Challenger Cities

By Iain Montgomery

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Episodes: 81

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Iain Montgomery of Now or Never Ventures interviews urbanists, creatives, transit and development types to explore how cities can punch above their weight and create distinctive new futures outside of the tired playbooks.


Episode Date
Challenger Cities EP79: The Best Practice Industrial Complex with Gerald Babel-Sutter
May 05, 2026
Challenger Cities EP78: Saying Yes More with Jen Angel
May 01, 2026
Challenger Cities EP77: The Will To Build with Alex Bozikovic
Apr 28, 2026
Challenger Cities EP76: Urban Troubleshooting with Heath Gledhill & Tom Shield
Apr 23, 2026
Challenger Cities EP75: What a Rock Off a Rock Can Teach the Rest of Us with Tasha Freidus
Apr 21, 2026
Challenger Cities EP74: Embrace the Chaos with Bronwyn Williams
Apr 17, 2026
Challenger Cities EP73: Showing a City to Itself with Phil Tabah
Apr 14, 2026
Challenger Cities EP72: The Case for Civic Joy with Ilana Altman
Apr 07, 2026
Challenger Cities EP71: Welcome to Your Agentic City with Alistair Croll
Mar 30, 2026
Challenger Cities EP70: Building a Village in the Sky with Anson Kwok
Mar 16, 2026
Challenger Cities EP69: Designing for Intimacy with Paul Meyers
Mar 16, 2026
Challenger Cities EP68: The Bus Deserves Better with Ray Stenning
Mar 03, 2026
Challenger Cities EP67: Watching a World From Behind the Window with Füsun Aydın
Feb 25, 2026
Challenger Cities EP66: Urbanism Without the Excuses with Mikael Colville-Andersen
Feb 19, 2026
Challenger Cities EP65: Sitopia with Carolyn Steel
Feb 16, 2026
Challenger Cities EP64: Tourism as a Stress Test with Maryam Siddiqi
Feb 10, 2026
Challenger Cities EP63: The Pub Is a Public Service with Pete Brown
Feb 06, 2026
Challenger Cities EP62: Cities for People Who Want to Try Things with Patti Baston
Feb 02, 2026
Challenger Cities EP61: Sweat and the City with Glenn Auerbach
Jan 27, 2026
Challenger Cities EP60: Designing Cities in Pencil, Not Pen with Jasmine Palardy (again)
Jan 19, 2026
Challenger Cities EP59: Building Faster Than Memory with Ruchita Bansal
Jan 19, 2026
Challenger Cities EP58: The World's Best Cities with Chris Fair
Jan 19, 2026
Challenger Cities EP57: Young People and the New Rules of Money with David Akermanis
Jan 19, 2026
Challenger Cities EP56: Why Empty Space Is Never Neutral with Evan Snow
Jan 19, 2026
Challenger Cities EP55: Impossible City - Paris in the 21st Century with Simon Kuper
Jan 19, 2026
Challenger Cities EP54: Rethinking Ireland, the Too Often Misunderstood Challenger Country with Peter Ryan
Jan 19, 2026
Challenger Cities EP53: The Logic Beneath the Madness of Transport with Marcus Mayers
Dec 03, 2025
Challenger Cities EP52: Culture as a Form of Wealth with Paul Owens
Nov 24, 2025
Challenger Cities EP51: Women Changing Cities with Melissa Bruntlett
Nov 10, 2025
EP50: If a City Can’t Handle a Little Kink ... with Lady Valeska
Oct 29, 2025
Challenger Cities EP49: How the Screen Has Killed the City with Greg Lindsay
Oct 27, 2025
Challenger Cities EP48: Live, Move, Rest ... The Conscious City with Anupam Yog
Oct 20, 2025
Challenger Cities EP47: Cities on the Couch with Charles Landry
Oct 02, 2025
Challenger Cities EP46: Stitching the Fragmented City with Rashiq Fataar
Oct 01, 2025
Challenger Cities EP45: Utopian Hours - Turin’s Festival of the Possible with Luca Ballarini
Sep 26, 2025
Challenger Cities EP44: Your City Isn’t Crowded, It’s Just Full of Cars with Daniel Herriges
Aug 19, 2025
Challenger Cities EP43: Daring To Be Different with Andy Nulman
Aug 19, 2025
Challenger Cities EP42: Hauling Towards the Future with Michael Wexler
Aug 01, 2025
Challenger Cities EP41: Cities in Limbo with Diana Lind
Jul 29, 2025
Challenger Cities EP40: Hovering Above the Status Quo with Erika Potrz
Jul 25, 2025
Challenger Cities EP39: A Public Service Steeped in Northern Soul with Alex Hornby
Jul 24, 2025
Challenger Cities EP38: The City Fixer's Guide to Messy Momentum with Kevin Klinkenberg
Jul 24, 2025
