Strong Towns Week in Review
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What if you could look at your city’s finances and understand what’s going on—not just this year, but over the long haul? Meet the Strong Towns Finance Decoder.
Elizabeth Turman-Bryant is a councilmember in Burlington, Washington. She joins Tiffany to discuss the importance of balancing responsive bottom-up activism with influential local government involvement. (Transcript included.)
From fast traffic to flower-filled crosswalks, a quiet revolution is reshaping Indianapolis’ streets. And it isn’t breaking the bank.
What if you could see where your city makes money—and where it quietly loses it? That’s what a group of residents in Langley, British Columbia set out to do.
Chuck is joined by Carlee Alm-LaBar and Kevin Blanchard, former city staff members in Lafayette, Louisiana. They discuss the challenges of balancing competing demands and priorities when working in local government. (Transcript included.)
Denyse Trepanier is the president of Bike Walk Alameda. She joins Norm to discuss the city's efforts to improve biking infrastructure, including a network of low-stress bikeways. (Transcript included.)
A deadly hit-and-run in Fayetteville, North Carolina sparks urgent calls for safer streets and stronger action from city leaders.
Tired of excessive speeds on a neighborhood street, a community organization took matters into their own hands and saved lives in the process.
Fragile cities are overextended, under-resourced, and deeply dependent on decisions made far away. Here’s what that looks like.
For years, Pittsburgh struggled with rising traffic fatalities. Instead of accepting these tragedies as inevitable or waiting for outside funding, city leaders acted decisively with the resources they had. Here's how.
Unlocking incremental development at the scale of the lot is the most transformative thing we can do because it impacts every lot in the city or metropolitan area.