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The Strong Towns Podcast

We advocate for a model of development that allows our cities, towns and neighborhoods to grow financially strong and resilient.

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Greatest Hits #7: Talking Debt and Self-Sufficiency With Mr. Money Mustache (2016)

Greatest Hits #7: Talking Debt and Self-Sufficiency With Mr. Money Mustache (2016)

In a bizarre round of the endless, massively multiplayer game of Telephone that is the internet, a recent Forbes headlin... Read more

4 Mar 2019

54mins

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Should California Bring Back Redevelopment Agencies?

Should California Bring Back Redevelopment Agencies?

From the Strong Towns Gathering in Santa Ana, California, is a discussion about whether the state of California should b... Read more

17 Dec 2019

1hr 1min

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Greatest Hits #4: Lots of Small Earthquakes: How a Place Becomes Antifragile (2015)

Greatest Hits #4: Lots of Small Earthquakes: How a Place Becomes Antifragile (2015)

The fourth entry in our Strong Towns Podcast Greatest Hits series is part 2 of a 2-parter from 2015 (Click here for Part... Read more

5 Feb 2019

57mins

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Greatest Hits #11: Economic Gardening With Chris Gibbons (2013)

Greatest Hits #11: Economic Gardening With Chris Gibbons (2013)

If you’re looking for an example of the Strong Towns mindset applied to local economic development, you couldn’t do much... Read more

15 Apr 2019

46mins

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Steve Nygren of Serenbe: "I Wanted to Build a Town, Not a Development"

Steve Nygren of Serenbe: "I Wanted to Build a Town, Not a Development"

Steve Nygren is two decades into his post-career career as the "mad genius" master developer of a town-in-progress calle... Read more

13 May 2019

50mins

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Greatest Hits #5: Approaching a Divided America With Open Eyes (2017)

Greatest Hits #5: Approaching a Divided America With Open Eyes (2017)

For the fifth installment of our Strong Towns Podcast Greatest Hits series, we revisit a 2017 conversation between Stron... Read more

18 Feb 2019

55mins

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King Williams: The Gentrifiers Will Become the Gentrified

King Williams: The Gentrifiers Will Become the Gentrified

Gentrification. As we’ve written elsewhere, the term often sheds more heat than light. This is due not only to its negat... Read more

21 Oct 2019

46mins

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James Howard Kunstler: It's All Going to Have to Get Smaller

James Howard Kunstler: It's All Going to Have to Get Smaller

There is a prevailing fallacy, despite warning signs to the contrary (looming peak oil, fragile markets, and climate wei... Read more

23 Sep 2019

57mins

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If the “Strong Towns” book is the WHY, this book is the HOW.

If the “Strong Towns” book is the WHY, this book is the HOW.

By coincidence, on October 1, the very day Wiley released the new Strong Towns book, Wiley also published the new book b... Read more

18 Nov 2019

57mins

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Building Cities For Our Unconscious Brains: Ann Sussman on the Failings of Modern Architecture

Building Cities For Our Unconscious Brains: Ann Sussman on the Failings of Modern Architecture

If the 19th century belonged to engineering, and the 20th century to chemistry and physics, then the 21st might belong t... Read more

22 Jul 2019

53mins

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What Does it Take to Bring a City Back from the Brink?

What Does it Take to Bring a City Back from the Brink?

What does it really take to bring a depopulating city back from the brink? Scott Ford has some ideas. In early 2011, sti... Read more

10 Jun 2019

1hr

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Paul Stewart: You Are the Help You've Been Waiting For

Paul Stewart: You Are the Help You've Been Waiting For

"No one's coming to save my city for me, so what is it that I can do?" -- Paul Stewart, Oswego Renaissance Association T... Read more

14 Oct 2019

1hr

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What Happens When Housing Becomes a Cash Crop?

What Happens When Housing Becomes a Cash Crop?

Giorgio Angelini didn’t exactly pick the most fortuitous time to start architecture school. He enrolled in Rice Universi... Read more

29 Jul 2019

56mins

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Gracy Olmstead: It Still Takes a Village

Gracy Olmstead: It Still Takes a Village

As writer Gracy Olmstead was commuting to work in Washington, D.C. from her home in the suburbs, she often thought back ... Read more

28 Oct 2019

43mins

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Breaking Free of the Infrastructure Cult

Breaking Free of the Infrastructure Cult

In episode two of this weeklong podcast series, Charles Marohn, Jr. is interviewed by Strong Towns board member John Reu... Read more

1 Oct 2019

1hr 15mins

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Ask Strong Towns #8: April 2019

Ask Strong Towns #8: April 2019

Here's the audio from our April 2019 edition of Ask Strong Towns, a bimonthly webcast in which you can ask anything you ... Read more

23 Apr 2019

51mins

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Strongest Town Contest: Championship Round

Strongest Town Contest: Championship Round

Here's the audio from the championship round of our Strongest Town Contest. We invited representatives of our final two ... Read more

8 Apr 2019

36mins

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Strongest Town Semifinals: Safety Harbor, Florida

Strongest Town Semifinals: Safety Harbor, Florida

James Fogarty discusses the current projects Safety Harbor is working on towards becoming more financially resilient, wh... Read more

2 Apr 2019

20mins

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Greatest Hits #9: Can You Be an Engineer and Speak Out for Reform? (2015)

Greatest Hits #9: Can You Be an Engineer and Speak Out for Reform? (2015)

A lot of professions and organizations have an unspoken code, one that says, “We may air our disagreements internally, b... Read more

18 Mar 2019

1hr 6mins

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Autonomous Vehicles Are Coming. Do We Have a Say in Who Benefits?

Autonomous Vehicles Are Coming. Do We Have a Say in Who Benefits?

The hype about autonomous vehicles—”AV’s” for short—is often breathless. Advocates have touted the emerging technology a... Read more

3 Jun 2019

1hr 4mins

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