Ask Strong Towns Celebrity Edition: Q&A With Jeff Speck

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Ask Strong Towns Celebrity Edition: Q&A With Jeff Speck

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Nov 26, 2018

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Listen to the audio from our November 2018 live webcast Q&A with renowned urban planner, walkability expert, and author of Walkable City Rules, Jeff Speck.

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Nov 26, 2018

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We advocate for a model of development that allows our cities, towns and neighborhoods to grow financially strong and resilient.

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“How Can My Town *Not* Be Wealthy When There’s Been So Much Growth?”: “How can a city not have pots overflowing with money if there has been so much growth? How are apartments subsidizing people who live in single-family neighborhoods?” That’s what the city of Oviedo, Florida, asked when it invited Strong Towns President C... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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Your City’s Accounting Is Unnecessarily Obscure. It’s Time To Pull Back the Veil.: Who do we prepare local budgets for, the citizens of a community or distant Wall Street bond investors? Is it more important that an elected council member know what is going on with a city’s finances, or should our local accounting practices be more res... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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Annamarie Pluhar: Shared Housing Doesn’t Have to Be Scary: Today on the Strong Towns Podcast, host Chuck Marohn is speaking with special guest Annamarie Pluhar. Pluhar is an expert on co-housing and shared housing, and is the author of the book Sharing Housing: A Guidebook for Finding and Keeping Good Housemates... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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Nolan Gray: Exposing the Arbitrariness of Zoning Codes: Professional city planner and longtime Strong Towns contributor Nolan Gray comes to The Strong Towns Podcast today to talk about his new book, Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. As you may have already gathered from th... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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Safe and Productive Streets: A street is not merely a place for cars. In fact, the primary purpose of a street has nothing to do with motor vehicles at all. A street is, and always has been, a platform for growing community wealth and capacity, the framework for building prosperous ... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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“Bias Writ Large” in the Property Tax Assessment System: Fair property tax systems are crucial to developing a financially strong community, as property taxes represent a large source of public revenue for most local governments. In today’s episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck Marohn talks with Joe Minic... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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The Drip, Drip, Drip of Traffic Deaths: Every hour, four people are killed in an automobile accident. Over a year, this totals up to about 40,000 people. “It’s an astounding number,” says Strong Towns President Chuck Marohn. In this episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck talks about his ... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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This Vancouver-Based Artist Is Writing Music…About Building Strong Towns!: People have taken the Strong Towns approach in a lot of fascinating directions, but this might be one of the most fascinating yet: William Chernoff is a young, Vancouver-based musician who has written songs inspired by Strong Towns. During the pandemic, ... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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America *Must* End Highway Expansions, Before It’s Too Late: When we build a highway, we know we have to maintain it. The same applies to a bridge. Every highway or bridge that has ever been built comes with a predictable and easily calculable schedule for maintenance. This isn’t difficult math. So, why do we stru... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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Ryan Crane: Malpractice and Accountability in Engineering—A Surgeon’s Take: In most medical centers, physicians hold routine “morbidity and mortality” conferences, where they analyze cases where patients died or were seriously injured while under medical care. In today’s episode of The Strong Towns Podcast, otolaryngologist and ... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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Lawsuit Update: Making a Stand for Engineers in the Minnesota State Court of Appeals: Anyone should be able to speak up and question whether current engineering practices truly benefit our communities. That’s especially true for licensed professionals who have a special duty to the public to be heard. And when they do speak up, their ... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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The Highway Boondoggles Report: We began building the Interstate Highway System in the 1950s, and we completed the majority of it by the end of the 1960s. The goal of creating this massive transportation system was to connect far away places— and it’s met that purpose. Yet, even though... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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Legalizing Incremental Change—Everywhere—To Meet America’s Housing Needs: A house is many things. It is shelter, a place to live. It is an investment, a store of wealth. It can be a repository of memories and it can be a dream for the future. “The American Dream,” as a home is sometimes called, is part of our national identity... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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An Update and the Strong Towns Strategic Plan: Chuck is taking a little break from podcasting for a few weeks, but in the meantime, here's an update on what's going on behind the scenes at Strong Towns! by The Strong Towns Podcast
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End the Parking Mandates and Subsidies That Are Hurting Our Cities: Building community wealth is difficult. There’s a lot of hard work involved, there are tough calls, there is risk. In even the best of circumstances, there’s always a chance your investment (in dollars, time, and energy) won’t work out. But often it does... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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Land Use and Transit Are a Pair—But Rarely Do We See Them That Way: Jason Slaughter, producer of the YouTube channel Not Just Bikes, is a pretty cool and talented guy. He’s created multiple excellent videos on Strong Towns ideas, taking our written words and translating them through his own voice into visual representati... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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Majora Carter: Reclaiming Your Community: Success: however you define it, it’s what many of us strive for. Whether it’s success in one’s career, school, family life, or other dreams, no one wants to experience a perceived failure in life. In the minds of many throughout America, the indicator o... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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An Update on Strong Towns’ Lawsuit Against the Minnesota Board of Engineering Licensure: In today's episode, Chuck Marohn gives an update on where Strong Towns is at in its ongoing lawsuit against the Minnesota Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying, Landscape Architecture, Geoscience and Interior Design (AELSLAGID). by The Strong Towns Podcast
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One of the Most Dangerous Assumptions We Have Made: Thanks to technology, cars and roads just keep getting safer, right? That’s the message we hear in the news and advertising on a regular basis. But if that were the case, traffic fatalities should be going down as technology progresses. And they’re not. ... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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Hawaii’s Suburban Experiment: This September, Strong Towns President Chuck Marohn was invited to speak at the Hawaii Congress of Planning Officials Conference on the Island of Kauai. While he was there, Chuck went on a walking tour and witnessed the results of the post-WWII rise of ... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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The Jackson Water Crisis Is Not a Fluke—Your City Could Be Next: What’s happened with Jackson’s water crisis is an absolute tragedy. In late August, a state of emergency was issued after there was no clean running water in the city. Residents who could get water reported that they’d turn on the tap and be met with a b... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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Water System Crises and Solutions: In a September episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck talked about the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi. He spoke on the technicalities of American water systems, what failed in Jackson, and how Jackson ended up in a crisis. Now, in this week’s ... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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A Whole New Framework for Analyzing Car Crashes: Membership is 40% of Strong Towns’ revenue—we couldn’t do this work without you. As the Strong Towns movement has grown, we’ve started to take on larger projects and have looked at ways that we can support those initiatives. Instrumental in orchestra... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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The Power of Talking Locally Over the Noise of National Politics: On today's special Member Week episode, Chuck talks with Strong Towns Communications Associate Lauren Fisher about Strong Towns’ approach to communication. They chat about the big ideas we’re working toward and how to squish them down into little ema... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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On the Conservative Reaction to 15-Minute Cities: We believe everyone can build a Strong Town, but all too often, political differences divide communities, and instead of working together to build stronger neighborhoods from a bottom-up approach, we get caught up in contentious, top-down ideas and c... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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Ben Hunt: In Praise of Bitcoin: Today’s Strong Towns Podcast guest, Ben Hunt, wrote on Epsilon Theory that “Bitcoin has been an authentic expression of identity, a positive identity of autonomy, entrepreneurialism, and resistance to the Nudging State and the Nudging Oligarchy.” To... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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This Is How the Strong Towns Movement Becomes “Unignorable”: As a part of our special Member Week series, Chuck Marohn and Strong Towns Community Builder John Pattison talk about the Local Conversations program. They discuss how the first Local Conversations came to be, what’s changed, and how the Strong Towns... by The Strong Towns Podcast
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