A passion for food access and community change led Kelly Rae Kirkpatrick to run for city council in her hometown of Rochester, MN.
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Engineers and transportation departments defer to it all the time, but “the Manual” isn’t actually making our streets safer.
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Are cities being preempted almost to the point of irrelevance?
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Son las experiencias de personas reales que deben guiar nuestros esfuerzos de planificación. Sus acciones son los datos que deberíamos recopilar, no sus preferencias declaradas.
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Calgary — like so many North American cities — is like an intergenerational dine-and-dash. Our children will get the bill.
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What role should federal infrastructure spending play in the economic recovery — and how can we make sure that spending addresses the real needs of people?
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You’ve got questions and we’ve got answers about the world’s #1 bracket-based, strong towns competition.
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You don’t have to be a math wizard to figure out if your town or city has more infrastructure than it can afford. Just follow these 5 simple steps.
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Ice storms, ugly apartment buildings and short-term thinking are just a few of the topics that caught our attention this week—plus an update from the Strong Towns team.
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We have to give up on on the delusion that we can have a place that is both great for business, and great at moving cars quickly. To be successful, we need to go all-in on one or the other.
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Alfred Melbourne sees farming as a chance to bring back land into productive use, feed neighbors and help guide young people down a supportive path.
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Transportation engineering profession is at a crossroads. The industry has not honored its ethical obligations. That must change.
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How a ruling from the Arizona Supreme Court will change how local governments do economic development.
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There are major flaws in the accounting standards that shape municipal finance in American cities. But there’s an opportunity too: a chance to comment on—and perhaps change—those standards going forward.
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Google Street View has now been around long enough to let us see how our cities have changed over ten-plus years. Often those changes have been for the worse…but sometimes they’re for the better.
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Explore the winning journeys of the five previous winners of the Strongest Town contest. Will your city be #6?
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How the government can become not just more representative of the people but more responsive to their actual needs.
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London’s thinnest house just went on sale. Here are two takeaways we shouldn’t miss.
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Paving over history, the science of persuasion, and the secretive group transforming cellar windows into urban miniatures. These are a few of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
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2020 was a year of many challenges. But, in the midst of it all, Strong Towns advocates everywhere stepped up to lead.
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