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December 2025

Let's make leaving home a New Year's resolution
Urbanist Diana Lind explains a worrying trend and what we can do to make our cities, towns, and neighborhoods more sociable
 • Karen Christensen
41:55
Bacalao and tortillas ¡Feliz Navidad!
A Christmas story from many years ago as I return to Mexico City to speak at Placemaking México after the Third Place Summit in Rotterdam
 • Karen Christensen
Letters no more: love and remembrance
As Denmark removes its postboxes, I went back to "A letter is better: love and rememberance" from April 2020, when we were dealing with the trauma of…
 • Karen Christensen
Career women, wives and mothers, and presidents chosen by God
A conversation with Carl Rollyson about the author's role in biography
 • Karen Christensen
41:20
What should we call the places we love?
If they're not third places, what are they, and does it matter if they have a name?
 • Karen Christensen and Kathy Giuffre
39:03
How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do about It
Daniel Knowles of the Economist talks about his book Carmaggedon
 • Karen Christensen
38:58
Third Place Summit, Melbourne radio, & the Sidewalk Ballet
Third place talk around the globe
 • Karen Christensen

November 2025

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