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Debating Bike Lanes
Debating Bike Lanes

The perfect is the enemy of the good, or, in this case, the achievable.

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Top Story, #SlowtheCars, Roads and StreetsJeff SpeckSeptember 8, 2015Jeff Speck, Road Diet, Overton Window, bike lanes, protected bike lane, walkability
Weekly Podcast Update
Weekly Podcast Update

A podcast preview of the upcoming week including introducing Jason Schaefer, the new Member Support Specialist at Strong Towns, a trip to Lafayette with Joe Minicozzi, a debate with Cato fellow Randal O'Toole and a success story in Waco.

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PodcastStrong TownsSeptember 8, 2015Lafayette, Joe Minicozzi, Randal O'Toole
Jason Schaefer joins the Strong Towns Team
Jason Schaefer joins the Strong Towns Team

On behalf of Strong Towns, I'd like to introduce our new Member Support Specialist, Jason Schaefer of Grand Forks, North Dakota.

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Top Story, Organizational Updates, MembershipCharles MarohnSeptember 8, 2015membership
Middle of the Road Kentucky
Middle of the Road Kentucky

All the talk about urbanism these days is dominated by places like Brooklyn, Portland, Vancouver, and San Francisco because they’re prosperous and fashionable. It’s so easy to dismiss them as anomalies.

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Member Post, Top Story, Sanphillippo, Mistakes A Town MakesJohnny SanphillippoSeptember 4, 2015Granola Shotgun, urbanism, auto-oriented
Florida joins the DDI Club
Florida joins the DDI Club

Florida's transportation budget is a disaster. It's an un-fixable mess. Only a people mired deep in delusion would consider it anything less than a fiscal emergency. Yet, the building continues.

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#NoNewRoads, Roads and StreetsCharles MarohnSeptember 3, 2015Diverging Diamond, Florida, pedestrian safety, walkability, financial solvency
Making Places Where I Want To Sit (Part 2)
Making Places Where I Want To Sit (Part 2)

As a follow up to previous posts, here's what I did this weekend with my wonderful neighbors, plus step-by-step instructions for how you can do it in your community too.

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Field Notes, Top Story, #PlaceIDontWanttoSit, Success StoryGracen JohnsonSeptember 2, 2015Sense-of-place, farmer's market, greenspace, chair bomb, how to, resource, places3
Eliminate the red trousers? Never!
Eliminate the red trousers? Never!

The red pants of the French army were a source of national pride, that is, until hundreds of thousands of French soldiers were killed by the camoflaged Germans and their machine guns in the opening days of World War I.

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Top StoryCharles MarohnSeptember 1, 2015the American Dream, rational response
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