Reintroducing the Strong Towns Member Blog Roll

We’ve updated our blog roll! Check out the 50 blogs and podcasts our members are producing on Strong Towns themes!

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Not Just Bikes: How Bankrupt American Cities Stay Alive (New Video)

If you pull back the curtain on North America’s financially insolvent cities, you’ll see what’s REALLY propping them up.

Growth Ponzi Scheme, Top StoryStrong TownsApril 6, 2021Not Just Bikes, Growth Ponzi Scheme, Municipal Debt, debt, private sector debt

The Subtle Relationship Between Traffic Deaths and Congestion

What officials and engineers need to understand before sinking more resources into infrastructure investment.

#SlowtheCars, Transportation, Roads and Streets, Top StorySteffen BerrApril 5, 2021Steffen Berr, transportation, traffic congestion, #SlowTheCars, roads, streets, traffic engineering

Strongest Town: A Conversation with Past Winners (Webcast)

Past winners of the Strongest Town contest give updates on their cities and weigh in on this year’s finalists.

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Strongest Town: Championship Round

Who will be crowned this year’s Strongest Town winner? You get to help decide.

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The Mailbox: Can traffic cameras make our streets safer?

Our streets are “dangerous by design.” We answer a listener’s question about the role of automated enforcement in making them safer.

#SlowtheCars, Marohn, Roads and Streets, Strategies, Tactical Urbanism, Top StoryCharles MarohnApril 5, 2021Safety, #SlowTheCars, tactical urbanism, speed, traffic engineering

Friday Faves - Your Weekly Strong Towns Roundup

The first tribal-owned brewery in Southern California, the bottom-up innovations of Latino Urbanism, and the Western states experimenting with weather modification. These are just a few stories from around the web that Strong Towns staff were reading and talking about this week.

Friday Faves, Top StoryStrong TownsApril 2, 2021Friday Faves