If you pull back the curtain on North America’s financially insolvent cities, you’ll see what’s REALLY propping them up.
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Read MorePast winners of the Strongest Town contest give updates on their cities and weigh in on this year’s finalists.
Read MoreWho will be crowned this year’s Strongest Town winner? You get to help decide.
Read MoreOur streets are “dangerous by design.” We answer a listener’s question about the role of automated enforcement in making them safer.
Read MoreThe first tribal-owned brewery in Southern California, the bottom-up innovations of Latino Urbanism, and the Western states experimenting with weather modification. These are just a few stories from around the web that Strong Towns staff were reading and talking about this week.
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Read MoreCities should take responsibility for getting the factors right that make public spaces lovable and worthy of care.
Read MoreAdvocates say promoting EVs is a key step toward addressing climate change. But what if it’s actually a distraction from an underlying issue: the suburban development pattern?
Read MoreWhat could it look like to have a USDOT committed to reversing course from the mistakes of the freeway era?
Read MoreYou’re invited to an exclusive interactive show with Strong Towns members and staff.
Read MoreWho will move on to the championship round next week? Their fate is in your hands!
Read MoreMany critiques of “boxy buildings” focus on aesthetics. But the big problem isn’t so much the shape as the scale.
Read MoreA proposed new “diverging diamond” interchange in Massachusetts is being sold as pedestrian-friendly. In truth, it is a profoundly pedestrian-hostile design.
Read MoreNot only did car culture change how we build cities, it changed how (and how often) we encounter other people.
Read MoreThe fate of mom-and-pop stores in New York City, the diverging diamond interchange proposed for suburban Boston, and how Evanston, Illinois is taking some concrete action on reparations. These are just a few of the stories Strong Towns staff were reading and talking about this week.
Read MoreThe votes are in! Who is advancing to the semifinal round?
Read MoreStrong Towns member Michael Smith and colleague Aaron Holverson are working to make Rockford, IL a more economically resilient place.
Read MoreWe’re pleased to welcome the newest member of the Strong Towns team!
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