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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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Jan 30, 2014
Jan 30, 2014
1 hr 5 min
Attorney and job creation, transportation efficiency and economic development expert Rick Rybeck joins Chuck Marohn to talk about taxes, fees and creating incentives for a better land use approach. You can find out more about Rick and his work at www.justeconomicsllc.com.
Jan 23, 2014
Jan 23, 2014
53 min
Gracen Johnson from Another Place for Me talks with Chuck Marohn about The Hunger Games series and how the insights apply to Strong Towns thinking.
Jan 16, 2014
Jan 16, 2014
1 hr 5 min
Strong Towns Executive Director Jim Kumon joins Chuck Marohn this week to look back at 2013 and provide a preview of what's coming up for Strong Towns.
Jan 9, 2014
Jan 9, 2014
1 hr 4 min
Chuck appeared on Tri-State Viewpoint, a radio show out of Huntington, WV, and shared audio and reactions from his conversation with two confused, and thankfully former, mayors.
Dec 19, 2013
Nov 22, 2013
Nov 22, 2013
55 min
Chuck Marohn and Justin Burslie discuss A Better Brainerd their recent report titled Neighborhoods First.
Nov 11, 2013
Nov 11, 2013
40 min
Inspired by a pimped out roundabout in a Wisconsin cornfield, Chuck calls on the engineering profession to do something radical: engineer.
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Oct 24, 2013
Oct 24, 2013
1 hr 11 min
Scholar and author John Dominic Crossan joins Chuck Marohn to talk about the study of the historical Jesus, his books The Power of Parable and The Greatest Prayer and what the teachings of Jesus have to teach us about community today.
Oct 10, 2013
Oct 10, 2013
44 min
Special guest Chris Gibbons talks about Economic Gardening, the early days of success and failure in Littleton, CO, the nationwide movement today and how to get involved. This is a far reaching conversation that demonstrates why the smart money in local economic development is in Economic Gardening.
Oct 3, 2013
Oct 3, 2013
49 min
Author of The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream is Moving, Leigh Gallagher, joins Chuck Marohn this week to talk about her book, her research and the reaction to her insights on America's post World War II development pattern.