Regen360)Mitch Albom: author of Tuesdays with Morrie, Gottfried's model for the book's dialogue format (Wikipedia)Zenobia: third-century queen of Palmyra, namesake of Gottfried's AI thinking partner (Wikipedia)Bryan Boyer: co-author of Chain Drain; Taubman College, University of Michigan William McDonough: architect and Cradle to Cradle co-author, cited as a blurber of Regen 360 (mcdonough.com) Frank Duffy: DEGW co-founder and past RIBA president (Wikipedia; RIBA obituary)Art Gensler: founder of Gensler and a Gottfried mentor (Wikipedia)Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal: 2021 Pritzker laureates known for "never demolish" transformation (Harvard GSD lecture) Patrick Bellew: founder of Atelier Ten; 2023 CTBUH Fazlur R. Khan Lifetime Achievement Award (CVU profile; Atelier Ten announcement)Books and media Regen360: An Operating System for a Regenerative Earth, David Gottfried (regen360.net)Explosion Green, David Gottfried's previous book (Wikipedia author page)Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom (Wikipedia)Unfrozen 129: Chain Drain, with Bryan Boyer and Greg Lindsay (episode)Unfrozen 131: Chatting with Barbarians, with Alexandros Washburn (episode)Chain Drain: Why the Built Environment Struggles to Learn and How to Fix It, Boyer and Lindsay, 2026 (chaindrain.netlify.app)Companies and organizations U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) (usgbc.org)World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) (worldgbc.org)USGBC California and Arup: California Wildfire Rebuilding Guide after the 2025 Los Angeles fires (Architect magazine; 2026 update) Gensler (gensler.com) Blue Planet Systems: synthetic limestone aggregate made from captured CO2, a likely match for the carbon-negative concrete sample Gottfried shows (technology)Atelier Ten (atelierten.com)Rivian R2: cited as an example of published vehicle life cycle data (rivian.com)AI tools named: ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and GeminiCouncil on Vertical Urbanism (CVU), formerly CTBUH (verticalurbanism.org)Standards, codes, and rating systems LEED (usgbc.org/leed)LEED v5: carbon assessment prerequisite and whole building life cycle assessment (One Click LCA overview; LEEDuser NC-v5 MRc2)BREEAM (breeam.com) Green Star, Green Building Council of Australia (gbca.org.au)WELL Building Standard (wellcertified.com)Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) and life cycle assessment (LCA)Paris Agreement and COP climate conferences (UNFCCC)Policy and finance PACE financing (Property Assessed Clean Energy) (U.S. Department of Energy)Nevada Green Building Tax Abatement and CityCenter, Las Vegas (state project list; Las Vegas Sun)Arlington County, Virginia, Green Building Incentive Policy: bonus density (FAR) for LEED (Arlington County)San Francisco priority permitting for LEED Gold (SF Environment)CTBUH 2023 International Conference, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Humanizing High Density (see Atelier Ten announcement above)

