The Strong Towns Podcast
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The Strong Towns Podcast
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 t...
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Why American Cities Are Going Broke (And How To Fix It)
Chuck breaks down the financial math behind urban decline in this live recording of a Wilmington event, with opening remarks from Delaware Governor Ma...
Has the "American Dream" Made Us Miserable?
Author Diane Alisa just wanted her kids to have what she didn't: freedom to roam, community, and a childhood that doesn't require a minivan. Somewhere...
How Bottom-Up Action Is Connecting People Across the World
Strong Towns members are making their places stronger everywhere from the Bahamas to Mongolia. Chuck and Member Advocate Norm Van Eeden Petersman disc...
How Strong Towns Is Scaling From Content to Action
Chuck sits down with Carlee Alm-LaBar, Strong Towns' chief of staff, to talk about what it's like managing a growing movement that's focused on action...
What is Happening With Strong Towns? Strategy Discussion and Q&A
In this special Member Week episode, Chuck explores Strong Towns’ strategy, from its origin as a blog to its future in 2026 and beyond. He then answer...
Broken Incentives Made the Housing Crisis. How Do We Fix Them?
Today, Chuck sits down with Laura Foote, executive director of YIMBY Action. They dive into America’s housing crisis, debate the future of zoning, and...
Housing Q&A: 16 Questions on Incremental Housing Development
Chuck Marohn tackles 16 real questions from city officials wrestling with the messy reality of housing reform. From a lack of transit to competition f...
Why America Can't Stop Building Highways We Don't Need
Since finishing the Interstate Highway System in the 1990s, the U.S. has added 75% more urban highway lanes — and we're on track to double it again. E...
What a Perfect Tuba Can Teach Us About Community and Resilience
Chuck is joined by Sam Quinones, author of “Dreamland” and “The Least of Us,” to talk about his newest book “The Perfect Tuba.” They discuss how a cur...
Want To Innovate Housing in Your State? Try Copying Michigan.
Michigan is on the forefront of housing innovation, with many cities throughout the state experiencing a resurgence in population and housing options....
Do Highway Projects and Airbnb Rentals Help or Hurt Cities?
Chuck is joined by Joe Minicozzi, founder of the geoaccounting organization Urban3. They compare notes on the highway projects each of their cities is...
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 th...
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 Wo...
How Traffic Engineering Made America’s Streets Deadly
Why are America’s streets so dangerous — and what can we do about it? In this episode, Chuck talks with Wes Marshall, author of “Killed by a Traffic E...
James Anderson: How to Encourage Innovation in Local Government
Chuck is joined by James Anderson, head of the Government Innovation program at Bloomberg Philanthropies. Under his leadership, the program has helped...
Building Strength and Connections in Pensacola, With Quint Studer
Chuck is joined by Quint Studer, the founder of the Center for Civic Engagement in Pensacola, Florida. They discuss Strong Towns’ involvement in Pensa...
The Housing Market Can’t Tolerate Lower Prices. Now What?
No matter how easy we make it to build, the existing housing system is based on a financial model that cannot tolerate lower prices. If falling prices...
Playing the Long Game With New Zealand Infrastructure
In this special episode, Chuck is joined by Graham Campbell, director of Economics & Research for the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission. They disc...
The Housing Crisis Is More Than a Supply Problem
In this episode, Chuck dives into the root causes of the housing crisis. Using clips from interviews with housing experts and reporters, he explores t...
Ryan Johnson: How Culdesac Tempe Develops Freedom, Revenue, and Belonging
Chuck sits down with Ryan Johnson, the founder and visionary behind Culdesac Tempe, the first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the U.S. The...
Using Radical Common Sense To Build Great Places, With Steve Nygren
Serenbe is a unique community just outside of Atlanta, Georgia. It’s based on the development pattern of traditional English villages, with walkable,...
NYT Journalist Shares Why America Should Sprawl
A few weeks ago, the New York Times article "Why America Should Sprawl" went viral, sparking a national discussion about housing and development patte...
4 Ways To Build Homes and Expand Opportunity
Cullum Clark, director of the Economic Growth Initiative at the George W. Bush Institute, returns to the Strong Towns Podcast to discuss his recently...
Escaping the Housing Crisis With Jeff Speck
Today, Chuck is joined by Jeff Speck, a city planner, author, and principal of an urban design and consultancy firm. They discuss the ideas shared in...
Why Sprawl IS the Housing Crisis
On the surface, sprawl seems like an easy answer to the housing crisis. It fits with the mechanisms we have in place today, and it aligns with the liv...
ZacTax: How To Build Financially Healthy Cities
ZacTax is a financial analysis firm that helps city officials understand their revenue streams and make smarter financial choices. Today, Chuck is joi...
The World Is on Fire. That’s Why We’re Here.
Chuck reflects on the current state of the world. He explains that, when you recognize things are broken, you have two options. You can wait helplessl...
How To Handle the Bureaucracy of Local Government
In this episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck is joined by Carlee Alm-LaBar and Kevin Blanchard, former city staff members in Lafayette, Louisian...
3 Reasons This Is a Great Time for Walkable Streets
In this episode, Chuck explains why our current situation, though tense, actually presents a great opportunity for advocates of street safety, walkabi...
Road Design Creates Aggressive Drivers. We Can Fix That.
In this episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck discusses how the design of an environment affects people psychologically. He explores how cities c...
Mark Moses: How To Understand and Fix Government Budgeting
In this episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck is joined by Mark Moses, author of “The Municipal Financial Crisis: A Framework for Understanding a...
We Need a New Approach to Road Safety and Design
In this episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck shares a keynote speech he gave at a statewide transportation conference in Kansas. He discusses th...
How To Manage City Finance Effectively, With Rick Cole
Rick Cole is the chief deputy controller of Los Angeles and a councilmember in Pasadena, California. He’s known for tackling challenging city budgets...
The Keys to a Healthy City Finance Department With Shayne Kavanagh
This week, Chuck is joined by Shayne Kavanagh, senior manager of research for the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA). The GFOA provides tr...
How To Finance Housing in a Smart and Local Way: A Housing Q&A
What cities have successfully financed housing at the local level? How does tax increment financing work? When should cities stop subsidizing large-sc...
It Won’t Be Us: Thoughts on Our Current Craziness From a Strong Towns Perspective
In this episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck addresses the craziness of the current political climate. Using recent policy changes and public re...
These 6 Code Reforms Will Bring More Housing to Your City
In this episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck talks about housing development and zoning code reform with Seth Zeren, a neighborhood real estate...
America Needs a New Housing Bargain. Here’s Why.
In this episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck explores the flawed nature of North America’s current “housing bargain,” where most neighborhoods a...
Remembering Donald Shoup: A Legacy of Curiosity, Credibility and Kindness
In this episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck is joined by Victor Dover, a planner and urban designer. They discuss the work and legacy of Dr. Do...
Bonus Episode: Lessons From 9 Strongest Town Contest Winners
This special episode of the Strong Towns Podcast explores the Strongest Town Contest, including what cities can learn from previous winners, what it m...