How To Build A City | Forest City

Episode 1 | Shiv Malik | Why Build a City?

Forest City is a proposal for a new city of nearly a million people on 45,000 acres eight miles east of Cambridge, between Haverhill and Newmarket. In this first episode, Joe is joined by his co-founder Shiv Malik to explain why Cambridge - a city of just 50,000 homes that has produced more Nobel Prizes than the whole of France - can't simply grow outwards, and why building alongside it is the only way to get the reservoirs, hospitals and rail capacity the region already needs.They also cover how they met (at a pub, on Shiv's birthday, with 200 people spilling onto the street), the night they announced the project to 1,200 people at the O2, and the 100-odd contributors who wrote the feasibility study for free.Plus: the 366,000 homes East Anglia has to build over the next 30 years whether Forest City happens or not - and what those homes look like if nobody plans for them.Sign up at forestcity.uk to join the waitlist.