Chuck Marohn and urban affairs journalist Scott Beyer discuss their overlapping and diverging viewpoints on government regulations, zoning and housing affordability issues.
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What will happen to this historic working class neighborhood in Cedar Rapids, IA?
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Anyone suggesting that more wetlands or more pervious surfaces would have done anything to mitigate what has happened in Houston is lacking a proper sense of scale.
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These 5 harmful myths about Houston's land use planning need to be put to rest.
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A new street is being completed. Does it need bike lanes to be safe for cyclists or is it okay without them?
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On September 12, we're hosting a live webcast with Molly Rockamann of EarthDance Organic Farm School in Ferguson, Missouri.
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A hierarchical zoning model would allow greater development flexibility and remove needless rules from our zoning codes. Here's how to do it.
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Chuck and Rachel discuss Chuck's recent event in Tulsa, OK and recent article, "Autism, PTSD and the City."
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Is there an empty lot in your neighborhood you dream of filling? Use these simple steps to sketch, model and render a new building in the space.
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Many towns seem to be under the false impression that if you back a dump truck of development money into an area that is not ready for it, it will instantly lift the neighborhood.
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My plan was always to leave Oklahoma for lovely, liberal Portland. It didn’t work out that way, but I got something much better by hanging around.
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Along a quiet stretch of the Allegheny River in Western New York, a small farm run by the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany strives to change how the surrounding community feeds itself.
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What does it mean to grow incrementally? What are the advantages of this manner of development? Chuck Marohn will lead an open discussion about these questions on Thursday.
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Advancements in cognitive science are challenging how we think about urban design.
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This week was all about place. We talked about historic places, manufactured downtowns, promising suburbs and more.
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Growth is not enough. What America needs is productive growth—growth that builds wealth generation after generation.
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Peoria, IL once produced 1/5 of the nation's liquor. Then Prohibition came and it all disappeared. Has the city learned its lesson?
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Does Strong Towns have a right to point out the problems with our current development pattern if we don't have a clear solution?
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Cities like Los Angeles, Houston, and West Palm Beach are leveraging their most valuable assets — downtown spaces — to create cookie-cutter, quasi-private developments.
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Portland is thinking about widening freeways; other cities show that doesn’t work.
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