30 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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91K 1 episode / week Avg Length 51 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 20 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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72.8K 83.4K 1 episode / week Avg Length 37 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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173.1K 1 episode / week Avg Length 49 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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229 692 1 episode / week Avg Length 41 min Feb 2018
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6. American Planning Association

Chicago, Illinois, US
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
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56.6K 12.1K 1 episode / week Avg Length 30 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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5.9K 2 episodes / month Avg Length 64 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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722 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 44 min Jul 2019
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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.more
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13.2K 15.1K 2.2K 3 episodes / quarter Avg Length 25 min
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11. Urban Planning is Not Boring

Los Angeles, California, US
Passionate about climate change mitigation, finding equitable solutions to the housing crisis, and more, Sam Ellman and Natalie Ikhrata dive into vari...ous topics related to the field of urban planning that are anything but boring!more
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110 2.8K 1 episode / month Avg Length 39 min
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12. The Urbanist Agenda

A podcast by the creator of the popular YouTube channel Not Just Bikes, The Urbanist Agenda is an exploration of the latest topics in urban planning a...nd urban mobility from your favourite urbanist YouTubers.Each month we'll put another important topic on the agenda and pull back the curtain to discover how online urbanists plot and scheme to make cities work better for everyone.more
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1 episode / day Avg Length 43 min
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13. The Aesthetic City

In this podcast, host Ruben Hanssen interviews experts in the fields of architecture, urban planning, and urban design to find out how we can improve ...our cities, our architecture, and our streets, in order to create more friendly and beautiful places. The clock is ticking; valuable land is wasted on dreary developments while many beautiful, picturesque urban environments are at risk of being jarred forever by ugly buildings that don't belong there. There are better ways to build; let's explore how!more
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2 episodes / quarter Avg Length 71 min
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14. Cognitive Urbanism

The big ideas of cities, urbanism, technology, and the brain by Justin Hollander, urban planning professor at Tufts University.
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1 episode / year Avg Length 12 min
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15. EJB Talks: Rutgers Bloustein School Experts

Faculty, staff, and guest experts from the Edward J. Bloustein School at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey talk about public policy, urban p...lanning, public health, health administration, and informatics.more
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3.1K 1.3K 16 episodes / year Avg Length 20 min
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16. SUP GW?

This student-run podcast explores diverse topics around sustainable urban planning. Students who are enrolled in George Washington University's Ma...ster's program in Sustainable Urban Planning host each season of this podcast. We interview thought leaders and working professionals, to get perspectives from the local to the global. We discuss sustainability, equity, social justice, policy, and design as they relate to the built environment. Tune in each semester for a new season for contemporary discussions about what'SUP with sustainable urban planning!more
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1 episode / year Avg Length 35 min
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17. Plannerama

Listen to fellow Ryerson University Urban Planning Alumni answer fun questions about themselves, their work, and their memories at Rye High.
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601 1 episode / quarter Avg Length 35 min
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18. Future Cities Africa podcast

South Africa
Future Cities Africa hosts digital discussions with thought leaders and experts at the forefront of major trends, projects, innovations, challenges, a...nd opportunities impacting the future of African Cities. Major drivers such as rapid urbanization, health crisis, climate change, inadequate infrastructure, technological advancement, and more are creating an urgent need for African Cities to become sustainable, livable, and workable.more
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615 2.3K 1 episode / week Avg Length 29 min
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19. UrbanTalk Podcast

Mosman, New South Wales, Australia
Join our host Belinda Barnett as we explore what makes our cities tick. The UrbanTalk Podcast aims to spark a thriving, inclusive, and progressive dia...logue around urban planning, design, and development. We'll be inviting industry professionals and representatives from the public to discuss issues and areas of concern in an effort to promote a shared understanding of cities and the people living in them.more
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7 84 1 episode / month Avg Length 42 min
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20. This Must Be The Place Podcast

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
This Must Be the Place is a podcast-in-the-offing with occasional installments, hosted by David Nichols (University of Melbourne) and Elizabeth Taylor... (Monash University). It's a podcast about space, place, culture and society. It's kind of like the Urbanists (a community radio show on RRR, about urban planning type issues in Melbourne) but it's a podcast.more
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158 1 episode / quarter Avg Length 51 min
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21. Urban Resilience Dialogues

Corina Angheloiu and Chiara Tomaselli explore the key themes for urban resilience practitioners, researchers, and policymakers.
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2 episodes / year Avg Length 36 min
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22. 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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23. 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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24. 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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5.5K May 2018
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25. 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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26. 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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31.5K 9 episodes / year Avg Length 23 min Mar 2018
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27. 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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28. Urban Eyes: Planning in Context

Welcome to an urban planning and public health podcast: Hosted by Walle Brown. This started as a school project in planning school where I interviewed... professionals, students, and community members about their take on urban planning, public health, and contemporary American society. Each was meant to gain perspective on our socioeconomic environment from different community members.more
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1 episode / quarter Avg Length 43 min
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29. The Streets Are Planning

Where Urban Planning, Cities, Hip Hop Culture and Community Development conversations live. The Streets are Planning Podcast highlights the unheard v...oices, stories and impact of community leaders working in cities and neighborhoods across the globe.more
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612 1.1K 1.9K
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30. Progressing Planning

A podcast series by Planning for Justice exploring the role of urban planning in fostering change in contemporary society. Planning for Justice is a c...oalition of graduate students, alumni and faculty at LSE questioning the relationship between urban planning and systemic inequality.more
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3 episodes / year Avg Length 27 min
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