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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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Feb 26, 2015
Feb 26, 2015
54 min
The host of EconTalk, Russell Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institute (Twitter / personal website), joins the podcast to talk about his latest book, How Adam Smith can change your life: An unexpected guide to human nature and happiness.
Feb 19, 2015
Feb 19, 2015
39 min
Joe Cortright of City Observatory talks about their report -- Lost in Place -- explaining why consistent and concentrated poverty -- not gentrification -- is America's biggest urban challenge.
Feb 17, 2015
Feb 17, 2015
15 min
Jace Deloney (@jacedeloney) is the Web Content Manager at Invodo in Austin, Texas, and a passionate advocate for Strong Towns. He is a member of our Founder's Circle and has played a part in bringing Strong Towns to Austin on four occasions.
Feb 12, 2015
Feb 12, 2015
1 hr 4 min
Chuck Marohn talks about the complaint made against him to the state licensing board for speaking out about reforming the engineering profession.
Feb 12, 2015
Feb 12, 2015
54 min
Politicians on the left and right struggle to speak coherently about transportation infrastructure.
Jan 29, 2015
Jan 29, 2015
55 min
A continued look at a Nassim Nicholas Taleb speech titled Small is Beautiful, but also Less Fragile. This is part two, Last week's episode can be heard here.
Jan 22, 2015
Jan 22, 2015
49 min
This week Chuck Marohn dissects a speech that Nassim Nicholas Taleb gave recently titled Small is Beautiful, but also Less Fragile. This is part one of two on this subject.
Jan 15, 2015
Jan 8, 2015
Jan 8, 2015
1 hr 3 min
For our 200th show, we asked listeners to submit questions for Chuck to answer.
Dec 18, 2014
Dec 18, 2014
1 hr 7 min
Chuck Marohn and Andrew Burleson sit down to discuss a tragedy in Springfield, Mass, where a mom and two girls were hit by a drunk driver on an urban stroad. The seven-year-old girl was killed and the other seriously injured. Marohn and Burleson discuss the engineering profession's approach to safety, the implications for those outside of an automobile and how our approach needs reform if we are truly build safe, productive places.
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