Challenger Cities EP37: The Recipe Book for Cities with Guillermo Bernal
Jul 24, 2025
Challenger Cities EP36: From Corporate Innovation to Council Budgets with Charlie Rowat
Jul 24, 2025
Challenger Cities EP35: After Dark and Into the Future with Mathieu Grondin
Jul 24, 2025
Challenger Cities EP34: The Magnetic, Messy, Cities People Don’t Leave with Sofia Song
Jul 24, 2025
Challenger Cities EP33: Riding Through Stories, Not Just Spaces with Michela Grasso
Jul 23, 2025
Challenger Cities EP32: How to Love a Town Back to Life with Jeff Siegler
Jul 11, 2025
Challenger Cities EP31: Building Transit, Trust and Capability with Russell King
Jul 09, 2025
Challenger Cities EP30: Is the On-Site, the New Off-Site? Real Estate, Remote Work and Reinventing Cities with Dave Cairns
Jun 09, 2025
Challenger Cities EP29: The Charming Housing Rebellion with Naama Blonder
Jun 06, 2025
Challenger Cities EP28: Why North American Transit is Mediocre ... and How to Make it Actually Good with Reece Martin
May 28, 2025
Challenger Cities EP27: A Housing Plan for Ontario with Mike Schreiner
May 22, 2025
Challenger Cities Interlude: One Year Later ... Still a Podcast, but Maybe Something Bigger?
May 20, 2025
Challenger Cities EP26: The Policy Playbook for Challenger Cities with Tom Goldsmith
Apr 21, 2025
Challenger Cities EP25: How Nature Can Make Our Cities Thrive with Jan Sumner
Apr 21, 2025
Challenger Cities EP24: Reinventing Cities, through Office to Residential Conversions with Steven Paynter
Apr 21, 2025
Challenger Cities EP23: Fixing Cities Through Momentum, Not Just Masterplans with Rik Adamski
Apr 21, 2025
Challenger Cities EP 22: The Newcomer Perspective, What Works and What Could Be Better in Toronto with Arthur Smith
Feb 19, 2025
Challenger Cities EP21: Learnings from 'the Soo' for Future Healthy Cities with Anna Foat
Feb 18, 2025
Challenger Cities EP20: Rethinking Cities Through Lessons from Music, Psychology and Engineering with Nick Tyler
Feb 18, 2025
Challenger Cities EP20: Rethinking Cities Through Lessons from Music, Psychology and Engineering with Nick Tyler
Jan 22, 2025
Challenger Cities EP19: Why Localism Fuels Challenger Cities with Mary Rowe
Jan 13, 2025
Challenger Cities EP18: How Downsview is redefining Toronto's future by shifting the centre of gravity with Chris Eby
Jan 07, 2025
Challenger Cities EP17: Cycling, Leadership and the Future of Urban Living with Chris Bruntlett
Dec 19, 2024
Challenger Cities EP16: Red Tape to Results; Rethinking Governance for Better Cities with Hayden Clarkin
Dec 17, 2024
Challenger Cities EP15: Trains, Pains and Automobiles with Thomas Ableman
Dec 13, 2024
Challenges Cities EP14: Exploring Joyful Cities with Paul Kalbfleisch
Nov 25, 2024
Challenger City TO EP13: Envisioning Future Housing with Chris Spoke
Aug 19, 2024
Challenger City TO EP12: Governance to Growth in Transportation with Antoine Belaieff
Aug 12, 2024
Challenger City TO EP11: Developing Toronto's Winning Culture for a Golden Future with Hilton Barbour
Aug 09, 2024
Challenger City TO EP10: Future Family-Friendly Cities with Aileen Nandy
Aug 07, 2024
Challenger City TO EP9: The Role of Capital Design in Better, Future Cities with Jordan Ostapchuk
Aug 05, 2024
Challenger City TO EP8: A blueprint for a better future through Safety, Leadership & Culture with Hans Bathija
Jul 31, 2024
Challenger City TO EP7: Balancing the best of tradition and big futures for city planning with Nik Badminton
Jul 26, 2024
Challenger City TO EP6: Swallowing the Orange Pill and Rethinking Train Stations with Chris Burchett
Jul 25, 2024
Challenger City TO EP5: Going beyond 'Toronto the good' to discover a city's new cultural identity with Faisal and Tabassum Siddiqui
Jul 22, 2024
Challenger City TO EP4: Foresight-led Future with Ramy Nassar
Jul 22, 2024
Challenger City TO EP3: Toronto's Growing Pains with Alex Tribe
Jul 16, 2024
Challenger City TO EP2: Rekindling Toronto’s status through the eyes of a retailer with Laura Manes
Jul 12, 2024
Challenger City TO EP1: Embracing the Challenger City spirit with Jasmine Palardy
Jul 09, 2024