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The Strong Towns Podcast

By: Strong Towns
  • Summary

  • We advocate for a model of development that allows our cities, towns and neighborhoods to grow financially strong and resilient.
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Episodes
  • Why We Need To Show Empathy Toward Drivers in Conversations About Street Safety
    Mar 25 2024

    Bike Talk is a radio show dedicated to the idea that we need to prioritize bikes as a form of public transportation, and they recently invited Chuck to appear on an episode. It was a great conversation, and so we’re sharing that audio with you today here, as well. They discuss why it’s important to have empathy in discussions about transportation and street safety, and why leading with empathy toward drivers is a good strategy.

    ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES
    • Listen to the original episode on Bike Talk.

    • Bike Talk (Twitter/X; Instagram; Reddit).

    • Chuck Marohn (Twitter/X).

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    51 mins
  • Benjamin Herold: The Unraveling of America’s Suburbs
    Mar 18 2024

    Benjamin Herold, author of Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs, joins host Chuck Marohn on this week’s episode of the Strong Towns Podcast. Disillusioned tells the story of five families from Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Pittsburg, all of whom moved to the suburbs in search of the American dream…but instead, they’re experiencing the decline of the suburbs, rather than the benefits that were initially sold to them.

    ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES
    • Check out Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs.

    • Benjamin Herold (Twitter/X).

    • Chuck Marohn (Twitter/X).

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    56 mins
  • What Is the Role of Philanthropy in Building Stronger Towns?
    Mar 11 2024

    What’s the role of philanthropy when it comes to building strong towns? How do we get philanthropy involved, and how do we make good investments? How do we access federal programs and bigger resources effectively? This is a tension within our conversation, and to help us unpack it, we invited two experts who are well-aligned with these issues onto the podcast: Kelly Jin, the Vice President for Community and National Initiatives at the Knight Foundation (where she leads a $150 million active grant portfolio, and $30 million in annual grant-making), and Stephen Goldsmith, the Derek Bok Professor of the Practice of Urban Policy and the Director of the Data-Smart City Solutions program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Goldsmith also directs the Project on Municipal Innovation, the Civic Analytics Network, and the Mayoral Leadership in Education Network.

    ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES
    • Kelly Jin (LinkedIn).

    • Stephen Goldsmith (Twitter/X).

    • Chuck Marohn (Twitter/X).

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    53 mins

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