These Strong Towns advocates started an electric bike company in Calgary, AB, and are passionate about how biking changes the way you see your city.
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This year, Buffalo, NY, made headlines around the U.S. in the wake of a tragic shooting. But there’s another story to tell about Buffalo as a city, and it’s about decline and revitalization.
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Are you a Strong Towns advocate looking for a job? Or an employer looking to hire a Strong Towns advocate? Well, have we got the resource for you.
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Design affects us in a multitude of ways, and when we look to nature as inspiration for designing the built environment, the core takeaways are: adaptation and incrementalism.
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The trajectory of these Jersey supermarkets is a microcosm of how the suburban experiment altered small towns, turning them from tiny cities into suburban lifestyle accouterments.
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Counterintuitive though it may feel, sometimes to build a better city, we need to prune things back, rather than adding more.
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There are some obvious anomalies that are being overlooked in the property tax assessment system. Joe Minicozzi of Urban3 pulls back the curtain in this episode of the Strong Towns Podcast.
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With a baby on the way, I’ve been lectured multiple times about safe car seats, and heard nothing about how to minimize the most dangerous activity people do with their children: drive.
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Our Neighborhood Storyteller is now coming to you on Sundays, and this week we’ve got a story about building connections with others!
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A mother reflects on the fears she faces while navigating a dangerous highway with her children, as pedestrians.
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From one freeway fighter to any aspiring freeway fighters out there: Here’s 10 things to keep in mind as you advocate for highway removal in your community.
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Can you walk down your local streets with your kids—without gripping their hands and anxiously eying traffic—and feel comfortable and relaxed? If not, something’s wrong with the design of those streets.
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Leadership in Indianapolis has taken strides toward lifting parking minimums, and making their city less car dependent and more transit friendly—all while keeping their fiscal house in order.
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Car crashes aren’t the result of mere human error or recklessness, they’re the result of design. Beth Osborne of Transportation for America digs into this in our latest podcast episode.
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Emergent Tokyo, art restoration, and the right to repair. 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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When designed right, even small patches of public space can bring a lot of charm to a community!
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Strong Towns member and City Councilperson Danny Schaible is leading the way toward safer streets in his Maryland town.
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We’re pleased to welcome the newest member of the Strong Towns team!
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Question: “Why don’t people dance in the street today?” Answer: Because the design of our cities shapes the design of our lives.
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Last week, the city council of Spokane, WA, voted on a truly “bold, transformational package” that will allow for more forms of missing-middle housing and infill development in the city.
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