Building a Strong Town is not a tidy project with a clear conclusion. It's an ongoing practice made up of thousands of small actions—such as this Valentine’s Day tradition.
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Recent documentation casts a disturbing new light on the Minnesota Board of Licensure’s attempts to discredit the Strong Towns movement.
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This nonprofit has created a template for what a 21st-century, regenerative community could look like; one that asks us what we really want for our future—and means it.
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We’ve spent trillions fighting congestion so that it’s easy to drive everywhere. But we’re fighting a losing battle, and simultaneously losing our ability to walk anywhere.
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Fake birds, Climate Town, and the second Gutenberg moment. 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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This week in High Value, Ashley Bare seeks justice for her students…but encounters a familiar (and unwelcome) face at the principal’s office.
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In Monopoly, there are only two types of real estate: houses and hotels. But were hotels understood differently in 1904, when the game was first created?
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Rebecca McQuillen and Rodger Kube are helping stabilize a neighborhood and create homeownership opportunities.
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In 2021, Strong Towns advocates and members came out in force to strengthen their communities. This was the Year of Action.
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These two highways in New Jersey run parallel and very close to each other—and traveling along them allows a sustained view of two different development approaches.
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These small towns in Kansas are offering land and housing at a steal in an attempt to fortify their shrinking tax bases. What does this mean for the future of rural America?
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Co-housing not only saves money for these two families—and enabled them to buy a home, in the first place—it’s also allowed them to better weather hard times.
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These brothers are pushing for incremental infill development in Memphis, Tennessee, with a community they’re building just north of downtown.
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Strong Towns is partnering with Just Accounting for Health and Urban3 in a project to uncover the presence, and effects, of biases in tax assessment standards.
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This engineer offers a strategy for slowing down cars that could be a bridge between what communities want and what engineers want.
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Valentine’s Day never inspired our Neighborhood Storyteller…until she was recruited one year to write poems for total strangers in her community.
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Citizens can’t make informed decisions if they don’t know the financial condition of their government. This nonpartisan nonprofit is making those numbers both available and transparent.
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The things your town does to become more sustainable, resilient, and financially healthy are big news. So let’s tell the world!
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When it comes to transit mega project delays and overruns, there are typically two reactions: to trash the project mercilessly or unconditionally back it to the end. But there is a third option.
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Oysters, substacks, and polar bears. 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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