Intro: “Miss the Start, Miss the End,” by Sparks Interstitial: “She Blinded Me with Science,” by Thomas Dolby Outro: “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” by Rodgers & Hammerstein, performed by the Liverpool FC Supporters Choir == Discussed: People Michael Webb (architecture writer, co-author) — Wallpaper* contributor pageThomas Aujero Small (co-author; music critic) — ORO Editions author bio via ACC Art BooksElizabeth Valmont (Arup, Americas Technical Services Leader) — Arup staff profileCharles and Ray Eames — Eames Office / Eames FoundationRichard Neutra (architect, Strathmore Apartments) — WikipediaCharles Garnier (architect, Paris Opera) — WikipediaHans Scharoun (Berlin Philharmonie architect) — WikipediaAlvar Aalto (Essen opera house architect) — WikipediaHerzog & de Meuron (Elbphilharmonie) — Official siteSnøhetta (Oslo Opera House) — Official sitePeter Haimerl (architect, Konzerthaus Blaibach) — ArchDaily project profileThomas E. Bauer (baritone, Blaibach initiator) — Ignant interviewWilly Brandt (Mayor of West Berlin, Deutsche Oper inauguration) — WikipediaWalter T. Grondzik (co-author, MEEB) — Wiley author pageMark Schiller (USC, glare research on Disney Hall) — USC School of Architecture facultySam Pellman (chime tuning, Tower of Voices) — ENR profile of the projectPaul Murdoch (architect, Flight 93 National Memorial) — Paul Murdoch ArchitectsBooks Michael Webb & Thomas Aujero Small, Music and Architecture in Harmony: Opera Houses and Concert Halls of Europe (ORO Editions, 2026) — Publisher/distributor listingWalter T. Grondzik, Alison G. Kwok et al., Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings ("MEEB") — Wiley product pageBuildings & Venues Strathmore Apartments, Westwood, LA (Richard Neutra, 1937; former Eames residence) — Confluence lecture backgroundEstates Theatre, Prague (Don Giovanni premiere) — WikipediaPalais Garnier (Paris Opera) — WikipediaDeutsche Oper Berlin — Official siteStaatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin — Official siteBerlin Philharmonie (Scharoun, 1963) — Official siteElbphilharmonie, Hamburg — Official siteOslo Opera House — Official siteTeatro di San Carlo, Naples — Official siteBlaibach Concert Hall Bayreuth Festspielhaus — WikipediaGrand Théâtre de Bordeaux (1780) — WikipediaMusikverein, Vienna — Official siteLa Scala, Milan — Official siteWalt Disney Concert Hall, LA — Official siteStavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens (Renzo Piano) — Official siteLA Memorial Coliseum — Official siteFlight 93 National Memorial / Tower of Voices — National Park Service pageInstitutions & Organizations Arup (engineering firm) — Arup SoundLab (R) overviewUniversity of Southern California, School of Architecture — Official siteCranbrook Academy of Art (Eames connection) — Official siteAmerican Film Institute — Official siteNational Park Service — Official siteNew York MTA / Second Avenue Subway — MTA project pageSociety of Building Science Educators — Official site— 2005 Conference Award RecipientsMusic & Opera Works Mentioned Mozart, Don Giovanni — WikipediaRichard Strauss, Elektra — WikipediaWagner, Das Rheingold (Ring cycle) — WikipediaAndrew Lloyd Webber, The Phantom of the Opera — Official siteOther Items of Interest

Intro/Outro: “Barbarian,” by The Darkness -- Discussed: Alexandros Washburn (author, Chatting with Barbarians) Chatting with Barbarians (book site) Greg Lindsay (co-host, urbanist/journalist) Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan The Ephebic Oath of the Athenians P(doom) Yuval Noah Harari Yann LeCunM2 to M1 Learning (Autonomous Machine Learning) Isovis vs Isocline AMI / Advanced Machine Intelligence (LeCun's startup) Mark Zuckerberg Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic Stuart Russell (AI researcher, UC Berkeley) Aristotle OpenAI Hugging Face Meta Anthropic ("Claudville") METR (the "meter" AI-safety research org) Dwarkesh Patel Waymo Ford Motor Company NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) New York University Stevens Institute of Technology CivicVirtue.ai (Washburn's alignment lab), where you can find MetaGotham LEAP (Riyadh tech conference) Robert Moses Winston Churchill Timothy "Speed" Levitch Bennett Miller (director) The Cruise (1998 film) Moneyball (2011 film) Geoffrey West (Santa Fe Institute) Scale, by Geoffrey West (book) Santa Fe Institute Constantinople / Istanbul Tokyo Manhattan grid (1811 Commissioners' Plan) Riyadh Philadelphia Erie Canal Empire State Building Syracuse University Washington, D.C. (L'Enfant Plan)

