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The Strong Towns Podcast

Strong Towns

A weekly conversation on the Strong Towns movement hosted by Charles Marohn. The podcast blends fiscal prudence with good urban design to highlight how America can financially strengthen its cities, towns and neighborhoods and, in the…

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How Do We Design for Drivers? 2026-10-05 · 55m
Massachusetts Is Putting Starter Homes on the Ballot 2026-09-21 · 49m
What Comes After Cities Kill Parking Mandates? 2026-09-14 · 54m
Is Homeownership Still Part of the American Dream? 2026-09-07 · 65m
Chuck’s Engineering Lawsuit Finally Has a Ruling 2026-08-31 · 46m
Chuck on Data Centers, YIMBYs and E-Bikes 2026-08-24 · 63m
The $1 Trillion Infrastructure Backlog Cities Aren’t Counting 2026-08-10 · 66m
This Atlanta Corridor Makes Walking Normal and Deadly 2026-08-03 · 50m
America’s Half-Funded Highway System 2026-07-27 · 52m
A Better Block Versus Years of Planning 2026-07-20 · 57m
The Transit Tradeoff No City Can Escape 2026-07-13 · 63m
Why Great Streets Are Not Enhancements 2026-07-06 · 60m
The Deadly Road Design We Keep Defending 2026-06-29 · 57m
Inside the Strong Towns Leadership Transition 2026-06-22 · 62m
What's the Housing Crisis Beneath the Housing Crisis? 2026-06-15 · 69m
Rethinking the Federal Role in Transportation 2026-06-08 · 42m
Illinois Housing Reform Gets Practical 2026-05-28 · 39m
The Neighborhood Outside the Church Doors 2026-05-18 · 47m
A Congressman Makes the Case for Local Power 2026-05-11 · 41m
Why Manchester’s Boom Isn’t the Whole Story 2026-05-04 · 57m
How Inner City Highways Bankrupt Downtowns And How We Rebuild 2026-04-27 · 59m
New Zealand Keynote Planning In A World Of Limits 2026-04-24 · 45m
Why Persuasion Fails When You Lead With Data 2026-04-20 · 45m
Why Messy Cities Depend On People Who Take Action 2026-04-13 · 57m
Gas Taxes, Freeways, And What Washington Should Fund Now 2026-04-06 · 63m
Balancing Big Experiments And Neighborhood Fixes In California Housing 2026-04-03 · 36m
Why Infrastructure Maintenance Might Be The Real Megaproject 2026-03-30 · 50m
From Service Cuts To Understanding City Insolvency 2026-03-23 · 64m
Beyond Supply and Demand to Housing’s Unseen Financial Forces 2026-03-16 · 67m
What Comes After the Interstate Era? | New Report 2026-02-26 · 50m
Humility Versus Hubris in American Urbanism 2026-02-16 · 94m
Where the Strong Towns Movement Is Headed in 2026 2026-02-09 · 71m
I am a Minnesotan 2026-01-26 · 48m
The Hidden Costs of "Improving" This Minnesota Highway 2025-12-15 · 65m
How Communities Are Breaking Out of the Housing Trap 2025-12-11 · 62m
How To Build Resilience in Struggling Rural Communities 2025-12-08 · 55m
How Cities Can Help Small Developers Build Housing 2025-12-04 · 34m
A Shared Identity Makes Cities Strong. Here's How To Find Yours. 2025-12-01 · 56m
Why American Cities Are Going Broke (And How To Fix It) 2025-11-27 · 66m
Has the "American Dream" Made Us Miserable? 2025-11-24 · 59m
Momentum Is Building for Stronger Communities. What's Next? 2025-11-14 · 15m
How Bottom-Up Action Is Connecting People Across the World 2025-11-13 · 28m
Did New Urbanism Win the Debate But Lose the War? 2025-11-12 · 55m
How Strong Towns Is Scaling From Content to Action 2025-11-11 · 15m
What is Happening With Strong Towns? Strategy Discussion and Q&A 2025-11-10 · 59m
Broken Incentives Made the Housing Crisis. How Do We Fix Them? 2025-11-03 · 65m
Housing Q&A: 16 Questions on Incremental Housing Development 2025-10-30 · 49m
Why America Can't Stop Building Highways We Don't Need 2025-10-27 · 62m
What a Perfect Tuba Can Teach Us About Community and Resilience 2025-10-20 · 59m
Short-Term Rentals Broke the Housing Market. Now What? 2025-10-13 · 48m
Want To Innovate Housing in Your State? Try Copying Michigan. 2025-10-06 · 59m
Do Highway Projects and Airbnb Rentals Help or Hurt Cities? 2025-09-29 · 55m
How Mr. Barricade Is Shaping the Future of Street Safety 2025-09-22 · 61m
We Broke North American Cities. Here’s How To Fix Them. 2025-09-18 · 60m
How Traffic Engineering Made America’s Streets Deadly 2025-09-15 · 61m
James Anderson: How to Encourage Innovation in Local Government 2025-09-01 · 52m
Building Strength and Connections in Pensacola, With Quint Studer 2025-08-11 · 21m
The Housing Market Can’t Tolerate Lower Prices. Now What? 2025-08-04 · 53m
Playing the Long Game With New Zealand Infrastructure 2025-07-28 · 28m
The Housing Crisis Is More Than a Supply Problem 2025-07-14 · 55m
Ryan Johnson: How Culdesac Tempe Develops Freedom, Revenue, and Belonging 2025-06-30 · 42m
Using Radical Common Sense To Build Great Places, With Steve Nygren 2025-06-23 · 52m
NYT Journalist Shares Why America Should Sprawl 2025-06-09 · 59m
4 Ways To Build Homes and Expand Opportunity 2025-06-02 · 56m
