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

KEEP INFORMED ON WHEN WE'LL BE SOMEWHERE NEAR YOU.

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SOME STUFF FROM THIS WEEK YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED.

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How to Make Museums an Active Part of Your City
Urban Design, Top Story, Quednau Street Design, granularity Rachel Quednau Comment
Urban Design, Top Story, Quednau Street Design, granularity Rachel Quednau Comment
How to Make Museums an Active Part of Your City
Urban Design, Top Story, Quednau Street Design, granularity Rachel Quednau Comment
Urban Design, Top Story, Quednau Street Design, granularity Rachel Quednau Comment

Are there ways we can build museums to both engage visitors with the rest of the city and make the museum a better neighbor for residents who live nearby?

Urban Design, Top Story, Quednau Street Design, granularity Rachel Quednau Comment
Urban Design, Top Story, Quednau Street Design, granularity Rachel Quednau Comment
The Promise of Durham
Top Story race, Entrepreneurship, small business Mike Green Comment
Top Story race, Entrepreneurship, small business Mike Green Comment
The Promise of Durham
Top Story race, Entrepreneurship, small business Mike Green Comment
Top Story race, Entrepreneurship, small business Mike Green Comment

Can this mid-sized city save the American Dream?

Top Story race, Entrepreneurship, small business Mike Green Comment
Top Story race, Entrepreneurship, small business Mike Green Comment
4 Questions to Ask About how Your Kids get to School
Schools, Top Story, Transportation bus Rachel Quednau Comment
Schools, Top Story, Transportation bus Rachel Quednau Comment
4 Questions to Ask About how Your Kids get to School
Schools, Top Story, Transportation bus Rachel Quednau Comment
Schools, Top Story, Transportation bus Rachel Quednau Comment

Here are four questions you may not have thought about yet as you prepare for the school year.

Schools, Top Story, Transportation bus Rachel Quednau Comment
Schools, Top Story, Transportation bus Rachel Quednau Comment
Exempting Suburbia: How suburban development gets special treatment in our tax code
Housing, Top Story suburbs, federal housing policy, Tax Code, housing market Devon Marisa Zuegel Comment
Housing, Top Story suburbs, federal housing policy, Tax Code, housing market Devon Marisa Zuegel Comment
Exempting Suburbia: How suburban development gets special treatment in our tax code
Housing, Top Story suburbs, federal housing policy, Tax Code, housing market Devon Marisa Zuegel Comment
Housing, Top Story suburbs, federal housing policy, Tax Code, housing market Devon Marisa Zuegel Comment

Homeownership and suburban development receive preferential tax treatment, and the market responds to incentives built into the code.

Housing, Top Story suburbs, federal housing policy, Tax Code, housing market Devon Marisa Zuegel Comment
Housing, Top Story suburbs, federal housing policy, Tax Code, housing market Devon Marisa Zuegel Comment
The Week Ahead: A Washington DC Trip Recap
Podcast the week ahead Strong Towns Comment
Podcast the week ahead Strong Towns Comment
The Week Ahead: A Washington DC Trip Recap
Podcast the week ahead Strong Towns Comment
Podcast the week ahead Strong Towns Comment

Chuck Marohn shares reflections from his recent family vacation to Washington, DC.

Podcast the week ahead Strong Towns Comment
Podcast the week ahead Strong Towns Comment
Walkability isn't just for millennials.
Top Story, Walkability seniors Rachel Quednau Comment
Top Story, Walkability seniors Rachel Quednau Comment
Walkability isn't just for millennials.
Top Story, Walkability seniors Rachel Quednau Comment
Top Story, Walkability seniors Rachel Quednau Comment

A new survey shows that seniors desire walkable neighborhoods.

Top Story, Walkability seniors Rachel Quednau Comment
Top Story, Walkability seniors Rachel Quednau Comment
A spirit of generosity
Marohn Charles Marohn Comment
Marohn Charles Marohn Comment
A spirit of generosity
Marohn Charles Marohn Comment
Marohn Charles Marohn Comment

By talking to each other, by listening, and by interpreting the words and actions of others with a spirit of generosity, we can overcome the feeling of helplessness we have in these times.

Marohn Charles Marohn Comment
Marohn Charles Marohn Comment
Top 5 Strong Towns Stories This Week (August 14-18, 2017)
post roundup Strong Towns Comment
post roundup Strong Towns Comment
Top 5 Strong Towns Stories This Week (August 14-18, 2017)
post roundup Strong Towns Comment
post roundup Strong Towns Comment

This week we covered the dangers of highway widening, the history of government involvement in home mortgages, and the problem with parking lots.

post roundup Strong Towns Comment
post roundup Strong Towns Comment
The Illusion of Wealth
Video, Curbside Chat, Top Story Strong Towns Comment
Video, Curbside Chat, Top Story Strong Towns Comment
The Illusion of Wealth
Video, Curbside Chat, Top Story Strong Towns Comment
Video, Curbside Chat, Top Story Strong Towns Comment

We've created a system that feeds on short-term growth but doesn't account for the long-term costs of that development.

Video, Curbside Chat, Top Story Strong Towns Comment
Video, Curbside Chat, Top Story Strong Towns Comment
Strong Towns Members in Action: City Councilor Lauren Whitehead
Top Story, Success Story, Quednau women, local government, city council Rachel Quednau Comment
Top Story, Success Story, Quednau women, local government, city council Rachel Quednau Comment
Strong Towns Members in Action: City Councilor Lauren Whitehead
Top Story, Success Story, Quednau women, local government, city council Rachel Quednau Comment
Top Story, Success Story, Quednau women, local government, city council Rachel Quednau Comment

A recently-elected Strong Towns member on why she ran for office and how Strong Towns has influenced her leadership.

Top Story, Success Story, Quednau women, local government, city council Rachel Quednau Comment
Top Story, Success Story, Quednau women, local government, city council Rachel Quednau Comment
Peoria's Parking Problem
Parking, Quednau, Top Story Urban3 Rachel Quednau Comment
Parking, Quednau, Top Story Urban3 Rachel Quednau Comment
Peoria's Parking Problem
Parking, Quednau, Top Story Urban3 Rachel Quednau Comment
Parking, Quednau, Top Story Urban3 Rachel Quednau Comment

What happens when you fill your city with parking? Lots and lots of low value land, and not much else.

Parking, Quednau, Top Story Urban3 Rachel Quednau Comment
Parking, Quednau, Top Story Urban3 Rachel Quednau Comment