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When It Comes to Child Safety, We Deserve Better Than Car Seats
When It Comes to Child Safety, We Deserve Better Than Car Seats

With a baby on the way, I’ve been lectured multiple times about safe car seats, and heard nothing about how to minimize the most dangerous activity people do with their children: drive.

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Top StoryRachel QuednauAugust 8, 2022children, car culture, car dependency, cars, auto-oriented, car crash, walkability, transportation, safety
The Truth Will Come Through
The Truth Will Come Through

Our Neighborhood Storyteller is now coming to you on Sundays, and this week we’ve got a story about building connections with others!

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Neighborhood Storyteller, Top StoryKarla TheilenAugust 7, 2022neighborhood storyteller, radio
Henderson Highway Blues
Henderson Highway Blues

A mother reflects on the fears she faces while navigating a dangerous highway with her children, as pedestrians.

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Top Story, Emma Durand-WoodEmma Durand-WoodAugust 5, 2022highways, canada, pedestrians, walkability, children, safe and productive streets, safety
10 Recommendations for Freeway Fighters
10 Recommendations for Freeway Fighters

From one freeway fighter to any aspiring freeway fighters out there: Here’s 10 things to keep in mind as you advocate for highway removal in your community.

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Top StoryJay ArzuAugust 4, 2022highways, freeway removal, freeways, urban freeways, advocacy, taking action, infrastructure, end highway expansion
If We Build Cities for Kids, We Build Cities for Everyone
If We Build Cities for Kids, We Build Cities for Everyone

Can you walk down your local streets with your kids—without gripping their hands and anxiously eying traffic—and feel comfortable and relaxed? If not, something’s wrong with the design of those streets.

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Top StoryJay StangeAugust 3, 2022safety, children, streets, Street Design, design, walkability, pedestrians, safe and productive streets
Indianapolis Transit Design Prioritizes People Over Parking
Indianapolis Transit Design Prioritizes People Over Parking

Leadership in Indianapolis has taken strides toward lifting parking minimums, and making their city less car dependent and more transit friendly—all while keeping their fiscal house in order.

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Top StoryKerry HayesAugust 2, 2022transit, car dependency, incrementalism, buses, Light Rail, transportation, success stories, urban3, indiana, infrastructure, public transportation
One of the Most Dangerous Assumptions We Have Made
One of the Most Dangerous Assumptions We Have Made

Car crashes aren’t the result of mere human error or recklessness, they’re the result of design. Beth Osborne of Transportation for America digs into this in our latest podcast episode.

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Podcast, Marohn, Top StoryStrong TownsAugust 1, 2022podcast, car crash, cars, car culture, traffic engineering, safety, safe and productive streets
Friday Faves - Your Weekly Strong Towns Roundup
Friday Faves - Your Weekly Strong Towns Roundup

Emergent Tokyo, art restoration, and the right to repair. 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 TownsJuly 29, 2022friday faves
Roosevelt Plaza: A Small Space With Big Impact
Roosevelt Plaza: A Small Space With Big Impact

When designed right, even small patches of public space can bring a lot of charm to a community!

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Top StoryArian HorbovetzJuly 29, 2022public space, urban design, design, new york
The Bottom-Up Revolution Is...Creating a Street Design Team
The Bottom-Up Revolution Is...Creating a Street Design Team

Strong Towns member and City Councilperson Danny Schaible is leading the way toward safer streets in his Maryland town.

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Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsJuly 28, 2022The Bottom-Up Revolution, streets, maryland, podcast
Join Us in Welcoming Our New Member Advocate!
Join Us in Welcoming Our New Member Advocate!

We’re pleased to welcome the newest member of the Strong Towns team!

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Top StoryStrong TownsJuly 28, 2022Strong Towns
City Pattern, Life Pattern
City Pattern, Life Pattern

Question: “Why don’t people dance in the street today?” Answer: Because the design of our cities shapes the design of our lives.

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Top Story, OwensTiffany Owens ReedJuly 28, 2022Street Design, design, urban design, development pattern, public space, community, car culture, neighborhoods
Spokane Opens the Door for Middle Housing Expansion
Spokane Opens the Door for Middle Housing Expansion

Last week, the city council of Spokane, WA, voted on a truly “bold, transformational package” that will allow for more forms of missing-middle housing and infill development in the city.

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Top StoryJay StangeJuly 27, 2022housing, zoning, missing middle, city council, local government, infill, Infill Development, Incremental Housing, incrementalism, incremental, success stories, washington
Mobilize Your Place for Change with the Community Action Lab
Mobilize Your Place for Change with the Community Action Lab

Learn more about this two-year project designed to introduce Strong Towns ideas to your community, shift the conversation there, and kickstart the implementation of a Strong Towns approach.

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Top StoryJohn PattisonJuly 27, 2022Community Action Lab, announcement
Is Wall Street Actually Taking Over the Housing Market?
Is Wall Street Actually Taking Over the Housing Market?

Are Wall Street-backed investors the reason you can’t afford a house? The truth is a bit more complicated than that.

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Herriges, Top StoryDaniel HerrigesJuly 27, 2022housing, housing cost, housing crisis, housing market, homeowners, home buyer
"Should I Protest My Property Taxes?"
"Should I Protest My Property Taxes?"

The process for appealing your property taxes can be obscure, even when the appeal is merited (and more often than not, it is). This simple guide will help prepare you for when your property is next assessed.

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Top StorySeairra JonesJuly 26, 2022property tax, Just Accounting for Health, local government, homeowners, North Carolina, urban3, texas, transparent local accounting, home buyer, michigan, local economy
There’s No Unguarded Hour in Jasper, Indiana, the Beating Heart of Strong Towns
There’s No Unguarded Hour in Jasper, Indiana, the Beating Heart of Strong Towns

The decision to renovate a local theater presents a simple, but compelling, example of why Jasper, IN, was chosen as our 2022 Strongest Town Contest winner.

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Top StoryJay StangeJuly 26, 2022Strongest Town Winner, Strongest Town 2022, small towns, strongest town contest, indiana
Burned Into Memory: Community Building in a Remote Fire Tower?
Burned Into Memory: Community Building in a Remote Fire Tower?

This week, our Neighborhood Storyteller gets an unexpected—and delighted—visitor at her fire lookout tower.

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Neighborhood Storyteller, Top StoryKarla TheilenJuly 26, 2022neighborhood storyteller, community, children, montana
Incremental Development and Mass Construction
Incremental Development and Mass Construction

Strong Towns founding member Seth Zeren stopped by the Mass Construction podcast recently for a conversation on incremental development, New Urbanism, and the Strong Towns movement.

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Podcast, Top StoryJay StangeJuly 25, 2022construction, podcast, guest podcast, incrementalism, incremental, Incremental Development Alliance, Congress for the New Urbanism
Don’t Pause the Gas Tax, Redirect It
Don’t Pause the Gas Tax, Redirect It

Congressman Jake Auchincloss: "We don't need a gas tax holiday. We need a gas tax reset: an overhaul of how we approach transportation funding.”

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Top StoryCongressman Jake AuchinclossJuly 25, 2022Congress, walkability, federal government, federal transportation bill, transportation, transportation spending, gas tax, development, development pattern, suburban experiment, transit, infrastructure
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