Escaping the Housing Crisis With Jeff Speck 2025-05-26 · 66m
Why Sprawl IS the Housing Crisis 2025-05-19 · 56m
ZacTax: How To Build Financially Healthy Cities 2025-05-12 · 54m
The World Is on Fire. That’s Why We’re Here. 2025-04-28 · 18m
How To Handle the Bureaucracy of Local Government 2025-04-23 · 53m
3 Reasons This Is a Great Time for Walkable Streets 2025-04-17 · 49m
Road Design Creates Aggressive Drivers. We Can Fix That. 2025-04-10 · 77m
Mark Moses: How To Understand and Fix Government Budgeting 2025-04-07 · 63m
We Need a New Approach to Road Safety and Design 2025-04-03 · 46m
How To Manage City Finance Effectively, With Rick Cole 2025-03-31 · 67m
The Keys to a Healthy City Finance Department With Shayne Kavanagh 2025-03-24 · 59m
How To Finance Housing in a Smart and Local Way: A Housing Q&A 2025-03-17 · 55m
It Won’t Be Us: Thoughts on Our Current Craziness From a Strong Towns Perspective 2025-03-11 · 60m
These 6 Code Reforms Will Bring More Housing to Your City 2025-03-03 · 67m
America Needs a New Housing Bargain. Here’s Why. 2025-02-24 · 34m
Remembering Donald Shoup: A Legacy of Curiosity, Credibility and Kindness 2025-02-17 · 52m
Bonus Episode: Lessons From 9 Strongest Town Contest Winners 2025-02-11 · 56m
Ben Hunt: Surviving the Widening Gyre Through Hope and Community 2025-02-10 · 56m
How Do You Build More Housing When No One Wants Neighborhood Change? 2025-01-27 · 62m
Debunking the "Slow and Incremental" Myth: The Key to Rapid Housing Growth 2025-01-20 · 58m
Comparing the Strong Towns and YIMBY Approaches to the Housing Crisis 2025-01-13 · 91m
Memorable Moments in the History of Strong Towns 2024-12-23 · 46m
From the Federal Government to RV Parks: A Housing Q&A 2024-12-16 · 58m
From Building Backyard Cottages to Banning Airbnbs: A Housing Q&A 2024-12-13 · 68m
Families for Safe Streets: Giving a Face to the Traffic Violence Crisis 2024-11-25 · 28m
Why Strong Towns Won’t Cave to Election Year Pressures 2024-11-15 · 28m
From the Bottom Up: How Members Built the Strong Towns Movement 2024-11-13 · 60m
To Build Strong Towns, We Need To Change the Cultural Conversation 2024-11-11 · 28m
5 Things the Next President Should Do To Build a Stronger America 2024-11-04 · 60m
Prioritizing Safety in Street Design: A Conversation with Melany Alliston 2024-10-14 · 53m
Rethinking the “Moonshot” Approach to Complex Problems Like Street Safety 2024-10-07 · 48m
Has the Highway Trust Fund Outlived Its Usefulness? A Conversation With Beth Osborne. 2024-09-30 · 53m
What’s the Best Career for Someone Who Wants To Build Strong Towns? 2024-09-23 · 61m
Exploring the Role of Religious Institutions in Community Development 2024-09-16 · 64m
From Crime to Common Practice: How Fraud Dominates the Housing Market 2024-08-28 · 62m
From Boring to Brilliant: Making Municipal Finance Fun With Michel Durand-Wood 2024-08-26 · 60m
Build the Damn Train: How To Bring High-Speed Rail to the United States 2024-08-19 · 63m
The Traffic Enforcement Futility Loop 2024-08-12 · 57m
Why Local Leaders Can Address the Housing Crisis but Federal Programs Fail 2024-08-05 · 49m
Oh Crap! Dealing With Sewer Upgrades Is a Complicated Mess 2024-07-29 · 58m
The Truth About the Suburban Experiment: A Response to “Contra Strong Towns” 2024-07-22 · 55m
How To Escape the Housing Trap: A Special Q&A Session 2024-06-17 · 44m
Member Drive Week Special: Most Public Engagement Is Worthless 2024-06-14 · 13m
Member Drive Week Special: If We Made Shoes Like We Make Housing, People Would Go Barefoot 2024-06-13 · 11m
Member Drive Week Special: How Fannie Mae Puts a Chokehold on Local Home Financing Solutions 2024-06-12 · 16m
Member Drive Week Special: One Billion Bollards 2024-06-11 · 13m
Member Drive Week Special: The Cost of an Extra Foot 2024-06-10 · 14m
Megan Kimble: The Toll Urban Highways Take and the People Fighting Back 2024-05-20 · 50m
How to Escape Housing (and Baseball Stadium) Traps, Plus a Little Disney Urbanism. 2024-05-13 · 66m
The Strong Towns Tension With YIMBYism 2024-04-22 · 66m
Alex Alsup: How Much of the U.S.'s Housing Stock Is Locally Owned? 2024-04-15 · 45m
Where Strong Towns Stands As We Enter Another Election Year 2024-04-08 · 58m
A Chat With Barkha Patel, Who Helped Achieve Zero Traffic Deaths in Jersey City 2024-04-01 · 59m
Why We Need To Show Empathy Toward Drivers in Conversations About Street Safety 2024-03-25 · 51m
Benjamin Herold: The Unraveling of America’s Suburbs 2024-03-18 · 56m
What Is the Role of Philanthropy in Building Stronger Towns? 2024-03-11 · 53m
Sam Quinones: Recovering Addicts Are Having a Bottom-Up Revolution in This Small Kentucky Town 2024-03-04 · 26m
Tony Jordan and Chris Meyer: Pushing for People Over Parking 2024-02-26 · 65m
Eric Goldwyn: Why U.S. Transit Is So Expensive (and How To Fix It) 2024-02-19 · 58m
Meet the Freeway Fighters Who Are Suing the Texas Department of Transportation 2024-02-12 · 55m
