Turns out, the things worth writing home about are the same things that make a place worth calling home. What would it take to develop postcard-worthy places again?
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Send your relatives this interview between Chuck Marohn and Jefferson Public Radio.
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The way we design our cities, the metrics we track, and even our language — they all betray how we’ve come to prioritize cars over human bodies. What’s lost when our transportation paradigm doesn’t account for the diverse ways people still use our streets?
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When you’re moving about in the world, it’s really hard to appreciate just how much land is devoted to accommodating high-speed car travel—or just how much life we could cram into the same piece of land if we didn’t have to.
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Building a Strong Town will require people who can lead with humility, creativity, and intelligence. We needed someone to write a book for these kinds of leaders. Now someone has.
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Not for the first time, the Car-pocalypse failed to materialize around Seattle’s new SR-99 tunnel. This is further proof we’ve been underestimating commuters’ ability to adjust to transportation changes. Have we also been overestimating how much they value these multibillion-dollar megaprojects in the first place?
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If you’re nostalgic for the past, give it up. We’re not going back. We must start with what has been given us and figure out what to do with it.
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These are the closing hours of our Fall member drive. If you’ve been wanting to join our growing movement, there’s never been a time like the present…especially because you have just a few hours left to get your autographed copy of the Strong Towns book!
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It’s the final day of the Fall member drive at Strong Towns. Give us a call and let’s chat about what it’ll take to get you on board.
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Do the new guidelines go too far, not far enough, or are they just right (for now)?
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When its only supermarket pulled out, a neighborhood suddenly found themselves living in a “food desert.” Could it end up being a blessing in disguise?
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The Strong Towns message is making a difference—perhaps especially with the up-and-coming generation of professionals whose work will shape our built environment. Find out how from these members who are current planning, civil engineering, and public policy students.
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Making your community stronger is too big a job for one person to do alone. Here’s how one Strong Towns member connected with likeminded people in his own city…and some practical steps on how you can do the same.
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If Strong Towns is successful—really successful—you won't hear about it, because the vast majority of the change we produce won't be attributed to us at all. It will be embedded in the broader culture.
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Financially, Strong Towns took a huge leap off a cliff when we tightened our business model to focus on a few core things to advance our mission. Thousands of you were there to catch us.
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Sometimes the best way to imagine what a Strong Towns revolution could look like in YOUR community is to hear what it looks like in someone else’s. Don’t miss this short webinar with one local movement that has been generating some of our absolute favorite success stories of 2019.
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Whether you're a planner, a neighborhood advocate or a city official, Strong Towns offers something for everyone.
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The Strong Towns movement offers a template for creating a world we can be justly proud to pass on to our children, in a time in which so many of us feel like we're floundering to salvage the broken one we inherited from our parents.
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Join the Strong Towns Facebook group to discover how Strong Towns has inspired a bottom-up revolution, led by members of the Strong Towns movement in communities of all sizes across North America.
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Rural communities across the Midwest are careening toward collapse, and all at the same time. What this means for the region as a whole. Small towns need Strong Towns too.
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