Watch—and then share—Chuck Marohn’s TEDx video. It’s an excellent 14-minute introduction on what makes a strong town.
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Our answer to this question is a pair of filters. If you can’t pass these filters, it’s a bad project.
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Son las experiencias de personas reales que deben guiar nuestros esfuerzos de planificación. Sus acciones son los datos que deberíamos recopilar, no sus preferencias declaradas.
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London’s thinnest house just went on sale. Here are two takeaways we shouldn’t miss.
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What’s the cost of wasting 12 years?
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Si bien se necesitan nuevos fondos para el transporte, más dinero sin una reforma significativa es peor que ningún financiamiento. Tenemos que seguir oponiéndonos a todos estos esfuerzos de financiación hasta que se ponga sobre la mesa una reforma seria.
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Understanding risk and uncertainty—and the difference between the two—can help local communities face the unknown.
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It’s possible to grow and accumulate wealth…but not without intention. That starts with asking the right question. "How do we get more money for infrastructure?" is the wrong question.
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El patrón de desarrollo estadounidense crea la ilusión de riqueza. Hoy estamos en el proceso de ver esa ilusión destruida ... y con ella la prosperidad que hemos llegado a dar por sentada.
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The only way to fix what is broken is from the bottom up, starting with a covenant between each other.
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If every local community in the United States found themselves independently stable, prosperous, and self-sufficient, would we need competition with other nations?
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10 events in 8 weeks. All online. And all designed to help you take action and build a stronger town or city.
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Tommy Pacello made me love Memphis. Even more powerfully, he helped me forgive the failures of my own struggling community and to love it even more.
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There is nothing stopping local leaders from addressing their community’s legacy of racial injustice. Here is a credible plan for getting started.
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I considered breaking a multi-year tradition and not releasing a top book list this year. But then I looked back and realized how many great books I had actually read in this crazy year…
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Here are the immediate steps every community should be taking to respond to the pandemic.
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Local governments need to be repositioned to advocate up instead of merely administering down. As an alternative to populist fervor or broad disenfranchisement, this is the kind of authentic representation that Rural America needs.
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Small investments in poor neighborhoods are the best way for a community to build wealth. They are also the best way to lift people out of poverty without displacing them from their neighborhood.
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Hacer inversiones pequeñas en barrios pobres es el mejor modo de aumentar la riqueza. También, son el mejor modo de ayudar a la gente a salir de la pobreza sin desplazarse del barrio.
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I received a chilling response from the state licensing board. This abuse of power should concern everyone, especially my fellow engineers.
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