Your daily commute sucks. Is it also making you go broke?
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If your city is struggling to pay the bills, could joining forces with the rich county next door be the answer?
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When it comes to infrastructure spending, politicians on both ends of the political spectrum get it wrong—but in different ways.
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Why do places like Cobb County, Georgia keep spending more and more, while their municipal budgets go further and further into the red? This week at Strong Towns, we’re going to dig into the tale of Cobb County: a poster child for the Ponzi-scheme approach to growth.
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If you want your community to prosper, stop building new infrastructure.
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The phrase "value capture" has been tossed around a lot lately. Here's what it does and doesn't mean.
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We're spending too much on infrastructure and getting too little in return.
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This isn't the bill we would've created, but it's a step in the right direction.
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A review of the White House infrastructure plan reveals a few rough spots, but also a lot to like.
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In times like this, where we're asking cities to innovate and to do more with less, we should be adding tools to the local government toolbox, not removing them.
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Many would have us believe that America is failing to invest in its infrastructure. If only it were that simple.
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Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery.
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"In a sense, the infrastructure bank is the state's credit card."
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Federal infrastructure spending is a huge, expensive gamble that we already know doesn’t pay off. Strong Towns' proposal for a path forward is cheap, and it offers high upside potential with low downside potential.
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How should the federal government spend its proposed $1 trillion surge in infrastructure funding? Grist recently ran an article, which features several prominent leaders in the fields of transportation and planning offering their answers to this question.
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We're not as smart as we think we are.
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We prepare for the Strong Towns Summit on Transportation this Friday and Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Bad infrastructure can cost you wealth and diminish a place, but the world's greatest infrastructure will not raise the quality of an unloveable place one iota.
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We have collectively believed for so long that spending on infrastructure is the key to prosperity that we don't even bother to check if it really is.
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In this episode, Chuck Marohn discusses the need to create a new infrastructure funding system, not keep dumping more money into the existing system.
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