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The Cities on the Frontline: Urban Exchange podcast series is a collaborative project designed to educate and inspire cities and their partners around the globe to build resilience into their planning for tackling urban challenges. The podcast is produced by SmartCitiesWorld and the Resilient Cities Network.
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Each 20-minute episode is co-hosted by our Executive Director Lauren Sorkin and Paul Wilson, SmartCitiesWorld Advisory Board Chair. The podcast features city leaders, urban resilience practitioners and subject matter experts highlighting practical ideas that have worked to build urban resilience around the world. It aims to educate and inspire city leaders, Chief Resilience Officers, other urban practitioners and partners, on crucial resilience solutions of our time. Our episodes feature on-the-ground, innovative practices by cities within our city-led network and give insight into the challenges they face, practices that were successful and how other cities can learn from their experience.
The expertise, experiences, and passion of each guest is brought out in the episodes. We hope you enjoy listening and are inspired to advance urban resilience.



Episode 4: LIVE from COP26 in Glasgow featuring Miami
Mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez joins our Executive Director Lauren Sorkin live from COP26, as they discuss the...
Episode 3: Solutions for climate and ecosystem investment featuring Glasgow
Glasgow City Council Leader Susan Aitken talks with Jeff Risom, Chief Innovation Officer at Gehl about the leading...
Episode 2: Solutions for climate adaptation featuring Rotterdam
Rotterdam City Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb is hosted by R-Cities Executive Director, Lauren Sorkin in this episode featuring...
Episode 1: Solutions for resilient, climate-ready infrastructure featuring Houston
Houston City Mayor Sylvester Turner is hosted by Smart Cities World Advisory Panel Chair, Paul Wilson in this episode...
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