Twitter stars, casinos, and 16th-century identity theft. 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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This week in High Value, Hjerne prepares to do battle at the upcoming planning commission meeting.
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We love all the great videos people are making about Strong Towns-related topics! This one explains why high bicycling rates are safer for all road users.
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Get to know Jay Stange, safe streets advocate and Content Manager at Strong Towns.
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Too many of our streets favor the movement of cars over the safety of human lives—but this free action guide will show how you can protect people in your community.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation would have you think it cares about equity—but budgets are often more telling than rhetoric.
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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.
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"Developers in my city are only building luxury housing. They're not building anything that ordinary people can afford." If you’ve said this lately, or heard someone else say it, here are five possible reasons why.
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This Not Just Bikes video takes a look at airport business parks as an interesting (and infuriating) case study for places designed for cars instead of people
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When a patient dies, doctors review if and how their own actions led to that patient’s death. Shouldn’t engineers be doing the same, when people die in car crashes?
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North Virginia will make multi-billion dollar decisions this year on the region’s transportation future—decisions that are only going to induce more driving.
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If we want to be the informed advocates our places need, then we need to observe them at human scale—and to do that, we need to walk.
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Battleships, Caspian soup, and regrets. 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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What does and doesn’t work about the “great-granddaddy” of New Urbanism?
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Carlos Alfaro and Jacob Pritchett are bringing people of different political stripes together in Arizona.
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How do you make progress on helpful changes in your community when it’s politically divided? This free action guide will show you.
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We love organically grown, incrementally developed cities…but could we replicate their success if we started a new city from scratch?
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We keep looking for villains to blame for the housing affordability crisis—but are we pointing fingers at the wrong culprits?
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NIMBYs are responding to a set of very rational incentives. That presents a challenge for those of us who hope to alter the course of the Suburban Experiment.
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