When we design our streets to make them safer for people with disabilities, it also makes them safer for people, as a whole.
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Join the Urban3 team as they wade past Oklahoma City’s glittering amenities to take an up-close view of the real economic engine under the shiny enamel hood.
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Christa Theilen and Seairra Shepherd both work at Strong Towns and also serve at local farms in the rural Midwest.
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Massive property damage and pedestrians being injured (or killed) is our transportation system functioning precisely as designed. This is how it was designed to work.
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An epidemic of roadway deaths aren’t caused by random rule breakers. The cause is the rule followers. It’s time to change the rules mandating speed and volume over safety and cost.
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Should states and counties push back against local governments to crack open more options for housing, or will that be counterproductive?
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Just off the coast of Toronto, Canada's largest city, you'll find a group of 15 small car-free islands. But just in case you thought you'd like to live here: you can't.
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This suburb is a growing place, but it's not a successful place. It risks becoming an increasingly isolating place full of people who are cut off from the economic mainstream.
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Residents of Pensacola, FL, are working to make their city a better place to place to live, work, and thrive in as they implement incremental changes.
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Despite their layouts, these islands of apparent urbanism out in the countryside are a sign that we’re doing something very, very wrong.
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Our Neighborhood Storyteller discovers a kind of community support that simply can’t be found in online retail.
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You might not guess by looking, but this traditional neighborhood development is an employment powerhouse.
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You don’t want to miss this CNBC documentary video about the financial fragility of the suburban development pattern.
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Heart atlases, Ramadan in Alaska, and seasoned baseball players. 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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It’s time to crown this year’s Strongest Town winner!
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Robin Roemer worked with neighbors to successfully stop a highway project next to his child’s school in San Jose, CA.
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This catalog is a primer on house hacking, with plenty of real-life examples of how it is done.
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Even if you yourself are able to live in a walkable area, you can’t choose where your loved ones live. And as this author describes, that adds to the difficulties of caring for an ailing parent.
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The chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, Jennifer Homendy, recently survived a car crash. And she’s not blaming it on reckless driving.
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Sarasota County, FL, is viewed as a trailblazer in the prevention of unchecked suburbanization. So why has its growth management plan has not resulted in a better pattern of development?
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