In this interview with author Majora Carter, she explains an empowering truth: that you don’t have to move out of your neighborhood to live in a better one.
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This week on the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck Marohn talks with Nolan Gray about his new book, in which he shows why zoning reform is necessary for building stronger towns and cities.
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This week on the Strong Towns Podcast, host Chuck Marohn gets to talk with Mike McGinn, executive director of America Walks.
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We’ve seen a lot of fascinating takes on the Strong Towns approach, but this none quite like this musical take.
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It’s time once again to sit down and answer some of the great questions we’ve gotten over at the Strong Towns Action Lab.
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When a patient dies, doctors review if and how their own actions led to that patient’s death. Shouldn’t engineers be doing the same, when people die in car crashes?
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Let's talk about some core Strong Towns concepts: complexity, incrementalism, fragility, and more!
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It’s time we embraced co-housing as a viable solution for both affordable housing and social isolation.
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Recent documentation casts a disturbing new light on the Minnesota Board of Licensure’s attempts to discredit the Strong Towns movement.
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Citizens can’t make informed decisions if they don’t know the financial condition of their government. This nonpartisan nonprofit is making those numbers both available and transparent.
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This week we’ve got a special treat: both the video and audio from a conversation between Chuck Marohn and renowned urban planner and walkability expert Jeff Speck.
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It’s time once again to sit down and answer some of the great questions we’ve gotten over at the Strong Towns Action Lab.
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Special guest Jarrett Walker shares his thoughts on the limitations of prediction.
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Technology historian Peter Norton talks about why we need to be more skeptical toward the utopian promises of self-driving cars.
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In 2022’s inaugural Strong Towns Podcast episode, Chuck interviews Tim Soerens, author and co-founder of the Parish Collective.
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Dozens of people have been killed by vehicles on State Street in Springfield, Massachusetts over the last seven years. The public is clamoring for change, but city staff aren’t getting the message. Here’s what’s being lost in translation.
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Chuck holds a Q&A session with Confessions of a Recovering Engineer readers.
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Chuck Marohn reads an excerpt from the first chapter of Confessions of a Recovering Engineer.
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We get a lot of questions over at the Action Lab, and today we’re going to answer some of them!
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What role does high-speed rail play in creating a strong town? We turn to Rick Harnish, executive director of the High Speed Rail Alliance, for insight.
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