Strong Towns member and former Jackson, MS, resident Amanda Lanata comes to the Strong Towns Podcast to discuss the role that racism played in the city’s recent water crisis.
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For seven weeks Jackson’s residents had to bear the brunt of a failing water system, and unfortunately it was bound to happen.
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The Suburban Experiment is a bad business model, and nothing demonstrates that more clearly than Jackson, Mississippi’s, ongoing water crisis.
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Past winners of the Strongest Town contest give updates on their cities and weigh in on this year’s finalists.
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Who will be crowned this year’s Strongest Town winner? You get to help decide.
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Who will move on to the championship round next week? Their fate is in your hands!
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Vote now in Round 2 of the Strongest Town Contest! Which city should advance to the semifinals?
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Cast your vote! Who should advance to Round 2 in the sixth annual Strongest Town Contest?!
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The Poet Laureate of Mississippi reflects on her adopted South and on the Southern tradition of front porch-sitting: “No other architectural space is so deliciously not/and: not inside, not outside. Not public, not private. Not house, not garden.”
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Once ubiquitous, then endangered, the American front porch is making a comeback. From rocking chairs to rock music, a conference near Oxford, Mississippi celebrates the past, present, and future of the surprisingly powerful front porch.
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