Next City

Next City

Join Lucas Grindley, executive director at Next City, where we believe journalists have the power to amplify solutions and spread workable ideas. Each week Lucas will sit down with trailblazers to discuss urban issues that get overlooked. At the end of the day, it's all about focusing the world's attention on the good ideas that we hope will grow. Grab a seat from the bus, subway, light-rail, or whatever your transit-love may be and listen on the go as we spread solutions from one city to the Next City .

Episodes

Revisiting Lexington - "This ‘Big Town’ Has Solutions for Cities Everywhere"

October 23, 2024 • 28 mins
This week, we’re revisiting an episode we released earlier this year, all about Lexington, Kentucky — a city where collaboration and creativity are transforming challenges into opportunities. In this episode, we highlighted how Lexington’s leaders are finding ways to foster nonpartisanship, boost civic engagement, and narrow the racial wealth gap.

We’re bringing this episode back now because it offers a window into the themes we exp...
Mark as Played

Why Urban Farms Should Be Taken Seriously

October 9, 2024 • 32 mins
Urban farms in Essex County, New Jersey are calling on local governments and the state to make long-term investments in combating food insecurity.
Mark as Played

Where Artists Are Taking Over Vacant Storefronts

October 2, 2024 • 29 mins
Florida’s Zero Empty Spaces is a win-win where artists are connected with spaces in otherwise vacant spots. The result is bolstered careers and  activated unused space.
Mark as Played

The Truth About Whether Speed Cameras Make Us Safer

September 25, 2024 • 27 mins
After Pennsylvania legalized speed cameras, they showed up on Philly’s deadly Roosevelt Boulevard. The results are clear, according to a study of what happened next. Researchers found a drop in crashes and deaths.
Mark as Played

These Loans Help Poor Families Rebuild After Climate Disasters

September 18, 2024 • 36 mins
As storms and fires keep coming, emergency loan funds from CDFIs are helping low-income communities get back on their feet.
Mark as Played

The New Rules Are Here: Unpacking the CRA

September 11, 2024 • 31 mins
New regulations for the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) will drop before November. After they’re available, we ask, what do you need to know?
Mark as Played

Farming While Black

August 28, 2024 • 34 mins
Today, we'll hear the story of Soul Fire Farm and one of its founders, Leah Penniman. A new documentary called "Farming While Black" shows how this farm in Upstate New York is part of a larger movement trying to return land to the stewardship of people of color and restore Afro-indigenous farming practices along the way.
Mark as Played

Even Your Property Taxes Were Redlined

August 21, 2024 • 36 mins
Today, we'll speak with Joe Minicozzi, an urban designer and founder of Urban3, about the work he's been doing that proves these disparities in property assessments are subsidizing wealthier, whiter neighborhoods at the expense of historically redlined neighborhoods — and we'll talk about what can be done to change it.

The New York Times : "How Lower-Income Americans Get Cheated on Property Taxes"
Mark as Played

A Boston Neighborhood’s Cautionary Tale About Climate Change

August 14, 2024 • 29 mins
The Seaport neighborhood in Boston is nicknamed by activists as the “Inundation District,” and a new documentary of the same name shows where urban planning went wrong and what residents are doing now. In this episode, writer and director David Abel — a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist — shares lessons learned from the Seaport expansion.
Mark as Played

A Climate Documentary on Solutions

June 5, 2024 • 34 mins
The documentary film “How to Power A City” looks across communities in the United States to uncover multiple approaches, big and small, for mitigating climate change. In this episode, writer and director Melanie LaRosa outlines what she found and why she chose to focus on solutions.

Mark as Played

Revisiting "What If You Give $5,800 To Someone Who Is Homeless?"

May 22, 2024 • 26 mins
Just over a year ago, we delved into a groundbreaking initiative by a foundation in Vancouver. Their question was: What if we gave people experiencing homelessness a lump sum of cash, no strings attached? The results were nothing short of remarkable — though they probably shouldn’t be surprising. Now, two years after that experiment ended, the idea is spreading to cities across the United States. So let’s revisit that initial episo...
Mark as Played

This ‘Big Town’ Has Solutions for Cities Everywhere

May 15, 2024 • 28 mins
Leaders from Lexington, Kentucky share lessons about what’s working as they foster collaboration and nonpartisanship in a city that’s solving problems like community engagement and closing the racial wealth gap.
Mark as Played

The Future of Human Transit

May 8, 2024 • 34 mins
We’re going to hear about how looking at transit from the human perspective almost always serves the greatest number of people and how it's really us who should be making decisions about the future of transit.
Mark as Played

What If Your City Gave You Money for Transit?

May 1, 2024 • 32 mins
America’s biggest test of a “mobility wallet” is in South L.A. where residents were given cash each month to cover their transit needs.
Mark as Played

Why We Need More Real Estate Developers of Color

April 24, 2024 • 33 mins
A future with plentiful affordable housing won’t come from an industry where fewer than 5% of the real estate developers are minorities. Here’s what’s being done to change.

This episode is part of our series, CDFI Futures, which explores the community development finance industry through the lenses of equity, public policy and inclusive community development. The series is generously supported by Partners for the Common Good. Sign u...
Mark as Played

The Future of Chinatown

March 27, 2024 • 29 mins
Today, we will hear from multiple Chinatown organizers who are fighting to ensure their neighborhoods remain for generations to come.
Mark as Played

A City Where Mental Health Isn’t for Policing

March 20, 2024 • 36 mins
Too often cities are answering mental health problems with systems of punishment. One alternative is proving that being accessible means when people need help, they’ll reach out earlier in their crisis, allowing for more options in problem-solving.
Mark as Played

Revisiting: The Black Barber Who Launched A Credit Union

March 13, 2024 • 37 mins
In light of the Academy Awards ceremony, we're re-highlighting our episode featuring Arlo Washington, the Black barber-turned-visionary behind People Trust Community Federal Credit Union and the central figure of the Oscar-nominated short documentary, "The Barber of Little Rock." 

When neighbors started coming to his Little Rock barbershop to borrow money, Arlo Washington went a step further and chartered Arkansas’ newest credit uni...
Mark as Played

Cars Are the Problem. She Wrote A Manifesto On It

March 6, 2024 • 33 mins
Meet the author of a new book on how to achieve inclusive transportation that repairs divided communities.
Mark as Played

What We Can Learn From ‘Ghost Rivers’

February 28, 2024 • 24 mins
Baltimore buried these hidden streams, and an installation is a reminder of the visible costs of trying to control our urban waterways.
Mark as Played

Popular Podcasts

    1. Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

    1. Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

    Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.

    2. The Breakfast Club

    2. The Breakfast Club

    Home Of “We The People" an Audio Town Hall with Vice President Kamala Harris, Charlamagne Tha God and You! Open your iHeartRadio app now and submit questions through our Talkback feature. Then listen LIVE from Detroit exclusively on iHeartRadio this Tuesday, October 15th at 5PM ET. The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy And Charlamagne Tha God!

    3. Dateline NBC

    3. Dateline NBC

    Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations.

    4. Crime Junkie

    4. Crime Junkie

    If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people.

    5. The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

    5. The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

    The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and current events with intelligence and humor. From the border crisis, to the madness of cancel culture and far-left missteps, Clay and Buck guide listeners through the latest headlines and hot topics with fun and entertaining conversations and opinions.

Advertise With Us
Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

Explore

iHeart

Live Radio

Podcasts

Artist Radio

Exclusives

News

Features

Events

Contests

Photos

Information

About

Advertise

Blog

Brand Guidelines

Contest Guidelines

Subscription Offers

Jobs

Get the App

Automotive

Home

Mobile

Wearables

© 2024 iHeartMedia, Inc.