Shima Hamidi: Narrow Lanes Save Lives 2024-02-05 · 39m
Minnesota Introduces First-in-the-Nation Bill To Eliminate Minimum Parking Mandates Statewide 2024-01-29 · 44m
Where Is Sprawl Good? (Featuring Joe Minicozzi) 2023-11-27 · 49m
Reading Member Comments—Live From Buc-ee’s! 2023-11-17 · 14m
We’re Seeing a Groundswell of People Doing Amazing Things in Their Communities 2023-11-15 · 25m
We Must Become More Sensitive to the Stress Our Cities Are Under 2023-11-13 · 58m
Seth Kaplan: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time 2023-10-23 · 53m
Conor Semler: A New Decision-Making Framework for Street Design 2023-10-02 · 51m
Strong Towns Is Jane Jacobs in Action 2023-09-25 · 53m
The Arguments for Speed Cameras…and Why They Don’t Hold Up 2023-09-18 · 63m
Steve Mouzon: How Do We Rebuild Maui? 2023-09-11 · 61m
Walkable City Design Is Critical for Economic Health 2023-08-28 · 84m
Citizen Versus Developer? No! It’s Citizen As Developer. 2023-07-24 · 39m
Four Communities Are Becoming Examples of Change 2023-07-12 · 54m
From 500 to 5,000: What Strong Towns Members Are Doing to Make Their Places Better 2023-06-12 · 43m
Dollar Stores Are Leeching the Economic Vitality of Communities Across the U.S. 2023-06-05 · 54m
Ian Lockwood: Thoughts From an Engineer 2023-05-01 · 57m
What’s Going On With the Recent Bank Failures? 2023-04-03 · 59m
Growth Through Destruction 2023-03-20 · 57m
On the Conservative Reaction to 15-Minute Cities 2023-03-13 · 56m
The Property Tax System is Broken—Regrid Works on Tools to Help Fix It 2023-02-20 · 55m
Jeff Speck on the 10th-Anniversary Edition of Walkable City 2023-02-13 · 67m
Lawsuit Update: Making a Stand for Engineers in the Minnesota State Court of Appeals 2023-01-30 · 51m
Mike Hathorne: Where Does Decision-Making Need to Occur in Our Communities? 2023-01-09 · 51m
Ben Hunt: In Praise of Bitcoin 2023-01-02 · 54m
Thanks for a Great Year 2022-12-19 · 9m
Sam Quinones: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth 2022-12-05 · 65m
Get Ready for #BlackFridayParking 2022-11-23 · 16m
The Impact of Systemic Racism on Jackson’s Water Crisis 2022-11-21 · 56m
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Most Comprehensive Resource Strong Towns Offers 2022-11-18 · 17m
A Whole New Framework for Analyzing Car Crashes 2022-11-17 · 24m
This Is How the Strong Towns Movement Becomes “Unignorable” 2022-11-16 · 24m
The Power of Talking Locally Over the Noise of National Politics 2022-11-15 · 27m
The Strong Towns Strategy 2022-11-14 · 32m
Water System Crises and Solutions 2022-11-07 · 38m
The Highway Boondoggles Report 2022-10-24 · 45m
What Customer Service Should Mean for a City 2022-10-10 · 50m
Hawaii’s Suburban Experiment 2022-09-26 · 58m
The Jackson Water Crisis Is Not a Fluke—Your City Could Be Next 2022-09-22 · 55m
Not Just Bikes and Strong Towns Discuss Public Transit in North America 2022-08-15 · 57m
“Bias Writ Large” in the Property Tax Assessment System 2022-08-08 · 62m
One of the Most Dangerous Assumptions We Have Made 2022-08-01 · 63m
The Drip, Drip, Drip of Traffic Deaths 2022-07-18 · 45m
An Update on Strong Towns’ Lawsuit Against the Minnesota Board of Engineering Licensure 2022-07-11 · 25m
Majora Carter: Reclaiming Your Community 2022-06-20 · 51m
Nolan Gray: Exposing the Arbitrariness of Zoning Codes 2022-06-13 · 54m
End the Parking Mandates and Subsidies That Are Hurting Our Cities 2022-06-10 · 8m
Legalizing Incremental Change—Everywhere—To Meet America’s Housing Needs 2022-06-09 · 8m
Your City’s Accounting Is Unnecessarily Obscure. It’s Time To Pull Back the Veil. 2022-06-08 · 25m
America *Must* End Highway Expansions, Before It’s Too Late 2022-06-07 · 7m
Safe and Productive Streets 2022-06-06 · 7m
Mike McGinn: Making America More Walkable 2022-05-23 · 65m
This Vancouver-Based Artist Is Writing Music…About Building Strong Towns! 2022-05-09 · 56m
Chuck Marohn Answers Your Questions 2022-05-02 · 62m
Ryan Crane: Malpractice and Accountability in Engineering—A Surgeon’s Take 2022-04-25 · 70m
An Update and the Strong Towns Strategic Plan 2022-03-17 · 31m
“How Can My Town *Not* Be Wealthy When There’s Been So Much Growth?” 2022-03-07 · 39m
Annamarie Pluhar: Shared Housing Doesn’t Have to Be Scary 2022-02-28 · 51m
The Latest Update on the Strong Towns Lawsuit 2022-02-21 · 49m
Truth in Accounting: Making Cities’ Finances Transparent for All 2022-02-14 · 56m
Jeff Speck on Confessions of a Recovering Engineer 2022-02-07 · 61m
Chuck Marohn Answers Your Questions 2022-01-31 · 55m
Jarrett Walker: ”Prediction and Freedom Are Opposites” 2022-01-24 · 48m
Peter Norton: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving 2022-01-18 · 58m
Driving Went Down. Fatalities Went Up. Here’s Why. 2022-01-10 · 57m
Tim Soerens: Reconnecting Churches with Their Neighborhoods 2022-01-03 · 40m
Two Different Languages 2021-12-06 · 81m
Which Wins Out: An Engineer‘s Discretion or a Book of Standards? 2021-11-29 · 63m
Another Tragedy at Springfield 2021-11-18 · 37m
The Hidden Values Behind Our Unsafe Streets 2021-09-06 · 23m
Chuck Marohn Answers Your Questions 2021-08-30 · 66m
Rick Harnish: Stronger Transit for Stronger Cities 2021-08-23 · 53m
Bad Benches (and Other Park Problems) 2021-08-02 · 56m
Fighting an Urban Highway Expansion in Shreveport 2021-07-26 · 61m
Johnny Sanphillippo: The Trajectory of Suburbia 2021-07-19 · 59m
Pete Davis: The Case for Commitment in an Age of “Infinite Browsing” 2021-07-12 · 54m
Here's How Cities Undermine Their Own Competitiveness 2021-07-06 · 52m
Expertise Is Not Absolute 2021-06-21 · 53m
Jason Slaughter: The Goal Isn't to Build a Cycling City 2021-06-07 · 64m
Listen to the Briefing About the Strong Towns Lawsuit 2021-06-01 · 41m
Strong Towns Has Filed a Lawsuit Against the Minnesota Board of Engineering Licensure in Federal District Court 2021-05-24 · 60m
Ann Sussman and Justin Hollander: Architecture and the Unconscious Mind 2021-05-03 · 57m
Alex Alsup: Keeping People in Their Homes in Detroit 2021-04-26 · 58m
Dr. Samuel Hughes: A Proposal for Strong Suburbs 2021-04-19 · 52m
Michael Odiari: Putting a Check on Deadly Traffic Stops 2021-04-12 · 40m
Strongest Town Webcast: Lockport, IL vs. Oxford, MS (Audio Version) 2021-04-05 · 59m
Eric Jacobsen: How Car Culture is Making Us Lonelier 2021-03-29 · 57m
Beth Osborne: America's Roads are "Dangerous by Design" 2021-03-22 · 52m
Grace Olmstead: The Legacy—and the Future—of the Places We Leave Behind 2021-03-15 · 64m
Cullum Clark: Creating Cities of Opportunity 2021-03-08 · 59m
Rep. Jake Auchincloss & Rep. Mike Gallagher: How Congress Can Support Local Leaders and Get the Economy Going (Video) 2021-03-01 · 53m
Joseph Kane: Prioritizing People (Not Projects) In Infrastructure Spending 2021-02-22 · 59m
Dig Deep: What Does Democracy Look Like Now? 2021-02-15 · 22m
Richard Florida: Remote Work and "The Rise of the Rest" 2021-02-08 · 31m
Bad Bets 2021-02-01 · 60m
Allison Schrager: "The only insurance against uncertainty is resilience." 2021-01-25 · 45m
Gabrielle Gurley: For Transit, "The Cuts are Coming" 2021-01-18 · 55m
Matthew Yglesias: The Case for One Billion Americans (Part 2) 2021-01-11 · 37m
Matthew Yglesias: The Case for One Billion Americans (Part 1) 2021-01-04 · 48m
John Pattison: From Slow Food to Slow Church 2020-12-14 · 55m
Chris Bernardo: Filling the Gaps to Support Local Businesses 2020-12-07 · 48m
Just Print the Money 2020-11-30 · 62m
Stacy Mitchell: Fighting for Small Businesses and Strong Local Economies 2020-11-23 · 45m
A Time for Local Action 2020-11-16 · 13m
Blake Pagenkopf: Rebooting Our Political Operating System 2020-11-09 · 50m
Denise Hearn: The Myth of Capitalism 2020-11-02 · 57m
Ben Hunt: We're Not Going to Fix This from the Top Down 2020-10-26 · 59m
Bonus Episode: The Bottom-Up Revolution 2020-10-22 · 26m
What Are We Waiting For? 2020-10-19 · 50m
Help Shape the Future of the Strong Towns Podcasts 2020-07-30 · 2m
KAXE's Dig Deep on George Floyd, Coronavirus, and More 2020-06-16 · 62m
Strip Mall 2020-06-01 · 61m
A Good Life in a Prosperous Place 2020-05-22 · 26m
Smart Cities: "Are we creating solutions looking for problems?" 2020-05-21 · 29m
What do you do? 2020-05-20 · 40m
Better Bike Infrastructure, Better Budgets 2020-05-20 · 34m
You're Not Alone 2020-05-18 · 24m
James Howard Kunstler: Living in the Long Emergency 2020-05-11 · 63m
This Is What Happens When Markets Are Too Efficient 2020-05-04 · 65m
Chris Gibbons: This Is How You Grow a Local Economy 2020-04-27 · 56m
Updating Loose Ends 2020-04-21 · 71m
Americans may not wear face masks, even with survival at stake. Here's why. 2020-03-31 · 37m
Strongest Town Semifinals: Beloit, WI 2020-03-24 · 27m
Strongest Town Semifinals: Hamilton, MO 2020-03-24 · 29m
Strongest Town Semifinals: Watertown, SD 2020-03-24 · 44m
Strongest Town Semifinals: Winona, MN 2020-03-24 · 34m
Tales from the Crypt, +Update 2020-03-23 · 82m
Do What You Can, a Coronavirus Update 2020-03-17 · 30m
Ben Stevens: Every Building Is a Startup 2020-03-09 · 52m
Danielle Arigoni: Making Great Places for People of all Ages 2020-03-06 · 20m
David McAlvany: Legacy is an Accumulation of Little Decisions 2020-03-02 · 45m
Jenny Schuetz: Who's To Blame for High Housing Costs? 2020-02-24 · 48m
Tim Carney: "Alienated America" and the Rise of Populism 2020-02-17 · 54m
Liz Swaine: Bootstrapping Downtown Shreveport 2020-02-10 · 59m
Should California Bring Back Redevelopment Agencies? 2019-12-17 · 62m
Go Cultivate with Verdunity 2019-12-10 · 78m
If the “Strong Towns” book is the WHY, this book is the HOW. 2019-11-18 · 57m
Students and the Strong Towns Movement 2019-11-14 · 28m
Aligning Mission with Funding, the Strong Towns Way 2019-11-14 · 21m
