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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 Feb 12, 2015
Thursday Feb 12, 2015
Politicians on the left and right struggle to speak coherently about transportation infrastructure.
Thursday Jan 29, 2015
Thursday Jan 29, 2015
A continued look at a Nassim Nicholas Taleb speech titled Small is Beautiful, but also Less Fragile. This is part two, Last week's episode can be heard here.
Thursday Jan 22, 2015
Thursday Jan 22, 2015
This week Chuck Marohn dissects a speech that Nassim Nicholas Taleb gave recently titled Small is Beautiful, but also Less Fragile. This is part one of two on this subject.
Thursday Jan 15, 2015
Thursday Jan 08, 2015
Thursday Jan 08, 2015
For our 200th show, we asked listeners to submit questions for Chuck to answer.
Thursday Dec 18, 2014
Thursday Dec 18, 2014
Chuck Marohn and Andrew Burleson sit down to discuss a tragedy in Springfield, Mass, where a mom and two girls were hit by a drunk driver on an urban stroad. The seven-year-old girl was killed and the other seriously injured. Marohn and Burleson discuss the engineering profession's approach to safety, the implications for those outside of an automobile and how our approach needs reform if we are truly build safe, productive places.
Donations can be made to the family through this website.
Wednesday Dec 10, 2014
Wednesday Dec 10, 2014
Andrew Burleson and Jim Kumon sit down with Chuck Marohn in an AirBnB in Brooklyn to talk about the future of the Strong towns movement.
Thursday Dec 04, 2014
Thursday Dec 04, 2014
Jim Kumon joins Chuck Marohn to discuss the Strong Towns Strength Test and how it can be applied to measure the strength and resiliency of a place.
Thursday Nov 20, 2014
Thursday Nov 20, 2014
Engineer and shared-space designer Ben Hamilton-Baillie returns to the podcast to talk about how to get started with building shared space, the chances of success in the United States and some memories of his father, a World War II veteran who lead and assisted a number of escapes from German prisoner-of-war camps.
You can follow Ben Hamilton-Baillie on Twitter, see more of his work on his firm’s website and watch the video, Poyton Regenerated, that was discussed in the podcast. The book about the escape Jock Hamilton-Baillie was invovled in is called Zero Night by Mark Felton. It is a really good read.
Friday Nov 14, 2014