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An Ode to Pets in Windows
An Ode to Pets in Windows

The pets of this neighborhood brought their humans closer together.

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Top StorySara FalligantDecember 9, 2021pets, neighborliness, community, neighborhoods
Love Letters to Your Neighborhood: 5 (Perfectly Legal) Guerilla Art Projects for the Whole Family
Love Letters to Your Neighborhood: 5 (Perfectly Legal) Guerilla Art Projects for the Whole Family

These temporary artwork instillations (that anyone can create) are a great way to connect with your neighbors, and help them connect with your community, in turn.

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Top StoryMary Elizabeth PhillipsDecember 8, 2021arts, neighborliness, community, texas, neighborhoods
“Why Am I Even Here?”
“Why Am I Even Here?”

Why bother asking the public what they want if their opinions are going to be dismissed, anyway?

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Top StoryJoyce MandellDecember 7, 2021public engagement, libraries, massachusetts
Say Hello Like You’re Saying Goodbye
Say Hello Like You’re Saying Goodbye

Why it’s important that we connect with members of our community sooner rather than later.

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Top StoryGenevieve BarberDecember 6, 2021community, community building, neighborliness, georgia, neighborhoods
Friday Faves - Your Weekly Strong Towns Roundup
Friday Faves - Your Weekly Strong Towns Roundup

Cycling professors, video game towns, and worker shortages. 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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Top StoryStrong TownsDecember 3, 2021friday faves
How Do You Actually Fix a Stroad?
How Do You Actually Fix a Stroad?

We respond to a question posted for us on Reddit about a stroad that seems unfixable—and maybe that’s because it is.

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Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnDecember 3, 2021strong towns approach, Not Just Bikes, roads, strip malls, transportation, stroad
Can Local Governments Be Held Accountable to Their Own Policies?
Can Local Governments Be Held Accountable to Their Own Policies?

This organization is suing their local government over an insolvent, master-planned development in Collier County, Florida.

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Herriges, Top StoryDaniel HerrigesDecember 2, 2021environment, local government, master planned, financial solvency, taking action, florida
The Bottom-Up Revolution is... Getting Real About the Cost—and Value—of Farming
The Bottom-Up Revolution is... Getting Real About the Cost—and Value—of Farming

Farmer and author, Beth Hoffman, does the math on U.S. agriculture in her new book.

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Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsDecember 2, 2021The Bottom-Up Revolution, local conversations, taking action, local food, Farming
The Promise of "House of Worship Districts"
The Promise of "House of Worship Districts"

In some places, houses of worship have formed interfaith coalitions, and do valuable work on social justice issues—but what if they also addressed issues of economics and place?

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Top StoryRick Reinhard & Dr. Chris ElisaraDecember 2, 2021Faith Featured, faith communities, religion, churches, community
How to Solve Traffic Congestion: A Miracle in Louisville?
How to Solve Traffic Congestion: A Miracle in Louisville?

Kentucky and Indiana wasted a billion dollars on highway capacity that people don’t use or value.

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Top StoryJoe CortrightDecember 1, 2021traffic congestion, traffic engineering, toll roads, freeways, freeway widening, highways, highway spending, kentucky, indiana
An Update on Our Lawsuit Against the Minnesota Board of Engineering Licensure
An Update on Our Lawsuit Against the Minnesota Board of Engineering Licensure

The most frequent request we’re getting these days is for a status update on our lawsuit with the Minnesota board of licensure. Here are the answers we can give you, for now.

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Engineering Reform, Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnDecember 1, 2021engineering ethics, engineers, announcement
12 Ideas That Embody How Strong Towns Advocates Think
12 Ideas That Embody How Strong Towns Advocates Think

Here are some touchstone concepts that help underlie the Strong Towns view of how to achieve a world full of places capable of growing bottom-up prosperity

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Herriges, Top StoryDaniel HerrigesDecember 1, 2021strong towns approach, complex systems, Chaotic but Smart, incrementalism, Overton Window, Jonathan Haidt, orderly but dumb, jane jacobs, nassim taleb, antifragility
Lessons from Magnolia’s “Village”
Lessons from Magnolia’s “Village”

Surprise, surprise: Americans love dense, walkable places connected to a sense of history.

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Top Story, OwensTiffany Owens ReedNovember 30, 2021urban design, tourism, master planned, texas
A Community Forced to Play the Infrastructure Squid Game
A Community Forced to Play the Infrastructure Squid Game

Residents of this Houston neighborhood thought they were winning the lottery with a government-sponsored infrastructure project. Instead, they endured a seven-month-long nightmare.

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Top StoryJuan Antonio SortoNovember 30, 2021streets, neighborhood change, infrastructure maintenance, race, texas, hurricanes, infrastructure, neighborhoods
Strong Towns + Faith Communities: Announcing a New Series
Strong Towns + Faith Communities: Announcing a New Series

What if religious congregations are the “sleeping giant” of the Strong Towns movement?

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Top StoryJohn PattisonNovember 30, 2021faith communities, churches, announcement, religion
Which Wins Out: An Engineer's Discretion or a Book of Standards?
Which Wins Out: An Engineer's Discretion or a Book of Standards?

Chuck holds a Q&A session with Confessions of a Recovering Engineer readers.

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Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsNovember 29, 2021transportation, engineers, engineering ethics, confessions of a recovering engineer
From the Office of Dodge, Wiggle, Hack, Shrug & DeCamp, LLC
From the Office of Dodge, Wiggle, Hack, Shrug & DeCamp, LLC

Real-world examples of the administrative friction that holds back small-scale developers.

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Top StoryJohnny SanphillippoNovember 29, 2021infill, Infill Development, local regulation, incremental development, small scale developers
Highlights from #BlackFridayParking 2021
Highlights from #BlackFridayParking 2021

Next time you see a half-full parking lot, especially on Black Friday, think of all the untapped possibilities trapped underneath that sea of asphalt.

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#BlackFridayParking, Top StoryJohn PattisonNovember 26, 2021parking minimums, end parking mandates and subsidies, #blackfridayparking
Grab Your Camera. It's #BlackFridayParking Day!
Grab Your Camera. It's #BlackFridayParking Day!

Here’s how to participate in this annual event!

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#BlackFridayParking, Top StoryStrong TownsNovember 26, 2021announcement, end parking mandates and subsidies, #blackfridayparking
The Infrastructure Bill, Racial Equity, and Local Government: How Should the Money Be Spent?
The Infrastructure Bill, Racial Equity, and Local Government: How Should the Money Be Spent?

The $1 trillion infrastructure bill is being signed into law. But who gets to decide how the money will be spent, and will they make the right decisions for communities of color?

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PodcastStrong TownsNovember 24, 2021podcast, highways, highway spending, infrastructure bill, infrastructure, infrastructure maintenance, infrastructure cost, federal government, federal funding, race, upzoned
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