Strong Towns founder and president Chuck Marohn first visited Pensacola, Florida in October of 2017 to deliver a Curbside Chat. To our delight, he not only filled up a local theater, but 5,000 people watched a live stream of the presentation hosted by the Pensacola News-Journal. And it got a lot of them talking.

Since then, we’ve acquired quite an enthusiastic following in Pensacola, which led only a year and a half later to a successful bid to win our fourth annual Strongest Town Contest. (We’ll be officially presenting Pensacola with their award later this year.) In this video, Chuck Marohn sits down with Quint Studer, a Pensacola businessman, philanthropist, and the author of Building a Vibrant Community: How Citizen-Powered Change is Reshaping America. Studer interviews Marohn about the origins of Strong Towns and the nature of the movement for change that we are building, including: