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 Apr 17, 2021
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 Jun 18, 2019

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We advocate for a model of development that allows our cities, towns and neighborhoods to grow financially strong and resilient.

Episode Date
Rethinking the “Moonshot” Approach to Complex Problems Like Street Safety
Oct 07, 2024
Has the Highway Trust Fund Outlived Its Usefulness? A Conversation With Beth Osborne.
Sep 30, 2024
What’s the Best Career for Someone Who Wants To Build Strong Towns?
Sep 23, 2024
Exploring the Role of Religious Institutions in Community Development
Sep 16, 2024
From Crime to Common Practice: How Fraud Dominates the Housing Market
Aug 28, 2024
From Boring to Brilliant: Making Municipal Finance Fun With Michel Durand-Wood
Aug 26, 2024
Build the Damn Train: How To Bring High-Speed Rail to the United States
Aug 19, 2024
The Traffic Enforcement Futility Loop
Aug 12, 2024
Why Local Leaders Can Address the Housing Crisis but Federal Programs Fail
Aug 05, 2024
Oh Crap! Dealing With Sewer Upgrades Is a Complicated Mess
Jul 29, 2024
The Truth About the Suburban Experiment: A Response to “Contra Strong Towns”
Jul 22, 2024
How To Escape the Housing Trap: A Special Q&A Session
Jun 17, 2024
Member Drive Week Special: Most Public Engagement Is Worthless
Jun 14, 2024
Member Drive Week Special: If We Made Shoes Like We Make Housing, People Would Go Barefoot
Jun 13, 2024
Member Drive Week Special: How Fannie Mae Puts a Chokehold on Local Home Financing Solutions
Jun 12, 2024
Member Drive Week Special: One Billion Bollards
Jun 11, 2024
Member Drive Week Special: The Cost of an Extra Foot
Jun 10, 2024
Megan Kimble: The Toll Urban Highways Take and the People Fighting Back
May 20, 2024
How to Escape Housing (and Baseball Stadium) Traps, Plus a Little Disney Urbanism.
May 13, 2024
The Strong Towns Tension With YIMBYism
Apr 22, 2024
Alex Alsup: How Much of the U.S.'s Housing Stock Is Locally Owned?
Apr 15, 2024
Where Strong Towns Stands As We Enter Another Election Year
Apr 08, 2024
Why We Need To Show Empathy Toward Drivers in Conversations About Street Safety
Mar 25, 2024
Benjamin Herold: The Unraveling of America’s Suburbs
Mar 18, 2024
What Is the Role of Philanthropy in Building Stronger Towns?
Mar 11, 2024
Sam Quinones: Recovering Addicts Are Having a Bottom-Up Revolution in This Small Kentucky Town
Mar 04, 2024
Tony Jordan and Chris Meyer: Pushing for People Over Parking
Feb 26, 2024
Eric Goldwyn: Why U.S. Transit Is So Expensive (and How To Fix It)
Feb 19, 2024
Meet the Freeway Fighters Who Are Suing the Texas Department of Transportation
Feb 12, 2024
Shima Hamidi: Narrow Lanes Save Lives
Feb 05, 2024
Minnesota Introduces First-in-the-Nation Bill To Eliminate Minimum Parking Mandates Statewide
Jan 29, 2024
Where Is Sprawl Good? (Featuring Joe Minicozzi)
Nov 27, 2023
Reading Member Comments—Live From Buc-ee’s!
Nov 17, 2023
We’re Seeing a Groundswell of People Doing Amazing Things in Their Communities
Nov 15, 2023
We Must Become More Sensitive to the Stress Our Cities Are Under
Nov 13, 2023
Seth Kaplan: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time
Oct 23, 2023
Conor Semler: A New Decision-Making Framework for Street Design
Oct 02, 2023
Strong Towns Is Jane Jacobs in Action
Sep 25, 2023
The Arguments for Speed Cameras…and Why They Don’t Hold Up
Sep 18, 2023
Steve Mouzon: How Do We Rebuild Maui?
Sep 11, 2023
Walkable City Design Is Critical for Economic Health
Aug 28, 2023
Citizen Versus Developer? No! It’s Citizen As Developer.
Jul 24, 2023
Four Communities Are Becoming Examples of Change
Jul 12, 2023
From 500 to 5,000: What Strong Towns Members Are Doing to Make Their Places Better
Jun 12, 2023
Dollar Stores Are Leeching the Economic Vitality of Communities Across the U.S.
Jun 05, 2023
Ian Lockwood: Thoughts From an Engineer
May 01, 2023
What’s Going On With the Recent Bank Failures?
Apr 03, 2023
Growth Through Destruction
Mar 20, 2023
On the Conservative Reaction to 15-Minute Cities
Mar 13, 2023
The Property Tax System is Broken—Regrid Works on Tools to Help Fix It
Feb 20, 2023
Jeff Speck on the 10th-Anniversary Edition of Walkable City
Feb 13, 2023
Lawsuit Update: Making a Stand for Engineers in the Minnesota State Court of Appeals
Jan 30, 2023
Mike Hathorne: Where Does Decision-Making Need to Occur in Our Communities?
