In this fun and wide ranging interview, the Economics Detective and Chuck Marohn talk about the Growth Ponzi Scheme, Big Box Stores, Stroads and more.
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Some solo podcasting from Chuck this week on the Week Ahead as Rachel takes some (well deserved) time off. A review of recent events, some book recommendations and a teaser announcement.
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In this interview, Jonathan Holth discusses his work and vision for a better downtown Grand Forks, ND, as well as his perspective as a small business owner and a parent, working to incrementally build a Strong Town.
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We're back in the swing of things, talking about upcoming and past events, a recent #StrongSchools campaign, our ongoing #InfrastructureCrisis conversation and book recommendations too.
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In this follow-up to his 2015 podcast interview, Steven Shultis shares his perspective on raising a family in a walkable neighborhood and choosing to send his kids to an urban school.
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In this podcast interview, Steve Shultis shares his perspective on raising a family in a walkable neighborhood and choosing to send his kids to an urban school.
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Paul Stewart, Executive Director of the Oswego Renaissance Association, talks about his work to revitalize neighborhoods in his town through historic preservation projects on local homes. Small investments = big returns.
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In this belated interview from Suburban Poverty week, we had the chance to speak with Elizabeth Kneebone, a fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings and co-author of the book, Confronting Suburban Poverty in America.
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Maybe one-way to two-way street conversions aren't the silver bullet solution we make them out to be.
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Chuck and Rachel discuss Chuck's recent vacation, favorite summer movies, Suburban Poverty week and Chuck's recent essay about the future of the US economy.
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Rachel and special guest, Michelle Erfurt (Strong Towns' Pathfinder) discuss Suburban Poverty Week and dive into the event calendar for the rest of 2016.
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This week Chuck answers questions left over from an Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals web broadcast he participated in earlier this year.
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Things have gone awry as Rachel takes a Monday off leaving Chuck and Strong Towns' Community Builder, Yuri Artibise, to talk about Iowa, the barbell strategy, the Canadian-based CitiesAlive podcast and the differing histories of the War of the Conquest (the French and Indian War).
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Chuck and Rachel discuss an upcoming event in Iowa, plus Chuck's recent article on semi trucks and why we don't actually need to build our cities around them.
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Chuck Marohn discusses the issue of traffic stops and the need to end them in this solo podcast.
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The Week Ahead podcast is back after a few week's hiatus. Chuck and Rachel discuss the recent Big Box Stores campaign, Chuck's new house and recent events in Oswego, NY and Ontario.
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Stacy Mitchell, researcher and author of Big Box Swindle, discusses the origins of the big box store, the way they're subsidized by communities and how they are undercutting the American middle class.
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At the Congress for the New Urbanism in Detroit this year, we opened the floor for any and every question that our members and readers wanted to discuss.
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"We will not change the dominant form until we start working together."
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Strong Towns member and contributor, Johnny Sanphillippo and President, Chuck Marohn, discuss their recent dueling essays about what to do with Detroit.
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