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Realtopia - Real Estate for Teens

Realtopia - Real Estate for Teens

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Real estate. Real conversations. Hosted by a teenager trying to understand the world she’s about to inherit.

I’m Naomi Cohen, and I created Realtopia — a real estate podcast for teenagers, by a teenager.

What began as a podcast about real estate evolved into conversations about something even bigger: how places shape people, and how people shape places.

Because real estate was never just about buildings. It’s about the future of places — cities, housing, belonging, design, community, and the people shaping them.

Each episode, I ask architects, developers, researchers, founders, and urban thinkers the questions teenagers are not supposed to ask.

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  • Episode 22: Rik Adamski (Storefront Renaissance League) — Can You Create a Third Place?

    Episode 22: Rik Adamski (Storefront Renaissance League) — Can You Create a Third Place?
    Oct 19 2026
    Can you actually create a third place — or can you only create the conditions that allow one to emerge?

    Naomi sits down with Rik Adamski, president of Ash+Lime and co-founder of the Storefront Renaissance League, to talk about the everyday places where people gather — cafés, bookstores, bars, shops, and sometimes places you would never expect.

    Rik explains why third places have become harder to sustain, from rising costs and changing business models to phones and new social habits. He argues that the best ones depend on much more than design: the owners and staff who know your name, the regulars who connect people, and a business model that allows the place to stay open long enough for routines and relationships to form.

    Naomi and Rik also explore why hybrid places like bookstore-café-bars may be part of the answer, why older inexpensive buildings give local businesses room to experiment, why a McDonald's can sometimes function as a real third place, and why improving a neighborhood can begin with something as simple as cleaning up one block.

    In this episode:
    - Can a third place be created, or only the conditions for one?
    - Why third places are becoming harder to sustain
    - The people who turn a business into a social place
    - Why hybrid third places may have a better chance of surviving
    - What a Belonging Index can measure — and what it cannot
    - Why unexpected places can become community hubs
    - Why older, inexpensive buildings matter for local businesses
    - What teenagers need from a third place
    - Why small actions can sometimes matter more than big plans

    A conversation about third places, local businesses, and the conditions that help community happen.

    Realtopia is hosted by Naomi Cohen.
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    30 min
  • Episode 21: Ryan Gravel (Creator of the Atlanta BeltLine) — Can One Idea Reconnect a City?

    Episode 21: Ryan Gravel (Creator of the Atlanta BeltLine) — Can One Idea Reconnect a City?
    Oct 11 2026
    Can one piece of infrastructure reconnect a city — and what happens when that idea becomes more successful than anyone expected?

    Naomi sits down with Ryan Gravel, the urban designer whose graduate thesis became the Atlanta BeltLine, a 22-mile loop connecting 45 neighborhoods around Atlanta.

    Ryan explains how a year in Paris inspired the idea, why he calls the BeltLine “catalyst infrastructure,” and how abandoned rail corridors became a new way for neighborhoods to connect. He also speaks candidly about what the project got wrong: missing transit, affordability challenges, and why he believes stronger commitments should have come before the trail moved ahead.

    In this episode:
    • How Paris inspired the BeltLine
    • What “catalyst infrastructure” means
    • Whether the BeltLine caused Atlanta’s growth
    • Why belonging is difficult to measure
    • What Ryan learned from the project’s equity challenges
    • Why transit was always essential
    • What he would change today
    • How infrastructure can give teenagers more independence
    A conversation about infrastructure, connection, and the responsibility that comes with changing a city.

    Realtopia is hosted by Naomi Cohen.
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    23 min
  • Episode 20: Gil Peñalosa (Founder of 8 80 Cities) — Who Is Your City Really Built For?

    Episode 20: Gil Peñalosa (Founder of 8 80 Cities) — Who Is Your City Really Built For?
    Oct 6 2026
    Most cities were designed as if everyone were 30 years old, athletic, healthy, and able to drive. What would change if every street, park, library, and neighborhood had to work for an 8-year-old and an 80-year-old?

    Naomi sits down with Gil Peñalosa, founder of 8 80 Cities and one of the world's leading voices on public space. As Commissioner of Parks in Bogotá, Colombia, Gil built or rebuilt more than 200 parks and helped transform the city's Ciclovía from a struggling Sunday bike event into more than 75 miles of open streets where over a million people can walk, bike, run, and simply be together. He has since worked in more than 350 cities around the world.

    Gil explains why he judges a city by who is able to use it independently: children walking to school, older adults outside, women cycling, teenagers getting around without needing a ride. For him, autonomy is one of the clearest signs that a neighborhood is working.

    They discuss 20 mph neighborhood streets, wide sidewalks, short crossings, benches, shade, trees, and why every neighborhood should have a quality park within a short walk. But Gil also argues that infrastructure is only half the story: cities need the "software" too — programming, activities, and reasons for people of every age to actually use those spaces.

    Naomi and Gil also explore the harder questions: why citywide averages can hide enormous inequality between neighborhoods, why public spaces should be equally good regardless of income, and why teenagers may be one of the groups most poorly served by the way cities are designed today.

    In this episode:
    • The 8 80 test — and why cities should work for both an 8-year-old and an 80-year-old
    • How Bogotá's Ciclovía turned streets into places where people meet as equals
    • Why children moving independently are one of the clearest signs a neighborhood works
    • 20 mph streets, wide sidewalks, short crossings, benches, and trees
    • Why belonging should be measured at the neighborhood level, not just citywide
    • Parks as an equalizer — and why every neighborhood needs access to good public space
    • "Hardware and software": why programming matters as much as infrastructure
    • Why schools could become the heart of neighborhoods after hours
    • What a city designed for a 15-year-old would look like
    • Why young people should move from talking to doing
    A conversation about autonomy, equity, and how cities can use both better design and better programming to create belonging.

    Realtopia is hosted by Naomi Cohen.
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    32 min
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