Jan 09, 2023
Ben Hunt: In Praise of Bitcoin
Jan 02, 2023
Thanks for a Great Year
Dec 19, 2022
Sam Quinones: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
Dec 05, 2022
Get Ready for #BlackFridayParking
Nov 23, 2022
The Impact of Systemic Racism on Jackson’s Water Crisis
Nov 21, 2022
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Most Comprehensive Resource Strong Towns Offers
Nov 18, 2022
A Whole New Framework for Analyzing Car Crashes
Nov 17, 2022
This Is How the Strong Towns Movement Becomes “Unignorable”
Nov 16, 2022
The Power of Talking Locally Over the Noise of National Politics
Nov 15, 2022
The Strong Towns Strategy
Nov 14, 2022
Water System Crises and Solutions
Nov 07, 2022
The Highway Boondoggles Report
Oct 24, 2022
What Customer Service Should Mean for a City
Oct 10, 2022
Hawaii’s Suburban Experiment
Sep 26, 2022
The Jackson Water Crisis Is Not a Fluke—Your City Could Be Next
Sep 22, 2022
Not Just Bikes and Strong Towns Discuss Public Transit in North America
Aug 15, 2022
“Bias Writ Large” in the Property Tax Assessment System
Aug 08, 2022
One of the Most Dangerous Assumptions We Have Made
Aug 01, 2022
The Drip, Drip, Drip of Traffic Deaths
Jul 18, 2022
An Update on Strong Towns’ Lawsuit Against the Minnesota Board of Engineering Licensure
Jul 11, 2022
Majora Carter: Reclaiming Your Community
Jun 20, 2022
Nolan Gray: Exposing the Arbitrariness of Zoning Codes
Jun 13, 2022
End the Parking Mandates and Subsidies That Are Hurting Our Cities
Jun 10, 2022
Legalizing Incremental Change—Everywhere—To Meet America’s Housing Needs
Jun 09, 2022
Your City’s Accounting Is Unnecessarily Obscure. It’s Time To Pull Back the Veil.
Jun 08, 2022
America *Must* End Highway Expansions, Before It’s Too Late
Jun 07, 2022
Safe and Productive Streets
Jun 06, 2022
Mike McGinn: Making America More Walkable
May 23, 2022
This Vancouver-Based Artist Is Writing Music…About Building Strong Towns!
May 09, 2022
Chuck Marohn Answers Your Questions
May 02, 2022
Ryan Crane: Malpractice and Accountability in Engineering—A Surgeon’s Take
Apr 25, 2022
An Update and the Strong Towns Strategic Plan
Mar 17, 2022
“How Can My Town *Not* Be Wealthy When There’s Been So Much Growth?”
Mar 07, 2022
Annamarie Pluhar: Shared Housing Doesn’t Have to Be Scary
Feb 28, 2022
The Latest Update on the Strong Towns Lawsuit
Feb 21, 2022
Truth in Accounting: Making Cities’ Finances Transparent for All
Feb 14, 2022
Jeff Speck on Confessions of a Recovering Engineer
Feb 07, 2022
Chuck Marohn Answers Your Questions
Jan 31, 2022
Jarrett Walker: ”Prediction and Freedom Are Opposites”
Jan 24, 2022
Peter Norton: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving
Jan 18, 2022
Driving Went Down. Fatalities Went Up. Here’s Why.
Jan 10, 2022
Tim Soerens: Reconnecting Churches with Their Neighborhoods
Jan 03, 2022
Two Different Languages
Dec 06, 2021
Which Wins Out: An Engineer‘s Discretion or a Book of Standards?
Nov 29, 2021
Another Tragedy at Springfield
Nov 18, 2021
The Hidden Values Behind Our Unsafe Streets
Sep 06, 2021
Chuck Marohn Answers Your Questions
Aug 30, 2021
Rick Harnish: Stronger Transit for Stronger Cities
Aug 23, 2021
Bad Benches (and Other Park Problems)
Aug 02, 2021
Fighting an Urban Highway Expansion in Shreveport
Jul 26, 2021
Johnny Sanphillippo: The Trajectory of Suburbia
Jul 19, 2021
Pete Davis: The Case for Commitment in an Age of “Infinite Browsing”
Jul 12, 2021
Here's How Cities Undermine Their Own Competitiveness
Jul 06, 2021
Expertise Is Not Absolute
Jun 21, 2021
Jason Slaughter: The Goal Isn't to Build a Cycling City
Jun 07, 2021
Listen to the Briefing About the Strong Towns Lawsuit
Jun 01, 2021
Strong Towns Has Filed a Lawsuit Against the Minnesota Board of Engineering Licensure in Federal District Court
May 24, 2021
Ann Sussman and Justin Hollander: Architecture and the Unconscious Mind
May 03, 2021
Alex Alsup: Keeping People in Their Homes in Detroit
Apr 26, 2021
Dr. Samuel Hughes: A Proposal for Strong Suburbs
Apr 19, 2021
Michael Odiari: Putting a Check on Deadly Traffic Stops
Apr 12, 2021
Strongest Town Webcast: Lockport, IL vs. Oxford, MS (Audio Version)
Apr 05, 2021
Eric Jacobsen: How Car Culture is Making Us Lonelier
Mar 29, 2021
Beth Osborne: America's Roads are "Dangerous by Design"
Mar 22, 2021
Grace Olmstead: The Legacy—and the Future—of the Places We Leave Behind
Mar 15, 2021
Cullum Clark: Creating Cities of Opportunity
Mar 08, 2021
Rep. Jake Auchincloss & Rep. Mike Gallagher: How Congress Can Support Local Leaders and Get the Economy Going (Video)
Mar 01, 2021
Joseph Kane: Prioritizing People (Not Projects) In Infrastructure Spending
Feb 22, 2021
Dig Deep: What Does Democracy Look Like Now?
