We figured out how to live in an exciting kid-friendly city on the cheap.
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I encourage you all to stop using the word "sprawl." It doesn't accurately describe the problem, it prevents us from getting to real responses and it unnecessarily divides the national dialog in ways that are unhelpful.
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Strong Towns visited Grand Forks, ND in the spring of 2015 and the impacts of that visit—and the conversation it sparked—are still being felt today.
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We produced over 100 podcasts in 2016. Here's our 7 best podcasts from the year.
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Scale our economy to those working at the ground level and we will see a true prosperity emerge from the fear and acrimony that is our national dialog.
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Do car drivers have to pull up to each intersection, lean out their window and push a button in order to get a green light? No.
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If the global economy is like a hot air balloon, we're only given the option to continually go higher -- despite the risk -- or cut all the air and crash. Those options aren't good enough.
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What will happen to homeowner's associations in an America with increasing suburban poverty? It will be messy.
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Building after massive building now
This fall, five articles explored important questions about the cost of housing and the need for "growth" and development in Portland, OR.
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We’ve spent the better part of 70 years building our cities for cars, not people, and it shows. It’s time to make walkability a priority, not just a feel-good buzzword.
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Here's how people across America are brightening their communities this winter.
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Can we have cities that work with economics that don't?
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Every city should be looking at the low hanging fruit they can use to continually improve themselves.
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Today, Heyden Walker and Chuck Marohn discuss the highway I-35 project in Austin and the need for better transparency in transportation spending.
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We've traded stability for growth, but now we find that we have neither.
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The Strong Towns podcast wasn't the only radio show coming through our headphones this year.
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Entrepreneurship is a hot word these days. Lots of towns say they would like to attract more entrepreneurs and grow their small business communities. But how do you do it?
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Maine lacks the money it needs to do basic maintenance on its transportation system. Their institutional response to this emergency is to cling to an archaic code book while projecting a value system of improve, Improve, IMPROVE.
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By buying wholesome food in bulk directly from small family farms I’ve radically shortened the supply chain.
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