There are no universal answers to the complex problems America’s cities, towns, and neighborhoods face. There is no playbook.
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“The work that Strong Towns is doing is groundbreaking and transformational for our cities.” ~ Terry Mitchell
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I first became a member of Small Towns thanks to a gift membership. Initially I found the posts, blogs and chats interesting but over the past year they have become invaluable to the volunteer work I do with my community.
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"America needs Strong Towns." ~ Brittany McLaughlin
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One of our more colorful contributors is Johnny Sanphillippo, the author of the blog Granola Shotgun. Johnny joins Chuck to contrast three cities in New Jersey and, in the process, gain some insight into what will follow America's Suburban Experiment.
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Ah, the lonely hearts club.. These three states have just a single Strong Towns member.
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Strong Towns thinking has helped us become more precise in our input, and more effective in our education. Some of us as individuals have become members in order to show our appreciation, and to add to the dialog. It has been one of our best investments in helping to shape the city we want.
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"The messages delivered by Chuck, his colleagues and guests are nothing short of prophetic. They are acting as contemporary prophets—revealing emergent truth to power and backing it up with math and cool graphs!" ~ Pat Trahan
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This Thursday, we're offering an exclusive webinar for our members. Chuck Marohn will share his new talk, "Transportation in the Next American City," then open the floor for questions.
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"I support Strong Towns because I believe in their message and want them to have the resources they need to continue expanding the movement." ~ Kevin Shepherd
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This past summer our Board of Directors adopted our first, formal strategic plan. The total number of words -- just 673 -- is half of my typical blog post. Still, there is a ton of substance to the brevity. It affirms some old beliefs and provides some important, new guidance.
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We kick off the #1000Strong member drive with an interview of Strong Towns Founder and President Chuck Marohn by Board Member John Reuter. John asks Chuck about the current state of the movement, some of the big things coming up, the inside on new staff members and some personal questions on his commitment to change.
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We’re creating a nationwide movement, state by state. That means your state too! Here’s our top 10 list of Strong Towns members per state in 2015, ranked per capita.
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"Strong Towns gives me hope that we can build bridges between political ideology, take partisanship out of local community politics and focus on implementing sound policies that will make us happier, healthier, and solvent." ~ Josh Fairchild
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Once you learn the truth about the Suburban Experiment, you can’t unlearn it. You can’t stop seeing it. It drives you crazy, and it doesn’t let go.
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"Being a part of Strong Towns means discovering new ways to look at the problems our cities face and looking for new ways to address them." ~ Marielle Brown
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This week we turn our hard work from sharing our message to growing our base of support. We are making the push for 1,000 members. We need your support.
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There’s simply no upside to making un-walkable places into C- versions of walkable cities. Making marginal improvements to driveable suburbia really isn’t worth the effort
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There’s a weird war raging these days between people who advocate high rise living in the urban core and folks who can’t stand to live in anything but a fully detached home on a quarter acre lot. I always choose the thing in the middle. I’m a Main Street kind of guy.
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Thirty-seven years ago, some idiot decided to build a Kmart and accompanying monstrous parking lot right in the middle of a major street in the heart of the city, deadening any life on the street. Now it's finally going away.
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