Where does the Strong Towns approach intersect with environmentalism?
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Austin Taylor is helping to lead a resident-driven tactical urbanism effort in Park City, Utah.
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One family’s history tells volumes about the development of Kansas City since the 1950s.
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A recent Vice article seems to suggest that most Americans don’t want more walkable places. Here’s why that takeaway is totally wrong.
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True community engagement is not just about listening. It’s about building understanding.
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In a world of real estate investors seeking quick profits, we need more people like Greg O'Connell.
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Aging in American culture comes with the association of loneliness, dependence, and isolation. If cites were designed differently, this wouldn’t have to be the case.
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Big, complicated zoning codes create an environment that gives developers no smaller-scale competition.
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What can we learn about the housing market and corporations buying back their own stock...through anecdotal references? (As it turns out, quite a lot!)
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Highway expansions in Charleston, independent streaming sites, and cities of the future. These are just some of the stories from around the internet that Strong Towns staff were reading and talking about this week.
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In general, engineers treat cities like a physics problem, but what we need is engineers who are able to humbly grasp the overwhelming complexity of human habitat and work.
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Chuck Marohn joins this week’s show to talk about his new book.
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So many engineering projects are formally called "improvements." The subtle bias of this language provides a glimpse at the values embedded within the profession.
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Abby and Chuck deviate from the norm a little on this week’s Upzoned by talking not about an article from the internet, but about one chapter of a particular book (hint: it’s Confessions).
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Storage facilities have no place in a productive, walkable downtown. Here’s a case study showing why, and how to deal with the problem.
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Today is launch day!
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Not Just Bikes has put together another brilliant video, this time explaining why we cannot manage the speeds on our roads separately from the design of our roads.
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Traffic engineers use projections of future traffic to make recommendations and decisions on transportation investments… The problem is, those projections are all wrong.
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We're at a tipping point in how we design and think about our public streets. And things can tip the right way, once we confront the bankrupt ideology guiding our transportation system.
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