You’ve been asking about it. Well, the wait is is finally over! If you absolutely have to commute in bumper-to-bumper traffic, why not listen to a book that will help you plot a bottom-up revolution to make your town stronger?
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The Strong Towns book has been out for a week and a half—and the most gratifying thing is to see those who have read and reviewed it reflect our message back to us in their own powerful, insightful words. Do you have your copy yet?
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The advocacy group Transportation for America makes a bold move on transportation funding. We applaud them for it.
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A trip to Italy reveals the physical, social, and even cultural benefits of walking. But coming home to the auto-oriented U.S. reveals something too: just how dangerous, difficult, and unpleasant we’ve made things for pedestrians.
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The story of Shreveport is one of small steps leading to big payoffs, especially in building community.
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Building stronger towns isn’t just about planning, engineering and development. We need to address questions about cultivating rich and abundant lives in our neighborhoods. How do we live out our values when so much of the built environment seems to be working against us?
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A first look at the Strong America Tour presentation, this one from our recent visit to Seattle.
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Conventional approaches to public investment tend to be expensive, dull, difficult (or impossible) to undo, and often divorced from the lived struggles of real people. There’s a better way.
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Is growth inherently bad? Are declining neighborhoods really a good investment? And, most of all, can we actually make the changes we need to make our communities stronger? Chuck Marohn answers these and other questions about his new book Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity. What questions do you have?
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Santa Ana’s Michele Martinez has an incredible story. She grew up in an environment with poverty, gang violence, and drugs. But she became a “positive disruptor” and used a Strong Towns approach to create big change in her community.
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Endless growth is a luxury we literally can’t afford. Here’s why the path to true prosperity requires local communities to opt out of an economy of greed and bring decision-making back home.
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The wait is finally over. The Strong Towns book is out today! Here is information on where to buy, as well as one simple, 30-second thing you can do that could make all the difference.
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The Strong America Tour isn’t just a chance for us to get out and talk about the Strong Towns vision. It’s a chance for us to capture firsthand how members of the movement are bringing that vision to life in their own places.
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Ancient cities reveal the extent to which humans have co-evolved with their complex human habitats. As we were making our cities, they were making us. And yet we’ve discarded much of this hard-won wisdom of the past.
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The ideas behind Strong Towns began in my small town of Brainerd. A tour starting in Memphis is designed to bring them home.
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With the Strong Towns book releasing next week, now is the time to claim your pre-order bonuses. There’s something new too. It’s pre-shrunk, buttery smooth, and 100% cotton.
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The Strong America Tour starts this week with a swing through the Pacific Northwest. Here’s what to expect.
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Is the Strong America Tour coming to your town?
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Hint: It has to do with donuts.
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Pre-order your copy of Strong Towns: A Bottom-up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity to get in on the action.
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