Strong Towns founding member Seth Zeren stopped by the Mass Construction podcast recently for a conversation on incremental development, New Urbanism, and the Strong Towns movement.
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These podcasts from last year's CNU feature Strong Towns members and new urbanist celebs. Take a listen.
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The Oram Foundation funded the creation of "The Unintended Consequences of Housing Finance," the RPA report we've been exploring this week. Chuck Marohn interviewed Richard Oram, Chairman of the Foundation to learn about how he got interested in housing finance and what he hopes the report will accomplish.
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As Strong Towns advocates, we are catalysts for change, and the metaphorical walls that our institutions have erected against change are being chipped away.
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Four examples of strong households from travels of Johnny Sanphillippo.
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CNU 23 highlights; aspiring developers are getting organized to Build Places People Love; a large apartment complex can't compete with productivity of the traditional design across the street.
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Video from the CNU session on reaching conservatives.
Read MoreWe have embraced a degree of urbanism in our towns and cities. The planning, architecture and development communities have slowly adopted concepts of good urban design. It’s part of an ideological battle that the New Urbanists have won. But, we aren’t all the way there yet. We’ve only finished half the equation.
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Andrés Duany, co-founder of the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU), discusses the prospects for Lean Urbanism within local government.
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