Local decision-making must become more accessible to everyday people. Here's how to make that happen in your place.
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America is addicted to cars. But what if we weren’t? How could cities utilize the many acres of suddenly empty parking lots? City planner Alexander Dukes looks ahead to life after parking.
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What would it actually cost to put a roof over the head of every person experiencing chronic homelessness? Some number crunching suggests not as much as you think, and an amount we could afford—especially given what it already costs not to.
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We are in the midst of an ongoing transformation of the traditional top-down, mass producer-to-consumer relationship into a relationship that is more harmonious and intimate between smaller-scale producers and smaller sets of consumers.
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Savannah, GA fulfills the desire for rural home space in a financially sound urban environment.
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Automated vehicles are coming whether we like it or not. In the realm of public transit, they could save us money and offer greater service options.
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This week's guest is Alexander Dukes, a Strong Towns member and contributor who just finished an extended series on community planning.
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A basic universal code can help us create productive, economically successful developments while allowing for maximum flexibility for developers, business owners and residents.
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A traditional pattern of development requires zoning that is fine-grained, geographically contextual and responsive to observable feedback.
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A hierarchical zoning model would allow greater development flexibility and remove needless rules from our zoning codes. Here's how to do it.
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This neighborhood has three different types of streets to meet different needs—but all of them provide ample room for the best indicator species of success: people.
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When affordability meets flexibility, the result tends to be the democratization of a local real estate market.
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If planners learn to determine what the public will is and apply themselves in service to that public will, our municipalities can be that much closer to towns well planned.
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If zoning codes are the primary tool in a planner's toolbox, that's a problem. Here's a three part system that would offer a better way for planners to design cities.
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How community gardens can be a catalyst for entrepreneurship and economic development.
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Autonomous vehicles have the potential to revolutionize America’s transportation system, not just through their safety and convenience, but also because of their lower cost.
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Here are the three core characteristics you need for a successful urban center, plus how to creatively make them happen on a shoestring budget.
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American communities need to shift away from a big box retail strategy to a local, placemaking retail strategy. When placemaking urban centers become the default model, local retailers flourish and a broad, diverse Democratized Economy emerges.
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The key to building a sustainable local economy is to nurture a diverse set of employers that operate in multiple industries. With the emergence of the Democratized Economy, localized production for regional markets is returning to the fore.
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