Raising kids in the city, what the pandemic reveals about our “throwaway” culture, the origins of Euclidean Zoning, and more. Here are stories from around the web that the Strong Towns staff have been reading and talking about this week.
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Are we moving into a “post-suburban experiment” future? There are reasons to believe so. The cities who can successfully adapt will be those who prioritize the neighborhood. Here’s why.
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Many small businesses are in the fight of their lives. Here are 8 practical tips on how to get the right things done on their behalf...and ours.
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Before the age of the freeway, Kansas City was famously a streetcar city. The pattern of development that streetcars fostered was a highly productive one that has stood the test of time. In fact, it still generates an outsized share of the city’s wealth today.
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If you’ve been following Strong Towns for a while, our newest staff member will probably be familiar to you. Rachel Quednau returns to Strong Towns in a new role.
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Strong Towns president Chuck Marohn recommends two podcasts that will inspire and equip you to build stronger, more financially resilient cities.
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For decades, we’ve built like there was no tomorrow, prioritizing short-term growth over longterm stability, prosperity, and safety. Exhibit A: 20,000 high-risk dams that are emergencies waiting to happen.
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Two polar cases suggests that density (or lack thereof) has little to do with the spread of the pandemic.
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Every major historical event is accompanied by predictions that it will change everything forever. For the most part, it never does.
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Suppose the doomsday predictions are right and the COVID-19 crisis empties our cities. That’s not automatically good news for the suburbs.
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Getting yourself from Point A to Point B in your city shouldn’t require 100-square-feet of space.
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We’re getting another strip mall out on the edge of town, right next to the half-occupied strip mall built in 2007 before the last financial crisis.
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The work of building your Strong Town doesn’t end with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, because the work is never done. That shouldn’t be discouraging. Rather, it should give our efforts meaning and energy.
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We all want to live a good life in a prosperous place. The particulars of that vary—as this story shows—but it’s an opportunity that should be available to us all.
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Strong Towns is empowering thousands of champions for change to bring their places back to greater prosperity, little by little, through bottom-up action. Here’s what that looks like.
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We can’t solve complex problems with the same thinking that created them in the first place. All around North America, people are finding — and acting upon — a fresh approach to building strong towns and cities.
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Sometimes the way to best advocate for change in your city isn’t obvious or easy. And the inertia of the status quo is a challenge all its own.
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A lot of places that were built on the premise of efficient, manicured order are going to need to pivot to a different vision of the future: one based more on nimble, ad-hoc adaptation.
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Sidewalk Labs pulled the plug on a controversial smart cities project on the Toronto waterfront. This SHOULD effect other smart cities projects going forward — but will it?
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People all over North America are following these four simple steps to take action and grow the movement.
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