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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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Sep 25, 2014
Sep 25, 2014
54 min
Our friend Jim Kunstler joins the podcast this week to talk about his latest book, A History of the Future, the latest in his World Made by Handseries.
You can get a copy of the book at bookstores near you or online at:
- Battenkill Books (autographed)
- Northshire Bookstore
- Amazon
Sep 11, 2014
Sep 11, 2014
52 min
This week on the podcast features Eric Jacobson, author of The Space Between: A Christian Engagement with the Built Environment. Rev. Jacobsen is the Senior Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Tacoma, a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism and the holder of a doctorate in Theology and the Built Environment.
Sep 4, 2014
Sep 4, 2014
1 hr 11 min
This week Chuck Marohn talks about how auto-oriented communities are designed to decline, an effect that we can see clearly in places like Ferguson, Missouri.
Aug 28, 2014
Aug 28, 2014
55 min
This episode was recorded at CNU 22 in Buffalo. Participating are Jason Roberts (twitter) of The Better Block, Mike Lydon (twitter) from Street Plans Collaborative, Chuck Marohn (twitter) of Strong Towns and Joe Mnicozzi (twitter) of Urban-3. You can also watch the video of this conversation thanks to Gracen Johnson.
Aug 21, 2014
Aug 21, 2014
57 min
Chuck digs into the Strong Townns mailbad to answer some of the questions submitted by members. If you are a member, you can submit your questions to Ask Strong Towns and we'll answer them on the podcast or the blog. If you're not a member of Strong Towns yet, what are you waiting for?
Aug 14, 2014
Aug 14, 2014
50 min
This week Kristen Jeffers, the Black Urbanist, joins the podcast to share insights on her work, the city of Greensboro, investing in neighborhoods without leaving people behind and more.
You can follow Kristen on Twitter and read more from her at The Black Urbanist and North Carolina Placebook.
Aug 7, 2014
Aug 7, 2014
35 min
This week Chuck talks with Kevin Klinkenberg about his upcoming book, Why I Walk: Taking a Step in the Right Direction. You can follow Kevin and his work at www.KevinKlinkenberg.com as well as on Facebook and Twitter.
Jul 31, 2014
Jul 31, 2014
1 hr 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
1 hr 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.