I had a good pair of events this week in Birmingham with some people very enthused to help their communities become Strong Towns. It was really nice to be back in Alabama and I'm hoping for an opportunity to go back soon. In the meantime, here's what the schedule for sharing the Strong Towns message in person looks like for the next couple of months.

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April 24-25 - Stevens Point, WI  - Half day training session, AICP Credits will be offered - Register Here
April 28 - Dallas, TX - Curbside Chat
April 30 - Dallas, TX - Member Appreciation Event (Strong Towns members should have received an email this week.)
May 13 - Fargo, ND - Curbside Chat
May 14 - Grand Forks, ND - Curbside Chat
May 19 - Hays, KS - Curbside Chat
May 21 - Lewiston, ME - Conference Keynote
June 17 - Boston, MA - Conference Keynote
June 18 - Denver, CO - Strong Towns on Tap
June 23 - Detroit, MI - Conference Panel
June 30 - Des Moines, IA - Conference Keynote

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The Real Problem With E-Scooters? Cars!
Arian Horbovetz
The Real Problem With E-Scooters? Cars!
Arian Horbovetz

Scooters are often perceived as a nuisance on public streets. But nearly every problem blamed on them is ultimately a consequence of the way our cities are designed to privilege the movement and storage of cars above all else.

Arian Horbovetz
Activists Fight to Keep Windsor's New Hospital in the Heart of the City
Daniel Herriges
Activists Fight to Keep Windsor's New Hospital in the Heart of the City
Daniel Herriges

This Canadian city is set to get a new, $2 billion, state-of-the-art hospital. All well and good except for one thing: why do they want to build it in a rural area on the far outskirts of town?

Daniel Herriges
If We’re Not Going to Maintain What We Have, Then Why Bother Building Anything New?
Charles Marohn
If We’re Not Going to Maintain What We Have, Then Why Bother Building Anything New?
Charles Marohn

The mentality of “easy to maintain” needs to be replaced with a question of whether something is “worth maintaining.”

Charles Marohn
Top 5 Recent Stories (June 3–June 14, 2019)
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Top 5 Recent Stories (June 3–June 14, 2019)
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Our most popular recent articles dig into what it really means to build a city incrementally to be strong and resilient, including how to create great public spaces, and how to get the mix of neighborhoods businesses you want—without subsidy.

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What is Traditional Development?
Daniel Herriges
What is Traditional Development?
Daniel Herriges

We use the phrase “traditional development pattern” in dozens of Strong Towns essays. Here’s your one-stop-shop explainer article as to what that means.

Daniel Herriges
The Two Things Your City Should Do Right Now If You Want to End Blight
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The Two Things Your City Should Do Right Now If You Want to End Blight
Strong Towns

For decades, many city leaders have thought the only way to end blight was to tear down the eyesores and start fresh. Mobile, Alabama had another idea.

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The National Association of Realtors Says #DoTheMath
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The National Association of Realtors Says #DoTheMath
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The latest issue of the National Association of Realtors biannual magazine, On Common Ground, is devoted to the financial implications of growth and land-use decisions. And Strong Towns thinking features front and center.

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A Local, Collaborative Approach to Wealth-Building Economic Development
Jacob Moses
A Local, Collaborative Approach to Wealth-Building Economic Development
Jacob Moses

Ed Morrison—author of Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership—shares how city leaders can grow their economies by fostering collaboration on a local level, including how to find existing assets in your community, how to encourage existing organizations to focus on a shared goal, and how to incrementally pursue that goal.

Jacob Moses
A City Shaped by Many Hands
Daniel Herriges
A City Shaped by Many Hands
Daniel Herriges

Incrementalism is not an end in itself. It’s not about stubborn insistence on some sort of small-is-beautiful aesthetic for its own sake. Incremental development is a practical means to the end of resilient, financially sound places.

Daniel Herriges
Levittown Embodied the Postwar Suburban Experiment. How's It Doing Now?
Johnny Sanphillippo
Levittown Embodied the Postwar Suburban Experiment. How's It Doing Now?
Johnny Sanphillippo

No name better symbolizes idyllic 1950s suburbia than Levittown. How these massive, master-planned communities—the epitome of America’s suburban experiment—have fared over 70 years tells a less rosy story.

Johnny Sanphillippo