Intro/Outro: “The Housebuilding Song,” by David Ferguson -- Discussed: People Ned Resnikoff (guest) — Resnikoff Consulting · Public Comment newsletter Greg Lindsay (co-host) — greglindsay.org Dan Safarik (co-host) — LinkedIn Christopher Cabaldon, California State Senator, former mayor of West Sacramento — Senate biography · Wikipedia Gabriel (Gabe) Metcalf, Head of Planning, California Forever; former CEO of SPUR — California Forever profile · The Planning Report interview Zohran Mamdani, Mayor of New York City — Office of the Mayor · Wikipedia Marc Andreessen — a16z profile Scott Wiener, author of SB 79 — sd11.senate.ca.gov Organizations, companies, and government bodies Ned Resnikoff Consulting — resnikoffconsulting.com NYC Mayor's Office of Mass Engagement — establishing announcement California Forever — californiaforever.com SPUR (San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association) — spur.org Blackstone — blackstone.com Cornell Tech — tech.cornell.edu Metro, Portland's regional government — oregonmetro.gov Atlanta Regional Commission — atlantaregional.org Town of Atherton, California — ci.atherton.ca.us City of San Jose — sanjoseca.gov County of Los Angeles — lacounty.gov Legislation and policy programs California SB 79, Abundant & Affordable Homes Near Transit Act — bill text · California YIMBY summary Road to Housing Act — U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs New York City "City of Yes" zoning reforms — NYC Department of City Planning ULURP (Uniform Land Use Review Procedure) — NYC Planning overview California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) — Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation Publications Build or Die: How America Is Suffocating Its Cities and What to Do About It, by Ned Resnikoff (Princeton University Press, December 8, 2026) — publisher page Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City, by Jorge Almazan, Joe McReynolds, Naoki Saito and Studiolab — Oro Editions (see Unfrozen 31, “Emergent Tokyo,” for more). CRE Daily — credaily.com Places and building typologies Amerikamura district, Osaka (site of the zakkyo-building cocktail bar) — Osaka Info Tokyo Metropolitan Government — metro.tokyo.lg.jp City of Sacramento — cityofsacramento.gov City of Austin, Texas — austintexas.gov City of Portland, Oregon — portland.gov

Intro/Outro: "Balls," by Sparks -- Discussed: “Photography: The Middle Class Medium”Family Propaganda PortraitsPhoto-MarxismBruce WeberSusan SontagCindy ShermanWalker EvansLoriel BeltranMarvin HeifermanJose Antonio Navarette“Avedon Smiles” > Richard Avedon: Nastassja Kinski and the SerpentBrene Brown WeegeeAlfred Dupont Building, downtown MiamiAllappattah > “Wynwood West”-- “Navigating through the excuses became part of the performance.” “The image is more important than the reality it captures.” “You are poking at people who can squish you.” “Is taking a picture a crime?” “I erase myself into these interiors.” “I left with all the conceptual goodies I could fathom.” “Interior decorating choices like a bad mixtape…With all of the resources at your disposal, this was your choice?” “Buildings will eventually be like a Mr. Potato Head, with interchangeable parts.” “Documenting architecture and fine art, I can map the gentrification that has happened in the last few years.”

