{"podcast":{"title":"KunstlerCast - Conversations: Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century","slug":"kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680","podcast_index_feed_id":160680,"rss_url":"https://kunstlercast.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://kunstler.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/d/9/d/dd9d3eb65b730270/KC-iTunes.jpg","author":"James Howard Kunstler","episode_count":452,"summary":"James Howard Kunstler, author of \"The Geography of Nowhere\" and \"The Long Emergency,\" takes on suburban sprawl, disposable architecture and the end of the cheap oil era each week with program host Duncan Crary.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T20:20:09.235437+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680"},"episode":{"title":"KunstlerCast 434 — Charles Marohn on Strong Towns and the Battle to Reform the Fiasco of Suburban Sprawl","slug":"kunstlercast-434-charles-marohn-on-strong-towns-and-the-battle-to-reform-the-fiasco-of-suburban-sprawl","published_at":"2025-11-28T20:39:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680/kunstlercast-434-charles-marohn-on-strong-towns-and-the-battle-to-reform-the-fiasco-of-suburban-sprawl","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680","url":"https://kunstlercast.libsyn.com/kunstlercast-434-charles-marohn-on-strong-towns-and-the-battle-to-reform-the-fiasco-of-suburban-sprawl","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/kunstlercast/KunstlerCast_434.mp3?dest-id=14822","summary":"Charles Marohn is the founder and president of Strong Towns . With decades of experience as a land use planner and civil engineer, Marohn is on a mission to help cities and towns become stronger and more prosperous through classic, traditional town planning. He's the bestselling author of Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis . Like your host, JHK, Chuck is a member in good standing of the Congress for the New Urbanism, a national movement to repair and reform the fiasco of Suburban sprawl lanes development. The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by Larry Unger","meta_description":"Charles Marohn is the founder and president of Strong Towns . With decades of experience as a land use planner and civil engineer, Marohn is on a mission…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3475,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680/episodes/kunstlercast-434-charles-marohn-on-strong-towns-and-the-battle-to-reform-the-fiasco-of-suburban-sprawl/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/kunstlercast-conversations-converging-catastrophes-of-the-21st-century-160680/kunstlercast-434-charles-marohn-on-strong-towns-and-the-battle-to-reform-the-fiasco-of-suburban-sprawl.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}