The Messy City
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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...
Rethinking Infrastructure Finance
It’s very easy for all of us to get caught up in status quo bias. We live the way we do, it must be fine, right? The way things are surely is the way they’ve been for a very long time, and probably got this way for good reasons. Or so we th...
Is the Housing "Crisis" Real?
I get personal in this episode, in order to ask questions about the nature of what is called the “housing crisis.” Are we all just doom-pilling way too much?
As a case study, I talk through the life and history of my parents, and discuss w...
How to Scale Change with Housing
Eric Kronberg is back again, to dive deeper into the topics of housing choice, scale and essentially - what works and what doesn’t. Eric’s firm, Kronberg Urbanists & Architects, produces some of the routinely best graphic content to explain...
Midtown KC, Unfiltered
Stand by for a very Kansas City-focused episode. For this one, Abby Newsham and I were invited to record a live podcast during KC Design Week, at the Kansas City Art Institute. Abby now hosts the Unconventional Urbanism podcast.
While ther...
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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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