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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
Jul 31, 2014
Jul 31, 2014
1hr 9 min
This week Chuck does a solo podcast talking about the Federal Highway Trust Fund and the implications of its pending insolvency.
Additional reading: Some perspective on the gas tax
Jul 24, 2014
Jul 24, 2014
43 min
Santiago Garces, who heads the Data, Performance and Innovation program at the city of South Bend, talks with Chuck about how technology can help local governments do more with less.
Jul 17, 2014
Jul 17, 2014
1hr 7 min
This, our last podcast from CNU 22 in Buffalo, is the NextGen Roundtable, a discussion that began with Chuck Marohn and Gracen Johnson and went in all sorts of crazy directions.
Jul 10, 2014
Jul 10, 2014
40 min
This week’s podcast is a double header starting with the first super hero ever to appear on a Strong Towns Podcast (still waiting on Cap’n Transit), the Mexican pedestrian advocate Peatonito. Then we’re joined by the slightly more reserved, but equally cool, John Yung of the site UrbanCincy.
Jul 3, 2014
Jul 3, 2014
46 min
John Anderson of Anderson|Kim Architecture and Urban Design joins the podcast this week to talk about development in a post-easy money world. Get out the title for your Tercel, put your pro-forma together and listen to a fascinating conversation.
Jun 26, 2014
Jun 26, 2014
42 min
Ben Hamilton-Baillie, street designer and shared space advocate, joins the podcast from CNU 22 in Buffalo to talk about shared space, his memories of Hans Monderman and hopes for American transportation. This is a very special podcast you are not going to want to miss.
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.
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Jun 24, 2014
Jun 19, 2014
Jun 19, 2014
43 min
From CNU 22 in Buffalo, Chuck is joined this week by the incoming president and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Lynn Richards. They discuss Lynn’s background (really fascinating), how she became interested in leading the CNU and what she looks to accomplish in the position.
You can follow Lynn on Twitter at @lrichardsCNU.
May 22, 2014
May 22, 2014
1hr 5 min
Chuck goes solo this week on the podcast talking about Strong Towns happenings at CNU 22 and his thoughts on transit following comments he made recently in San Antonio.
May 8, 2014
May 8, 2014
52 min
Gracen Johnson of Another Place for Me is in the studio for this week’s podcast with Chuck Marohn talking about Brainerd, MN, and whether we ultimately need Another Place for Chuck.