Feb 15, 2021
Richard Florida: Remote Work and "The Rise of the Rest"
Feb 08, 2021
Bad Bets
Feb 01, 2021
Allison Schrager: "The only insurance against uncertainty is resilience."
Jan 25, 2021
Gabrielle Gurley: For Transit, "The Cuts are Coming"
Jan 18, 2021
Matthew Yglesias: The Case for One Billion Americans (Part 2)
Jan 11, 2021
Matthew Yglesias: The Case for One Billion Americans (Part 1)
Jan 04, 2021
John Pattison: From Slow Food to Slow Church
Dec 14, 2020
Chris Bernardo: Filling the Gaps to Support Local Businesses
Dec 07, 2020
Just Print the Money
Nov 30, 2020
Stacy Mitchell: Fighting for Small Businesses and Strong Local Economies
Nov 23, 2020
A Time for Local Action
Nov 16, 2020
Blake Pagenkopf: Rebooting Our Political Operating System
Nov 09, 2020
Denise Hearn: The Myth of Capitalism
Nov 02, 2020
Ben Hunt: We're Not Going to Fix This from the Top Down
Oct 26, 2020
Bonus Episode: The Bottom-Up Revolution
Oct 22, 2020
What Are We Waiting For?
Oct 19, 2020
Help Shape the Future of the Strong Towns Podcasts
Jul 30, 2020
KAXE's Dig Deep on George Floyd, Coronavirus, and More
Jun 16, 2020
Strip Mall
Jun 01, 2020
A Good Life in a Prosperous Place
May 22, 2020
Smart Cities: "Are we creating solutions looking for problems?"
May 21, 2020
What do you do?
May 20, 2020
Better Bike Infrastructure, Better Budgets
May 20, 2020
You're Not Alone
May 18, 2020
James Howard Kunstler: Living in the Long Emergency
May 11, 2020
This Is What Happens When Markets Are Too Efficient
May 04, 2020
Chris Gibbons: This Is How You Grow a Local Economy
Apr 27, 2020
Updating Loose Ends
Apr 21, 2020
Americans may not wear face masks, even with survival at stake. Here's why.
Mar 31, 2020
Strongest Town Semifinals: Winona, MN
Mar 24, 2020
Strongest Town Semifinals: Watertown, SD
Mar 24, 2020
Strongest Town Semifinals: Hamilton, MO
Mar 24, 2020
Strongest Town Semifinals: Beloit, WI
Mar 24, 2020
Tales from the Crypt, +Update
Mar 23, 2020
Do What You Can, a Coronavirus Update
Mar 17, 2020
Ben Stevens: Every Building Is a Startup
Mar 09, 2020
Danielle Arigoni: Making Great Places for People of all Ages
Mar 06, 2020
David McAlvany: Legacy is an Accumulation of Little Decisions
Mar 02, 2020
Jenny Schuetz: Who's To Blame for High Housing Costs?
Feb 24, 2020
Tim Carney: "Alienated America" and the Rise of Populism
Feb 17, 2020
Liz Swaine: Bootstrapping Downtown Shreveport
Feb 10, 2020
Should California Bring Back Redevelopment Agencies?
Dec 17, 2019
Go Cultivate with Verdunity
Dec 10, 2019
If the “Strong Towns” book is the WHY, this book is the HOW.
Nov 18, 2019
Students and the Strong Towns Movement
Nov 14, 2019
Aligning Mission with Funding, the Strong Towns Way
Nov 14, 2019
What does it mean to be part of a bottom-up revolution?
Nov 11, 2019
Live in Kansas City: "We’re a suburban community learning we can be urban."
Nov 05, 2019
Gracy Olmstead: It Still Takes a Village
Oct 28, 2019
King Williams: The Gentrifiers Will Become the Gentrified
Oct 21, 2019
Paul Stewart: You Are the Help You've Been Waiting For
Oct 14, 2019
More than Math: Living with Intention in Our Stronger Towns
Oct 04, 2019
Minimum Viable Development? How We Let the "Perfect" Be the Enemy of the Good
Oct 03, 2019
Building Productive Places (and Showering them with Love)
Oct 02, 2019
Breaking Free of the Infrastructure Cult
Oct 01, 2019
Spooky Wisdom: What Lessons Should We Be Learning from How Our Ancestors Built Cities?
Sep 30, 2019
James Howard Kunstler: It's All Going to Have to Get Smaller
Sep 23, 2019
Tomas Sedlacek: A More Humane Economics
Sep 16, 2019
Patrick Deneen on Rediscovering Community and Rootedness
Sep 09, 2019
Ben Westhoff: Ferguson, Five Years Later
Sep 03, 2019
Ask Strong Towns #10: August 2019
Aug 20, 2019
Steve Mouzon: Living Traditions and the Original Green
Aug 12, 2019
The Dignity of Local Community: Chris Arnade
Aug 05, 2019
What Happens When Housing Becomes a Cash Crop?
Jul 29, 2019
Building Cities For Our Unconscious Brains: Ann Sussman on the Failings of Modern Architecture
Jul 22, 2019
Start Small, and Make a Lot of Noise: John Yung on Suburban Revitalization
Jul 01, 2019
Ask Strong Towns #9 (June 2019)
Jun 24, 2019
What Does it Take to Bring a City Back from the Brink?
Jun 10, 2019
Autonomous Vehicles Are Coming. Do We Have a Say in Who Benefits?
