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Hello and welcome to the Urbanist.
Welcome back to Monocle's programme all about the Built Environment.
I'm your host Andrew Tuck.
Coming up For a long time, designers would pick materials for aesthetic reasons without really looking into where they're sourced from.
What are the supply chains?
How far do they travel to get to a site?
How can our choice of building materials positively affect things like sustainability and resilience when it comes to making Cities?
Back in April 2024 we investigated some of the innovations occurring in the materials sector which gave designers and developers more choice in what would make up their buildings.
Today we take this further and we see how thinking differently about materials can influence the economic picture of a developing city plot or help create a circular economy.
We browse a recent A Z of available resources, get an explainer on using soil for structures, and see what's new at the world's leading trade fair for architecture, materials and systems.
That's all ahead over the next 30 minutes here on the Urbanist with me, Andrew Tuck.
We start today with Hattie Hartman, an American architect and urban planner now based in London, who heads up the post of Sustainability Editor at the Architects Journal as well as hosting the AJ's Climate Champions podcast.