If every local community in the United States found themselves independently stable, prosperous, and self-sufficient, would we need competition with other nations?
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The strongest argument against the Strong Towns approach is one almost no one ever makes.
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Cary Westerbeck brought his neighbors together to collectively build a stronger town.
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Many college campuses are designed to be walkable and human-scaled. But living in a great neighborhood like that doesn’t have to end at graduation.
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We won’t end the Suburban Experiment by denying that people enjoy living in the suburbs…or by telling them they shouldn’t enjoy it.
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The failure of Boston planners to reestablish traditional patterns of building and development has left the city poorer.
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The new library was larger and offered more books and services. The reason it was so hard to connect with has a lot to say about the way we design our cities.
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Does the United States have too few people? Bestselling author Matthew Yglesias makes the case for tripling the U.S. population.
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10 events in 8 weeks. All online. And all designed to help you take action and build a stronger town or city.
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The people behind-the-scenes who really make the Strong Towns movement go.
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Tommy Pacello made me love Memphis. Even more powerfully, he helped me forgive the failures of my own struggling community and to love it even more.
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This Strong Towns member is helping her neighbors understand what’s going on in local government and get their voices heard.
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There is nothing stopping local leaders from addressing their community’s legacy of racial injustice. Here is a credible plan for getting started.
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An accidental photo essay courtesy of Street View provides us a look at the appallingly low standard for what we expect people who walk in suburbia to put up with.
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Un ensayo fotográfico accidental, cortesía de Street View, nos proporciona una mirada al nivel espantosamente bajo de lo que esperamos que aguanten las personas que caminan por los suburbios.
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In 2020, towns and cities were tested in profound ways by a global pandemic and social unrest. What effect will it have on communities going forward?
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This year, Edmonton, Alberta became Canada’s first major city to end parking minimums. We were inspired not only by what they did but by how they did it.
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Basically decent people can support or enable things you find self-evidently bad. It’s easy to caricature them—it’s much harder to truly do the work of seeking to understand.
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If we want a Strong Town, we must stop tilting the playing field against the small businesses, against the local entrepreneur.
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Eating together can subvert partisanship, restore trust, and build stronger cities.
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