20 Best Urban Planning Podcasts

1. The Strong Towns Podcast

America
Our longest-running podcast, the Strong Towns Podcast is a weekly conversation on the Strong Towns movement, hosted by Strong Towns founder and presid...ent 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.more
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84.2K 1 episode / week Avg Length 43 min
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2. Monocle 24: The Urbanist

London, England, UK
With an influential audience of city mayors, urban planners, and architects, this is Monocle's guide to making better cities, be it new technology..., state-of-the-art subways or compact apartments.more
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33.7K 1 episode / week Avg Length 18 min
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3. 99% Invisible

Oakland, California, US
Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing. 99% Invisible is a weekly exploration... of the process and power of design and architecture. From award-winning producer Roman Mars.more
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73K 52.3K 1 episode / week Avg Length 39 min Sep 2010
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4. Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast

San Francisco
Talking Headways is a Streetsblog podcast hosted by Streetsblog USA editor Tanya Snyder and Reconnecting America's Jeff Wood. We explore the inter...section of transportation, urban planning, city living, and anything else that piques our interest.more
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174K 2 episodes / week Avg Length 50 min
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5. The Smart Community Podcast

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
The Smart Community Podcast is a hub where Smart and exciting people from all around the world come to discuss all things Smart City, Smart Town, Smar...t Region - anything that makes a place more liveable. Together we can create the Smart Community Collective.more
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229 689 1 episode / week Avg Length 39 min Feb 2018
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6. American Planning Association

Chicago, IL
Affordable housing. Urban design. Disaster recovery. Futurism and the global economy. Autonomous vehicles. These are just some of the topics APA's... podcast delves into with deep curiosity, expert analysis, and affecting true-life stories. more
media.planning.org
56.6K 2 episodes / quarter Avg Length 33 min
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7. KunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy

Greenwich, NY
The KunstlerCast featuring James Howard Kunstler's thoughts on the failures of modern urban design, suburban sprawl, American culture, peak oil, a...lternative fuel, the impoverishment of public places, and the tasks at hand to reform commerce, schooling, trade, and agriculture.more
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5.6K 1 episode / month Avg Length 65 min
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8. Urban Broadcast Collective

Welcome to the Urban Broadcast Collective. We are a curated network of podcast and radio shows on everything urban. And our goal is simple - to bring ...together all the amazing urban focused podcasts on one site. If you would like to get involved in the Urban Broadcast Collective, please contact one of our podcast producers: Natalie Osborne from Griffith University; Elizabeth Taylor from RMIT; Tony Matthews from Griffith University; Paul Maginn from the University of Western Australia; Jason Byrne from the University of Tasmania; or Dallas Rogers from the University of Sydney.more
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724 1 episode / month Avg Length 61 min Feb 2018
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9. Talking Transformation

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
An open conversation addressing contemporary city building and spatial transformation issues in South Africa.
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243 1 episode / month Avg Length 45 min Jul 2019
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10. Urban Resilience Dialogues

Corina Angheloiu and Chiara Tomaselli explore the key themes for urban resilience practitioners, researchers, and policymakers.
anchor.fm/urd
2 episodes / year Avg Length 36 min
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11. Land Matters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
A behind-the-scenes look at what makes cities tick. Whether financing infrastructure, adapting to climate change or building more affordable housing, ...a big part of innovative solutions can be traced back to land.more
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13K 15.1K 3 episodes / quarter Avg Length 24 min
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12. The Urban Lab

New York City, New York, US
The program on cities, real estate, and the urban and built environment, featuring leaders in industry, research, and policymaking; hosted by Dr. Sam ...Chandan, Silverstein Chair and academic dean of the NYU SPS Schack Institute and Fellow at the NYU Urban Lab.more
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5.2K Apr 2020
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13. Metrocouncil | PlanIt

The PlanIt Podcast is the new part of the 2017 PlanIt Training Program on Comprehensive Plan Updates. This series will feature monthly episodes on a v...ariety of topics that are not required elements of a comprehensive plan through conversations with planning experts and professionals outside of the Metropolitan Council.more
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10.6K 1 episode / quarter Avg Length 33 min Mar 2017
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14. Reinventing Transport

The Reinventing Transport show provides practical help and encouragement on urban mobility issues for an international audience. It is for anyone, in ...any country, pushing for local changes to urban transport and public space, especially if you want your city to be more socially just, sustainable, safe, productive, full of great places and much better at helping us all to flourish.more
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5.4K May 2018
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15. Streets.MN

Minnesota
Streets.MN is dedicated to expanding the conversation about transportation, urban design, and public space issues in the Twin Cities and Greater Minne...sota.more
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7.2K
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16. City of the Future

We explore the innovations and ideas that will transform our cities. Follow to get the latest episodes from this podcast
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31.7K 9 episodes / year Avg Length 23 min Mar 2018
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17. Open During Construction Podcast

Canada
Conversations about City-building at the intersection of planning and engineering. Michelle Berquist, Rob Muir and Muneef Ahmad reflect on stories be...hind-the-scenes of 'Plangineering' projects.more
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36 Jan 2017
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