This week, we contemplated questions like, “What will help declining cities come back to life?” and “When is it okay to annex property?”
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Is there life for vacant downtown office towers beyond the cubicle?
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The city's loss decades ago was the suburb's gain. Today's city gain is coming at the expense of the suburbs.
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Why does Charleston’s quaint downtown have such astronomically high property values?
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Architects and CNU leaders, Andres Duany and Kevin Klinkenberg pull back the curtain on Savannah, GA.
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Most of the land in our cities sits vacant for large parts of the day. Is this the best use of our resources?
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The worst thing a business of any size can do is alienate their regular patrons by showing favor to new ones. This applies in cities too.
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5 lessons I learned from conducting a tactical urbanism demonstration in my city.
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Here’s one key reason people like me are leaving small towns for big cities.
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For a struggling city, negative perceptions from with the community can send it into a spiral of decline. It takes a major shift in perspective to get the city back on track.
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Akron, Ohio offers a shining example of the many benefits of street trees.
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This creative bike rental program bridges the gap between short-term bike share and full bike ownership — making bikes accessible to those who normally couldn’t afford them.
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From public transit to listening to mothers, here’s how cities can (and do) support families.
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Here are seven fantastic podcasts from the early days of Strong Towns.
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When a neighborhood commercial street comes back to life, the whole city benefits.
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It’s hard to imagine a scenario where Shreveport could do an annexation that benefits the city, its residents and its businesses over the long term.
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This week, we discussed the ways our cities can support — or fail to support — local businesses.
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Strong Towns’ writing is part of the Irish Pavilion at the prestigious Venice Biennale of Architecture.
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The problems created by the style of development just keep piling on.
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Incremental developer Monte Anderson encourages people to pick a place they love and stay there, then work to make it better piece by piece.
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