Jun 03, 2019
Ask Strong Towns: Celebrity Edition with Community-Conscious Developer Derek Avery
May 29, 2019
Why does Strong Towns put *so* much emphasis on its members—and why is that so unusual in the nonprofit world?
May 23, 2019
It's the Strong Towns Moment
May 20, 2019
Steve Nygren of Serenbe: "I Wanted to Build a Town, Not a Development"
May 13, 2019
Land Value Tax with Joe Minicozzi
May 06, 2019
Memphis’s U-Turn: Interview with Doug McGowen
Apr 29, 2019
Ask Strong Towns #8: April 2019
Apr 23, 2019
What to Expect From Strong Towns: the Book
Apr 22, 2019
Greatest Hits #11: Economic Gardening With Chris Gibbons (2013)
Apr 15, 2019
Strongest Town Contest: Championship Round
Apr 08, 2019
Strongest Town Semifinals: Safety Harbor, Florida
Apr 02, 2019
Strongest Town Semifinals: Pensacola, Florida
Apr 02, 2019
Strongest Town Semifinals: Guthrie, Oklahoma
Apr 02, 2019
Strongest Town Semifinals: Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Apr 02, 2019
Greatest Hits #10: John Dominic Crossan (2013)
Mar 27, 2019
Greatest Hits #9: Can You Be an Engineer and Speak Out for Reform? (2015)
Mar 18, 2019
Greatest Hits #8: Gross Negligence (2015)
Mar 12, 2019
Greatest Hits #7: Talking Debt and Self-Sufficiency With Mr. Money Mustache (2016)
Mar 04, 2019
Ask Strong Towns #7
Feb 28, 2019
Greatest Hits #6: Time to End the Routine Traffic Stop (2016)
Feb 25, 2019
Greatest Hits #5: Approaching a Divided America With Open Eyes (2017)
Feb 18, 2019
Greatest Hits #4: Lots of Small Earthquakes: How a Place Becomes Antifragile (2015)
Feb 05, 2019
Ask Strong Towns: Celebrity Edition with Stacy Mitchell
Feb 04, 2019
Greatest Hits #3: Is a City More Like a Washing Machine or a Cat? (2015)
Jan 28, 2019
Greatest Hits #2: Steven Shultis on "Bad" Urban Schools (2015)
Jan 22, 2019
Greatest Hits #1: America Answers Forum on Infrastructure (2015)
Jan 14, 2019
2019 Update
Jan 09, 2019
We'll Make The World a Better Place By (Insert Your Planning Fad Here)
Dec 10, 2018
Ask Strong Towns: November 2018
Dec 03, 2018
Ask Strong Towns Celebrity Edition: Q&A With Jeff Speck
Nov 26, 2018
You are awesome!
Nov 16, 2018
Giving You The Language You Need to Change the Conversation
Nov 14, 2018
What do you do when you need to change everything?
Nov 13, 2018
Ten Years, Getting Stronger
Nov 12, 2018
Carmel is Not a Strong Town
Nov 05, 2018
Upzoned #5: Opportunity Zones, But For Whom?
Oct 29, 2018
Carmel's Billion-Dollar Bet
Oct 22, 2018
The Roots of the Opioid Epidemic: A Conversation With Sam Quinones
Oct 15, 2018
Democratizing Local Public Finance by Bringing Back Small-Scale Investors
Oct 08, 2018
Beyond the Buzzword: Innovation and How it Can Help Local Government Create Meaningful Change
Oct 08, 2018
Peak Delusion of the Long Emergency
Oct 01, 2018
Downshifting into a Meaningful Life: A Conversation With Ruben Anderson
Sep 24, 2018
Is Strong Towns the same as Sprawl Repair?
Sep 17, 2018
Upzoned Episode 1: Dams and Reservoirs Won't Save Us
Sep 14, 2018
It's The Little Things Episode 1: Running For City Council
Sep 12, 2018
Where To Next For CNU? A Conversation With Lynn Richards
Sep 10, 2018
A Conversation With the Urban3 Team at CNU
Sep 06, 2018
Programming Update
Sep 05, 2018
The Emptying Out of Rural Kansas: An Interview With Corie Brown
Aug 30, 2018
The Week Ahead, August 29, 2017
Aug 29, 2018
Thoughts on Incremental Development
Aug 24, 2018
Young People and CNU
Aug 23, 2018
How Relevant is Localism in an Age of Urgency?
Aug 16, 2018
Ask Strong Towns #5
Aug 09, 2018
E-Scooters and Who Takes Up Space in Cities
Aug 02, 2018
From Vision to Policy, Making New Urbanism Work
Jul 26, 2018
Suburban Poverty Meets Sprawl Retrofit
Jul 19, 2018
What does it mean to build a vibrant community?
Jul 12, 2018
Ask Strong Towns #4 (June 2018)
Jul 05, 2018
The Week Ahead: From Technical Writer to Grocery Store Owner to Community Builder
Jul 02, 2018
Autonomous Vehicles: Separating the Hype from Reality
Jun 28, 2018
The Week Ahead: Get to know our new summer intern
Jun 25, 2018
Absolution and the Changing American City
Jun 21, 2018
The Week Ahead: Bee Season
Jun 18, 2018
Even Historic Cities Face Auto-Oriented Design Problems
Jun 14, 2018
Why is it so hard to get things built?
Jun 07, 2018
How a Productivity- and Efficiency-Obsessed Culture Harms Parents
May 31, 2018
The Week Ahead: Thank you!
