America’s first experiment with charging a toll to enter a congested urban area is going to begin in New York City next year.
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Strong Towns Local Conversation leaders are hanging out on Discord!
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Part of why we can't agree on constructive solutions to traffic congestion is that our basic mental model of what causes traffic is wrong. But what if we made a slight update to that model?
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Galesburg, IL, is talking about Strong Towns ideas, centered around a question that many Strong Towns readers are familiar with: “Is our downtown built for cars instead of people?”
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The Strong Towns team got together recently and used some of Minneapolis’s public transit. Here’s our reflections from that experience.
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Sometimes, building connections with your neighbors is as simple as hosting a block party.
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As local and regional politicians move forward on a $3 billion highway widening project, a local group of activists in Cincinnati are fighting for an alternative plan.
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This Sunday, our Neighborhood Storyteller gets up before the crack of dawn—and reflects on the sights and the people in our communities who normally go unseen by those who work a nine-to-five.
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Introversion, chalk horses, and automation. 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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Amy Stelly is advocating to remove a harmful highway in her New Orleans neighborhood.
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Representatives from Norwood, OH, went to visit their counterparts in Jasper, IN, after facing off in this year’s Strongest Town Contest. Here’s 7 reasons the Norwoodians found Jasper to be a worthy champion!
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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!
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This Canadian city made an unprecedented decision to stop expanding its urban growth boundary. What comes next?
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Strong Towns interviews Dr. Christopher Berry, of the University of Chicago, on how we can begin making meaningful changes to the U.S.’s broken property tax system.
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Front yard businesses were once a natural stage in the evolution of a community. So where have they all gone, and how do we bring them back?
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Find out why this stretch of Floridian stroad has been nicknamed “death valley” by locals.
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Why is it that in the U.S. and Canada, we're always being told that we can't justify the ridership for transit projects? And why is it that when we do build transit, it struggles to gain riders?
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Rhode Island has built far more highways than it can afford to maintain. So why on earth is it building another one?
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On this Neighborhood Storyteller Sunday, Karla’s dentist—a local hero of sorts—gives her unexpected pause for reflection.
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Dutch-style bikes, code snitching, and media theorists. 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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