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b'This is a special mash-up edition of the It\\u2019s the Little Things podcast and Strong Towns podcast!\\nIn this episode, Jacob Moses, host of It\\u2019s the Little Things, and Strong Towns president Chuck Marohn discuss a couple of Jacob\\u2019s favorite chapters from Chuck\\u2019s brand new book, Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity, which just released yesterday.\\nJacob and Chuck reflect on the moments throughout Chuck\\u2019s life that inspired the Strong Towns movement, including the fist bump that began Chuck\\u2019s long friendship and collaboration with Joe Minicozzi of Urban3. Jacob and Chuck also discuss what we can learn from our forebears about productivity (as opposed to merely \\u201cgrowth\\u201d) and why communities need to make maintenance an obsession.\\nThey go on to talk about the importance of observation, a practice given too little attention among professional engineers and planners, but which seems to be a common characteristic of people who really love their places. As Chuck puts it: \\u201cThe merging of places that are healthy and strong financially, and places that are healthy and strong from a human standpoint, is the exact nexus that the Strong Towns approach is designed to get us to.\\u201d'