Let's talk about public facilities. What do they say about our cities and about the various layers of our society?
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Significant effort should be dedicated to creating more accessible built environments—because doing so benefits people of all abilities.
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Why do large-scale developers bother making cool mockups for their spaces, only to end up with a bland end product?
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Cities should take responsibility for getting the factors right that make public spaces lovable and worthy of care.
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Towns and cities are converting parking spaces into “parklets” as a temporary social distancing resource. But the benefits of parklets will outlast the pandemic.
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Ongoing demonstrations sparked by the murder of George Floyd have Americans considering as never before the role of our public spaces in movements for social change.
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Strong Towns is empowering thousands of champions for change to bring their places back to greater prosperity, little by little, through bottom-up action. Here’s what that looks like.
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Public spaces are often shortchanged in government budgets. Yet they provide outsized benefits compared to how little our communities usually invest in them. Public spaces should be celebrated and protected. Here are four reasons why.
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