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Steve Mouzon: Living Traditions and the Original Green
Episode 444
“Green” is all around you these days, and increasingly it’s a buzzword when it comes to our built environment. LEED-certified construction, high-tech…
6 years, 7 months ago
The Dignity of Local Community: Chris Arnade
Episode 443
In 2017, writer, photographer, and reformed-Wall-Streeter-turned-social-critic Chris Arnade appeared as a guest on the Strong Towns Podcast, in an ep…
6 years, 7 months ago
What Happens When Housing Becomes a Cash Crop?
Episode 442
Giorgio Angelini didn’t exactly pick the most fortuitous time to start architecture school. He enrolled in Rice University’s architecture program in …
6 years, 7 months ago
Building Cities For Our Unconscious Brains: Ann Sussman on the Failings of Modern Architecture
Episode 441
If the 19th century belonged to engineering, and the 20th century to chemistry and physics, then the 21st might belong to biology. (The OECD said as …
6 years, 7 months ago
Start Small, and Make a Lot of Noise: John Yung on Suburban Revitalization
Episode 440
The growth of American suburbia began with a bang, not a whimper. In the 1950s and 1960s, we built new residential subdivisions and commercial strips…
6 years, 8 months ago
Ask Strong Towns #9 (June 2019)
Episode 439
At Strong Towns, our mission is to spread our radically new approach to growth and development to as many people as possible. That's why we aren't av…
6 years, 8 months ago
What Does it Take to Bring a City Back from the Brink?
Episode 438
What does it really take to bring a depopulating city back from the brink? Scott Ford has some ideas.
In early 2011, still near the bottom of the Gre…
6 years, 9 months ago
Autonomous Vehicles Are Coming. Do We Have a Say in Who Benefits?
Episode 437
The hype about autonomous vehicles—”AV’s” for short—is often breathless. Advocates have touted the emerging technology as the key to everything that …
6 years, 9 months ago
Ask Strong Towns: Celebrity Edition with Community-Conscious Developer Derek Avery
Episode 436
Derek Avery is a community-conscious real-estate developer from Dallas, TX, whose work is rooted in the mantra of “revitalization without gentrificat…
6 years, 9 months ago
Why does Strong Towns put *so* much emphasis on its members—and why is that so unusual in the nonprofit world?
Episode 435
On this special episode of Upzoned, Kea sits down with board member John Reuter to talk about the big story in the ST universe—the Strong Towns membe…
6 years, 9 months ago