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Podcast Repost: Is Homeownership Still Part of the American Dream?
Chuck Marohn was super gracious in reaching out to me after I recorded this podcast questioning some of the narrative on the current housing situation in the USA. Spoiler alert: I intend to follow this thread further and ask some more probi...
Property Taxes - How We Got Here
You might wonder how a podcast on urban planning, design and development could get interested in the arcane subject of property taxes. Except that, it’s all over the news lately, and its another fundamental issue than actual normies care ab...
Dissecting Euclid
Returning champion Aaron Lubeck joins me to discuss his exceptional piece called, “Revisiting Euclid v. Ambler at 100,” which he posted on his Substack “On Housing.” Aaron also posts and helps curate “Southern Urbanism” - an excellent publi...
Learning from Rocket City, USA
Architect, Author, Photographer and New Urbanist Steve Mouzon joins me to tell his story about the emergence of New Urbanism in a location that many would consider unlikely. Huntsville, Alabama might be known for Space Camp, but it’s not wi...
Overcoming the Fear-Industrial Complex
We bring back my brother Dean on this episode, to talk about how we often let our fears overrun our lives, and how to get beyond them. Dean is not just one of my favorite humans on the planet, he’s also a clinical psychologist, author of a...
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Welcome - my name is Kevin Klinkenberg, and this site "The Messy City" is my personal blog. I started blogging on urban planning and design issues in 2007, and began working in the field in 1993. Thanks for reading.
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