This small town is considering overhauling its main street to embrace walkability and good old-fashioned main street urbanism.
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Strong Towns staff are sharing design flaws in their communities—and we want to add your voice to the mix!
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This Friday Faves is a little bit different: Instead of featuring favorite stories from around the web, we’re sharing favorite comments from our members!
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Valuable land is being wasted everywhere in the U.S. on motor vehicle storage. Let’s free up that space so it can be used more productively for our communities.
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Nick and Amanda Lanata are putting the Strong Towns approach into action in Zachary, Louisiana.
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Here’s two stories about powerful local action that Strong Towns members are taking to make their places more bike friendly.
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For too long, our housing policy has put investor returns and macroeconomic goals over the universal human need for shelter. The Strong Towns approach to incremental housing is a badly needed corrective.
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The Fed’s pandemic actions to loosen up capital unseized a market and fueled a housing boom—but now, a potential opposite reaction could lose U.S. taxpayers billions and be bad for housing.
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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.
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We expect city budgets and financial reports to inform citizens and community leaders alike, but in reality, local government accounting is unnecessarily complicated, confusing, and illogical.
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This Member Week, we’re offering a special opportunity to hear one of our most popular Strong Towns presentations, free of charge!
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This week, our Neighborhood Storyteller shares the many blissful moments that come with biking as a means of transportation.
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Until we have a credible plan for maintaining our existing transportation infrastructure, we must stop building more roads and bridges. Period.
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This Member Week, we’re offering a special opportunity to hear one of our most popular Strong Towns presentations, free of charge!
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It’s high time that we start building streets that prioritize safety and community over throughput of traffic.
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Street design, Google Maps hacking, and mysterious worlds. These are just some of the stories from around the internet that Strong Towns staff were reading and talking about this week.
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The Oregon DOT has experienced massive cost overruns on all of its largest construction projects…and has systematically concealed and understated the frequency and scale of those cost overruns.
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When it comes to our places’ roads, we need to start asking: “How much is this gonna cost us?”
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Since a 2019 investor-fueled subsidy of America’s ride-hailing habit, Uber and Lyft prices have skyrocketed. Does this mark the beginning of the end for ridesharing apps?
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Everyone’s heard of the housing shortage…so why is the “shortage” part of that phrase so poorly defined?
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