The author of Happy City helped build a home that addressed some of the greatest challenges of our times. But his home is illegal almost everywhere in his city—and in your city, too.
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COVID has enabled us to get some “disaster relief” for the housing crisis. But what about when the pandemic is over?
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Strong Towns Community Builder John Pattison shares his favorite content from this past year.
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People are talking about Confessions of a Recovering Engineer. Here's what they're saying.
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The Christmas Cookie Inflation Index has risen 10.6% in the last year. This is compared to the official inflation rate of 6.8%.
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It’s hard to meaningfully engage with the poor when everything about our cities is designed to steer us away from them.
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Strong Towns Program Director Rachel Quednau shares her favorite content from this past year.
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Dozens of people have been killed by vehicles on State Street in Springfield, Massachusetts over the last seven years. The public is clamoring for change, but city staff aren’t getting the message. Here’s what’s being lost in translation.
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Across the U.S. and Canada, the Strong Towns movement is growing. We’ve added two new staff people to help.
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Any attempt to design cities that are for people and not cars is all for naught if there are no means to finance it.
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This new Strong Towns e-book explores what it would take to revive small-scale development as a force significant enough to shape and grow our cities.
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This house came with a unique instruction: “Change the mailbox message every week, or people will get upset.”
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The pets of this neighborhood brought their humans closer together.
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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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Why bother asking the public what they want if their opinions are going to be dismissed, anyway?
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Why it’s important that we connect with members of our community sooner rather than later.
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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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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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This organization is suing their local government over an insolvent, master-planned development in Collier County, Florida.
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Farmer and author, Beth Hoffman, does the math on U.S. agriculture in her new book.
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