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Top Articles This Week (Dec. 5-9)
Top Articles This Week (Dec. 5-9)

This week kicks off our annual "Best of" articles.

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Strong TownsDecember 10, 2016
Holiday Decorations from around the Country
Holiday Decorations from around the Country

Here's how people across America are brightening their communities this winter.

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Top StoryStrong TownsDecember 9, 2016
Best of 2016: What Clearly Makes us Richer
Best of 2016: What Clearly Makes us Richer

Can we have cities that work with economics that don't?

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Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnDecember 9, 2016
Best of 2016: Small Bets
Best of 2016: Small Bets

Every city should be looking at the low hanging fruit they can use to continually improve themselves.

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Top StoryAndrew PriceDecember 9, 2016
Heyden Walker on Building Accountability into Federal Transportation Spending
Heyden Walker on Building Accountability into Federal Transportation Spending

Today, Heyden Walker and Chuck Marohn discuss the highway I-35 project in Austin and the need for better transparency in transportation spending.

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Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsDecember 8, 2016texas, infrastructure
Best of 2016: Understanding Growth Series
Best of 2016: Understanding Growth Series

We've traded stability for growth, but now we find that we have neither.

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Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnDecember 8, 2016growth
Best of 2016: Suburban Poverty
Best of 2016: Suburban Poverty

There is arguably no place where half a century of suburban growth has more resembled a giant Ponzi scheme than in Florida.

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HerrigesDaniel HerrigesDecember 8, 2016florida
Staff Favorite Podcasts of 2016
Staff Favorite Podcasts of 2016

The Strong Towns podcast wasn't the only radio show coming through our headphones this year. 

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Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsDecember 7, 2016
Best of 2016: Please, I'm not a Smart Growth Advocate
Best of 2016: Please, I'm not a Smart Growth Advocate

We don't have a checklist of things we are trying to accomplish that includes, as one aspiration, public investments that make financial sense. As we say in our core principles: Financial solvency is a prerequisite.

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MarohnCharles MarohnDecember 7, 2016Smart Growth
Best of 2016: How to Encourage Entrepreneurship in Your Town
Best of 2016: How to Encourage Entrepreneurship in Your Town

Entrepreneurship is a hot word these days. Lots of towns say they would like to attract more entrepreneurs and grow their small business communities. But how do you do it?

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Top StoryRachel QuednauDecember 7, 2016small business, entrepreneurs
Best of 2016: What are you doing, Maine?
Best of 2016: What are you doing, Maine?

Maine lacks the money it needs to do basic maintenance on its transportation system. Their institutional response to this emergency is to cling to an archaic code book while projecting a value system of improve, Improve, IMPROVE.

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Top Story, MarohnCharles MarohnDecember 6, 2016Maine
Shortening the Supply Chain
Shortening the Supply Chain

By buying wholesome food in bulk directly from small family farms I’ve radically shortened the supply chain.

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Top StoryJohnny SanphillippoDecember 6, 2016Farming, resilient, local food
Best of 2016: Please, do not build that crosswalk
Best of 2016: Please, do not build that crosswalk

A signalized crossing is an unnecessary expense for what a few traffic cones could easily accomplish. Humanizing Brunswick Street, on the other hand, would be in the best interests of the province and city.

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Top StoryGracen JohnsonDecember 6, 2016Crosswalk, pedestrians
The Week Ahead: Traffic and 2016 Highlights
The Week Ahead: Traffic and 2016 Highlights

Chuck and Rachel discuss a recent event in Washington state, which inspired today's article: "The Ideology of Traffic." They also chat about an upcoming meeting in Chicago and Best of 2016 content.

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PodcastStrong TownsDecember 5, 2016the week ahead
Best of 2016: Engineers should not design streets
Best of 2016: Engineers should not design streets

Who should design streets? The answer is as simple as it is radical: everyone. 

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Top StoryCharles MarohnDecember 5, 2016stroad
Best of 2016: Houston's Groundbreaking New Transit System
Best of 2016: Houston's Groundbreaking New Transit System

What would possess a transit agency to change every route in its system overnight? We were out of money; it was time to start thinking. 

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Top StoryJames LlamasDecember 5, 2016public transportation, bus, texas
The Ideology of Traffic
The Ideology of Traffic

The greatest accomplishment of any ideology is to not be considered an ideology.

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MarohnCharles MarohnDecember 5, 2016congestion, traffic engineering
Top 5 Articles This Week (Nov 28-Dec 2)
Top 5 Articles This Week (Nov 28-Dec 2)

Jane Jacobs, a failed greenway and parking solutions were among our most popular topics this week.

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Strong TownsDecember 3, 2016
Show us your town's holiday decorations
Show us your town's holiday decorations

Does your downtown have a beautiful holiday lights display? We want to see the ways that you've brightened your town this winter.

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Strong TownsDecember 2, 2016
Strong Towns named in Global Grid's Top 20 Planning Websites
Strong Towns named in Global Grid's Top 20 Planning Websites

Strong Towns ranked 12th among the Top 20 Planning Websites of 2016.

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