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Here There Be Dragons
Podcast by Jessica Myers
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Odes[s]a: Interiors [Інтер'єри]
Although much of the conflict of urban life is focused on public space there’s a lot to be said for the negotiations we all maintain indoors. Through...
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Off Cut: Repetition [Повторення]
Every so often we’re going to bring you something we’ve been calling off-cuts and footnotes. These are extended scenes and deep dives that didn’t make...
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Odes[s]a: Sleeping Districts [Спальні райони]
This episode lets catch the 145 bus to Kotovsky or the 149 to Tairova and end up in the Sleeping Districts, where most Odesiti live. We'll discover th...
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Footnote: Housing [Житло]
Every so often we’re going to bring you something we’ve been calling off-cuts and footnotes. These are extended scenes and deep dives that didn’t make...
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Odes[s]a: Off-Center [молдованка]
In this episode we’re wandering west of the city center to a neighborhood made famous by writers, TV shows, and movies; Moldavanka. However the neighb...
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Off Cut: Starokonnyi Market [староконный рынок]
Every so often we’re going to bring you something we’ve been calling off-cuts and footnotes. These are extended scenes and deep dives that didn’t make...
![Off-Cut: The Cathedral [Соборна площа]](https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-4nhBrBfV6hMBxMPC-ZfxCMQ-t3000x3000.png)
Off-Cut: The Cathedral [Соборна площа]
Every so often we’re going to bring you something we’ve been calling off-cuts and footnotes. These are extended scenes and deep dives that didn’t make...
![Odes[s]a: Origins [Витоки]](https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-ouXlh9vQ4E8XcGIT-30bIcw-t3000x3000.png)
Odes[s]a: Origins [Витоки]
In the second part of our exploration of Odes[s]a's city center, we move through the streets on City Day. From the bars by Cathedral Square to the McD...
![Odes[s]a: Center [центр]](https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-3658r2b0CjvynzYv-zzdP9g-t3000x3000.png)
Odes[s]a: Center [центр]
After ten years of conducting interviews for Here There Be Dragons, there’s one question that Jess particularly loves to ask: “Where is the heart of t...

PROLOGUE: Ivan
For our last prologue episode, we're thinking a little more about the sounds of Odes[s]a. When Jess first started interviewing Odes[s]a residents for...

PROLOGUE: Adriene
The whole team at HTBD has been working, at this point for years, on a new season about Odes[s]a, Ukraine. While we’re impatient to put out everything...

PROLOGUE: War
The whole team at HTBD has been working, at this point for years, on a new season about Odes[s]a, Ukraine. While we’re impatient to put out everything...

PROLOGUE: Methods
The whole team at HTBD has been working, at this point for years, on a new season about Odes[s]a, Ukraine. While we’re impatient to put out everything...

PROLOGUE: Language
The whole team at HTBD has been working, at this point for years, on a new season about Odes[s]a, Ukraine. While we’re impatient to put out everything...
![Odes[s]a: Trailer](https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-sV8Fm0Q9Av4wzYdU-Dz6MfA-t3000x3000.png)
Odes[s]a: Trailer
We have been beyond impatient to bring you this season of Here There Be Dragons, one of the most work and resource intensive seasons we’ve ever done....
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PROLOGUE: Why Odes[s]a?
The whole team at HTBD has been working, at this point for years, on a new season about Odes[s]a, Ukraine. While we’re impatient to put out everything...

Audio Essay: A Pause Is Not A Break
As many of you know, in addition to hosting and producing Here There Be Dragons, I also teach architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design. And f...

SWAP: Errant Podcast w/ Felipe Altenfelder
Don’t be alarmed. We’re working on a few experiments in between seasons. This is an episode swap with the experimental Berlin-based cultural magazine...

Stockholm: Nature
My city of New York is known more for it’s skyline than its outdoor offering. But in Stockholm, nature seemed to appear out of nowhere, intertwined wi...

Stockholm: T-Centralen
The subway can tell you a lot about the geography of a city. Who gets off where and why? But at the central station all those wires get crossed and pe...

Stockholm: Little Saturday
In a country known for both pragmatic protestantism and Absolut Vodka, you can imagine there is some anxiety around alcohol, that swings between enjoy...

Stockholm: Family
Families are a common political battle ground. What’s good or bad for families is a regular explanation for everything from censorship to over-policin...

Stockholm: Norms
Knowing the rules and being able to navigate them can be a big part of feeling safe in the city. Whether newly arrived or born and bred, we’ll hear fr...

Stockholm : On Extremism (MINI)
We are taking a small break from our regularly scheduled programming to give listeners a little taste of the mini episodes that Patreon subscribers re...

Stockholm: Segregation Part 2
Last episode, we learned about a few key concepts. The design and planning of the Million Program. The increase of working class immigrants in Swedish...

Stockholm: Segregation Part 1
The more we poked around the edges of what Stockholmers meant when they talked about the separation in their cities, we realized people were talking a...

Stockholm: Moving
Housing is one of the hairiest urban planning questions. You have to get the balance absolutely perfect. If you build too much the cost of upkeep will...

Stockholm: The Malms
No matter how neighborhoods change, old meanings and power structures remain. This episode, we explore how the power and wealth wielded in the neighbo...

Stockholm: Density
Welcome to Stockholm!
For all the city's seeming calm and quiet there were many stories of fear, safety, and identity to be told. We are...

Stockholm: Trailer
This time around Jess Myers returns alongside senior producer Adélie Pojzman-Pontay, to discuss the triumphs and trials of Stockholm, Sweden. Since th...


Paris: Utopie (Utopia)
It will come as no surprise to you that Paris, a city that is roughly two thousand years old, has had many plans for urban utopias. Utopias of moralit...

Paris: Frontières (Borders)
This episode will focus not just on the identities of people but of places. We’ll be talking about the way that Paris is divided through years of hist...

Paris: Codes
Last episode we talked about “French hipsters” or bobos and the anxiety about being perceived as one. This episode we’ll be expanding our ideas about...

Paris: BoboLand!(Gentrification)
Bobo means bourgeois-bohème; a left leaning, culture loving elite. Kind of the French version of the hipster. Someone of or joining a more comfortable...


Paris: Mixité (Diversity)
Does a good social mix create greater security for urban residents?
This episode we're talking mixité or diversity. How does it affect public s...

Paris: Attentats (Attacks)
Welcome back! This is the first episode of Here There Be Dragons season 2. This season we're listening to Parisians tell their stories of fear and ide...

New York: On The Series
Here There Be Dragons Podcast: On the Series
Welcome to Here There Be Dragons, a podcast about safety and identity in cities. For this...

New York: the Bronx
Here There Be Dragons Podcast: New Yorkers reflect on the Bronx
Welcome to Here There Be Dragons, a podcast about safety and identity in...