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What Does It Mean to Be a Strong Towns Member?
What Does It Mean to Be a Strong Towns Member?

What exactly is a Strong Towns membership? That’s a question we often hear from our audience, so here’s our response!

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Top StoryGuest UserJune 10, 2021member week
What Is Wealth? How Do We Make It?
What Is Wealth? How Do We Make It?

Today, prosperity isn’t gold, land, or natural resources; it’s know-how.

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Top StoryDavid AlbrechtJune 10, 2021economics, economic growth, local economy, history, member week
Are Self-Driving Cars a Solution Looking for a Problem?
Are Self-Driving Cars a Solution Looking for a Problem?

Are automated vehicles a solution looking for a problem—or perhaps the wrong solution for problems (traffic deaths, traffic congestion, etc.) that could be solved in better, easier ways?

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Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsJune 9, 2021car dependency, cars, transportation, upzoned, self driving cars, podcast, member week
Articles and Podcasts Are Just The Beginning
Articles and Podcasts Are Just The Beginning

Producing great media content is a major part of how we advance the Strong Towns mission, but check out all the other valuable resources we also provide.

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Top StoryStrong TownsJune 9, 2021member week
Put Yourself and Your Community on the Map
Put Yourself and Your Community on the Map

The Strong Towns movement is growing across the globe. Are you ready to join this movement and put your dot on the map, too?

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Top StoryRachel QuednauJune 9, 2021announcement, member week
Our New E-book is a Blueprint for a Community Your Kids Won't Have to Leave
Our New E-book is a Blueprint for a Community Your Kids Won't Have to Leave

How can we build the kind of community where our kids won't feel they have to go elsewhere to prosper? Check out our new e-book to find out.

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Top StoryStrong TownsJune 9, 2021member week, resource trap
This Week Only: Get Free Access to the Strong Towns Training of Your Choice
This Week Only: Get Free Access to the Strong Towns Training of Your Choice

Whether you’re dreaming of safer streets, more small business opportunities, or a chance to connect with your neighbors, these trainings will help.

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Top StoryStrong TownsJune 8, 2021announcement, Local-Motive Tour, member week
This is "The Year of Action." What Does Action Even Look Like?
This is "The Year of Action." What Does Action Even Look Like?

Putting the Strong Towns approach into action in your community can seem intimidating, but it doesn't have to be. Here's some examples that show the power of little bets and small steps.

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Top StoryStrong TownsJune 8, 2021taking action, member week
An Empty Big-Box Store Is a Lesson In "Commercial Density"
An Empty Big-Box Store Is a Lesson In "Commercial Density"

What can be done about retail structures when they’re abandoned by their big-box tenants? One solution: break them down into smaller, much more dynamic spaces.

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Top StoryAddison Del MastroJune 8, 2021big box stores, business, retail, density, fine-grained, member week
Jason Slaughter: The Goal Isn't to Build a Cycling City
Jason Slaughter: The Goal Isn't to Build a Cycling City

The creator of Not Just Bikes, a popular YouTube channel on urban planning, talks about what makes Amsterdam such a great biking city…but why building a biking city isn’t the goal.

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Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsJune 7, 2021Not Just Bikes, bikes, urban planning, safety, podcast
Join us for a Free Webcast Tomorrow on Building Resilient Local Economies
Join us for a Free Webcast Tomorrow on Building Resilient Local Economies

Charles Marohn is delivering an in-depth presentation and Q&A on strengthening local economies, with five key action steps.

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Top StoryStrong TownsJune 7, 2021announcement, member week
Here's How *You* Can Help Heroes in Your Community
Here's How *You* Can Help Heroes in Your Community

This is the Year of Action, twelve months where we are focusing on what it takes to help our millions of site visitors make theirs a Strong Town. Here’s how you can help in this mission.

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Top StoryCharles MarohnJune 7, 2021member week
Friday Faves - Your Weekly Strong Towns Roundup
Friday Faves - Your Weekly Strong Towns Roundup

Wildlife crossings, the scientific process, and immigrant perspectives. 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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Top StoryStrong TownsJune 4, 2021friday faves
Cognitive Comfort and Visual Clutter: Is it Time we Started Regulating Style?
Cognitive Comfort and Visual Clutter: Is it Time we Started Regulating Style?

We must start adapting our architectural designs to the instincts of our species, rather than the other way around.

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Top StoryDustin ShaneJune 4, 2021architecture, cognitive architecture, aesthetics, design, modernism
Pre-order the New Strong Towns Book. Get These Great Bonuses.
Pre-order the New Strong Towns Book. Get These Great Bonuses.

We’d like to say thank you to folks preordering the new Strong Towns book.

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Top StoryStrong TownsJune 3, 2021confessions of a recovering engineer
The Bottom-Up Revolution is... Composting for Community
The Bottom-Up Revolution is... Composting for Community

Sophia Hosain leads community composting programs to help strengthen local economies and food systems.

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Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsJune 3, 2021The Bottom-Up Revolution, gardening, community gardens, taking action, maryland
Musselshell Watershed: Centered on the Next Generation
Musselshell Watershed: Centered on the Next Generation

The generational ranch model has been wobbling since WWII, but here's how one small community in Montana is keeping grazing land as working lands, as well as bolstering opportunities for young producers.

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Top StorySamuel WesternJune 3, 2021resource trap, RBC Series, series, montana, rural, agriculture, success stories, community
Ask Strong Towns: Have Your Question Featured on the Strong Towns Podcast
Ask Strong Towns: Have Your Question Featured on the Strong Towns Podcast

Do you have a question about how to apply the Strong Towns approach to your city? The Strong Towns community wants to weigh in.

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Top StoryStrong TownsJune 2, 2021Action Lab, announcement, taking action
Here's What People Are Saying about the Strong Towns Lawsuit
Here's What People Are Saying about the Strong Towns Lawsuit

Last week, we announced that Strong Towns has filed a lawsuit against the Minnesota Board of Engineering Licensure. Since then, people around the internet have been discussing the case and its implications for advocacy.

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Podcast, Engineering Reform, Top StoryStrong TownsJune 2, 2021engineering ethics, upzoned, engineers, podcast
Big Horn County, Montana: Leaving Coal Behind
Big Horn County, Montana: Leaving Coal Behind

Natural resources have been a mixed bag for Big Horn County, Montana, but local Crow (Apsáalooke) leaders are working to turn the narrative around.

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Top StorySamuel WesternJune 2, 2021resource trap, RBC Series, montana, community, education, tourism, series
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