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560- Home on the Range

In a lot of ways, Lincoln Heights, Ohio, sounds just like any other suburb. If you walk around town, you’ll hear kids playing outside the local elementary school. You’ll hear the highway that takes co

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559- The Six-Week Cure

In the mid-1900s, people flocked to Reno, Nevada -- not for frontier gold or loose slots, but to get out of bad marries. The city became known as the Divorce Capital of the World. For much of modern

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558- The Fever Tree Hunt

Most heists target gold, jewels or cash. This one targeted illegal seeds. As the British established their sprawling empire across the subcontinent and beyond, they encountered a formidable adversary

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557- Model Village

For decades, society has dealt with people with dementia and other forms of cognitive decline by storing them away in unstimulating, medicalized environments. But around the world, a new architectural

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328- Devolutionary Redesign

It’s hard to overstate just how important record album art was to music in the days before people downloaded everything. Visuals were a key part of one's experience with a record or tape or CD. The de

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556- You Ain’t Nothin But a Postmark

Over a decade after Elvis Presley’s death, the king of rock & roll took over headlines once again as Americans weighed in on which portrait of Elvis would be forever immortalized on a 29 cent US posta

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Meet the officials

We speak to two city mayors, and one runner-up, about what their roles mean to them, what they’ve learned from their time in office and their ambitions for the cities that they call home.See omnystudi

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555- The Big Dig

Over its more than 40 year journey from conception to completion, Boston’s Big Dig massive infrastructure project, which rerouted the central highway in the heart of the city, encountered every hurdle

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Tall Stories 377: Museum of London

Sophie explores the relocation and renaming process ahead for the Museum of London.See for privacy information.

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108 — Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York — 1/3

In this episode, the first of a 3-parter, we began our discussion of 'Delirious New York' (1978) by Rem Koolhaas, a 'retroactive manifesto' for Manhattan. In this first part we discussed Rem's reputat

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Conor Semler: A New Framework for Street Design

On this episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, host Chuck Marohn chats with Conor Semler, an associate planner with Kittelson and was involved in the development of both the National A

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In praise of the metro

We marvel at the beauty and utility of city metro systems from France to Nigeria. Plus, we explore what is happening below ground in SeattleSee for privacy information.

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554- Devil in the Details

This week we have two stories featuring the devil.An infamous training video teaching cops how to spot and stop satanic crimes. And a stretch of highway with the misfortune of being officially nam

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Gabe Klein, Executive Director, U.S. Joint Office of Energy and Moving Tran

Gabe Klein, Executive Director of the U.S. Joint Office of Energy and joins the ITE Talks Transportation podcast to talk about transportation in the United States. He d

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Tall Stories 376: Sea Ranch Lodge, California

Ivan Carvalho takes us to California to visit the Sea Ranch Lodge – and the coastal community that inspired it.See for privacy information.

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Strong Towns Is Jane Jacobs in Action

Strong Towns founder and president, Charles Marohn, was invited to the Lit with Charles podcast to discuss Jane Jacobs’ seminal work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and the impact it has

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Episode 350 Celebration: Ask Zoe Anything

Hi friends! In this episode of the Smart Community Podcast, host Zoe Eather is back in the hot seat! In celebration of this being episode 350, Zoe and producer Ellen Ronalds Keene sat

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How activism is saving our cities

We explore how urban activism can help to save our cities, including one man who galvanised efforts in Ukraine to build back better and the battle against the redevelopment of a cultural hub in Helsin

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553- Cautionary Tales of the Sydney Opera House

The Sydney Opera House is one of the most iconic and distinctive buildings in the world. It took a relative newcomer and architectural outsider to dream it up, but the saga of making this world herita

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Tall Stories 375: Pietracamela

Bella Jewell explores Pietracamela, an Italian mountain town whose economy has been shaken by global warming and a lack of snow.See for privacy information.

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The Arguments for Speed Cameras…and Why They Don’t Hold Up

On this episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, host Chuck Marohn talks about his concerns with speed cameras. Plenty of people dislike speed cameras as surveillance devices and, conversely, many urbanis

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Indian urbanisation and mass timber in the UK

We explore the unique challenges India faces as its cities grow and we investigate how mass-timber construction is gaining momentum in the UK.See for privacy information.

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552- Blood in the Machine

Brian Merchant is a tech reporter, and he'd been covering the industry for years when he started to notice a term that kept coming up. When he wrote a story that was critical of tech, he'd be accused

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Tall Stories 374: Wiener Gusto

Alexei Korolyov visits the production facilities of a city-owned organic farming concept that has been established withinVienna’s city limits.See for privacy information.

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Steve Mouzon: How Do We Rebuild Maui?

In light of the recent wildfires in Maui (and other parts of Hawaii), this week’s Strong Towns Podcast episode features a conversation with Steve Mouzon, author of The Original Green and member of the

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Realism and Pragmatism in Smart Communities, with Bas Boorsma

Hi friends. Welcome back to another episode of the Smart Community Podcast. I’m excited to share this episode with Bas Boorsma, the founder & CEO of Urban Innovators Inc and the au

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The Monocle Quality of Life Conference 2023

We bring you exclusive interviews and highlights from the latest edition of the Monocle Quality of Life conference, which took place in Munich.See for privacy information.

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389- Whomst Among Us Let the Dogs Out AGAIN

All kinds of songs get stuck in your head. Famous pop tunes from when you were a kid, album cuts you've listened to over and over again. And then there's a category of memorable songs—the ones that we

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Tall Stories 373: Grouse Grind, Vancouver

Gregory Scruggs tackles the Grouse Grind trail, one of Vancouver’s most fabled hikes and a boon to citizens’ quality of life.See for privacy information.

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Spotlight on Munich

To mark Monocle’s Quality of Life Conference in Munich, we explore the best urban happenings in the city from experiments in to regeneration projects.See for

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551- Office Space

In most big cities, there’s a housing crisis. And empty office buildings are creating a different crisis known to urbanists as a doom loop.’ Converting an office into housing can solve both of these c

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Design: An International Perspective – Bas Govers, Senior Urban Mobility Co

Most heists target gold, jewels or cash. This one targeted illegal seeds. As the British established their sprawling empire across the subcontinent and beyond, they encountered a formidable adversary3