In this weekly update podcast, Chuck and Rachel discuss the success of Strong Citizens Week, a recent controversial essay on sprawl, and Chuck's trip to the Strongest Town in America.
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Chris Martenson is an economic researcher and futurist who specializes in energy and resource depletion. We're pleased to feature him on the Strong Towns podcast today.
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Ethan Kent is the Senior Vice President at Project for Public Spaces. Today he talks about his life with a family of four in a 900 sq ft apartment, as well as his work to make public spaces across the world better.
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Marian Liou is the founder of We Love BuHi, a social enterprise organization, that helps to showcase local ethnic restaurants and works with restaurant owners to build a better neighborhood.
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In the summer of 2010, Chris and Melissa Bruntlett, along with their two young children, made the conscious decision to sell the family car. Choosing to bike and use transit has transformed their lives for the better.
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Mr. Money Mustache is the individual digital to our community analog. His insights will help you live a better life and, should you choose to be a true Mustachian, put you in position to help your community become a Strong Town.
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Chuck and Rachel discuss the smart growth movement, neighborhood corner stores, and the winner of the Strongest Town contest.
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Watch our Strongest Town championship broadcast with representatives from Hoboken, NJ and Carlisle, PA. Then cast your votes!
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Representatives from Holland, MI and Carlisle, PA speak about their towns' strengths and challenges in this Final Four round of the Strongest Town contest.
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Representatives from Hoboken and Sandusky discuss their strengths (and even open up about some of their challenges) in this Final Four showdown in the Strongest Town contest.
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What's going on this week at Strong Towns?
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Yesterday, Strong Towns' staff gave a live broadcast in which they discussed the Strongest Town contest thus far and shared their personal brackets. Watch or listen to the broadcast.
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Chuck and Rachel discuss pedestrian crossing and safety issues, along with the Strongest Town march madness competition, plus an upcoming live broadcast from the staff.
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It ain't pretty.
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In Little Havana, Miami, two urban designers hope to return a dangerous stroad to its walkable roots. Community input is an essentail part of that process.
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In this weekly update podcast, Jason Schaefer makes a guest appearance along with Rachel Quednau while Chuck is out on vacation.
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On this Leap Day, Chuck and Rachel discuss housing finance policy (last week's theme), a recent staff retreat to Disneyland, and a new membership page, plus behavioral economics.
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Chuck is joined by Christopher Jones and Sarah Serpas of Regional Plan Association, a New York-based non-profit organization that recently released a report titled The Unintended Consequences of Housing Finance.
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Daniel Kay Hertz, a Senior Fellow at City Observatory, joins the Strong Towns Podcast this week to talk about housing finance and how it impacts disadvantaged neighborhoods.
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Monte Anderson of Options Real Estate is a developer from the wrong side of town. Instead of fleeing for greener pastures and easier money, however, he stayed in his community and worked to make it better. Here's how he did it.
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