Entrepreneurship plays an important role in building prosperous local communities. Here are some steps for creating a more active ecosystem of entrepreneurs in your place.
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Orlando (and the surrounding state of Florida) has long been reliant on cars. But the city’s new director of transportation hopes to change that.
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Let’s go beyond the “buy local” mantra and start replacing things we send money out of the community for with viable local alternatives.
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In this new series, we’re looking at Collier County as a case study for how insolvent growth persists in Florida. What's the history behind Collier’s development, and where is it headed?
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Let's talk about public facilities. What do they say about our cities and about the various layers of our society?
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Although many of us agree that walkability makes sense for countless reasons, few of us actually walk the cities where we live. Why? Because it sucks.
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There is much we can learn from cities of the past—especially small, remote cities that grew up around the exploitation of natural resources.
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Industry standards have made good people complicit in projects that are unsafe, unaffordable, and ineffective.
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Resource-based communities rarely experience the prosperity their labor makes possible for others. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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Intergenerational living, gardens of gratitude, and gaslighting as official policy. These are just some of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
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Social capital isn’t as easy to build these days, but it can still be done, and should be done, for the sake of our communities.
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6 principles for building stronger and more prosperous places.
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Marilyn Burns and Leah Ross saw a need in their community for greater laundry access, so they got together with neighbors to make it happen.
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We live in a society where the tendency is to scale up more and more, but are we actually on the path to a small-town revival?
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How one Colorado town is breaking away from its former dependence on mining.
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You're surrounded by more Strong Towns advocates than you might realize. Here's a simple, 3-step plan for how to connect with them.
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These photos of Staunton, Virginia, serve as a reminder that the benefits of “urbanism” aren’t limited to big cities.
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A brilliant cargo bikeshare program in Germany could serve as a model for North American cities.
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Motivations for relocation, pothole mosaics, and bitcoin. These are just some of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
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Significant effort should be dedicated to creating more accessible built environments—because doing so benefits people of all abilities.
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