May 29, 2018
Let's Talk
May 25, 2018
Here's what gives me hope.
May 24, 2018
Renewing Past Promises
May 21, 2018
Ask Strong Towns #3 (May 2018)
May 17, 2018
The Week Ahead: The 26th Congress for the New Urbanism
May 14, 2018
What's it like to get started as a small scale developer?
May 10, 2018
The Week Ahead: Don't be scared of dockless bikeshare
May 07, 2018
Ask Strong Towns #2 with Joe Minicozzi
May 03, 2018
The Week Ahead: A Chat with Strong Towns' Resident Nomad
Apr 30, 2018
No Excuses
Apr 26, 2018
The Week Ahead: Bon-Ton Gone
Apr 23, 2018
The Week Ahead: Announcing a Year-Long Initiative with Akron, Ohio
Apr 16, 2018
The Spooky Wisdom of Incremental
Apr 13, 2018
The Week Ahead: Rust Belt Towns on the Road to Revitalization
Apr 09, 2018
Ask Strong Towns 1
Apr 05, 2018
The Week Ahead: Chuck's Thoughts on Autonomous Vehicles
Apr 02, 2018
Suburban Redevelopment Requires Patience, Engagement and a Positive Attitude
Mar 29, 2018
2018 Strongest Town Contest Championship
Mar 26, 2018
Strongest Town Contest Round 3: Annapolis, MD
Mar 20, 2018
Strongest Town Contest Round 3: Kent, OH
Mar 20, 2018
Strongest Town Contest Round 3: Muskegon, MI
Mar 20, 2018
Strongest Town Contest Round 3: Pensacola, FL
Mar 20, 2018
"They're walking away from it and tearing it down."
Mar 15, 2018
The Week Ahead: Strong Citizens and Safe Streets
Mar 12, 2018
The Week Ahead: Welcome to the 2018 Strongest Town Contest
Mar 05, 2018
The Week Ahead: Becoming an Accidental Urbanist
Feb 26, 2018
A Conversation with Walkability Expert, Jeff Speck
Feb 22, 2018
The Week Ahead: Gentrification and the Bias Towards Bigness
Feb 19, 2018
Our streets should be safe for everyone — yes, even those who are under the influence.
Feb 15, 2018
In the Amazon HQ2 Contest, the Winner Might Actually be the Loser
Feb 08, 2018
The Week Ahead: Kickin it in Kansas City
Feb 05, 2018
Our Take on Trump's Leaked Infrastructure Plan
Feb 01, 2018
The Week Ahead: A Town Well Planned
Jan 29, 2018
Design Speed is a Value Statement
Jan 26, 2018
The New Localism
Jan 25, 2018
The Week Ahead: The Difference Between a Street and a Road
Jan 22, 2018
Car-free and Kid-friendly in Los Angeles
Jan 18, 2018
The Week Ahead: An Incremental Park Project in Shreveport
Jan 15, 2018
Investing for a Strong Town
Jan 12, 2018
The Week Ahead: Getting our Towns Back on the Wagon
Jan 08, 2018
Are bike lanes white lanes?
Jan 04, 2018
The Week Ahead: Welcome to 2018
Jan 02, 2018
The Final Week Ahead Podcast of 2017
Dec 14, 2017
Two Perspectives on Small Town Southern Life
Dec 07, 2017
The Week Ahead, December 5, 2016
Dec 05, 2017
The Week Ahead: Strong Towns in French
Dec 05, 2017
A Robert Moses Musical
Nov 30, 2017
The Week Ahead: A Sneak Peak
Nov 28, 2017
How Parking Minimums Hinder Small-Scale Developers
Nov 21, 2017
The movement is growing and we need you to be part of it.
Nov 17, 2017
Here's the Strong Towns mission in action.
Nov 16, 2017
America's economic problems demand a radical solution.
Nov 15, 2017
The Complex Problem We're Trying to Solve
Nov 14, 2017
If you believe in our message, we need you to step up.
