Next Up: California



by Strong Towns

Next week Chuck and Jim will be in the Los Angeles area, our first Strong Towns trip to California since 2012. We're working really hard to get to Northern CA yet this year -- keep your eyes open for that.

UPCOMING EVENTS

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SOME STUFF FROM THIS WEEK YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED.

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Top 5 Stories from the Week (Feb 11–15, 2019)
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Top 5 Stories from the Week (Feb 11–15, 2019)
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This week we talked about megaprojects, from the precarious future of California high-speed rail to the precarious financial math behind the ambitious Green New Deal proposal. And we shared a couple lessons in how to productively think small about our cities instead.

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Forget Gas and Insurance. How Much Does Your Daily Commute Really Cost You?
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Forget Gas and Insurance. How Much Does Your Daily Commute Really Cost You?
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Your daily commute sucks. Is it also making you go broke?

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Question of the Week: How Do I Convince My City to Remove a Car Lane for a Dedicated Bike Lane?
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Question of the Week: How Do I Convince My City to Remove a Car Lane for a Dedicated Bike Lane?
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Every Friday, we spotlight an answer to one of your questions from the Strong Towns Knowledge Base.

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When It Snows, Whose Mobility Matters?
Daniel Herriges
When It Snows, Whose Mobility Matters?
Daniel Herriges

Even in cities that tout their commitment to walkability, once it snows, those who walk (and roll!) often aren’t treated as equally important street users.

Daniel Herriges
Savor Your Small Parcels, and Create More of Them
Kevin Klinkenberg
Savor Your Small Parcels, and Create More of Them
Kevin Klinkenberg

It matters what size chunks we build our cities in. Making room for many small-scale development projects on small lots is the universal historical model for a reason, and modern cities could stand to get back to it.

Kevin Klinkenberg
How the Modest Walk Can Connect You to Your Community
Jacob Moses
How the Modest Walk Can Connect You to Your Community
Jacob Moses

In this episode of our podcast It’s the Little Things, Jacob chats with Dustin Ratcliff—founding member of Walk2Connect—about how you can connect with your community on foot, including how to motivate your neighbors to form a walking group, how to use your walking group to influence how your city or town is develop, and how connecting with your community on foot makes our cities and towns stronger.

Jacob Moses
Join us for a Celebrity AMA with Divided City Author Alan Mallach
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Join us for a Celebrity AMA with Divided City Author Alan Mallach
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Our next Ask Strong Towns: Celebrity Edition webcast features special guest Alan Mallach, author of The Divided City. Sign up to ask him your questions in this members-only live Q&A on March 21st!

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The California High-Speed Train that Wasn’t: The Opportunity Cost of Megaprojects
Daniel Herriges
The California High-Speed Train that Wasn’t: The Opportunity Cost of Megaprojects
Daniel Herriges

California’s high-speed rail project appears indefinitely on hold. What is the opportunity cost of all the things the state hasn’t done during the decade-plus its leaders have spent fixated on this?

Daniel Herriges
Love After Loss: An Urban Therapy Session
Arian Horbovetz
Love After Loss: An Urban Therapy Session
Arian Horbovetz

Rust Belt cities have endured difficult losses, and no matter how hard they’ve tried, they have never quite been able to shake the financial and psychological wounds. So today, we’re taking the American city to therapy.

Arian Horbovetz
The Problem with Helicopter Urbanism
Andrew Price
The Problem with Helicopter Urbanism
Andrew Price

It is important when we design a building or a neighborhood to look at how it feels and interacts with the street. Too often, new development feels designed from a helicopter’s-eye-view.

Andrew Price
Nominate Your City for our 4th Annual Strongest Town Contest!
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Nominate Your City for our 4th Annual Strongest Town Contest!
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Applications are now open for #StrongestTown 2019.

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