34: Can podcasts change our cities? (guest: Mustafa Sherif - Urbanistica Podcast)

Mustafa is an Urban Planner at AFRY, Placemaking Europe Leader, TEDxTalk Content Researcher & co coach at TEDxStockholm, BUT his biggest passion is being a podcaster and urban influencer at Urbanistica Podcast. Urbanistica is a podcast with over 35 000 listeners from 110 countries!

In this episode: we introduce the story of Mustafa and his Urbanistica podcast. We talk about how we can influence the decision makers in cities as well as citizens with a podcast about urbanism. Basically, how can we change our cities with podcasting?


I also asked Mustafa about:

• What does it mean to be an urban planner and urban influencer for him?
• What is the most important thing when we talk about the development of our cities?
• What was the incentive for him to create Urbanistica podcast? 
• How is he cooperating with H22 City Expo, Placemaking Europe & KTH The Royal Institute of Technology?
• What was his biggest challenge as a podcaster?
  
• Does he think that in the future podcast will become an official tool in urban planning and city making?

Book reccommended by Mustafa:

is a... PODCAST! Mustafa advices you to listen to a lot of podcasts and explore them in your favourite podcast app.

You can follow Mustafa on:

• his website
  https://mustafasherif.com
  
• linkedin
  https://www.linkedin.com/in/mustafa-sherif/

and his Urbanistica podcast at:

• instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/urbanistica.podcast/
  
• youtube
  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8msNnlQae3RcIqvjCUjUVA
  
• Spotify
  https://open.spotify.com/show/7uDWEv8Afho5l7UsilOUYZ?si=p12zZr8iReCGS-u0PtTC1Q
  
• Acast
  https://shows.acast.com/Urbanistica