Intro/Outro: “The Chain,” by Fleetwood Mac -- Discussed: People Bryan Boyer — co-author; Taubman College, University of Michigan (transcript: "Taubin College")Greg Lindsay — co-author; U of T School of CitiesFrank Duffy — DEGW co-founder, past RIBA president; RIBA obituaryStewart Brand — How Buildings Learn, source of the shearing-layers framingBobby Fijan — co-founder, The American Housing CorporationKP Reddy — founder/CEO, Zero RFI; ex-Gehry Technologies Boon Sheridan — permitting tech lead, EPIC Jon Buerge — president, Urban Villages Jeanne Gang — Studio Gang Joanna Frank — Center for Active Design Federico Negro — CEO, CanoaAstro Teller — X, the Moonshot FactoryMasayoshi Son — SoftBank Group Adam Neumann — WeWork co-founder David Graeber — B******t Jobs Austan Goolsbee — Federal Reserve Bank of ChicagoGeorge Romney — HUD Secretary behind Operation BreakthroughCompanies & organizations Anori — company site / X project page; spun out of Alphabet's X with $26M led by Prologis and Builders Consigli AS + AECOM — AEC Magazine on the acquisition; Norwegian AI start-up acquired for roughly $390M Zero RFI — zero-rfi.com; backed by General Catalyst, built on its Foundation Zero intelligence layer The American Housing Corporation — americanhousing.com / Fast Company profileUrban Villages — urban-villages.comStudio Gang — studiogang.comSHoP Architects (Chris Sharples) — shoparc.comGensler — gensler.comAutodesk / Revit — autodesk.com/products/revitKaterra — Wikipedia; raised more than $2 billion before going out of business WeWork — WikipediaEliseAI — eliseai.com (transcript: "Elise AI")Canoa — canoa.comEPIC (Environmental Policy Innovation Center) — policyinnovation.orgPermitting Tech — permittingtech.comAvalonBay + Equity Residential → Vivmark Residential — Commercial Observer; more than 180,000 rental apartments, ~$71B enterprise value JPMorganChase / 270 Park Avenue — project pageBilt Rewards — biltrewards.comPCBC — pcbc.comCouncil for Quality Growth — councilforqualitygrowth.orgPapers, reports & standards Chain Drain: Why the Built Environment Struggles to Learn and How to Fix It — chaindrain.netlify.app; Boyer & Lindsay (2026), University of Michigan white paper built on dozens of AECO-sector interviews 2026 Permitting Technology Landscape Report — permittingtech.com; inventory of 305+ permitting technologiesConstruction Disconnected: The High Cost of Poor Data and Miscommunication – Autodesk / FMI, 2018Fitwel — fitwel.orgLEED — usgbc.org/leedWELL Building Standard — wellcertified.comToyota Production System — Wikipedia · Six Sigma — WikipediaOperation Breakthrough — HUD User archivePolicy 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (H.R. 6644) — Congress.gov; reduces barriers to building and targets institutional single-family buyers NYC Local Law 97 — nyc.govCEQ Permitting Innovation Center — permitting.innovation.govCultural references Hooli, from HBO's Silicon Valley — WikipediaFucked Company — Wikipedia

