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The Strong Towns Podcast

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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32:01

The Week Ahead, February 13, 2017

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2017/02/13

Rachel and Chuck discuss the 2016 Strong Towns Annual Report. They also invite submissions for the Strongest Town Contest (deadline is Friday, Feb. 17). Mentioned in this podcast: 2016 Strong Towns Annual Report Strongest Town Contest Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini The Content Trap by Bharat Anand

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50:04

Joe Bray-Ali

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2017/02/09

Josef Bray-Ali is a Los Angeles resident, bike shop owner, long-time Strong Towns member and current candidate for city council. In this interview with Chuck Marohn, he discusses his experience as a small business owner and a community organizer for safe streets. He also talks about what motivated him to run for city council and the ways he's implemented Strong Towns ideas in his city. Joe Bray-Ali's writing and videos on our site: "A Strong Citizen in Los Angeles" "Making my City More Bike-Friendly

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The Week Ahead, February 7, 2017

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2017/02/07

Chuck and Rachel discuss the recent Strong Towns Staff & Board Meeting in Chicago, which included lots of planning and assessment, plus some authentic Chicago-style deep-dish pizza. They also discuss Jonathan Haidt's work on moral foundations and a technique to clean up a toxic Facebook feed. MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE "Our Contentious Culture" Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999 movie) We Eat Our Own by Kea Wilson This week's slackchat is hosted by Kea Wilson and it'll be at 1pm CT on Thursday.

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48:06

Infrastructure Crisis, Part 1

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2017/01/26

Our nation has an infrastructure funding crisis.....or do we? Related Posts: What clearly makes us richer The real reason your city has no money Poor neighborhoods make the best investments Gladwell's question to Thaler (YouTube)

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28:55

The Week Ahead, January 24, 2017

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2017/01/24

Chuck and Rachel discuss Chuck's letter to President Trump and ways to encourage investment in small-scale infrastructure projects instead of big ones. They also talk about recent books they've enjoyed and the growth of the Strong Towns movement. Mentioned in this episode: "A Letter to POTUS on Infrastructure" and an upcoming Slackchat to discuss that letter #InfrastructureCrisis stories on our site "New Milwaukee Housing Program Takes the Easy Route" "Strong Talk: How do we create more housing

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The Week Ahead, January 17, 2017

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2017/01/17

Chuck and Rachel chat about recent articles which have garnered a ton of attention on the internet over the past week. They also discuss the non-partisan nature of Strong Towns, particularly in light of new readers coming to the site in the last week (as evidenced by the quote above). Finally, they announce that public tickets are now available for the Strong Towns Summit. Get yours before they're gone. Mentioned in this podcast: "The Real Reason Your City has no Money" "Poor Neighborhoods Make the

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The Week Ahead, January 9, 2017

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2017/01/09

Chuck and Rachel discuss Chuck's recent writing on federal infrastructure spending and today's article, "A Utah Republican Might Have the Best Urban Transportation Plan." They also discuss books they're reading (Rachel finally got around to starting Hillbilly Elegy) and political language in the context of Strong Towns. Mentioned in this podcast: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial

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55:57

James Howard Kunstler and The Harrows of Spring

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2017/01/05

Author James Howard Kunstler chats with Chuck Marohn about the newest book in his World Made by Hand series, The Harrows of Spring. You can also listen to James Kunstler in previous Strong Towns podcasts including from February, 2014, September 2014 and November 2015.

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The Week Ahead, January 3, 2017

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2017/01/03

Chuck and Rachel discuss their holidays, favorite books they read over the break, and infrastructure spending in America. They also share an exciting announcement at the end of the podcast. Mentioned in this podcast: The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis by James Rickerts The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change by Bharat Andand The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure by Henry Petroski When Breath Becomes Air by Paul

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The Post-Election Therapy Podcast

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2016/12/15

Seth Zeren is a founding member of Strong Towns, a new father and a real estate developer based in Providence, RI. In this podcast conversation, Seth and Chuck talk about the results of the election and its impact on the national dialogue. This is our last podcast of 2016. Thank you to all our listeners. Have a wonderful holiday and we'll see you in the new year!

