What do homebuddies do? Homebudding: growing homeyness. (Or in Strong Towns terminology, they create productive places.) Here's a video with examples of homebudding.
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We want you and your town to apply for this competition.
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I have a lot of conversations with people about the challenge of improving public schools, building affordable housing, and more. But the truth is, we as a society don’t want to solve these problems. So we won’t.
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The City of Miami Beach tickets people for "illegally" locking their bikes, then urges them to use bike locks on a street where bikes are forbidden. Twitter responds.
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We at Strong Towns are big fans of Jane Jacobs. Here's a chance to help honor the late, great urbanist: From May 1-3, cities around the world will host "Jane's Walks" to explore their communities and get to know their neighbors.
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The city of Bismarck, ND is struggling with how to pay for miles and miles of unproductive transportation investments. The North Dakota Watchdog Network -- that has put forth ten questions they would like to see answered as part of this dialogue.
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On their weekly podcast, Rachel and Chuck discuss the way the Strong Towns movement and incremental development can be a path toward inclusion for women, minorities, and other marginalized communities.
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All people are entitled to equal treatment under the law. So where did we get this notion that public roads should be only for one type of user — the motorist?
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America's pre-Depression development pattern relied on exploitation of workers, poor living conditions and exclusion of women and minorities from power in order to function. How is the Strong Towns approach, which advocates for traditional development patterns, different?
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Here in one commercial is everything that is wrong with our economy.
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The worst part of all of this is that it happened to a poor and largely Black community. But they set an example for what citizen activism should be.
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Are your taxes paying for the cost of your street? Nitin Gadia has created an interactive mapping tool to explore the answer to this question in his hometown of Ames, Iowa.
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A textbook example of how to frame an argument for converting one-way streets to two-ways.
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We should design our streets in way that allows people to cross safely at their own judgment - since that's what they're going to do anyway. In this regard, one-way streets have their benefits.
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This is how we do business in America. We’ve dedicated our resources to building new things with little regard to fixing it first.
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Built and social environments are interdependent and right now, that relationship in the world around me is out of sync. Indigenous people who have lived on this land for thousands of years have a lot to teach us.
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We're pleased to present our 2015 Annual Report which outlines our recent accomplishments and future plans to spread the Strong Towns message to reach a million people who care.
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If you're involved with urban planning in any fashion, and you don’t know about Savannah, Georgia, well, you’ve got a big hole in your education.
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Chuck and Rachel discuss upcoming trips to Burlington, VT and Los Angeles, as well as the Flint water crisis and pipe maintenance issues throughout the country.
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While Memphis is home to many case studies on chaotic but smart development, it also has one of the poster childs for orderly but dumb, that of course being the Memphis pyramid.
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