Intro/Outro: “Spacelab,” by Kraftwerk -- -- Interviewees: Greg Lemke, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Salk Institute Ryan Rosen, Friendly Futures John Galante, President, AE Ventures -- Discussed: People Louis Kahn — architect of the Salk Institute Greg Lemke — distinguished professor emeritus, Salk Institute Tony Hunter — Salk professor; discovered tyrosine phosphorylation Jonas Salk — founder of the Salk Institute Eero Saarinen — architect of Bell Labs Holmdel and IBM Yorktown  William Pereira — architect of Geisel Library and master planner of UC Irvine Walter Netsch — SOM architect of Northwestern's University Library Dawn Clark Netsch — Illinois legislator and comptroller; Walter Netsch's wife Frank Gehry — architect; designed Facebook/Meta's MPK20 campus Mark Zuckerberg — co-founder and CEO, Meta Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) — namesake of UC San Diego's Geisel Library Cormac McCarthy — novelist, author of The Road; longtime Santa Fe Institute fellow Bruno Latour — sociologist of science; co-author of Laboratory Life Steve Woolgar — co-author with Latour of Laboratory Life Christian Catalini — MIT economist; research on lab proximity and collaboration Eric Klinenberg — NYU sociologist; author of Palaces for the People Jan Gehl — Danish urbanist William H. Whyte — urbanist behind the Street Life Project Ryan K. Rosen — founder and creative director, Friendly Futures Aaron Hurst — founder and CEO, U.S. Chamber of Connection John Galante — president and founder, AE Ventures Bryan Boyer — University of Michigan; co-author of Chain Drain ("Brian" in the transcript) Kelly Alvarez Doran — co-founder, Ha/f Climate Design; formerly MASS Design Group Buildings, Campuses & Places Salk Institute for Biological Studies — La Jolla, CA Salk Institute architecture — history and design of the Kahn campus UC San Diego — University of California, San Diego Geisel Library — UC San Diego UC Irvine — William Pereira's radial campus plan Torrey Pines Mesa — San Diego's research and biotech corridor La Jolla — San Diego community Bell Works (former Bell Labs Holmdel) — Saarinen's Holmdel research campus, now adaptively reused IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center — Yorktown Heights, NY Santa Fe Institute — complexity research institute Northwestern University Library — Walter Netsch's brutalist library Jussieu Campus — Sorbonne University, Paris Meta MPK20 — Frank Gehry-designed Menlo Park office The RaDD (Research and Development District) — IQHQ's downtown San Diego waterfront life-science campus Gaylord Pacific Resort — Chula Vista, CA Wild Mile — floating eco-park on the Chicago River La Jolla Tennis Club — public tennis club, La Jolla Companies, Organizations & Events Friendly Futures — Ryan Rosen's social-architecture and neighborhood-games practice AE Ventures — John Galante's hosted-event company Builder Innovator — AE Ventures' content platform and summit series Urban Rivers — Chicago nonprofit behind the Wild Mile U.S. Chamber of Connection — Aaron Hurst's civic-connection nonprofit IQHQ — life-science real estate developer Alexandria Real Estate Equities — life-science REIT and lab campus developer Scripps Research — La Jolla biomedical research institute Scripps Institution of Oceanography — UC San Diego MASS Design Group — nonprofit architecture practice Ha/f Climate Design — Kelly Alvarez Doran's embodied-carbon consultancy Zonda — housing market research firm Future Place — Zonda/BUILDER master-planned community conference PCBC — Pacific Coast Builders Conference California Building Industry Association — CBIA Downtown Denver Partnership — downtown Denver business improvement organization Mortgage Bankers Association — MBA White House Council of Economic Advisers — CEA Bilt Rewards — rent-payment rewards platform WeWork — flexible workspace operator Los Angeles Dodgers — MLB franchise Los Angeles Rams — NFL franchise Insulating Concrete Forms (ICF) — Insulating Concrete Forms Manufacturers Association Otter.ai — transcription service used for this recording Publications, Papers & Works Cited Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts — Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar (Princeton University Press) Chain Drain: Why the Built Environment Struggles to Learn and How to Fix It — Bryan Boyer and Greg Lindsay, University of Michigan white paper Palaces for the People — Eric Klinenberg on social infrastructure The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces — William H. Whyte, Project for Public Spaces The Purpose Economy — Aaron Hurst Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next — John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay Road to Housing Act of 2025 — U.S. Senate Banking Committee housing legislation Conquest of the Planet of the Apes — 1972 film shot partly at UC Irvine

Intro/Outro: “Fixing a Hole,” by The Beatles Discussed: The Other Housing Crisis: Ending the Deterioration and Loss of Affordable Homes. Todd Swanstrom, A.T. Harrison & Alan Mallach, eds., Princeton University Press, 2026 The American Housing Survey Housing filtering theory Place Matters: Metropolitics for the 21st Century by Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf, Todd Swanstrom MBA White Paper: Demographic Trends Could Reshape Future Housing Demand Raj Chetty, et. al: “The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Project,” Harvard, 2016 Matthew Desmond + Eviction Lab Measuring and Understanding Home Repair Costs: A National Typology of Households, Philadelphia Federal Reserve, 2019 UMSL’s Home Repair Toolkit

-- Intro/Outro: “Big Road,” by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Discussed: Transportation and the Shape of Cities Christoph Spieler Mandi Chapa David Copeland Laredo -- Trains, Buses, People: an Opinionated Atlas of US and Canadian Transit American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Green Book NACTO (National Association of City Transportation Officials)  Previously visited transportation design fairylands: - Copenhagen (Unfrozen 56: Urban Block Cities)- Amsterdam (Unfrozen 84: Movement) Dallas Street Design Manual Woonerfs

Intro/Outro: “Roscoe,” by Midlake Andrew James Gregor Roscoe Blue Dog Construction Embarcadero Center John Portman Hyatt Regency San Francisco The Clift Hotel’s Redwood Room The Tenderloin “Hostile” architecture Interboro Partners: The Arsenal of Inclusion and Exclusion San Francisco’s “doom loop” Kansas City, MO’s “Zero KC” initiative Invisible People Instagram channel Mary Leakey Urbz’s interventions in Mumbai and elsewhere (see Unfrozen 115, “Homegrown Cities”) Patrick Fealey’s “The Invisible Man,” Esquire, 14 November 2024 Rebuilding Together East Bay Network HOPE (Homeless Outreach Population Estimate) NYC

