This episode focuses on the key residential structure in the city – the concrete icon, the promise of high-rise living, the ghetto – through a discussion with writer Alison Irvine, author of novels This Road is Red (2011) and Cat Step (2020), and cartoonist Matthew Dooley, author of graphic novel Flake (2020), who both set their contributions to Concrete and Ink in tower blocks.

Staging Cities is a new podcast from Theatrum Mundi, looking at ideas on the intersection of stagecraft, architecture and urban planning. We are borrowing from the toolkit of theatre-making to think about city-making. These new podcasts accompany a series of books we are working on with nai010 publishers from Rotterdam.

Hosted by Marta Michalowska, Theatrum Mundi
Sound design and editing by Philippe Frau-Nadal