I'm really excited to share this conversation with Nick Searl – Strategic Advisor at Urban Partners and former Managing Partner at Argent, the developer behind King's Cross.
Twenty-five years ago, King's Cross was a derelict goods yard in an area known for drugs, crime and prostitution. Two masterplans failed. The third began with a year of talking, not drawing – and today Meta alone has about 12,000 people working there. That's what we talk about;
✅ Principles for a Human City: a year of talking, not drawing
✅ Making every square metre more valuable – not squeezing out more of them
✅ Surviving 2008 hand to mouth – until the Google deal
✅ Why neither cities nor developers can do it alone anymore
More about the podcast:
See you in the next episodes of Urbcast — in Polish and in English.
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