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40:55

The Week Ahead, December 13, 2016

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2016/12/13

In the final Week Ahead podcast of 2016, Chuck and Rachel discuss their recent trip to Chicago and a spirited panel discussion Chuck participated in. They also talk about Chuck's Monday article and the Best of 2016 articles being published throughout the week. Finally, they chat about the upcoming Strong Towns Summit and Chuck's cookie baking adventures. Mentioned in this podcast: "Our Shared Journey" by Chuck Marohn Best of 2016 articles Strong Towns National Summit

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21:31

Heyden Walker on Building Accountability into Federal...

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2016/12/08

Heyden Black Walker is a Strong Towns "super member" in Austin, TX. She's an urban planner and advocate and serves on the board of the CNU-Central Texas Chapter and on the City of Austin Pedestrian Advisory Council. Today, Chuck Marohn and Heyden Walker discuss the highway I-35 project in Austin, which Heyden wrote about on Strong Towns earlier this year. They talk about the implications of a surge in federal infrastructure spending and the local impacts of federal spending in places like

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25:37

A Design Thinking Approach to Infrastructure

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2016/12/01

Thomas Fisher is a Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota, and serves as Director of the Metropolitan Design Center. He's a graduate of Cornell University in architecture and the author of several books including Designing to Avoid Disaster and Designing our Way to a Better World. In this conversation with Chuck Marohn, Professor Fisher discusses a design-thinking approach of bottom-up vs. top-down decisionmaking, and the danger of building the wrong types of

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28:36

How Parking Minimums Limit Housing Options

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2016/11/22

Kyle Smith is an independent urban planning consultant in transportation, land use, and housing. He recently served as Executive Director of the Andersonville Chamber of Commerce in Chicago and also worked for the Center of Neighborhood Technology where he wrote a report called “Stalled Out: How Empty Parking Spaces Diminish Neighborhood Affordability.” Rachel Quednau interviews Kyle for the Strong Towns podcast to discuss the results of this report as well as better parking strategies that will

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20:18

The Week Ahead, November 21, 2016

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2016/11/21

Chuck and Rachel discuss last week's member drive and an event in St. Mary's, PA, plus this week's Black Friday Parking event. MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST: Strong Towns member testimonials #BlackFridayParking

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39:17

The End of the 2016 Member Drive

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2016/11/18

Chuck, while driving through a Minnesota blizzard, shares some reflections on small town America, the tension between urban and rural areas and the Strong Towns movement. Become a member of Strong Towns at www.strongtowns.org/membership.

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01:12:26

Chuck Answers Your Questions

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2016/11/16

As part of our membership drive, Chuck Marohn invited Strong Towns members to submit their questions—any question—and today, on a late-night, Mountain Dew-fueled podcast, he's answering them. Become a member of Strong Towns today. To see a list of the questions answered in this podcast, visit this page: www.strongtowns.org/journal/2016/11/16/chuck-answers-your-questions

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32:17

Checking in with the younger crowd

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2016/11/15

On Day 2 of our member drive, Chuck sits down with the two youngest Strong Towns advocates.

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35:08

The Week Ahead (Member Drive Edition)

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2016/11/14

This episode kicks off a week of Member Drive-related podcasts. Today, Chuck and Rachel talk about the importance of the Strong Towns movement, especially in light of the recent presidential election. They also chat about what their most proud of from Strong Towns this year, and what they are most looking forward to in 2017. This episode spells out exactly why Strong Towns needs new members and what their contributions will be used for. BECOME A MEMBER OF STRONG TOWNS. Mentioned in this

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59:45

Election 2016

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2016/11/10

After some travel and contemplation, Chuck Marohn offers some thoughts on the presidential election, Strong Towns and the future of America.

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