The Strong Towns Podcast
Hosted by Chuck Marohn · Strong Towns
4.7from 686 ratings
- 710
- Episodes
- 119
- Transcribed
- 686
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2012
- First episode
- 17M
- YouTube views
About 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 (https://www.strongtowns.org/contributors-journal/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 them better places to live. Join Chuck in examining how everything from urban design to economics to systems theory to psychology helps inform this core question.
- Publisher
- Strong Towns
- Category
- government
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Dec 2012
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
119 of 710 episodes have a transcript.
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Do We Design for Drivers?
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Massachusetts Is Putting Starter Homes on the Ballot
14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
What Comes After Cities Kill Parking Mandates?
Inside a recent episode
How Do We Design for Drivers?
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Hussam, follow up on that. I feel like you're arguing that thoughtfully designing for cars is actually produces better people-centered places. How does that shift change the conversation and how we approach this? And what does that look like when we're actually getting down to work? It's really important that we create more people-centered places, right? Like this is the prosperity of our communities. This is how we connect the places where we connect, the places where we identify with these communities. The problem is cities have made two consistent mistakes, either to accommodate cars. They go too far and they accommodate it in incompatible ways, and thus they ruin what makes people-centered places worth visiting. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Houssam Elokda
- Nick Falbo
- Andrew Mikula
- Tony Jordan
- Kevin Klinkenberg
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 16,636,032
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 430 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 256 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100
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- Quality
- 80
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts The Strong Towns Podcast?
Chuck Marohn host the show. Published by Strong Towns.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does The Strong Towns Podcast take guests?
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