Radio Interview with Fred Kent

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If you’ve ever spent time wandering the concrete jungles of any city, or if you’ve been lost in a soulless suburb, you’ve probably felt that certain sort of lifelessness — that distinct lack of heartbeat inherent to the crabbier corners of our urban oases.

Listen to Fred Kent’s interview on CBC Radio (click on Part 3).

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  • Mrs. Lori Beth Moore

    Thank You!
    I happened to hear CBC’s Current broadcast yesterday with Mr. Fred Kent. Fortunately I had just pulled into a parking lot or I would have had to pull off onto the side of the road somewhere as I frantically searched for a pen and paper. I live in a beautiful neighborhood, conservation area behind us, garages all lined sticking out the front, empty most days of the week…..except for me. Thank you for articulating so beautifully how I have felt for the past few years and why…..I now know what to do about it and it’s so exciting. You’ll be hearing from me again soon.

    Kingston, Ontario

  • Jonathan Losee

    Fred Kent
    I found your interview with Fred Kent uplifting to a worn-out 55-year old Landscape Architect (me) who is constantly struggling to inspire clients to make decent people places, when their motive is the ‘bottom line’. Good spaces, need “space”, and current zoning allows for high density housing, leaving very little quality open space to create these wonderful people places that Fred was so enthusiastically describing. Listening to him though, makes me want to get back out there and fight for more room, and perhaps be more creative with the little space opportunities I am given to work with. Fred… Come to Vancouver!

  • Ceta Ramkhalawansingh, Toronto

    Fred Kent’s interview on the CBC
    Fred’s interview with Anna Marie Tremonti was one of the most articulate I’ve heard about the current fixation with “star” architects, who have essentially been brought in to be fund-raisers or as marketing agents.

    His comments about the Gehry building in Bilbao express many of the neighours’ sentiments about the Art Gallery of Ontario project in downtown Toronto. His warnings about buildings that are not built in context or without a proper conversation with the setting and with the people who have to live there must be heeded.