Do we open things up and get people back to work or do we continue to flatten the curve and live with the financial fallout? Economically, it’s a distinction without a difference.
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Some cities and states are allowing tenants to defer rent payments. What happens when those rents come due before the economy is back on its feet?
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The debate now is between saving jobs and saving lives. But there was a deeper question we should have been asking a long time ago.
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Learn how to build a strong and prosperous place from the experts at Strong Towns.
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The ultimate irony of our economic system is that the only mechanism we have to satisfy our needs is to increase our neediness.
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We fix our fragile economy by leaning into neighborliness and human decency.
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We created debt to serve us. Now we serve debt.
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The greatest threat to our economic model isn’t recession or even depression. It’s that we become content with our lives.
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We've traded stability for growth, but now we find that we have neither.
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What the use of face masks to slow coronavirus — or the lack of use — teaches us about why change is so hard.
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What comes after the pandemic is largely up to us. But the time to decide is now, and there is work we can do to get ready.
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Even before the pandemic, towns and cities across North America were drifting toward bankruptcy...and many of them didn’t even know it. Now’s the time to take control of your community’s financial future.
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Financially, public pension funds are finished. There are two important reasons we need to admit this now…and find a way forward together.
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Everything about how we live our lives as Americans is about to change dramatically. The sooner we come to grips with that, the quicker we can get to work build Strong Towns.
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The more efficient we make our systems, the more fragile they become. To make our cities stable and prosperous, our development pattern needs to become less efficient.
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It’s not clear where this transition is taking us, but you don’t have to look far to see ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
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It’s important to demystify the development process. Not just for people who have a vested interest in what gets built in their neighborhood, but for people involved in one aspect of the building process — city officials, finance, architects, planners, etc. — who may not fully appreciate what’s happening elsewhere.
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It’s always been important that we build towns and cities that are strong for people of all ages and abilities. Huge demographic shifts make it urgent too.
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No matter the domain or field—city government, planning and engineering, and even our own families and communities—we all leave a legacy. The question is: will it be the legacy we intended to leave?
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A retrenchment in the stock market will be devastating to our cities. It’s also inevitable and, in some ways, necessary.
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