Design Fuel Podcast: "Issues + Place" with 10 Across founder Duke Reiter
April 15, 2026
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Design Fuel is back and Season 2 opens with a conversation as expansive as the landscape it examines. Host David Polzin sits down with Duke Reiter, architect, urban planner and founder of Ten Across.
Ten Across is an organization that frames the U.S. Interstate 10 corridor — stretching 2,460 miles from Los Angeles to Jacksonville, Florida — as the country's most revealing observatory for understanding the challenges and opportunities of our time. From climate resilience and extreme heat to affordable housing, water, energy and immigration, the I-10 corridor puts the defining pressures of the 21st century into stark focus.
In this episode, David and Duke explore how Ten Across is building a network of mayors, planners, community organizations, business leaders and resilience officers to move from awareness to collective action, and what it means to think at a truly regional scale. They dig into why data and lived experience must work in tandem to tell an honest story about place, and how those who shape the built environment have a unique responsibility to lead proactive responses to an uncertain future.
About Design Fuel
Hosted by CannonDesign's Executive Director of Design, David Polzin, and rooted in our Living-Centered Design ethos, the Design Fuel Podcast features thought-provoking and necessary conversations around the ideas and forces driving innovation in the built environment and beyond. It amplifies the role design can play in shaping a more equitable, healthy, sustainable and beautiful world.
