The classic story...with a Strong Towns twist.
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Good urbanism can save bad architecture any day—if your goal is to create a place worth being and maintaining and belonging to.
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Topics include clearing the path for small-scale developers, establishing a street design team, growing the entrepreneurial ecosystem in your community, finding collaborators, and many more.
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El patrón de desarrollo estadounidense crea la ilusión de riqueza. Hoy estamos en el proceso de ver esa ilusión destruida ... y con ella la prosperidad que hemos llegado a dar por sentada.
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In an era in which so many people aspire to be the next Steve Jobs, who will channel their ambition in the pursuit of caretaking work?
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The pandemic has turned conventional transit funding models on their heads. How will it change how we fund transit going forward…and what gets funded in the first place?
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The only way to fix what is broken is from the bottom up, starting with a covenant between each other.
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Having the right information probably won’t be enough to move the needle in your town. You need collaborators. And we want to help you connect.
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A promising pilot program for people experiencing homelessness, how Strong Towns can make you better at video games, and a warning about the new COVID variant. These are just some of the stories the Strong Towns staff were reading and talking about this week.
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One thing COVID hasn’t changed: Life rewards action. As community leaders and business leaders, we can’t allow ourselves to be paralyzed into inaction.
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Utah, like many places, has an affordable housing crisis. These 5 strategies can deliver solutions…for Utah and beyond.
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How one Strong Towns member is building a stronger future for youth, and a stronger local economy, all at the same time.
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Over the last 12 years, we’ve published 5,500 articles and more than 670 podcasts. How do you find the actionable content you actually need now? Our new resource will help.
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“[The] urgency to move fast is in conflict with the speed of trust, and the pace that actually allows for input from everyone who’s affected by these decisions.”
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Making housing affordable is not the same thing as creating affordable housing.
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Revitalization without gentrification, stopping a huge highway project, transforming an unproductive intersection, and more. These are some lessons we’ve learned from some of our upcoming Local-Motive Tour speakers.
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We can’t simply delay good public engagement until after this prolonged pandemic. Here are four strategies for connecting in a safe, meaningful way.
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There are compelling reasons to grow the U.S. population. But for it really generate prosperity, we’ll need to change how we build our cities.
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The next step in our commitment to provide you the tools and resources you need to take action in your community.
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A recipe for neighborliness, conservative feminisms, and the search for the origins of COVID-19. These are just some of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
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