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The Strong Towns Podcast

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Today: #151 in Government, New Zealand on our combined chart.

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Ranking history · New Zealand

Latest daily rankings: Oct 22. New rankings will appear after the next update.

Position on the Government, New Zealand combined chart over the last 7 days. Toggle platforms to compare their positions. Lower rank numbers are better.

#97#113#129#145#161Chart rankOct 16Oct 18Oct 20Oct 22#151
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Oct 21#144#144—
Oct 20#138#138—
Oct 19#134#134—
Oct 18#126#126—
Oct 17#120#120#98
Oct 16#107#107—

Latest episodes

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    Drivers are usually treated as the obstacle when cities try to build better places for walking, biking and transit. Houssam Elokda of Happy Cities and Nick Falbo of Mobycon argue that this framing misses something important…

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    August 31, 2026 · 46 min

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    August 3, 2026 · 50 min

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  • A Better Block Versus Years of Planning

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    Cities often spend years studying a street before making a change, only to discover that the public is reacting to plans no one has actually experienced. Krista Nightengale, executive director of Better Block, explains another approach…

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    Putting a route near every community sounds fair until the buses only arrive once an hour. Jarrett Walker, author of Human Transit and principal of the firm helping Des Moines rethink its bus network, explains why cities cannot maximize…

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About the show

The Strong Towns Podcast is a weekly conversation on the Strong Towns movement, hosted by Strong Towns Founder and President 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.