What does it mean to be part of a bottom-up revolution? 2019-11-11 · 15m
Live in Kansas City: "We’re a suburban community learning we can be urban." 2019-11-05 · 61m
Gracy Olmstead: It Still Takes a Village 2019-10-28 · 44m
King Williams: The Gentrifiers Will Become the Gentrified 2019-10-21 · 47m
Paul Stewart: You Are the Help You've Been Waiting For 2019-10-14 · 60m
More than Math: Living with Intention in Our Stronger Towns 2019-10-04 · 38m
Minimum Viable Development? How We Let the "Perfect" Be the Enemy of the Good 2019-10-03 · 76m
Building Productive Places (and Showering them with Love) 2019-10-02 · 62m
Breaking Free of the Infrastructure Cult 2019-10-01 · 75m
Spooky Wisdom: What Lessons Should We Be Learning from How Our Ancestors Built Cities? 2019-09-30 · 51m
James Howard Kunstler: It's All Going to Have to Get Smaller 2019-09-23 · 57m
Tomas Sedlacek: A More Humane Economics 2019-09-16 · 69m
Patrick Deneen on Rediscovering Community and Rootedness 2019-09-09 · 49m
Ben Westhoff: Ferguson, Five Years Later 2019-09-03 · 42m
Ask Strong Towns #10: August 2019 2019-08-20 · 57m
Steve Mouzon: Living Traditions and the Original Green 2019-08-12 · 52m
The Dignity of Local Community: Chris Arnade 2019-08-05 · 62m
What Happens When Housing Becomes a Cash Crop? 2019-07-29 · 57m
Building Cities For Our Unconscious Brains: Ann Sussman on the Failings of Modern Architecture 2019-07-22 · 53m
Start Small, and Make a Lot of Noise: John Yung on Suburban Revitalization 2019-07-01 · 58m
Ask Strong Towns #9 (June 2019) 2019-06-24 · 62m
What Does it Take to Bring a City Back from the Brink? 2019-06-10 · 60m
Autonomous Vehicles Are Coming. Do We Have a Say in Who Benefits? 2019-06-03 · 65m
Ask Strong Towns: Celebrity Edition with Community-Conscious Developer Derek Avery 2019-05-29 · 67m
Why does Strong Towns put *so* much emphasis on its members—and why is that so unusual in the nonprofit world? 2019-05-23 · 20m
It's the Strong Towns Moment 2019-05-20 · 14m
Steve Nygren of Serenbe: "I Wanted to Build a Town, Not a Development" 2019-05-13 · 51m
Land Value Tax with Joe Minicozzi 2019-05-06 · 29m
Memphis’s U-Turn: Interview with Doug McGowen 2019-04-29 · 50m
Ask Strong Towns #8: April 2019 2019-04-23 · 52m
What to Expect From Strong Towns: the Book 2019-04-22 · 49m
Greatest Hits #11: Economic Gardening With Chris Gibbons (2013) 2019-04-15 · 47m
Strongest Town Contest: Championship Round 2019-04-08 · 37m
Strongest Town Semifinals: Portsmouth, New Hampshire 2019-04-02 · 25m
Strongest Town Semifinals: Guthrie, Oklahoma 2019-04-02 · 20m
Strongest Town Semifinals: Pensacola, Florida 2019-04-02 · 21m
Strongest Town Semifinals: Safety Harbor, Florida 2019-04-02 · 21m
Greatest Hits #10: John Dominic Crossan (2013) 2019-03-27 · 70m
Greatest Hits #9: Can You Be an Engineer and Speak Out for Reform? (2015) 2019-03-18 · 66m
Greatest Hits #8: Gross Negligence (2015) 2019-03-12 · 61m
Greatest Hits #7: Talking Debt and Self-Sufficiency With Mr. Money Mustache (2016) 2019-03-04 · 54m
Ask Strong Towns #7 2019-02-28 · 60m
Greatest Hits #6: Time to End the Routine Traffic Stop (2016) 2019-02-25 · 61m
Greatest Hits #5: Approaching a Divided America With Open Eyes (2017) 2019-02-18 · 55m
Greatest Hits #4: Lots of Small Earthquakes: How a Place Becomes Antifragile (2015) 2019-02-05 · 57m
Ask Strong Towns: Celebrity Edition with Stacy Mitchell 2019-02-04 · 67m
Greatest Hits #3: Is a City More Like a Washing Machine or a Cat? (2015) 2019-01-28 · 51m
Greatest Hits #2: Steven Shultis on "Bad" Urban Schools (2015) 2019-01-22 · 75m
Greatest Hits #1: America Answers Forum on Infrastructure (2015) 2019-01-14 · 57m
2019 Update 2019-01-09 · 9m
We'll Make The World a Better Place By (Insert Your Planning Fad Here) 2018-12-10 · 53m
Ask Strong Towns: November 2018 2018-12-03 · 72m
Ask Strong Towns Celebrity Edition: Q&A With Jeff Speck 2018-11-26 · 68m
You are awesome! 2018-11-16 · 11m
Giving You The Language You Need to Change the Conversation 2018-11-14 · 15m
What do you do when you need to change everything? 2018-11-13 · 17m
Ten Years, Getting Stronger 2018-11-12 · 14m
Carmel is Not a Strong Town 2018-11-05 · 60m
Upzoned #5: Opportunity Zones, But For Whom? 2018-10-29 · 27m
Carmel's Billion-Dollar Bet 2018-10-22 · 59m
The Roots of the Opioid Epidemic: A Conversation With Sam Quinones 2018-10-15 · 69m
Democratizing Local Public Finance by Bringing Back Small-Scale Investors 2018-10-08 · 47m
Beyond the Buzzword: Innovation and How it Can Help Local Government Create Meaningful Change 2018-10-08 · 33m
Peak Delusion of the Long Emergency 2018-10-01 · 69m
Downshifting into a Meaningful Life: A Conversation With Ruben Anderson 2018-09-24 · 56m
Is Strong Towns the same as Sprawl Repair? 2018-09-17 · 58m
Upzoned Episode 1: Dams and Reservoirs Won't Save Us 2018-09-14 · 34m
It's The Little Things Episode 1: Running For City Council 2018-09-12 · 26m
Where To Next For CNU? A Conversation With Lynn Richards 2018-09-10 · 37m
A Conversation With the Urban3 Team at CNU 2018-09-06 · 57m
Programming Update 2018-09-05 · 12m
The Emptying Out of Rural Kansas: An Interview With Corie Brown 2018-08-30 · 48m
The Week Ahead, August 29, 2017 2018-08-29 · 32m
Thoughts on Incremental Development 2018-08-24 · 63m
Young People and CNU 2018-08-23 · 50m
How Relevant is Localism in an Age of Urgency? 2018-08-16 · 60m
Ask Strong Towns #5 2018-08-09 · 65m
E-Scooters and Who Takes Up Space in Cities 2018-08-02 · 41m
From Vision to Policy, Making New Urbanism Work 2018-07-26 · 58m
Suburban Poverty Meets Sprawl Retrofit 2018-07-19 · 56m
What does it mean to build a vibrant community? 2018-07-12 · 51m
Ask Strong Towns #4 (June 2018) 2018-07-05 · 68m
The Week Ahead: From Technical Writer to Grocery Store Owner to Community Builder 2018-07-02 · 13m
Autonomous Vehicles: Separating the Hype from Reality 2018-06-28 · 61m
The Week Ahead: Get to know our new summer intern 2018-06-25 · 13m
Absolution and the Changing American City 2018-06-21 · 43m
The Week Ahead: Bee Season 2018-06-18 · 20m
Even Historic Cities Face Auto-Oriented Design Problems 2018-06-14 · 53m
Why is it so hard to get things built? 2018-06-07 · 37m
How a Productivity- and Efficiency-Obsessed Culture Harms Parents 2018-05-31 · 53m
The Week Ahead: Thank you! 2018-05-29 · 15m
Let's Talk 2018-05-25 · 11m
Here's what gives me hope. 2018-05-24 · 24m
Renewing Past Promises 2018-05-21 · 15m
Ask Strong Towns #3 (May 2018) 2018-05-17 · 76m
The Week Ahead: The 26th Congress for the New Urbanism 2018-05-14 · 29m
What's it like to get started as a small scale developer? 2018-05-10 · 47m
The Week Ahead: Don't be scared of dockless bikeshare 2018-05-07 · 28m
Ask Strong Towns #2 with Joe Minicozzi 2018-05-03 · 66m
The Week Ahead: A Chat with Strong Towns' Resident Nomad 2018-04-30 · 16m
No Excuses 2018-04-26 · 40m
The Week Ahead: Bon-Ton Gone 2018-04-23 · 24m
The Week Ahead: Announcing a Year-Long Initiative with Akron, Ohio 2018-04-16 · 14m
The Spooky Wisdom of Incremental 2018-04-13 · 68m
The Week Ahead: Rust Belt Towns on the Road to Revitalization 2018-04-09 · 27m
Ask Strong Towns 1 2018-04-05 · 68m
The Week Ahead: Chuck's Thoughts on Autonomous Vehicles 2018-04-02 · 39m
Suburban Redevelopment Requires Patience, Engagement and a Positive Attitude 2018-03-29 · 39m
2018 Strongest Town Contest Championship 2018-03-26 · 41m
Strongest Town Contest Round 3: Annapolis, MD 2018-03-20 · 16m
Strongest Town Contest Round 3: Kent, OH 2018-03-20 · 32m
Strongest Town Contest Round 3: Muskegon, MI 2018-03-20 · 25m
Strongest Town Contest Round 3: Pensacola, FL 2018-03-20 · 20m
"They're walking away from it and tearing it down." 2018-03-15 · 39m
The Week Ahead: Strong Citizens and Safe Streets 2018-03-12 · 23m
The Week Ahead: Welcome to the 2018 Strongest Town Contest 2018-03-05 · 29m
The Week Ahead: Becoming an Accidental Urbanist 2018-02-26 · 20m
A Conversation with Walkability Expert, Jeff Speck 2018-02-22 · 66m
The Week Ahead: Gentrification and the Bias Towards Bigness 2018-02-19 · 12m
Our streets should be safe for everyone — yes, even those who are under the influence. 2018-02-15 · 55m
In the Amazon HQ2 Contest, the Winner Might Actually be the Loser 2018-02-08 · 14m
The Week Ahead: Kickin it in Kansas City 2018-02-05 · 21m
Our Take on Trump's Leaked Infrastructure Plan 2018-02-01 · 58m
The Week Ahead: A Town Well Planned 2018-01-29 · 14m
Design Speed is a Value Statement 2018-01-26 · 8m
The New Localism 2018-01-25 · 29m
The Week Ahead: The Difference Between a Street and a Road 2018-01-22 · 21m
Car-free and Kid-friendly in Los Angeles 2018-01-18 · 36m
The Week Ahead: An Incremental Park Project in Shreveport 2018-01-15 · 15m
Investing for a Strong Town 2018-01-12 · 64m
The Week Ahead: Getting our Towns Back on the Wagon 2018-01-08 · 18m
Are bike lanes white lanes? 2018-01-04 · 33m
The Week Ahead: Welcome to 2018 2018-01-02 · 20m
The Final Week Ahead Podcast of 2017 2017-12-14 · 42m
Two Perspectives on Small Town Southern Life 2017-12-07 · 38m
The Week Ahead, December 5, 2016 2017-12-05 · 26m
The Week Ahead: Strong Towns in French 2017-12-05 · 24m
A Robert Moses Musical 2017-11-30 · 36m
The Week Ahead: A Sneak Peak 2017-11-28 · 27m
How Parking Minimums Hinder Small-Scale Developers 2017-11-21 · 24m
The movement is growing and we need you to be part of it. 2017-11-17 · 45m
Here's the Strong Towns mission in action. 2017-11-16 · 42m
America's economic problems demand a radical solution. 2017-11-15 · 22m
The Complex Problem We're Trying to Solve 2017-11-14 · 33m
If you believe in our message, we need you to step up. 2017-11-13 · 14m
How a First-Time Homeowner and Father is Building a Resilient Life 2017-11-02 · 38m
The Week Ahead: Strong Towns goes to Washington 2017-10-30 · 31m
A Disruptive Conversation 2017-10-26 · 57m
The Week Ahead: Solutions to the Dreaded School Drop-Off Zone 2017-10-23 · 26m
A Nudge in the Right Direction 2017-10-19 · 67m
The Week Ahead: A Round of Applause 2017-10-16 · 26m
Why a simple, frugal life will make you a happier person 2017-10-12 · 42m
The Week Ahead: Drowning in Debt 2017-10-09 · 39m
Aligning Profit Motives and Community Needs 2017-10-05 · 70m
The Week Ahead: Rapid Fire Event Recap 2017-10-02 · 36m
Creating Strong Communities Through Local Food 2017-09-28 · 57m
The Week Ahead with Special Guest Kea Wilson 2017-09-25 · 23m
Local Government Encourages Residents to do Tactical Urbanism 2017-09-21 · 24m
Help Build Strong Towns in the Wake of Hurricane Harvey 2017-09-18 · 12m
Approaching a Divided America with Open Eyes 2017-09-14 · 53m
Cultivate Collaborative 2017-09-12 · 18m
Bike Share and Equity with Caressa Givens 2017-09-07 · 31m
The Week Ahead: September 5, 2017 2017-09-05 · 29m
A Conversation about Market Urbanism 2017-08-31 · 62m
The Week Ahead, August 21, 2017 2017-08-21 · 37m
Alfonso Morales on Markets 2017-08-17 · 27m
A Chat with Chuck about Brainerd 2017-08-14 · 37m
The Week Ahead: August 7, 2017 2017-08-07 · 22m
Pete Saunders 2017-07-27 · 55m
Don Kostelec 2017-07-23 · 42m
A Renaissance Zone in Bismarck 2017-07-20 · 45m
The Week Ahead: July 17, 2017 2017-07-17 · 22m
The Week Ahead, July 10, 2017 2017-07-10 · 35m
The Week Ahead, July 3, 2017 2017-07-03 · 31m
What's next for Strong Towns 2017-06-23 · 20m
Strong Towns Member Paul Fritz 2017-06-21 · 20m
Building a movement for change 2017-06-19 · 24m
Podcast: Tony Dutzik on the Auto Bubble 2017-06-15 · 41m
The Week Ahead: June 12, 2017 2017-06-12 · 28m
Solidarity Hall 2017-06-08 · 66m
The Week Ahead: June 5, 2017 2017-06-05 · 28m
Emily Hamilton 2017-06-01 · 52m
The Week Ahead: May 30, 2017 2017-05-30 · 34m
Vince Graham 2017-05-25 · 56m
The Week Ahead, May 22, 2017 2017-05-22 · 37m
An All-Night Citywide Art Festival 2017-05-18 · 32m
Pasqualina Azzarello 2017-05-16 · 41m
Richard Florida and the New Urban Crisis 2017-05-11 · 55m
The Week Ahead (May 8, 2017) 2017-05-08 · 26m
Human Transit 2017-05-04 · 35m
The Week Ahead: May 1, 2017 2017-05-01 · 30m
Debating the Merits of Amazon 2017-04-26 · 73m
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City 2017-04-20 · 27m
The Week Ahead, April 17, 2017 2017-04-17 · 37m
Jane Jacobs in the Woo 2017-04-14 · 40m
The Week Ahead - April 10, 2017 2017-04-10 · 32m
Two Former Mayors - 1 Republican and 1 Democrat - Find Common Ground in Conversation 2017-04-06 · 56m
The Week Ahead: April 24, 2017 2017-04-04 · 29m
The Week Ahead, April 3, 2017 2017-04-03 · 25m
The Week Ahead, March 27, 2017 2017-03-27 · 30m
The #StrongestTown Championship Showdown - 2017 2017-03-23 · 41m
The Week Ahead, March 20, 2017 2017-03-20 · 21m
Guelph, Ontario, Canada (#StrongestTown Contest) 2017-03-17 · 15m
Lafayette, LA (#StrongestTown Contest) 2017-03-13 · 13m
Valparaiso, IN (#StrongestTown Contest) 2017-03-13 · 20m
Traverse City, MI (#StrongestTown Contest) 2017-03-13 · 14m
How to do the Infrastructure Surge Right 2017-03-09 · 38m
The Week Ahead, March 7, 2017 2017-03-07 · 30m
The Week Ahead, February 27, 2017 2017-02-27 · 19m
Podcast: The Death Race 2017-02-16 · 45m
The Week Ahead, February 13, 2017 2017-02-13 · 32m
Joe Bray-Ali 2017-02-09 · 50m
The Week Ahead, February 7, 2017 2017-02-07 · 34m
Infrastructure Crisis, Part 1 2017-01-26 · 48m
The Week Ahead, January 24, 2017 2017-01-24 · 29m
The Week Ahead, January 17, 2017 2017-01-17 · 30m
The Week Ahead, January 9, 2017 2017-01-09 · 32m
James Howard Kunstler and The Harrows of Spring 2017-01-05 · 56m
The Week Ahead, January 3, 2017 2017-01-03 · 26m
The Post-Election Therapy Podcast 2016-12-15 · 60m
The Week Ahead, December 13, 2016 2016-12-13 · 41m
Heyden Walker on Building Accountability into Federal Transportation Spending 2016-12-08 · 22m
A Design Thinking Approach to Infrastructure 2016-12-01 · 26m
How Parking Minimums Limit Housing Options 2016-11-22 · 29m
The Week Ahead, November 21, 2016 2016-11-21 · 20m
The End of the 2016 Member Drive 2016-11-18 · 39m
Chuck Answers Your Questions 2016-11-16 · 72m
Checking in with the younger crowd 2016-11-15 · 32m
The Week Ahead (Member Drive Edition) 2016-11-14 · 35m
Election 2016 2016-11-10 · 60m
Book Interview: Gracen Johnson 2016-11-08 · 20m
Russ Roberts of EconTalk 2016-11-03 · 34m
The Week Ahead - Halloween Edition 2016-10-31 · 40m
A People-Centered Transportation System 2016-10-27 · 22m
The Week Ahead, October 24, 2016 2016-10-24 · 41m
Choosing Active Towns 2016-10-20 · 65m
Book interview: Nate Hood and Pedestrian Safety 2016-10-14 · 22m
Ed Erfurt Talks Worthwhile Infrastructure Investments 2016-10-13 · 46m
The Week Ahead, October 11, 2016 2016-10-11 · 38m
Book interview: Andrew Price and Granularity 2016-10-10 · 13m