Intro/Outro: “Kaze Wo Atsumete,” by Happy End Discussed: PittsburghMark HouserUnfrozen 81: Houser + Hytha = HighrisesCathedral of LearningThe Pittsburgh AgreementRichard Florida’s “Eds and Meds” theoriesPittsburgh Regional Transit’s former interurban trolley linesThe InclinesTokyoThanks, Points Guy!Shinjuku Park Tower / Park Hyatt (Kenzo Tange, 1994)Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola, 2003Midtown Tower (SOM, 2007)Roppongi Hills (KPF, 2003)Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building (Kenzo Tange, 1991)Imperial Hotel – Frank Lloyd Wright, 1922-1967; Mitsui Fudosan, 1970-present; next edition coming soon-ishHotel Okura (Yoshiro Tanaguchi, 1962-2019; Taisei Corp. 2019-present)Hong KongM+ (Herzog & De Meuron, 2XXX)Eric ChenShirley SuryaArchigram ArchivesNakagin Capsule TowerEric Ho, via Greg’s “Hacking the City: A New Model for Urban Renewal,” The New Republic, 10 December 2015Sao PauloDan’s Vertical Urbanism article on his tripCracolandiaJapan > Brazil polestarFasano Hotel Sao Paulo (Isay Weinfeld)Hotel Unique (Ruy Ohtake)SESC Pompeia (Lina Bo Bardi, 1986)KPF Tech WeekUpcoming Greg Lindsay / Brian Boyer White Paper for University of Michigan on “Chain Drain”Autodesk: time wasted communicating about constructionNavigant survey on RFIsMcKinsey survey on construction costsArgues for the need for a standard of governance and/or quality Can/should we Wal-martize our A/E/C supply chain?Pokemon Go’s 10th anniversary: 6 July 2026EU Digital Product PassportsLocal Law 97270 Park AvenueNYRA 50th Edition: Goldberger vs KrotovJamie Dimon’s back to office call – is any data being collected?Brian Potter, Construction Physics: “Welcome to Another Day in Katerra-dise” 9 June 2021Anori (born from Google X, The Moonshot Factory) and BIM 2.0The Lacaton & Vassal Model: Just Don’t Build ItGoogle repurposing lumber from the Moffett Field blimp hangars for its building in The Dalles, OregonFlorida + BCG: Rise of the Urban Knowledge CampusMass Design: Alan RicksHa/f Climate Design: Kelly Alvarez DoranBobby Fijan, American Housing Corp.WeWorkPhil Kirschner : The WorklineCanoaSidewalk TorontoThe Baumol Cost Disease EffectNiantic SpatialKeyhole (In-Q-Tel)Greg’s next appearance:  FWD50 7 July 2026

-- Intro/Outro: “Got to Do It,” by Andrew W.K. -- Discussed: Amateur Architecture Studio: Wang Shu and Liu WenyuA surreal and uncanny live translation of the press announcement. Sample sentences, per AI:“Then tell your ego can contribute to tie your to the total, one lie or toggle lie or drone gorgeous, so it will usually kind of boil in here.”“So it a general fish on the Gita woman sound lion eating the Minion, and Villa means young Jewish show that comes in the currency.”“Yes, we shall defund the pushes away, and the way this would come dark.”Is this the China-max Biennale?Marco Polo reference (visited Hangzhou in 1275)Shades of Lacaton & Vassal, curators of the 2018 BiennaleShades of, and throwing shade at, Mindfulness City from the 2025 editionComplexity of taking on the US Pavilion responsibility in this timelineThe 2025 edition, PORCH: An Architecture of GenerosityOur somewhat lame attempt at Fantasy Biennale:Post-warfare architecture / rebuilding schemes from Ukraine or Gaza?One source of ideas: Constructing Hope: Ukraine | Chicago Architecture CenterExpected returnees:Francis KereLacaton & VassalProbably not Ma YansongProbably not Ai WeiweiQuestion mark over Russia and Israel pavilions, which were unoccupied and closed for renovations, respectively, in 2025The 2026 Art Biennale debacleDeath of curator Koyo KuohNo Golden Lions for nations accused of war crimesPotential Greg- and Michèle Champagne-led activation: EU-CAN Alliance:Greg: Classic OMA-AMO content, shitposting, that kind of thing. Michele: An alliance around new Bauhaus principles concerning housing.Exclusive first right of refusal obtained for Mind Enterprises performanceWill the menagerie of pavilions make space for protest and dialogue around the more controversial entrants?Sorkin’s take on the Rafi Segal-designed Israeli National Library and its cancellationAustrian pavilion bridge to the adjoining neighborhoodVenezia FCClosing of current arena on the Venetian lagoon, Stadio Pier Luigi PenzoOpening of a new stadium in MestreEnter the Canadians:Major investment from DrakeNew management from Toronto FCGiuseppe Saputo (Quebecois) owns Bologna FCFlashback to episode 119, Paul Goldberger’s interview and comments on the politics of sports and their arenasComo FC

