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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.
Episodes
May 1, 2015
May 1, 2015
1 hr 3 min
In what has become a CNU tradition, Andrew Burleson takes over the podcast and turns the table on the host. Andrew pushes Chuck to talk about the advice he would give a fictional mayor in handling contraction of the city.
Apr 30, 2015
Apr 30, 2015
23 min
Sinclair Black and Heyden Walker, architects with Austin-based Black and Vernooy, talk about great streets, Austin and the potential to bury and cap an interstate. Their new ebook is available at ProjectGreatStreets.com.
Apr 30, 2015
Apr 30, 2015
30 min
CNU President and CEO Lynn Richards talking about accelerating the pace of change, #IamCNU and ways the Congress for the New Urbanism is leading a movement for building great places.
Apr 30, 2015
Apr 30, 2015
17 min
Jarrett Walker of Jarrett Walker + Associates and James Llamas of Traffic Engineers, Inc. talk about the reimagined Houston transit network, the hard choices that brought it about and how the city's bus network now provides more service to more people with the same budget.
Apr 30, 2015
Apr 30, 2015
29 min
Jeff Tumlin of Nelson/Nygaard talks about the nuances of the Trinity Toll Road, the cognitive dissonance of parking and using performance metrics to make good local decisions.
Apr 30, 2015
Apr 30, 2015
24 min
John Simmerman of Active Towns talks about his move to Austin, the Active Living tour and efforts to slow cars.
Apr 30, 2015
Apr 30, 2015
25 min
Hazel Borys of Placemakers talking about living in a northern city, the spread of form based codes and being a reluctant, but necessary, free range parent.
Apr 30, 2015
Apr 30, 2015
29 min
Steve Mouzon talking about the Original Green, his new book, Cuba and a rescue project in Bahamas.
Apr 30, 2015
Apr 30, 2015
29 min
Dan Parolek is Principal at Opticos Design in Berkley, CA. Opticos is the force behind www.missingmiddle.com, a website devoted to reintroducing the housing and building types that were ubquitous in the human scaled development era, and nearly extinct for the last 60 years. The website shows pictures and diagrams of duplexes, quadplexes, bungalow courts, courtyard housing and more.
Apr 30, 2015
Apr 30, 2015
1 hr 35 min
Andrew Burleson and Chuck Marohn manage to waste 90 minutes talking about nothing of any real importance. There are some book recommendations, discussion on Hardcore History, a Meriwether Lewis biography and some reflection on the purpose of CNU.