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Suburban Design is a Tragedy of the Commons
Suburban Design is a Tragedy of the Commons

We tend to choose larger homes than we want our neighbors to choose. The result: suburban-style development that doesn't match what people actually want from their communities.

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Top StoryDevon ZuegelMay 3, 2022sprawl, infill, development pattern, development, traditional development pattern, suburbs, suburbanization, suburban experiment, suburban development pattern, housing
Remembering All the Things I’m Supposed to Worry About
Remembering All the Things I’m Supposed to Worry About

Our Neighborhood Storyteller recently received a call about her aging father, who, with his driving privileges revoked, has had to resort to walking on unsafe roads…

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Neighborhood Storyteller, Top StoryKarla TheilenMay 3, 2022neighborhood storyteller, walkability, aging in place, pedestrians, community, minnesota
Chuck Marohn Answers Your Questions
Chuck Marohn Answers Your Questions

It’s time once again to sit down and answer some of the great questions we’ve gotten over at the Strong Towns Action Lab.

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Podcast, Marohn, Top StoryStrong TownsMay 2, 2022Strong Towns Community, Action Lab, strong towns approach, podcast
A 3-D Approach to Public Investment
A 3-D Approach to Public Investment

What can these 3-D crosswalks teach us about investing in our communities’ needs?

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Top StoryCam GallantMay 2, 2022pedestrians, Crosswalk, streets, safety, tactical urbanism, public investment, walkability, safe and productive streets
Why Transportation Nudges Are Stupid
Why Transportation Nudges Are Stupid

Marketing campaigns to shame or shock don't change driver behavior. Changing the environment they drive in will.

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Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnMay 2, 2022safety, car culture, car crash, transportation, pedestrians, safe and productive streets
Friday Faves - Your Weekly Strong Towns Roundup
Friday Faves - Your Weekly Strong Towns Roundup

Twitter stars, casinos, and 16th-century identity theft. 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 TownsApril 29, 2022friday faves
High Value, Chapter 9: Nancy Hjerne
High Value, Chapter 9: Nancy Hjerne

This week in High Value, Hjerne prepares to do battle at the upcoming planning commission meeting.

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High Value Serial, Top StoryHamilton LudwigApril 29, 2022High Value series, series
Let's Change the Way We Look at Shared Problems by Starting Some Conversations
Let's Change the Way We Look at Shared Problems by Starting Some Conversations

We love all the great videos people are making about Strong Towns-related topics! This one explains why high bicycling rates are safer for all road users.

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Top StoryJay StangeApril 29, 2022safety, bicycling, biking, bikeability, bikes, bike lanes, bike infrastructure
The Bottom-Up Revolution Is...Slowing Down Cars and Building Up Neighborhoods
The Bottom-Up Revolution Is...Slowing Down Cars and Building Up Neighborhoods

Get to know Jay Stange, safe streets advocate and Content Manager at Strong Towns.

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Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsApril 28, 2022taking action, success stories, alaska, road diet, bikes, podcast
We’re Hiring for a New Member Advocate
We’re Hiring for a New Member Advocate

Apply now to join the Strong Towns team and help advance our mission!

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Top StoryStrong TownsApril 28, 2022jobs, hiring, announcement
How To Fix a Dangerous Street in 24 Hours or Less
How To Fix a Dangerous Street in 24 Hours or Less

Too many of our streets favor the movement of cars over the safety of human lives—but this free action guide will show how you can protect people in your community.

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Top StoryStrong TownsApril 28, 2022public safety, taking action, Local-Motive Tour, pedestrians, safe and productive streets, safety
Process Versus Visible Outcomes
Process Versus Visible Outcomes

The U.S. Department of Transportation would have you think it cares about equity—but budgets are often more telling than rhetoric.

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Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsApril 27, 2022podcast, infrastructure, federal government, federal funding, race, budget, upzoned
I (Don’t) Want More Than This Provincial Life
I (Don’t) Want More Than This Provincial Life

When the pandemic shut down our town, I realized how much I'd taken for granted the neighbors who showed up every day to make our community work.

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Top StoryJohn PattisonApril 27, 2022community, community building, neighborliness, small towns, rural, oregon
Herriges Rezoned: “Why Are Developers Only Building Luxury Housing?”
Herriges Rezoned: “Why Are Developers Only Building Luxury Housing?”

"Developers in my city are only building luxury housing. They're not building anything that ordinary people can afford." If you’ve said this lately, or heard someone else say it, here are five possible reasons why.

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Herriges, Top StoryDaniel HerrigesApril 27, 2022housing, housing market, development, affordable housing, gentrification, missing middle
Hunched Beneath the Airport Flight Path: Terrible Places to Work, Even Worse to Get To
Hunched Beneath the Airport Flight Path: Terrible Places to Work, Even Worse to Get To

This Not Just Bikes video takes a look at airport business parks as an interesting (and infuriating) case study for places designed for cars instead of people

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Top StoryJay StangeApril 26, 2022Not Just Bikes, car culture, car dependency, auto-oriented, urban design, business parks, pedestrians
Ryan Crane: Malpractice and Accountability in Engineering—A Surgeon's Take
Ryan Crane: Malpractice and Accountability in Engineering—A Surgeon's Take

When a patient dies, doctors review if and how their own actions led to that patient’s death. Shouldn’t engineers be doing the same, when people die in car crashes?

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Podcast, Marohn, Top StoryStrong TownsApril 25, 2022podcast, engineers, traffic engineering, safety, public safety, car crash, pedestrians
Northern Virginia Highway Plans Would Fuel a Massive Increase in Driving
Northern Virginia Highway Plans Would Fuel a Massive Increase in Driving

North Virginia will make multi-billion dollar decisions this year on the region’s transportation future—decisions that are only going to induce more driving.

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Top StoryBill PughApril 25, 2022car dependency, car culture, transportation, transportation spending, induced demand, highways, highway spending, freeways, freeway widening, virginia, washington dc, end highway expansion
To Fully Observe, We Need to Walk
To Fully Observe, We Need to Walk

If we want to be the informed advocates our places need, then we need to observe them at human scale—and to do that, we need to walk.

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Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnApril 25, 2022walkability, pedestrians, advocacy
Friday Faves - Your Weekly Strong Towns Roundup
Friday Faves - Your Weekly Strong Towns Roundup

Battleships, Caspian soup, and regrets. 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 TownsApril 22, 2022friday faves
Reflections on Seaside
Reflections on Seaside

What does and doesn’t work about the “great-granddaddy” of New Urbanism?

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Top StorySeth ZerenApril 22, 2022urbanism, New Urbanism, urban planning, urban design, placemaking, human scale, incrementalism, incremental development, incremental, traditional development pattern, walkability, florida
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