-- Intro/Outro: “Ya Got Trouble,” by Robert Preston (Original Cast Recording of “The Music Man”) - Discussed: “All-American City: Bluster, Boom and Bust in Wichita,” by Chase M. Billingham “The Midwest Revival: A Well-Kept Secret,” Alan Arenhold, in Governing, April 21, 2026 Unfrozen 118, “Migrant Midwest” Unfrozen 108, “NORTH” The Chisholm Trail Cessna Beechcraft Stearman Aircraft The Coleman Company White Castle Pizza Hut Spirit AeroSystems Wichita’s non-annexation agreement with the Aerospace Industrial District, renewed 2021 Overview | Aerospace | Industry... | Greater Wichita Partnership Rise of the Creative Class, by Richard Florida The Cheesecake Factory arrives in Wichita – stop the presses Jack De Boer  Gilbert and Mosley chemical bloom,1986 “The Minnesota Guys” – David G. Lundberg and Michael Elzufon- Arrest for fraud “Harvard-educated” James Chung: 2015 Focus Forward Marshall Murdock and the Wichita Eagle “The City as a Growth Machine: Towards a Political Economy of Place,” (1976) by Harvey Molotch “Urban Fortunes,” (1987), Harvey Molotch and John Logan  Markus Moos, University of Waterloo: “Youthification” Tulsa Remote Program Choose Topeka Program Modern Romance, by Aziz Ansari and Eric Kleinenberg Century II (1970), by John M. Hickman Wichita Public Library (1967), by Schaefer, Schirmer & Eflin Naftzger Park (2019 edition, Garver) Naftzger Park (1979 edition)

Intro/Outro: “Here on Earth,” by Love and Rockets -- “Dwelling on Earth,” by Stefan Al“Supertall,” by Stefan AlUnfrozen 29, “‘Al’ in on Supertalls”Etymology of “oikonomia” = “economy” in ancient GreekThe Nebelivka Hypothesis“The Poetics of Space,” by Gaston BachelardPierre Bordeau’s theory of “habitus”The Roman insulae“The Island at the Center of the World,” by Russell ShortoAngkor WatLidar scanningMesopotamia’s use of plaster leading to deforestationThe Frankfurt KitchenCommunal living at TU DelftBosco Verticale, MilanMjostarnet, Brummundal, NorwayICON Technology3D printing on the Moon

Intro: “Stop the Rock,” by Apollo 440 -- Discussed: “Lunch on a Beam: The Making of an American Photograph,” by Christine Roussel“The Art of Rockefeller Center,” by Christine RousselRockefeller Center historyTishman Speyer acquired in 2000Nelson RockefellerJohn D. Rockefeller Jr.The Ludlow MassacreJohn R. ToddRaymond HoodWallace HarrisonAndrew ReinhardDelirious New York (Rem Koolhaas) and “Manhattanism”Empire State (Empty State) BuildingIvy LeeMerle CrowellCharles Clyde EbbettsThomas KelleyWilliam LeftwichOccupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), est. 1971