Many Rhode Island cities have “good bones” — the infrastructure, walkable neighborhoods, and sturdy buildings that could build resilience and prosperity. So why are so many cities in The Ocean State squandering that inheritance now?
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What’s the best way for local communities to reduce their dependence on big electric companies?
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How do we minimize the chance that our best intentions will go awry and leave everybody worse off? Let’s set these 3 ground rules.
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How all those parking spaces can boost revenue and assist in a post-pandemic recovery.
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Here’s how middle housing went “missing” in North America…while remaining part of the city fabric in much of Europe.
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Some cities are better than others at providing economic opportunity for residents. What sets them apart, and how can we apply those lessons elsewhere?
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Watch—and then share—Chuck Marohn’s TEDx video. It’s an excellent 14-minute introduction on what makes a strong town.
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Two very different approaches—one digital, one analog—to screening job applications, the “infrastructure cult” in the news, an un-planned community in Southern California, and more. These are just a few of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
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Here are some of the latest additions to Strong Towns’s newest platform.
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Something remarkable is happening this year in City Halls across America.
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It goes by many names — the Jevons Paradox, Braess Paradox, Marchetti’s Constant or Downs’ Triple Convergence — but the science is clear: expanding freeway capacity makes traffic worse.
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Through concerted and creative efforts to know their neighbors, listen to resident concerns and educate people on the city’s trajectory, these planning professionals are going against the grain and fighting for the city they love.
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Thousands of Christchurch residents weighed in on how to move their quake-ravaged city forward. Leaders dumped that plan for a top-down rebuild plan created behind closed doors…with predictable results.
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For example: Is it right to use Robert Moses means to undo the very harms created by Robert Moses?
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What can a fictitious small town in “flyover country” teach us about the concentration of power in our economy?
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There’s still plenty of time to introduce the Strong Towns audience to your town or city…but time is running out.
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Our answer to this question is a pair of filters. If you can’t pass these filters, it’s a bad project.
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Two congressmen—one Democrat, one Republican, both longtime Strong Towns readers—talk about federal infrastructure spending and Congress’s role in making towns and cities stronger and more financially resilient.
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A model train shop that helped bring an Indiana main street back to life, a (literally) heartwarming story out of storm-ravaged Texas, and China’s underground electric car innovators. 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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Halifax spent decades pursuing the fragile-making suburban experiment. How should it move forward from here?
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