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Planners: Learn to Love America
At the CNU31 and Strong Towns National Gathering confabs this year, I heard a lot of language that would put planners and designers in a very small m…
2 years, 9 months ago
Hard Lessons are Good Lessons to Learn
John Anderson was one of the first people I got to know when I was a young pup architect trying to get involved with New Urbanism. I did my first des…
2 years, 9 months ago
Ali Quinlan will leave you with no excuses
Ali Quinlan is easily one of the most impressive people I’ve ever talked with, and makes me feel like I’m not doing nearly enough with my time. She’l…
2 years, 9 months ago
Ask yourself, "Why am I Doing This?"
This is the first of three conversations I recorded at CNU31 in Charlotte in late May/early June. I’ll roll the rest out in coming weeks - each was V…
2 years, 9 months ago
Bringing Some Tough Love to Rookie Developers
Aaron Lubeck doesn’t just have opinions, he’s willing to share them. Honestly. He’s also a guy with a very unusual career path for urban design and p…
2 years, 10 months ago
How does big change happen?
Kevin’s editorial note: I’ve had some questions about making transcripts of these available, for those who’d prefer to read instead of listen to the …
2 years, 10 months ago
So you want to be a City Planner?
Being a Director of City Planning is glamorous, right? Isn’t that what Seinfeld taught us?
Rob Richardson has been a Planning Director in both Kansas …
2 years, 10 months ago
Follow your... anger? Nathan Norris talks about moving from law and the military to New Urbanism
Nathan Norris and I have been involved in New Urbanism and the Congress for the New Urbanism for more than 25 years. And yet, our backgrounds and pat…
2 years, 10 months ago
Bringing the Strong Towns Message to Texas
It’s a tale of two Kevins, as we discuss cultivating local prosperity and the Strong Towns message with Kevin Shepherd of Verdunity. Kevin is an engi…
2 years, 10 months ago
Policy Wonk to Infill Developer
In just a few short years, Andrew Ganahl has already made a notable impact in the urban development world in Kansas City. He’s developed three new pr…
2 years, 11 months ago