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 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.
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Play⋅ 78.1K ⋅1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 43 min Get Email Contact More

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.
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Play⋅ 33.6K ⋅1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 19 min Get Email Contact More

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.
Also in PRX Radio Station Podcasts, KALW Podcasts
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Play⋅ 73.2K⋅ 52.3K ⋅1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 39 min ⋅ Sep 2010 Get Email Contact More

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 intersection of transportation, urban planning, city living, and anything else that piques our interest.
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Play⋅ 175.1K ⋅1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 44 min Get Email Contact More

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, Smart Region - anything that makes a place more liveable. Together we can create the Smart Community Collective.
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Play⋅ 229⋅ 690 ⋅1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 40 min ⋅ Feb 2018 Get Email Contact More

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.
planning.org/podcast
Play⋅ 56.8K ⋅2 episodes / quarter ⋅ Avg Length 36 min Get Email Contact More

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, alternative fuel, the impoverishment of public places, and the tasks at hand to reform commerce, schooling, trade, and agriculture.
kunstler.com/writi..
Play⋅ 5K ⋅1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 66 min Get Email Contact More

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.
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Play⋅ 730 ⋅1 episode / month ⋅ Avg Length 60 min ⋅ Feb 2018 Get Email Contact More

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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Play⋅ 243 ⋅1 episode / month ⋅ Avg Length 47 min ⋅ Jul 2019 Get Email Contact More

10. 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.
lincolninst.edu/pu..
Play⋅ 13K⋅ 15K ⋅3 episodes / quarter ⋅ Avg Length 24 min Get Email Contact More

11. Urban Resilience Dialogues

Corina Angheloiu and Chiara Tomaselli explore the key themes for urban resilience practitioners, researchers, and policymakers.
anchor.fm/urd
Play 2 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 36 min Get Email Contact More

12. 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 variety of topics that are not required elements of a comprehensive plan through conversations with planning experts and professionals outside of the Metropolitan Council.
metrocouncil.org/H..
Play⋅ 10.6K ⋅1 episode / quarter ⋅ Avg Length 33 min ⋅ Mar 2017 Get Email Contact More

13. 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.
samchandan.com/urb..
Play⋅ 5.2K ⋅ Apr 2020 Get Email Contact More

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.
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Play⋅ 5.4K ⋅ May 2018 Get Email Contact More

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 Minnesota.
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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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Play⋅ 31.9K ⋅9 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 23 min ⋅ Mar 2018 Get Email Contact More

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 behind-the-scenes of 'Plangineering' projects.
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Play⋅ 36 ⋅ Jan 2017 Get Email Contact More

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