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Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year
Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for the New Year

We hope you have a wonderful final few weeks of the year, and look forward to seeing you again in 2022!

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Strong TownsDecember 20, 2021announcement
The 5 Best Strong Towns Articles and Podcasts from 2021: Daniel's Picks
The 5 Best Strong Towns Articles and Podcasts from 2021: Daniel's Picks

Strong Towns Senior Editor Daniel Herriges shares his favorite content from this past year.

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Top StoryDaniel HerrigesDecember 17, 2021best of strong towns
The Best Books I Read in 2021
The Best Books I Read in 2021

An annual tradition, here is Chuck Marohn’s list of his favorite books he read in 2021.

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MarohnCharles MarohnDecember 17, 2021books
The 5 Best Strong Towns Articles and Podcasts from 2021: Shina's Picks
The 5 Best Strong Towns Articles and Podcasts from 2021: Shina's Picks

Strong Towns Copy Editor/Designer Shina Shayesteh shares her favorite content from this past year.

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Top StoryShina ShayestehDecember 16, 2021best of strong towns
The Bottom-Up Revolution Is...Increasing Bike Access for All
The Bottom-Up Revolution Is...Increasing Bike Access for All

Kirk Seyfert is helping get bikes to people who need them in Salem, OR.

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Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsDecember 16, 2021The Bottom-Up Revolution, taking action, biking, poverty
Legalize the Village
Legalize the Village

The author of Happy City helped build a home that addressed some of the greatest challenges of our times. But his home is illegal almost everywhere in his city—and in your city, too.

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Top StoryCharles MontgomeryDecember 16, 2021housing, housing affordability, housing crisis, housing cost, co-housing, canada, zoning, upzoning, home buyer
Disaster Relief for America's Housing Crisis
Disaster Relief for America's Housing Crisis

COVID has enabled us to get some “disaster relief” for the housing crisis. But what about when the pandemic is over?

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Podcast, Top StoryStrong TownsDecember 15, 2021podcast, federal funding, housing, housing crisis, upzoned, covid
The 5 Best Strong Towns Articles and Podcasts from 2021: John's Picks
The 5 Best Strong Towns Articles and Podcasts from 2021: John's Picks

Strong Towns Community Builder John Pattison shares his favorite content from this past year.

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Top StoryJohn PattisonDecember 15, 2021best of strong towns
Changing the Conversation about Our Broken Transportation Systems
Changing the Conversation about Our Broken Transportation Systems

People are talking about Confessions of a Recovering Engineer. Here's what they're saying.

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Top StoryStrong TownsDecember 15, 2021Not Just Bikes, confessions of a recovering engineer
Christmas Cookie Inflation Index, 2021 Update
Christmas Cookie Inflation Index, 2021 Update

The Christmas Cookie Inflation Index has risen 10.6% in the last year. This is compared to the official inflation rate of 6.8%.

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Marohn, Top StoryCharles MarohnDecember 15, 2021Inflation, poverty, Economy, economics
The Relationship between Urban Design and Charity
The Relationship between Urban Design and Charity

It’s hard to meaningfully engage with the poor when everything about our cities is designed to steer us away from them.

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Top Story, OwensTiffany Owens ReedDecember 14, 2021poverty, faith communities, Faith Featured
The 5 Best Strong Towns Articles and Podcasts from 2021: Rachel's Picks
The 5 Best Strong Towns Articles and Podcasts from 2021: Rachel's Picks

Strong Towns Program Director Rachel Quednau shares her favorite content from this past year.

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Top StoryRachel QuednauDecember 14, 2021best of strong towns
Two Different Languages
Two Different Languages

Dozens of people have been killed by vehicles on State Street in Springfield, Massachusetts over the last seven years. The public is clamoring for change, but city staff aren’t getting the message. Here’s what’s being lost in translation.

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Top StoryCharles MarohnDecember 14, 2021pedestrians, missouri, confessions of a recovering engineer
Help Welcome Two New People to the Strong Towns Staff!
Help Welcome Two New People to the Strong Towns Staff!

Across the U.S. and Canada, the Strong Towns movement is growing. We’ve added two new staff people to help.

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Top StoryStrong TownsDecember 13, 2021announcement
For Small Developers, Strong Towns Need Strong Banking
For Small Developers, Strong Towns Need Strong Banking

Any attempt to design cities that are for people and not cars is all for naught if there are no means to finance it.

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Top StoryMatthew RobareDecember 13, 2021banks, finance, small scale developers, small scale development
Unleash the Swarm: A New E-book on Reviving Small-Scale Development
Unleash the Swarm: A New E-book on Reviving Small-Scale Development

This new Strong Towns e-book explores what it would take to revive small-scale development as a force significant enough to shape and grow our cities.

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Herriges, Top StoryDaniel HerrigesDecember 13, 2021eBook, announcement, incremental, incremental development, small scale developers, small scale development, series
The Typewriter Mailbox: Small Ways to Bring Joy to a Neighborhood
The Typewriter Mailbox: Small Ways to Bring Joy to a Neighborhood

This house came with a unique instruction: “Change the mailbox message every week, or people will get upset.”

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Top StoryKarla TheilenDecember 10, 2021neighborliness, community, montana, neighborhoods
An Ode to Pets in Windows
An Ode to Pets in Windows

The pets of this neighborhood brought their humans closer together.

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Top StorySara FalligantDecember 9, 2021pets, neighborliness, community, neighborhoods
Love Letters to Your Neighborhood: 5 (Perfectly Legal) Guerilla Art Projects for the Whole Family
Love Letters to Your Neighborhood: 5 (Perfectly Legal) Guerilla Art Projects for the Whole Family

These temporary artwork instillations (that anyone can create) are a great way to connect with your neighbors, and help them connect with your community, in turn.

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Top StoryMary Elizabeth PhillipsDecember 8, 2021arts, neighborliness, community, texas, neighborhoods
“Why Am I Even Here?”
“Why Am I Even Here?”

Why bother asking the public what they want if their opinions are going to be dismissed, anyway?

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Top StoryJoyce MandellDecember 7, 2021public engagement, libraries, massachusetts
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