Carlos Alfaro and Jacob Pritchett are bringing people of different political stripes together in Arizona.
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How do you make progress on helpful changes in your community when it’s politically divided? This free action guide will show you.
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We love organically grown, incrementally developed cities…but could we replicate their success if we started a new city from scratch?
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We keep looking for villains to blame for the housing affordability crisis—but are we pointing fingers at the wrong culprits?
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NIMBYs are responding to a set of very rational incentives. That presents a challenge for those of us who hope to alter the course of the Suburban Experiment.
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Across the country, the property tax system is causing economic hardship for homeowners—and it’s because the system itself is flawed.
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If you ever wanted to REALLY make a change in your town, instead of just starting a fight, consider this your manifesto.
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Shopping locally means getting to be among your people—and in this case, it’s pen people!
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Local leaders in Ohio and Kentucky are gearing up to make a multi-billion dollar mistake on this bridge equivalent of a highway-widening project.
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This walking tour in Sacramento, CA, reveals much about its past and present challenges with housing.
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This motorcyclist was acting aggressive…but what in his environment signaled to him that aggressive driving was acceptable?
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A Strong Towns playlist, bioluminescence, and Kmart. 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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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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