The 8 Best The Strong Towns Podcast Episodes
1) Ann Sussman and Justin Hollander: Architecture and the Unconscious Mind
How much conscious thought goes into our reactions to a place? It might be less than you think. The more we come to understand the human brain, the more we see how much the unconscious mind, and our n...Show More
2) Students and the Strong Towns Movement
If you want to get an idea of where the professions that shape our built environment—professions like urban planning, civil engineering, public policy, architecture, and so forth—are going, you could ...Show More
3) Spooky Wisdom: What Lessons Should We Be Learning from How Our Ancestors Built Cities?
Welcome to a special mash-up episode of the Strong Towns and Upzoned podcasts! In this episode, Kea Wilson, host of Upzoned, and Strong Towns president Charles Marohn, Jr. discuss the “spooky wisdom...Show More
4) Building Productive Places (and Showering them with Love)
This is a special mash-up edition of the It’s the Little Things podcast and Strong Towns podcast! In this episode, Jacob Moses, host of It’s the Little Things, and Strong Towns president Chuck Marohn ...Show More
5) How a Productivity- and Efficiency-Obsessed Culture Harms Parents
A few decades ago, Beth Berry lived in Austin, Texas with her four children. The pace of life in that big city eventually caught up with them and they decided to move south to Mexico to find something...Show More
6) What does it mean to build a vibrant community?
Quint Studer is the founder of Pensacola, Florida's Studer Community Institute, a nonprofit organization focused on improving the community's quality of life and moving Escambia and Santa Rosa Countie...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.7) Absolution and the Changing American City
This is our third dispatch from the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), which took place in Savannah, Georgia in May. Chuck Marohn attended CNU and hosted a series of in-depth podcast conversations a...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.8) Why a simple, frugal life will make you a happier person
In this podcast episode, Rachel Quednau interviews her colleague Kea Wilson about her journey to financial freedom and personal resilience. Kea talks about how she paid off $25,000 in college debt in ...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.9) How Mr. Barricade Is Shaping the Future of Street Safety
How do you make streets safer without gentrifying an area? Will self-driving cars change the way we build cities? Are engineers tracking congestion the right way? Chuck discusses these questions and m...Show More
10) We Broke North American Cities. Here’s How To Fix Them.
How did we go from building strong, prosperous cities to weak, debt-ridden ones? In this episode, Chuck tracks the cultural and economic impacts of World War II on our development pattern. He explains...Show More