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The Messy City Podcast — 131 episodes
Property Taxes - How We Got Here
Dissecting Euclid
Learning from Rocket City, USA
Overcoming the Fear-Industrial Complex
Rethinking Infrastructure Finance
Is the Housing "Crisis" Real?
How to Scale Change with Housing
Midtown KC, Unfiltered
Route 66 - America's Main Street
Chicken on a Bridge
Seeking Faith-Based Solutions to Housing
You Can Just Do Things
Rowhouses for America
The Case for Optimism and Beauty
The Best Life Hack, Ever
Do our communities need better hardware or better software?
What is a Starter Home?
A Conversation with Ross Chapin
Reality in the Rust Belt
You Have Agency
Transforming Your Own Backyard
Brooklyn Doesn't Need Your Butt
Unpopular Ideas to Fix the Housing Market
Can California Forever begin to cure the state's housing woes?
How to Unleash the Swarm
Talking Abundance and Strong Towns
Reflecting on Leon Krier
Reframing the Housing Discussion
Episode 100: What is Your "Why?"
Incremental Success, One Not Sexy Project at a Time
From Small Developer to Mayor
A Conversation with Nolan Gray
Is the Vibe Shift Bad for Cities?
The Changing Face of Household Types
From House Hacking to Building Success in Real Estate
Development is Harder Than You Think
Discussing Messy Cities on the Challenger Cities Podcast
Pay Attention to What is Happening in Memphis
Creating a Small Developer Ecosystem
The Past and Future of Retailing
A Symphony of Summer Advice
Starting a new Architecture School, Rooted in the Classics
State-Level Code Reforms for More and Better Housing
Bootstrapping Small Scale Affordable Housing
Housing as Economic Development
Will Your Town Revitalize or Will it Die?
Why You Should Make Friends with a Banker
When Principles Meet the Real World
Are properties ever really obsolete?
It Is What It Is - Or Not
Be Great with your Pawns
Do You Live in a Fragile Neighborhood?
Creating a (mostly) car-free new town in Costa Rica
A Conversation with Dhiru Thadani
Designing Beauty in Housing, by Being Intentional
Building Culture in Oklahoma
Exploring Small Scale vs Large Scale Development
Boomerang to Help Your Hometown
Is Your Town a Bitterness Factory or a Hope Factory?
How to be a Small Developer that Makes a Big Impact
A Conversation with Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt
Can Design Charrettes Teach Us How to Fix Broken Systems?
The many virtues of urban courtyard living
Building the Not-Quite Missing Middle
How to Hack Your Life
Turning love of your town into a development crusade
Getting to Affordable Infill Development
Travel Lessons
How Does a Small Developer Actually Make Money?
Cities and Parents: Let's Get Real About What Matters
Exploring the Mechanics of an Architect’s First Small Development
Jim Heid and the Small-Scale Developer Forum
Missouri's Favorite Topic: KC vs St Louis
Code Reform is not just about Zoning
A Conversation with Joe Minicozzi
Planning Takes Center Stage in Kalamazoo
Parking Parking Parking!
Talking Streetcars and Transit with Mr. KC Streetcar
"Coach" Carson connects Financial Independence to Strong Towns
Frank Starkey: Architect as New Urbanist Developer
On Housing with Aaron Lubeck
Gen X - Step Up or Opt Out?
KC Crew, May 2024 - Real Talk
What do ferris wheels and Bono have in common?
A Conversation with Charles Marohn
Is the proposed Royals' stadium a good idea?
Seth Zeren Builds the Next Right Thing
Two Urbanists Walk Into a Bar
The Housing Trap, with Daniel Herriges
Squint, and look 50 years into the Future
A second tour through Pre-Approved Buildings
A half-dozen priorities for my community
A KC Christmas Special: Baseball, Parking & Infill Development
Do we know what "urbanism" even means?
Urbanists: Our Blind Spots Limit the Success of our Cities
12 Reasons to Love the American Grid, and Doug Allen
What do Fenway Park, Notre Dame, and barking dogs have in common?
Reforming our culture of building, one brick at a time
Are we drifting back towards 1910?
Diane Botwin: Transmogrifier
Going Deeper on Pre-Approved Plans
City Comforts, Revisited
Three Priorities for Place Management
Live, from Akron, Ohio
Writing the Story for Your City or Town
Rebuilding South Bend
Creating a Wonderful Life
Loving the Great River, and its Towns
The Next Urbanism
Marina Khoury Does it All
For the Humans: Talking about joy, cities and mental health
Planners: Learn to Love America
Hard Lessons are Good Lessons to Learn
Ali Quinlan will leave you with no excuses
Ask yourself, "Why am I Doing This?"
Bringing Some Tough Love to Rookie Developers
How does big change happen?
So you want to be a City Planner?
Follow your... anger? Nathan Norris talks about moving from law and the military to New Urbanism
Bringing the Strong Towns Message to Texas
Policy Wonk to Infill Developer
To car-free or not to car-free?
Being the Change in Your Community
Bernice Radle & Monte Anderson: Getting Started in Small-Scale Development
Dan Parolek: Finding the Missing Middle
An Ode to Paul Harvey
Tim Busse: A New Town, 20 Years Old
Johnny Sanphillippo: Are you granola or shotgun?
Making Incremental Change in Kansas City
Talking The Original Green and More with Steve Mouzon
What is a Messy City?