Nov 13, 2017
How a First-Time Homeowner and Father is Building a Resilient Life
Nov 02, 2017
The Week Ahead: Strong Towns goes to Washington
Oct 30, 2017
A Disruptive Conversation
Oct 26, 2017
The Week Ahead: Solutions to the Dreaded School Drop-Off Zone
Oct 23, 2017
A Nudge in the Right Direction
Oct 19, 2017
The Week Ahead: A Round of Applause
Oct 16, 2017
Why a simple, frugal life will make you a happier person
Oct 12, 2017
The Week Ahead: Drowning in Debt
Oct 09, 2017
Aligning Profit Motives and Community Needs
Oct 05, 2017
The Week Ahead: Rapid Fire Event Recap
Oct 02, 2017
Creating Strong Communities Through Local Food
Sep 28, 2017
The Week Ahead with Special Guest Kea Wilson
Sep 25, 2017
Local Government Encourages Residents to do Tactical Urbanism
Sep 21, 2017
Help Build Strong Towns in the Wake of Hurricane Harvey
Sep 18, 2017
Approaching a Divided America with Open Eyes
Sep 14, 2017
Cultivate Collaborative
Sep 12, 2017
Bike Share and Equity with Caressa Givens
Sep 07, 2017
The Week Ahead: September 5, 2017
Sep 05, 2017
A Conversation about Market Urbanism
Aug 31, 2017
The Week Ahead, August 21, 2017
Aug 21, 2017
Alfonso Morales on Markets
Aug 17, 2017
A Chat with Chuck about Brainerd
Aug 14, 2017
The Week Ahead: August 7, 2017
Aug 07, 2017
Pete Saunders
Jul 27, 2017
Don Kostelec
Jul 23, 2017
A Renaissance Zone in Bismarck
Jul 20, 2017
The Week Ahead: July 17, 2017
Jul 17, 2017
The Week Ahead, July 10, 2017
Jul 10, 2017
The Week Ahead, July 3, 2017
Jul 03, 2017
What's next for Strong Towns
Jun 23, 2017
Strong Towns Member Paul Fritz
Jun 21, 2017
Building a movement for change
Jun 19, 2017
Podcast: Tony Dutzik on the Auto Bubble
Jun 15, 2017
The Week Ahead: June 12, 2017
Jun 12, 2017
Solidarity Hall
Jun 08, 2017
The Week Ahead: June 5, 2017
Jun 05, 2017
Emily Hamilton
Jun 01, 2017
The Week Ahead: May 30, 2017
May 30, 2017
Vince Graham
May 25, 2017
The Week Ahead, May 22, 2017
May 22, 2017
An All-Night Citywide Art Festival
May 18, 2017
Pasqualina Azzarello
May 16, 2017
Richard Florida and the New Urban Crisis
May 11, 2017
The Week Ahead (May 8, 2017)
May 08, 2017
Human Transit
May 04, 2017
The Week Ahead: May 1, 2017
May 01, 2017
Debating the Merits of Amazon
Apr 26, 2017
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
Apr 20, 2017
The Week Ahead, April 17, 2017
Apr 17, 2017
Jane Jacobs in the Woo
Apr 14, 2017
The Week Ahead - April 10, 2017
Apr 10, 2017
Two Former Mayors - 1 Republican and 1 Democrat - Find Common Ground in Conversation
Apr 06, 2017
The Week Ahead: April 24, 2017
Apr 04, 2017
The Week Ahead, April 3, 2017
Apr 03, 2017
The Week Ahead, March 27, 2017
Mar 27, 2017
The #StrongestTown Championship Showdown - 2017
Mar 23, 2017
The Week Ahead, March 20, 2017
Mar 20, 2017
Guelph, Ontario, Canada (#StrongestTown Contest)
Mar 17, 2017
Lafayette, LA (#StrongestTown Contest)
Mar 13, 2017
Valparaiso, IN (#StrongestTown Contest)
Mar 13, 2017
Traverse City, MI (#StrongestTown Contest)
Mar 13, 2017
How to do the Infrastructure Surge Right
Mar 09, 2017
The Week Ahead, March 7, 2017
Mar 07, 2017
The Week Ahead, February 27, 2017
Feb 27, 2017
Podcast: The Death Race
Feb 16, 2017
The Week Ahead, February 13, 2017
Feb 13, 2017
Joe Bray-Ali
Feb 09, 2017
The Week Ahead, February 7, 2017
Feb 07, 2017
Infrastructure Crisis, Part 1
Jan 26, 2017
The Week Ahead, January 24, 2017
Jan 24, 2017
The Week Ahead, January 17, 2017
Jan 17, 2017
The Week Ahead, January 9, 2017
Jan 09, 2017
James Howard Kunstler and The Harrows of Spring
Jan 05, 2017
The Week Ahead, January 3, 2017
Jan 03, 2017
The Post-Election Therapy Podcast
Dec 15, 2016
The Week Ahead, December 13, 2016
Dec 13, 2016
Heyden Walker on Building Accountability into Federal Transportation Spending
Dec 08, 2016
A Design Thinking Approach to Infrastructure
Dec 01, 2016
How Parking Minimums Limit Housing Options
Nov 22, 2016
The Week Ahead, November 21, 2016
Nov 21, 2016
The End of the 2016 Member Drive
Nov 18, 2016
Chuck Answers Your Questions
Nov 16, 2016
Checking in with the younger crowd
Nov 15, 2016
The Week Ahead (Member Drive Edition)
Nov 14, 2016
Election 2016
Nov 10, 2016
Book Interview: Gracen Johnson
Nov 08, 2016
Russ Roberts of EconTalk
Nov 03, 2016
The Week Ahead - Halloween Edition
Oct 31, 2016
A People-Centered Transportation System
Oct 27, 2016
The Week Ahead, October 24, 2016
Oct 24, 2016
Choosing Active Towns
Oct 20, 2016
Book interview: Nate Hood and Pedestrian Safety
Oct 14, 2016
Ed Erfurt Talks Worthwhile Infrastructure Investments
Oct 13, 2016
The Week Ahead, October 11, 2016
Oct 11, 2016
Book interview: Andrew Price and Granularity
Oct 10, 2016
Book Interview: Daniel Herriges and the Overton Window
Oct 07, 2016
Former US Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, on Infrastructure Spending
Oct 06, 2016
Former Mayor Michael McGinn on our Infrastructure Crisis
Sep 29, 2016
The Week Ahead, September 26, 2016
Sep 27, 2016
A Small Business Owner who's Working to Make his Town Stronger
Sep 22, 2016
The Week Ahead, September 19, 2016
Sep 19, 2016
Steven Shultis on Urban Schools
Sep 15, 2016
Paul Stewart from Oswego, NY
Sep 08, 2016
Elizabeth Kneebone on Suburban Poverty
Sep 01, 2016
Which is Better: One-Way or Two-Way Streets?
