We have to stop looking at the stagnation and decline of our blocks and neighborhoods as a normal part of the development process.
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Tampa has an epidemic of leaking and bursting pipes. But don’t worry, the city’s taking action! …by proposing an eightfold increase in the amount it spends on maintenance for the next 20 years, half funded by new debt. How did we get to this point?
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America's pre-Depression development pattern relied on exploitation of workers, poor living conditions and exclusion of women and minorities. How is the Strong Towns approach, which advocates for traditional development patterns, different?
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If it "doesn't make sense" for the people that live along a dead end road to pick up the cost of maintaining it, what does make sense?
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America has an infrastructure crisis, but it's not the one you think it is.
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The city of Bismarck, ND is struggling with how to pay for miles and miles of unproductive transportation investments. The North Dakota Watchdog Network -- that has put forth ten questions they would like to see answered as part of this dialogue.
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America's pre-Depression development pattern relied on exploitation of workers, poor living conditions and exclusion of women and minorities from power in order to function. How is the Strong Towns approach, which advocates for traditional development patterns, different?
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New growth creates an illusion of wealth. Local governments experiencing growth look and feel successful. They have high revenues and very little immediate costs associated with them. Long term, as the liabilities start to come due, it is revealed that a free road isn't really free.
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A reference list of Strong Towns terminology.
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Today we release to non-members the third video in our Curbside Chat series: Illusion of Wealth. The fourth video will be released here at noon tomorrow.
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How can we best invest cheap money? With a Strong Towns approach to debt centered on true investments which pay a measurable return and legitimate cash flow in a city that understands its true balance sheet.
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We have to stop looking at the stagnation and decline of our blocks and neighborhoods as a normal part of the development process.
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