The New School for City Builders

Welcome to The New School for City Builders, a conversation about how we teach, train, and educate the people who build and steward our cities and towns. America is struggling: a housing crisis, climate change, forty thousand of our fellow citizens killed in car crashes each year, insolvent city budgets, sclerotic government, an epidemic of ugly buildings and streets and places not worth caring for.At the end of the day, our cities and towns are only as good as the people who build them and maintain them. If we want to change how our cities and towns work, we need to bring up a new generation of city builders. buildthenextrightthing.substack.com

The New School for City Builders is a society podcast hosted by Seth Zeren, with 11 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Seth Zeren hosts The New School for City Builders, a society show with 11 episodes published.

Our AI reads these to draft pitches. Use them as grounding for a pitch that cites a real guest and a specific topic.

• 

  The New School for City Builders

  Engineering the New School for City Builders

  Jul 14, 202643 minS0

  <p>Show Notes: </p><p>* College of St. Joseph the Worker</p><p>* Crabtree Group</p><p>* Jacob on the Bottom Up Revolution</p><p><p>Build the Next Right Thing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></p><p>Edited Transcript</p><p>Seth Zeren: Hello and welcome to The New School for City Builders. I’m your host, Seth Zeren, a recovering city planner turned neighborhood developer in Providence, Rhode Island. This is a podcast about how we transform the education of city builders. If we...

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  The New School for City Builders

  Practice Before Theory: A Different Blueprint for Teaching City Builders

  Jul 7, 202648 minS0

  <p>Show Notes:</p><p>* Aaron’s Substack: On Housing</p><p>* Aaron’s architecture & development practice (with Jenn Truman): Rocket Shop</p><p>* Olin College</p><p>* Deep Springs College</p><p>* Front Porch Republic </p><p>* Shop Class as Soulcraft, by Matt Crawford</p><p>* YIMBYtown 2026 in Raleigh NC</p><p><p>Build the Next Right Thing is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></p><p>The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity:</p><p>Seth Zeren: Hello and welcome to The New Scho...

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  The New School for City Builders

  Anne Haynes on the Hidden Curriculum of City Building

  Jun 30, 202650 minS0

  <p>Show notes:</p><p>* Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein</p><p>* 70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green</p><p>* Third Ward TX</p><p>* Here Comes the Neighborhood</p><p>* MassDevelopment's Transformative Development Initiative (TDI)</p><p>* CitySeed (New Haven)</p><p>* BU Metropolitan College — City Planning & Urban Affairs</p><p>Edited Transcript</p><p>Seth Zeren: Hello and welcome to The New School for City Builders. I’m your host, Seth Zeren, a recovering city planner and neighborhood developer based in Providence, Rhode Island. In this podcast, we bring together insightful thinkers, creative doers, and wise teachers to r...

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  The New School for City Builders

  Building a New School for City Builders in Florida

  Jun 23, 20261h 1mS0

  <p>This week on The New School for City Builders, I’m joined by my good friend Nathan Norris to talk about our work together designing a new degree program for Lake Sumter State College in Florida. I hope you enjoy it!</p><p>Seth Zeren: Hello and welcome to the New School for City Builders. I’m your host, Seth Zeren, a recovering city planner turned neighborhood developer in Providence, Rhode Island. This is a podcast about how we can transform the education of city builders. If we want to change how our cities and towns work, we need to c...

  ListenShow Notes
• 

  The New School for City Builders

  Why the New School for City Builders

  Jun 16, 20261h 1mS0

  <p>This week friend of the pod Aaron Lubeck joins to interview me about the origins of this podcast, and in particular my piece: Toward a New School of City Builders. Thanks for listening!</p><p>Seth Zeren: Hello and welcome to The New School for City Builders. I’m your host, Seth Zeren, a recovering city planner turned neighborhood developer in Providence, Rhode Island. Joining me today is Aaron Lubeck, an incremental developer and designer in Durham, North Carolina. Aaron has taught historic rehabilitation and sustainable design at Duke University and with the Incremental Development Alliance. He created the po...

  ListenShow Notes

Based on semantic analysis of episode topics and host coverage, this show is a strong guest fit for executives in:

Industry fit is computed by PitchCentric using vector embeddings of the show's episode catalog.