Aug 25, 2016
The Week Ahead, August 22, 2016
Aug 22, 2016
The Week Ahead, August 15, 2016
Aug 15, 2016
APBP Questions
Aug 11, 2016
The Week Ahead, August 8, 2016
Aug 08, 2016
The Week Ahead, August 1, 2016
Aug 01, 2016
Routine Traffic Stops
Jul 28, 2016
The Week Ahead, July 25 2016
Jul 25, 2016
Stacy Mitchell on the Big Box Swindle
Jul 19, 2016
CNU24: Ask Us Anything
Jul 14, 2016
CNU24: Lynn Richards
Jul 07, 2016
Johnny Sanphillippo and Chuck Marohn Debate Detroit
Jun 30, 2016
The Week Ahead, June 27, 2016
Jun 27, 2016
Sportscenter with Matthias Leyrer
Jun 24, 2016
Some words of optimism
Jun 22, 2016
Seth Zeren - Founding Member of Strong Towns
Jun 21, 2016
State of Strong Towns
Jun 20, 2016
CNU24: Strong Towns All Star Members
Jun 16, 2016
CNU24: R. John Anderson
Jun 10, 2016
CNU24: Janette Sadik-Khan
Jun 10, 2016
CNU24: Placemakers
Jun 09, 2016
CNU24: Michelle Erfurt
Jun 09, 2016
The Week Ahead, June 6, 2016
Jun 06, 2016
Andres Duany
Jun 02, 2016
Toby Dougherty
May 26, 2016
The Week Ahead, May 23, 2016
May 23, 2016
Aaron Brown
May 18, 2016
Andrew Hanegmon of Iron Range Makerspace
May 17, 2016
Scott Hall at KAXE Radio
May 16, 2016
Sprawl, Smart Growth and Strong Towns
May 12, 2016
The Week Ahead, May 9, 2016
May 09, 2016
Nolan Gray of Market Urbanism
May 04, 2016
Nolan Gray of Market Urbanism
May 04, 2016
Denise Pinto of Jane's Walk
May 03, 2016
The Week Ahead, April 25, 2016
Apr 25, 2016
The Week Ahead, April 18, 2016
Apr 18, 2016
Chris Martenson
Apr 15, 2016
Ethan Kent, Project for Public Spaces
Apr 14, 2016
Marian Liou, Founder of We Love BuHi
Apr 13, 2016
Chris and Melissa Bruntlett of Modacity
Apr 12, 2016
Mr. Money Mustache
Apr 11, 2016
The Week Ahead, April 4, 2016
Apr 04, 2016
Episode 301 Final 2 Strongest Towns Face Off
Mar 31, 2016
Carlisle, PA in the Strongest Town Contest
Mar 28, 2016
Holland, MI in the Strongest Town Contest
Mar 28, 2016
Sandusky, OH in the Strongest Town Contest
Mar 28, 2016
Hoboken, NJ in the Strongest Town Contest
Mar 28, 2016
The Week Ahead, March 21, 2016
Mar 21, 2016
The Strongest Town Contest - Commentary and Updates
Mar 17, 2016
The Week Ahead, March 15, 2016
Mar 15, 2016
The End of the Ponzi Scheme
Mar 10, 2016
Juan Mullerat and Steve Wright
Mar 09, 2016
The Week Ahead, March 7, 2016
Mar 07, 2016
The Week Ahead, February 29, 2016
Feb 29, 2016
Most affordable housing is not subsidized
Feb 25, 2016
The developer who was desperate to save a struggling neighborhood
Feb 24, 2016
The_frustrating_real_life_story_of_a_mixed-use_loan_that_didn_t_happen
Feb 23, 2016
Federal_Housing_Finance_Policy
Feb 23, 2016
Eve_Picker_of_Small_Change
Feb 18, 2016
The_Week_Ahead_February_15_2016
Feb 15, 2016
Nitin_Gadia
Feb 11, 2016
The_Week_Ahead_February_9_2016
Feb 09, 2016
OKC Live!
Feb 04, 2016
The_Week_Ahead_February_2_2016
Feb 02, 2016
Susan_Handy_on_Induced_Travel
Jan 29, 2016
Mayor_Michael_McGinn_of_Seattle
Jan 28, 2016
Kevin_Blanchard_of_Lafayette
Jan 27, 2016
No New Roads
Jan 26, 2016
Randy Simes
Jan 25, 2016
The_Big_Short
Jan 22, 2016
The_Week_Ahead_January_18_2016
Jan 18, 2016
Inside Stuff
Jan 14, 2016
The_Week_Ahead_January_11_2016
Jan 11, 2016
Newtonian_Economics
Jan 08, 2016
The_Week_Ahead_January_4_2016
Jan 04, 2016
The_Week_Ahead_December_1_2015
Dec 01, 2015
Joe_Minicozzi
Nov 25, 2015
John Anderson
Nov 24, 2015
Donald Shoup on the High Cost of Free Parking
Nov 23, 2015
We are 1,000 Strong!
