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Monday, December 27, 2021 9. Ghost Grocers, Dark Stores, and Street Life

Unfrozen interviews Lev Kushner, Partner, Department of Here, co-author of “The Dark Side of 15-Minute Grocery Delivery,” Bloomberg CityLab, Dec. 7, ...

Monday, January 3, 2022 10. Can the Dome Home Finally Find a Mass Audience?

A certain subset of architects and futurists have long obsessed with mass-marketing domes, foam houses, spheres, and combinations thereof. Could their...

Tuesday, January 11, 2022 11. Are You Experienced? Join Team Insurgent!

Interview with Daniel Meyers and Traci Sym of +&> (Plus and Greater Than), an exhibition design firm in Portland, Oregon. Intro / Outro: "Are Y...

Saturday, January 15, 2022 12. For Sale: Kindling $10.9 million (OBO)

The sordid tale of a totally avoidable fire in the Hollywood Hills: a McMansion used as a set for a reality TV show goes up in smoke. From the Unfroze...

Wednesday, January 19, 2022 13. What Fresh McMansion Hell is This?

Unfrozen interviews Kate Wagner, creator and curator of McMansion Hell. Intro: "Suburbia," by Pet Shop Boys Discussed: - The special McMansion Hell th...

Sunday, January 23, 2022 14. Notes from Underground

A tour of the abandoned Pacific Electric Subway Terminal in downtown Los Angeles. From Unfrozen 1.0, originally posted May 11, 2012. Intro/Outro: "Do ...

Tuesday, February 1, 2022 15. Can You Say Velaslavasay?

An interview with Sara Velas, founder, Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles. Intro / Outro: “Heartaches,” Al Bowlly, Sid Phillips & His Melodians Di...

Saturday, February 5, 2022 16. Games With New Frontiers, Alien Rococo, and Paper Money

Greg and Dan, back at it again, talking about Olympics architecture and urbanism, the Housing Crisis 2.0, and the greatest hits from the 60s, 70s and ...

Saturday, February 12, 2022 17. The Spell of Hot Desk

Silicon Valley prides itself on "innovation" and "disruption," and its products are meant to drive "sharing" and "collaboration," but the architecture...

Saturday, February 26, 2022 19. Around the World

The German publishing house DOM has released more than 130 Architectural Guides to regions, cities and countries around the world, as well as one guid...

Saturday, March 5, 2022 20. Hopeful Monsters, Strange Creatures and the Freedom of Choice

Designers, urbanists, public policy advocates, and any others are who would join the Urban Technology Program at the University of Michigan are “hopef...

Saturday, March 12, 2022 21. This is London: Rees Reminiscences

Greg, fresh from a trip to London, shares with Dan updates and reminiscences of the hale old town in the throes of ever-later capitalism, doffing hats...

About Unfrozen

Unfrozen is a podcast about architecture and urbanism. 

Daniel Safarik is a recovering journalist and an attempted architect. He is the Director of Research and Thought Leadership at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. In previous lives he's been a financial technology reporter, rock vocalist and marketing director for architecture firms.

Greg Lindsay is a journalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is co-author of Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next.

Producer: Melissa Junttila

Sound Engineer: Rob Horvath

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