This Sunday, our Neighborhood Storyteller gets up before the crack of dawn—and reflects on the sights and the people in our communities who normally go unseen by those who work a nine-to-five.
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Introversion, chalk horses, and automation. 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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Amy Stelly is advocating to remove a harmful highway in her New Orleans neighborhood.
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Representatives from Norwood, OH, went to visit their counterparts in Jasper, IN, after facing off in this year’s Strongest Town Contest. Here’s 7 reasons the Norwoodians found Jasper to be a worthy champion!
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Being a Strong Towns advocate is less intimidating, more effective, and, frankly, more fun when you’re not doing the work alone. Find a Local Conversation near you!
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This Canadian city made an unprecedented decision to stop expanding its urban growth boundary. What comes next?
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Strong Towns interviews Dr. Christopher Berry, of the University of Chicago, on how we can begin making meaningful changes to the U.S.’s broken property tax system.
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Front yard businesses were once a natural stage in the evolution of a community. So where have they all gone, and how do we bring them back?
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Find out why this stretch of Floridian stroad has been nicknamed “death valley” by locals.
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Why is it that in the U.S. and Canada, we're always being told that we can't justify the ridership for transit projects? And why is it that when we do build transit, it struggles to gain riders?
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Rhode Island has built far more highways than it can afford to maintain. So why on earth is it building another one?
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On this Neighborhood Storyteller Sunday, Karla’s dentist—a local hero of sorts—gives her unexpected pause for reflection.
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Dutch-style bikes, code snitching, and media theorists. 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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These Strong Towns advocates started an electric bike company in Calgary, AB, and are passionate about how biking changes the way you see your city.
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This year, Buffalo, NY, made headlines around the U.S. in the wake of a tragic shooting. But there’s another story to tell about Buffalo as a city, and it’s about decline and revitalization.
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Are you a Strong Towns advocate looking for a job? Or an employer looking to hire a Strong Towns advocate? Well, have we got the resource for you.
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Design affects us in a multitude of ways, and when we look to nature as inspiration for designing the built environment, the core takeaways are: adaptation and incrementalism.
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The trajectory of these Jersey supermarkets is a microcosm of how the suburban experiment altered small towns, turning them from tiny cities into suburban lifestyle accouterments.
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Counterintuitive though it may feel, sometimes to build a better city, we need to prune things back, rather than adding more.
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There are some obvious anomalies that are being overlooked in the property tax assessment system. Joe Minicozzi of Urban3 pulls back the curtain in this episode of the Strong Towns Podcast.
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