A passion for food access and community change led Kelly Rae Kirkpatrick to run for city council in her hometown of Rochester, MN.
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Are cities being preempted almost to the point of irrelevance?
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What role should federal infrastructure spending play in the economic recovery — and how can we make sure that spending addresses the real needs of people?
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Alfred Melbourne sees farming as a chance to bring back land into productive use, feed neighbors and help guide young people down a supportive path.
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How a ruling from the Arizona Supreme Court will change how local governments do economic development.
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How the government can become not just more representative of the people but more responsive to their actual needs.
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Critics say YIMBYs have an “induced demand” problem.
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In an era of remote work, which cities are more likely than others to attract talent?
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To build Strong Towns, our communities will need to push past the Red/Blue dichotomy.
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How do you go from seeing a problem in your city to solving it collectively, and then getting elected to city council? This advocate’s story will show you.
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Cities essentially subsidize parking, to their own harm. An ordinance in Hartford would close that gap with what one expert describes as a “lite” version of the land value tax.
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Understanding risk and uncertainty—and the difference between the two—can help local communities face the unknown.
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What happens when you open your eyes to the stories around you? How does that change the way you see your community?
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An amendment passed back in the ‘90s limits the amount of public housing in the U.S. How far will repealing it go toward addressing the housing crisis?
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The pandemic has turned conventional transit funding models on their heads. How will it change how we fund transit going forward…and what gets funded in the first place?
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How one Strong Towns member is building a stronger future for youth, and a stronger local economy, all at the same time.
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“[The] urgency to move fast is in conflict with the speed of trust, and the pace that actually allows for input from everyone who’s affected by these decisions.”
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There are compelling reasons to grow the U.S. population. But for it really generate prosperity, we’ll need to change how we build our cities.
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Cary Westerbeck brought his neighbors together to collectively build a stronger town.
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Does the United States have too few people? Bestselling author Matthew Yglesias makes the case for tripling the U.S. population.
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