Nov 14, 2015
James Howard Kunstler
Nov 13, 2015
Jason and Rachel
Nov 12, 2015
Johnny Sanphillippo
Nov 11, 2015
Interview with Chuck Marohn
Nov 10, 2015
Scott_Doyon_on_Porchfest
Nov 06, 2015
Understanding Traffic Congestion
Oct 30, 2015
The Week Ahead, October 26, 2015
Oct 27, 2015
David Levinson and The End of Traffic
Oct 23, 2015
The_Week_Ahead_October_19_2015
Oct 16, 2015
Madison_Member_Meetup
Oct 16, 2015
Toby Dougherty
Oct 09, 2015
The Week Ahead, October 5, 2015
Oct 06, 2015
A Conversation with Joe Minicozzi
Oct 02, 2015
The Week Ahead - September, 28, 2015
Sep 28, 2015
Marohn O'Toole Debate
Sep 24, 2015
The Week Ahead, September 21, 2015
Sep 21, 2015
Chuck v Randal (Part 1)
Sep 18, 2015
Weekly_Preview-Jason_Schaefer_Lafayette_Randal_O_Toole_and_Waco
Sep 08, 2015
Climates and Markets
Aug 27, 2015
Organizational Update
Aug 13, 2015
Aaron Brown and the Minnesota Iron Range
Jul 23, 2015
Blowdown
Jul 20, 2015
Gross Negligence
Jun 12, 2015
Who pays for roads?
Jun 05, 2015
1000 Friends v. United States DOT
May 29, 2015
Jonathan Coppage and Benjamin Schwarz at CNU 23.
May 03, 2015
Robin Bergstrom at CNU 23
May 03, 2015
Scott Doyon and Ben Brown at CNU 23
May 03, 2015
John Anderson and Monte Anderson at CNU 23
May 03, 2015
Matthias_Leyrer_at_CNU_23
May 03, 2015
Chuck Marohn and Andrew Burleson at CNU 23
May 02, 2015
Sinclair_Black_and_Heyden_Walker_at_CNU_23
May 01, 2015
Lynn Richards at CNU 23
May 01, 2015
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May 01, 2015
Jeff Tumlin at CNU 23
May 01, 2015
John Simmerman at CNU 23
May 01, 2015
Hazel Borys
May 01, 2015
Steve Mouzon at CNU 23
May 01, 2015
Dan Parolek
May 01, 2015
Ask Strong Towns at CNU 23
May 01, 2015
Cynthia Nikitin at CNU 23
Apr 29, 2015
Johnny Sanphillippo at CNU 23
Apr 29, 2015
Jason Roberts at CNU 23
Apr 29, 2015
_Jen_Krouse_at_CNU_23
Apr 29, 2015
Street Plans Collaborative at CNU 23
Apr 29, 2015
Verdunity at CNU 23
Apr 29, 2015
Brainerd Council President Gary Scheeler
Apr 23, 2015
Steven Shultis on Urban Schools
Apr 16, 2015
Loose Ends
Apr 09, 2015
John Dominic Crossan
Apr 02, 2015
Sam Western
Mar 19, 2015
Heidi Johnson-Wright on the ADA
Mar 12, 2015
Patrick Kennedy on a walkable Dallas-For Worth
Mar 05, 2015
Russ Roberts on Adam Smith
Feb 26, 2015
Joe Cortright on Gentrification
Feb 19, 2015
Member_Profile-Jace_Deloney
Feb 17, 2015
Can you be an engineer and speak out for reform?
Feb 12, 2015
America Answers
Feb 12, 2015
The antifragile city (Part 2)
Jan 29, 2015
The_antifragile_city_Part_1
Jan 22, 2015
Chuck on Ken Rose
Jan 15, 2015
Show 200 Q&A
Jan 08, 2015
Just Another Pedestrian Killed
Dec 18, 2014
Live from New York
Dec 10, 2014
Strength Test
Dec 04, 2014
Ben Hamilton-Baillie-Take 2
Nov 20, 2014
Member Profile-Michael McGinn
Nov 15, 2014
Member_Profile-Hans_Noeldner.
Nov 14, 2014
Member_Profile-Mike_Christensen
Nov 14, 2014
Member_Profile-Gracen_Johnson
Nov 14, 2014
Member_Profile-Sara_Joy_Proppe
Nov 13, 2014
Member Profile-John Reuter.
Nov 13, 2014
Member Profile-Kerry Hayes.
Nov 12, 2014
Member Profile - Erika Ragsdale
Nov 12, 2014
Member Profile-Jim Kumon
Nov 12, 2014
Member Profile -Andrew Burleson
Nov 11, 2014
Dave Runyon
Nov 07, 2014
Steve Mouzon
Oct 31, 2014
Strong Towns Talking Transit
Oct 10, 2014
National Gathering
Oct 03, 2014
Jim Kunstler
Sep 26, 2014
Eric Jacobson
Sep 12, 2014
Designed to Decline
Sep 05, 2014
Talking Cities
Aug 29, 2014
Mailbag
Aug 22, 2014
Kristen Jeffers
Aug 15, 2014
Kevin Klinkenberg-Why I Walk
Aug 08, 2014
Federal Highway Trust Fund
Aug 01, 2014
Show Santiago Garces
Jul 25, 2014
Show CNU NextGen Roundtable
Jul 18, 2014
Show Peatonito & John Yung
Jul 11, 2014
Show John Anderson
Jul 04, 2014
Show Ben Hamilton-Baillie
Jun 27, 2014
Fifty by Friday
Jun 24, 2014
Show Lynn Richards
Jun 19, 2014
Show Chuck on Transit
May 22, 2014
Another Place for Chuck
May 08, 2014
CNU 22 Preview
May 01, 2014
Answers for Zach
Apr 21, 2014
Julie Flynn on the Mercados Project
Apr 11, 2014
Kristin Green of Verdunity
Apr 07, 2014
Mike Lydon
Apr 04, 2014
Marohn on Transportation
Mar 28, 2014