Sara Joy Proppe

Sara Joy Proppe has been a regular contributor for Strong Towns since 2016. She works by day as a Project Manager in real estate development in the Twin Cities where she oversees a variety of mixed-use and multifamily historic and urban infill projects. In her free time, she is developing Proximity Project to educate and activate churches to be stewards of the built environment. She loves to write and speak on the connections between theology and our design and use of physical space.

 

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RECENT ARTICLES BY Sara Joy:
Walk Humbly: How Faith Communities Can Help Build Stronger Towns
Walk Humbly: How Faith Communities Can Help Build Stronger Towns

Faith communities have a unique and indispensable role in building stronger, more prosperous, and more resilient places. It’s easy to get started.

Make Little Plans: Maybe Daniel Burnham Was Wrong
Make Little Plans: Maybe Daniel Burnham Was Wrong

In working to create better places, keep the stakes low, so even skeptics are more willing to indulge some risk. Take a little step. Root the conversation in reality. Then adjust and press on to those big plans.

The Isolation of Aging in an Auto-Oriented Place
The Isolation of Aging in an Auto-Oriented Place

By designing our cities for cars, we have created landscapes that exclude the aging.

The Isolation of Aging in an Auto-Oriented Place
The Isolation of Aging in an Auto-Oriented Place

By designing our cities for cars, we have created landscapes that exclude the aging.

Your Highway ABC Book
Your Highway ABC Book

A children's pamphlet created by the National Highway Users Conference in 1938 offers insight into our auto-oriented history.

Best of 2016: Cultivating Understanding
Best of 2016: Cultivating Understanding

We must build places that enable us to see the lives of others with knowledge, love, and compassion. This means getting our hands dirty in the soil of our community.

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Parking!
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Parking!

We are raising a generation of consumers to which even our zoning codes cater. We want unlimited options. We want the cheapest prices. And, we want convenient access to all of it.

Cultivating Imagination
Cultivating Imagination

We must build places that enable us to see the lives of others with knowledge, love, and compassion. This means getting our hands dirty in the soil of our community. 

Learning Virtue Through Public Transit
Learning Virtue Through Public Transit

Public transit does more than just get us to our destination. It can also teach us to be better people.

How (and why) to Make Your Church Bike-Friendly
How (and why) to Make Your Church Bike-Friendly

Whether your church is urban, suburban or rural, these 6 ideas can help you promote bikeability in your community.

Taking the Long View
Taking the Long View

In a culture that is often focused on short-term gains and instant gratification, faith communities must take the long view when it comes to building better cities.

Sit On It
Sit On It

Houses of worship are in a perfect position to provide public seating for the community, but so many of them fail at it. Here are some tips for improving seating options at churches.

What do churches have to do with urban planning?
What do churches have to do with urban planning?

Churches ought to be at the forefront of stewarding local neighborhood spaces and places surrounding their four walls for human flourishing.

Strong Citizens Challenge: A Taste of Neighborliness
Strong Citizens Challenge: A Taste of Neighborliness

Strong Citizen Challenge: Bring a plate of goodies to your neighbor.

Member Profile: Sara Joy Proppe
Member Profile: Sara Joy Proppe

Sara Joy Proppe, project manager at Schaefer Richardson, talks about her neighborhood work, volunteering and why churches are strong, yet largely untapped, resources for cities. Proppe is also working on the Proximity Project based out of Minneapolis.

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