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4 Stories of our Members Working to Build Strong Towns
4 Stories of our Members Working to Build Strong Towns

Strong Towns members are changing their communities for the better every day. Here are their stories.

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Success Story, Top Story, MembershipStrong TownsNovember 14, 2016
Join Strong Towns staff for a live chat on Tuesday
Join Strong Towns staff for a live chat on Tuesday

Join Chuck Marohn, Rachel Quednau and Yuri Artibise on Slack at 12pm Central on Tuesday, November 15 for an open discussion on the future of the Strong Towns movement and a review of our 2016 accomplishments.

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Top StoryStrong TownsNovember 14, 2016slackchat
"The work of Strong Towns is too important not to support it."
"The work of Strong Towns is too important not to support it."

We asked our 1400+ members why they chose to support Strong Towns. Here's what they said.

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Member Post, Success Story, Top StoryStrong TownsNovember 14, 2016member testimonials
It's time for Strong Towns
It's time for Strong Towns

Of all the messages out there, Strong Towns stands out as a unifying voice.

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Marohn, MembershipCharles MarohnNovember 14, 2016
Top Stories This Week
Top Stories This Week

Our thoughts on the presidential election, plus a few stories to take your mind off it.

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Strong TownsNovember 12, 2016post roundup
Finding our way together in an unpredictable future
Finding our way together in an unpredictable future

How local determination can drive investment in place.

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Top Story, #StrongCitizensJoe Nickol and Kevin WrightNovember 11, 2016Entrepreneurship, small business, local food
Reset the Car Conversation with Autonomous Cars
Reset the Car Conversation with Autonomous Cars

Autonomous vehicles have the potential to revolutionize America’s transportation system, not just through their safety and convenience, but also because of their lower cost. 

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#SlowtheCars, Member Post, Roads and Streets, Top Story, Transportation, DukesAlexander DukesNovember 11, 2016autonomous vehicles, cars, car dependency, gas tax, STROADS
Election 2016 (Podcast Reflections)
Election 2016 (Podcast Reflections)

After some travel and contemplation, Chuck Marohn offers some thoughts on the presidential election, Strong Towns and the future of America.

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Top Story, PodcastStrong TownsNovember 10, 20162016 election
What are sharrows worth?
What are sharrows worth?

According to this study: Hardly anything.

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Bikeability, Top StoryRachel QuednauNovember 10, 2016bike lanes
What happens when you densify the suburbs?
What happens when you densify the suburbs?

This video of Mississauga, ON shows us that density will not save the suburbs.

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Top Story, Sanphillippo, VideoStrong TownsNovember 10, 2016density, Canada, suburbs, suburban retrofit
The Infrastructure Time Bomb
The Infrastructure Time Bomb

An engineering firm wakes up to the reality of the unsustainable suburban development pattern.

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#InfrastructureCrisis, Top Story, #DotheMath, Growth Ponzi Scheme, Roads and StreetsRachel QuednauNovember 9, 2016pipes, suburban experiment, Value Per Acre
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned

Last year I bought a $15,000 uninhabitable shack in Cincinnati, Ohio, hoping to renovate it into a nice two-story duplex for renters. Here's what went wrong.

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Small Scale Developers, Sanphillippo, Housing, Top EvergreenJohnny SanphillippoNovember 9, 2016Ohio, Strong Citizenship, housing, Economic Development
Making Good Infrastructure Decisions for America's Future
Making Good Infrastructure Decisions for America's Future

Throughout the election, we've chosen to focus our attention toward the issue of infrastructure spending. Now it's time to consider what our new president will do about it.

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#InfrastructureCrisis, Top StoryRachel QuednauNovember 9, 20162016 election
Book interview: Gracen Johnson
Book interview: Gracen Johnson

Rachel Quednau interviews Gracen Johnson about making the hard decision to move to a new town, plus her work with the Incremental Development Alliance and her philosophy that "love will save this place."

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Top Story, Podcast, Field NotesStrong TownsNovember 8, 2016TBST2
Time to Refresh our National Parking Map
Time to Refresh our National Parking Map

Please take a few minutes to submit information about the parking minimums in your city so that we can share an updated map during the week of Black Friday Parking.

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#BlackFridayParking, Top Story, ParkingStrong TownsNovember 8, 2016maps, mapping
Strong Towns Members Running for Local Office
Strong Towns Members Running for Local Office

You're probably planning to be glued to the TV or computer today, closely tracking the outcome of the presidential race. But there's so much more that's worth paying attention to than simply the national races.

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Top Story, Success Story, #StrongCitizensRachel QuednauNovember 8, 2016local government
The myth of revealed preference for the suburbs
The myth of revealed preference for the suburbs

If so many people live in suburbs, it must be because that’s what they prefer, right? Actually the evidence is to the contrary.

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Housing, Zoning, Top Story, Member PostJoe CortrightNovember 7, 2016suburbs, affordable housing, urbanism
Pre-Election Thoughts
Pre-Election Thoughts

Scale our economy to those working at the ground level and we will see a true prosperity emerge.

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MarohnCharles MarohnNovember 7, 20162016 election, poverty, class, Jobs
Top Stories this Week
Top Stories this Week

This week, we announced the winner of the Strongest Infrastructure Project contest, discussed housing affordability in several major cities, and took a hard look at public transit spending.

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Strong TownsNovember 5, 2016post roundup
More Honkus
More Honkus

Aaron Naperstek, author of Honku: The Zen Antidote to Road Rage, uses funny poems to calm the road rage we're all too familiar with. Here are three poems from his book.

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TransportationStrong TownsNovember 4, 2016
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