Active Towns
Hosted by John Simmerman · John Simmerman
4.8from 93 ratings
- 363
- Episodes
- 30
- Transcribed
- 93
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Active Towns
Conversations about Creating a Culture of Activity: Profiling the people, places, programs, and policies that help to promote a culture of activity within our communities.
- Publisher
- John Simmerman
- Category
- education · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 Feb 2020
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
30 of 363 episodes have a transcript.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Better Blocks w/ Krista Nightengale
25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Better Streets w/ Sara Stace
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Research: Bike Bus Reach & Impacts with Gemma Simón i Mas
Inside a recent episode
Better Blocks w/ Krista Nightengale
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So a big part of Better Blog that I just loved is that people were out in the streets making things happen. And so one of the very first Better Blogs that I participated in was while I was still working at the magazine. And it was just going out and taking a vacant lot and putting in a little library and just making something happen quickly. And it was really exciting to see how people responded to that and the excitement that kind of grew from that. Often people ask, how do you get community members to trust you? And so much of it is we just do what we say we're going to do. And we make sure that something happens with that. […]
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- Krista Nightengale
- Sara Stace
- Gemma Simón i Mas
- Sam Balto
- Brent Toderian
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 37 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 56 ratings
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John Simmerman host the show. Published by John Simmerman.
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