The Messy City Podcast
By Kevin Klinkenberg
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Embracing change, uncertainty and local initiative for our cities and towns
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Dissecting Euclid
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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Learning from Rocket City, USA
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Aug 25, 2026 |
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Overcoming the Fear-Industrial Complex
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Aug 12, 2026 |
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Rethinking Infrastructure Finance
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Aug 05, 2026 |
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Is the Housing "Crisis" Real?
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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How to Scale Change with Housing
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Midtown KC, Unfiltered
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May 19, 2026 |
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Route 66 - America's Main Street
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May 12, 2026 |
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Chicken on a Bridge
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May 06, 2026 |
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Seeking Faith-Based Solutions to Housing
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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You Can Just Do Things
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Rowhouses for America
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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The Case for Optimism and Beauty
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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The Best Life Hack, Ever
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Do our communities need better hardware or better software?
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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What is a Starter Home?
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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A Conversation with Ross Chapin
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Reality in the Rust Belt
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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You Have Agency
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Transforming Your Own Backyard
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Brooklyn Doesn't Need Your Butt
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Unpopular Ideas to Fix the Housing Market
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Can California Forever begin to cure the state's housing woes?
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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How to Unleash the Swarm
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Talking Abundance and Strong Towns
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Reflecting on Leon Krier
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Reframing the Housing Discussion
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Episode 100: What is Your "Why?"
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Incremental Success, One Not Sexy Project at a Time
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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From Small Developer to Mayor
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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A Conversation with Nolan Gray
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Is the Vibe Shift Bad for Cities?
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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The Changing Face of Household Types
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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From House Hacking to Building Success in Real Estate
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Development is Harder Than You Think
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Discussing Messy Cities on the Challenger Cities Podcast
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Pay Attention to What is Happening in Memphis
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Creating a Small Developer Ecosystem
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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The Past and Future of Retailing
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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A Symphony of Summer Advice
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Starting a new Architecture School, Rooted in the Classics
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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State-Level Code Reforms for More and Better Housing
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Bootstrapping Small Scale Affordable Housing
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May 27, 2025 |
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Housing as Economic Development
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May 06, 2025 |
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Will Your Town Revitalize or Will it Die?
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Why You Should Make Friends with a Banker
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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When Principles Meet the Real World
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Are properties ever really obsolete?
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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It Is What It Is - Or Not
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Be Great with your Pawns
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Do You Live in a Fragile Neighborhood?
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Creating a (mostly) car-free new town in Costa Rica
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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A Conversation with Dhiru Thadani
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Designing Beauty in Housing, by Being Intentional
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Building Culture in Oklahoma
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Exploring Small Scale vs Large Scale Development
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Boomerang to Help Your Hometown
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Is Your Town a Bitterness Factory or a Hope Factory?
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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How to be a Small Developer that Makes a Big Impact
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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A Conversation with Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Can Design Charrettes Teach Us How to Fix Broken Systems?
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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The many virtues of urban courtyard living
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Building the Not-Quite Missing Middle
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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How to Hack Your Life
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Turning love of your town into a development crusade
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Getting to Affordable Infill Development
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Travel Lessons
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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How Does a Small Developer Actually Make Money?
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Cities and Parents: Let's Get Real About What Matters
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Exploring the Mechanics of an Architect’s First Small Development
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Jim Heid and the Small-Scale Developer Forum
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Missouri's Favorite Topic: KC vs St Louis
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Code Reform is not just about Zoning
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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A Conversation with Joe Minicozzi
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Planning Takes Center Stage in Kalamazoo
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Parking Parking Parking!
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Talking Streetcars and Transit with Mr. KC Streetcar
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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"Coach" Carson connects Financial Independence to Strong Towns
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Frank Starkey: Architect as New Urbanist Developer
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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On Housing with Aaron Lubeck
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Gen X - Step Up or Opt Out?
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May 29, 2024 |
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KC Crew, May 2024 - Real Talk
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May 21, 2024 |
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What do ferris wheels and Bono have in common?
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May 09, 2024 |
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A Conversation with Charles Marohn
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Is the proposed Royals' stadium a good idea?
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Seth Zeren Builds the Next Right Thing
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Two Urbanists Walk Into a Bar
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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The Housing Trap, with Daniel Herriges
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Squint, and look 50 years into the Future
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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A second tour through Pre-Approved Buildings
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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A half-dozen priorities for my community
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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A KC Christmas Special: Baseball, Parking & Infill Development
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Do we know what "urbanism" even means?
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Urbanists: Our Blind Spots Limit the Success of our Cities
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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12 Reasons to Love the American Grid, and Doug Allen
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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What do Fenway Park, Notre Dame, and barking dogs have in common?
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Reforming our culture of building, one brick at a time
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Are we drifting back towards 1910?
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Diane Botwin: Transmogrifier
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Going Deeper on Pre-Approved Plans
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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City Comforts, Revisited
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Three Priorities for Place Management
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Live, from Akron, Ohio
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Writing the Story for Your City or Town
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Rebuilding South Bend
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Creating a Wonderful Life
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Loving the Great River, and its Towns
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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The Next Urbanism
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Marina Khoury Does it All
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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For the Humans: Talking about joy, cities and mental health
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Planners: Learn to Love America
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Hard Lessons are Good Lessons to Learn
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Ali Quinlan will leave you with no excuses
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Ask yourself, "Why am I Doing This?"
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Bringing Some Tough Love to Rookie Developers
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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How does big change happen?
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May 30, 2023 |
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So you want to be a City Planner?
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May 23, 2023 |
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Follow your... anger? Nathan Norris talks about moving from law and the military to New Urbanism
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May 16, 2023 |
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Bringing the Strong Towns Message to Texas
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May 09, 2023 |
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Policy Wonk to Infill Developer
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May 02, 2023 |
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To car-free or not to car-free?
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Being the Change in Your Community
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Bernice Radle & Monte Anderson: Getting Started in Small-Scale Development
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Dan Parolek: Finding the Missing Middle
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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An Ode to Paul Harvey
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Tim Busse: A New Town, 20 Years Old
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Johnny Sanphillippo: Are you granola or shotgun?
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Making Incremental Change in Kansas City
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Talking The Original Green and More with Steve Mouzon
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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What is a Messy City?
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Feb 27, 2023 |