Want to Build Community on Your Street? Just Hit "Print"!

Sometimes, building connections with your neighbors is as simple as hosting a block party.

Community, Neighborhoods, Van Eeden Petersman, Top StoryNorman Van Eeden PetersmanAugust 22, 2022neighborliness, neighborhood, community, Community, community building

Strong Towns Coast to Coast

Being a Strong Towns advocate is less intimidating, more effective, and, frankly, more fun when you’re not doing the work alone. Find a Local Conversation near you!

Pattison, Top StoryJohn PattisonAugust 17, 2022local conversations, advocacy, community building

New Strong Towns Groups Are Popping Up Everywhere

Five local Strong Towns groups launched last week. Is one of them near you?

Pattison, Community, Top StoryJohn PattisonJune 29, 2022community, community building, community engagement, local conversations, advocacy

How to Use Facebook to Connect with Strong Towns Allies Near You

Many people have a love-hate relationship with Facebook, but we can’t deny that it’s an effective place to connect with fellow advocates.

Community, Pattison, Top StoryJohn PattisonJune 15, 2022community, community building, advocacy, local conversations

Local Conversations Are Putting Strong Towns Ideas into Action

There are over 100 Local Conversations (i.e., local Strong Towns advocates working together) around North America. And we want to grow that number tenfold.

Community, Membership, Pattison, Top StoryJohn PattisonJune 8, 2022local conversations, advocacy, member drive, membership, community building

Let’s Roll Up Our Sleeves To Rebuild Our Social Fabric

Civic culture needs innovating, and it might just take some hard work. Literally.

Community, Top Story, OwensTiffany Owens ReedMay 10, 2022community, community building, neighborliness, Social Isolation, social change

Want To Make Your Town Stronger? Look for the Amateurs.

We live in a culture that exalts the people who say, “I know.” But sometimes what our places need are people willing to say, “I don’t know,” and, “What do you think?” and, “Let’s figure that out together.”

Community, Pattison, Top StoryJohn PattisonMay 4, 2022community, Community, local conversations, localism, community building

I (Don’t) Want More Than This Provincial Life

When the pandemic shut down our town, I realized how much I'd taken for granted the neighbors who showed up every day to make our community work.

Community, Pattison, Rural, Top StoryJohn PattisonApril 27, 2022community, community building, neighborliness, Small Towns, small towns, Oregon, rural

Wildfires and Ice Storms and Pandemics…Oh My!

Co-housing not only saves money for these two families—and enabled them to buy a home, in the first place—it’s also allowed them to better weather hard times.

Community, Housing, Pattison, Updates, Top StoryJohn PattisonFebruary 16, 2022Homeownership, homeowners, co-housing, housing, Housing, housing cost, housing affordability, community building, community, Community

Start With What You Know. Build on What You Have.

This simple, fun workshop will help your community discover just how many assets it has to work with.

Community, Pattison, Taking Action, Top StoryJohn PattisonJanuary 19, 2022community, Community, community building, bottom-up, how to, taking action

Q: Are You a Democrat or Republican? A: I'm Non-Binary.

Last week, Chuck did an AMA on Reddit and received a ton of great questions. Here’s some of the highlights!

Stange, Top StoryJay StangeJanuary 17, 2022Social Media, Strong Towns Community, Not Just Bikes, community building

Cultivating Community Beyond Church Walls in Indianapolis

This congregation launched a non-profit organization to help its neighbors—not as an act of benevolence for them, but in solidarity with them.

Tim Soerens: Reconnecting Churches with Their Neighborhoods

In 2022’s inaugural Strong Towns Podcast episode, Chuck interviews Tim Soerens, author and co-founder of the Parish Collective.

Community, Faith, Neighborhoods, ST Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsJanuary 3, 2022faith communities, Faith Featured, churches, Podcast, podcast, neighborhood, Neighborhoods, community building

Say Hello Like You’re Saying Goodbye

Why it’s important that we connect with members of our community sooner rather than later.

Community, Top StoryGenevieve BarberDecember 6, 2021community, community building, neighborliness, neighborhood, Neighborhoods, Georgia

The Bottom-Up Revolution is... Joining with Neighbors and Taking Action

Tim Wright is the cofounder of a local Strong Towns group: ReForm Shreveport.

Podcast, The Bottom-Up Revolution, Success Story, Membership, Member Post, Top StoryStrong TownsNovember 4, 2021The Bottom-Up Revolution, Shreveport, local conversations, community, community building, Community, taking action

Living Like a Tourist

Perhaps people move so often around the U.S. because it’s hard to get attached to all the “non-places” we have. But setting downs roots is exactly what we need to build stronger towns.