01 / We're all urbanists / with Nathan Allebach

Nathan Allebach - TikTok urbanist, Strong Towns storyteller, walkable cities enthusiast, Creative Director at Allebach Communications, The Steak-umm Guy, and Scott Galloway's favorite Instagram follow (potentially) - joins the first episode of the show to ignite the good traffic conversation.

We discuss:

• The rise of urbanism in popular culture thanks to a pandemic-provoked introduction, suburban kids landlocked at home, and TikTok.


• Hyper-localizing a walkable lifestyle in car-dominated cities.


• The economics of car ownership, and the math that could support escaping it.


• Financial freedom by going car-free or car-lite.


• Americans' obsession with Disneyland and other walkable vacation destinations, but fear of building walkable neighborhoods near them.


• Philadelphia's streetcar suburbs, from the view of a lifelong resident.


• Political hobbyism, and why urban planning is such a popular space to become obsessed with.


• NIMBYs are doing their thing... again... and again... and again...


• The Scott Galloway fan club.

Explore further:

Strong Towns - https://www.strongtowns.org/

Nathan's walkable cities shop - https://the-allebach-market.creator-spring.com/

Connecting with Nathan:

On Twitter (X) - https://twitter.com/nathanallebach?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

On TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@nathanallebach

On Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nathanallebach/?hl=en

Connecting with me:

On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bbiehl/

On TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@citiesforpeople

On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradbiehl/