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WHAT WE DO
  • Storytelling
  • Preservation
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URBAN ROOTS
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  • Season 1
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MORE
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Preservation-Informed Storytelling

URBAN ROOTS PODCAST

URBAN ACTIVITY BOOKS

URBAN ACTIVITY BOOKS

We produce our flagship podcast that preserves place through story and help mission-aligned groups create new ones. 

URBAN ACTIVITY BOOKS

URBAN ACTIVITY BOOKS

URBAN ACTIVITY BOOKS

We produce booklets like our Cincinnati Black History Activity Book, in partnership with local groups like the Robert O'Neal Multicultural Arts Center.

AUDIO/VISUAL SHORTS

URBAN ACTIVITY BOOKS

AUDIO/VISUAL SHORTS

We make short-form audio and visual content with collaborators like Cincinnati Public Radio!

Place-based documentary-style audio.

Urban Roots podcast

Preserving Place Through Story

Listen to Episodes

Black Cincinnati Part I

Our first video on Cincinnati's West End neighborhood (produced by the Urban Roots team) told the story of community that experienced systematic erasure byway urban renewal through archival photos provided by ROMAC.

Black Cincinnati Part II

In 2022, the Urban Roots podcast team produced the follow up to the first urban renewal video to show how highways impacted the African American-majority neighborhoods of Evanston, Avondale, and South Cumminsville.

Black History Activity Book

Thanks to our partner, the Robert O'Neal Multicultural Center, artist Merritt Holdcraft, and designer Deqah H.W., Urbanist Media published its first Black history activity book in 2024, which featured people and places significant to Cincinnati's African American history. 

Download the Booklet

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ORGANIZATIONAL VISION

LOOKING BACK

We preserve place through story to ensure community voices are heard, shared, and valued through the preservation of cultural memory. We use storytelling to engage publics with oral histories and contextual narratives to document the past.  One such way we take action against systemic urban issues, and top-down development, has been through our flagship podcast, Urban Roots and various programs. 

TO MOVE FORWARD

We are an organization that connects people and place through public history, community preservation, and urban planning by amplifying histories that depict shared cultural experiences. We expand the breadth of civic engagement through a multi-disciplinary approach to help inform a better future, so that development just doesn't happen to communities without their input and involvement.

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Preserving Place Through Story

We understand the nuance of podcasting and audio/visual media, particularly when it comes to uncovering underrepresented stories. That's why we started the Urban Roots podcast and partnered with Cincinnati Public Radio to develop Juneteenth Cincinnati Shorts. It's also why we collaborated with the Black Arts Conservators to develop a brand new podcast dedicated to conservation and preservation discourse within Black spaces and networks called Preservation for the People. 

Need Media Help?

Urbanist Media has a team dedicated to helping mission-aligned groups develop podcasts and other types of media content (like 90-second history shorts). Inquire today at info@urbanistmedia.org

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