So you've been reading Strong Towns for a while now. Maybe you even took the next step and became a member... But now what?
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We were deeply flattered to see our very own founder and president, Chuck Marohn, nominated to a list of the Most Influential Urbanists crowdsourced by Planetizen.
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The traditional development pattern has tremendous financial upside and limited financial downside. In contrast, the suburban approach has limited financial upside and a downside that can literally go negative.
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It is very seductive to look at Houston's flooding as a simple engineering and planning problem.
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Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery.
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Transportation options are not a zero sum game. Better bike access might actually make life easier for people with disabilities.
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Chuck Marohn was recently featured on The Civil Engineering Podcast.
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WPVI-TV Philadelphia reports that a "girl chatting on FaceTime [was] struck and critically injured by [a] car in Abington." The real culprit is the road design, not her phone.
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The kind of development America needs happens at the scale of strong citizens.
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The Strong Indy group offers advice on how to organize your neighbors to build strong towns.
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Chuck Marohn and urban affairs journalist Scott Beyer discuss their overlapping and diverging viewpoints on government regulations, zoning and housing affordability issues.
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A new street is being completed. Does it need bike lanes to be safe for cyclists or is it okay without them?
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A hierarchical zoning model would allow greater development flexibility and remove needless rules from our zoning codes. Here's how to do it.
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Is there an empty lot in your neighborhood you dream of filling? Use these simple steps to sketch, model and render a new building in the space.
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Along a quiet stretch of the Allegheny River in Western New York, a small farm run by the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany strives to change how the surrounding community feeds itself.
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What does it mean to grow incrementally? What are the advantages of this manner of development? Chuck Marohn will lead an open discussion about these questions on Thursday.
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Growth is not enough. What America needs is productive growth—growth that builds wealth generation after generation.
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Peoria, IL once produced 1/5 of the nation's liquor. Then Prohibition came and it all disappeared. Has the city learned its lesson?
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Does Strong Towns have a right to point out the problems with our current development pattern if we don't have a clear solution?
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