Videos & Podcasts
The Design of Cities Begins with the Design of Streets:
Part One of Two
The official debut! In this rerecording of their presentation at CNU 34, Victor Dover and John Massengale showcase new tools and essential reference material in the expanded second edition of Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns. This session includes:
the new Catalog of Essential Street Types
new and reworked case studies from around the world
a first-of-its-kind history of the design of Riverside Drive in New York
how to leverage street design to make your community more lovable, livable, and valuable
On this week’s Strong Towns podcast, Chuck Marohn interviews Victor Dover, who spells out a challenge for today’s generation of urban designers and discusses the reasons for writing the dramatically expanded, revised Second Edition of Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns.
June 27, 2026: John Simmerman of Active Towns recorded this conversation with Victor Dover, diving deep into precisely why streets matter so much in shaping our daily lives, for better and for worse, and how, by learning from the world’s best streets, we can transform our dysfunctional and dangerous cityscapes into more livable environments.