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The Strong Towns Podcast is a weekly conversation on the Strong Towns movement, hosted by Strong Towns Founder and President Charles Marohn and frequently featuring special guests. The podcast explores how we can financially strengthen our cities, towns, and neighborhoods and, in the process, make them better places to live. Join Chuck in examining how everything from urban design to economics to systems theory to psychology helps inform this core question.
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Thursday Sep 18, 2025
We Broke North American Cities. Here’s How To Fix Them.
Thursday Sep 18, 2025
Thursday Sep 18, 2025
How did we go from building strong, prosperous cities to weak, debt-ridden ones? In this episode, Chuck tracks the cultural and economic impacts of World War II on our development pattern. He explains what must change if we want to build strong cities again.
ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES
- This episode is a recording of a presentation Chuck gave in Denver. Click here to see some of the images Chuck references.
- Get the Finance Decoder.
- Chuck Marohn (Substack)
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