Book Interview: Daniel Herriges and the Overton Window 2016-10-07 · 18m
Former US Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, on Infrastructure Spending 2016-10-06 · 30m
Former Mayor Michael McGinn on our Infrastructure Crisis 2016-09-29 · 28m
The Week Ahead, September 26, 2016 2016-09-27 · 32m
A Small Business Owner who's Working to Make his Town Stronger 2016-09-22 · 44m
The Week Ahead, September 19, 2016 2016-09-19 · 35m
Steven Shultis on Urban Schools 2016-09-15 · 60m
Paul Stewart from Oswego, NY 2016-09-08 · 60m
Elizabeth Kneebone on Suburban Poverty 2016-09-01 · 45m
Which is Better: One-Way or Two-Way Streets? 2016-08-25 · 26m
The Week Ahead, August 22, 2016 2016-08-22 · 35m
The Week Ahead, August 15, 2016 2016-08-15 · 22m
APBP Questions 2016-08-11 · 64m
The Week Ahead, August 8, 2016 2016-08-08 · 33m
The Week Ahead, August 1, 2016 2016-08-01 · 29m
Routine Traffic Stops 2016-07-28 · 60m
The Week Ahead, July 25 2016 2016-07-25 · 32m
Stacy Mitchell on the Big Box Swindle 2016-07-19 · 48m
CNU24: Ask Us Anything 2016-07-14 · 61m
CNU24: Lynn Richards 2016-07-07 · 39m
Johnny Sanphillippo and Chuck Marohn Debate Detroit 2016-06-30 · 45m
The Week Ahead, June 27, 2016 2016-06-27 · 33m
Sportscenter with Matthias Leyrer 2016-06-24 · 50m
Some words of optimism 2016-06-22 · 28m
Seth Zeren - Founding Member of Strong Towns 2016-06-21 · 44m
State of Strong Towns 2016-06-20 · 35m
CNU24: Strong Towns All Star Members 2016-06-16 · 54m
CNU24: R. John Anderson 2016-06-10 · 57m
CNU24: Janette Sadik-Khan 2016-06-10 · 33m
CNU24: Placemakers 2016-06-09 · 41m
CNU24: Michelle Erfurt 2016-06-09 · 40m
The Week Ahead, June 6, 2016 2016-06-06 · 28m
Andres Duany 2016-06-02 · 54m
Toby Dougherty 2016-05-26 · 59m
The Week Ahead, May 23, 2016 2016-05-23 · 31m
Aaron Brown 2016-05-18 · 61m
Andrew Hanegmon of Iron Range Makerspace 2016-05-17 · 31m
Scott Hall at KAXE Radio 2016-05-16 · 59m
Sprawl, Smart Growth and Strong Towns 2016-05-12 · 64m
The Week Ahead, May 9, 2016 2016-05-09 · 33m
Nolan Gray of Market Urbanism 2016-05-04 · 41m
Nolan Gray of Market Urbanism 2016-05-04 · 41m
Denise Pinto of Jane's Walk 2016-05-03 · 22m
The Week Ahead, April 25, 2016 2016-04-25 · 29m
The Week Ahead, April 18, 2016 2016-04-18 · 32m
Chris Martenson 2016-04-15 · 52m
Ethan Kent, Project for Public Spaces 2016-04-14 · 32m
Marian Liou, Founder of We Love BuHi 2016-04-13 · 41m
Chris and Melissa Bruntlett of Modacity 2016-04-12 · 40m
Mr. Money Mustache 2016-04-11 · 54m
The Week Ahead, April 4, 2016 2016-04-04 · 33m
Episode 301 Final 2 Strongest Towns Face Off 2016-03-31 · 61m
Carlisle, PA in the Strongest Town Contest 2016-03-28 · 23m
Holland, MI in the Strongest Town Contest 2016-03-28 · 22m
Sandusky, OH in the Strongest Town Contest 2016-03-28 · 18m
Hoboken, NJ in the Strongest Town Contest 2016-03-28 · 19m
The Week Ahead, March 21, 2016 2016-03-21 · 27m
The Strongest Town Contest - Commentary and Updates 2016-03-17 · 37m
The Week Ahead, March 15, 2016 2016-03-15 · 26m
The End of the Ponzi Scheme 2016-03-10 · 41m
Juan Mullerat and Steve Wright 2016-03-09 · 49m
The Week Ahead, March 7, 2016 2016-03-07 · 24m
The Week Ahead, February 29, 2016 2016-02-29 · 32m
Most affordable housing is not subsidized 2016-02-25 · 41m
The developer who was desperate to save a struggling neighborhood 2016-02-24 · 28m
The_frustrating_real_life_story_of_a_mixed-use_loan_that_didn_t_happen 2016-02-23 · 64m
Federal_Housing_Finance_Policy 2016-02-23 · 32m
Eve_Picker_of_Small_Change 2016-02-18 · 43m
The_Week_Ahead_February_15_2016 2016-02-15 · 32m
Nitin_Gadia 2016-02-11 · 31m
The_Week_Ahead_February_9_2016 2016-02-09 · 34m
OKC Live! 2016-02-04 · 78m
The_Week_Ahead_February_2_2016 2016-02-02 · 33m
Susan_Handy_on_Induced_Travel 2016-01-29 · 22m
Mayor_Michael_McGinn_of_Seattle 2016-01-28 · 32m
Kevin_Blanchard_of_Lafayette 2016-01-27 · 30m
No New Roads 2016-01-26 · 32m
Randy Simes 2016-01-25 · 18m
The_Big_Short 2016-01-22 · 60m
The_Week_Ahead_January_18_2016 2016-01-18 · 21m
Inside Stuff 2016-01-14 · 50m
The_Week_Ahead_January_11_2016 2016-01-11 · 25m
Newtonian_Economics 2016-01-08 · 70m
The_Week_Ahead_January_4_2016 2016-01-04 · 22m
The_Week_Ahead_December_1_2015 2015-12-01 · 25m
Joe_Minicozzi 2015-11-25 · 25m
John Anderson 2015-11-24 · 22m
Donald Shoup on the High Cost of Free Parking 2015-11-23 · 27m
We are 1,000 Strong! 2015-11-14 · 16m
James Howard Kunstler 2015-11-13 · 72m
Jason and Rachel 2015-11-12 · 23m
Johnny Sanphillippo 2015-11-11 · 40m
Interview with Chuck Marohn 2015-11-10 · 67m
Scott_Doyon_on_Porchfest 2015-11-06 · 29m
Understanding Traffic Congestion 2015-10-30 · 50m
The Week Ahead, October 26, 2015 2015-10-27 · 17m
David Levinson and The End of Traffic 2015-10-23 · 62m
The_Week_Ahead_October_19_2015 2015-10-16 · 18m
Madison_Member_Meetup 2015-10-16 · 11m
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