Young engineers, old hubris, and bug hotels. These are just some of the stories from around the internet that Strong Towns staff were reading and talking about this week.
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Mayor Erin Stewart is helping create a brighter future for New Britain, CT.
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This latest Not Just Bikes video demystifies deadly street design by contrasting what it’s like to navigate streets on foot in the U.S. and Canada with what it’s like in the Netherlands.
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A small, local, mixed-use business versus a new Amazon warehouse. Let’s put these two business proposals before the Shark Tank (Winnipeg edition).
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Stunning new data analysis on the homes lost to tax forfeiture in Detroit shows that, in just a three-year span, $300 million in real estate transferred from homeowners living in Detroit to outside owners.
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A recent CNBC documentary features Strong Towns insights from Charles Marohn about why suburban development is so risky.
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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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When you prioritize fast car movement on a street that should be for building community wealth, don’t be surprised when you end up getting neither.
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Our Neighborhood Storyteller reflects on beating social isolation—even in isolated places.
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Chestnuts, Tolkien, and developer kings. These are just some of the stories from around the internet that Strong Towns staff were reading and talking about this week.
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The American Enterprise Institute has released some impressive—and free—data tools for understanding housing markets and development potential. And as a bonus, attend their upcoming talks if you’re in California!
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Norm Van Eeden Petersman is the new member advocate at Strong Towns, as well as the leader of a Local Conversation group in Delta, BC.
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The New Jersey Turnpike Authority plans to spend $4.7 billion updating and widening an eight-mile section of the turnpike, in the hopes of relieving congestion. Here’s why it’s not going to help.
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A recent Atlantic piece paints e-bikes as an awkward, doomed-to-fail mashup of the motorcycle and the bicycle. What’s the Strong Towns take?
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Property taxes represent the largest source of revenue for most local governments, and data shows that even unglamorous downtown areas offer more value as taxable properties than big box stores.
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Suburbia was an experiment—an experiment in the service of building lots of housing very quickly.
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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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This Sunday, a Strong Towns member invites our Neighborhood Storyteller to see how his neighborhood alliance is building community…with a block party!
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Pizza rolls, protective groundwater, and the Chinese Revolution. These are just some of the stories from around the internet that Strong Towns staff were reading and talking about this week.
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It's hard being the driver of a large truck, these days. You want your urban truck-driving experience to be better, but how? Answer: By supporting great pedestrian and cycling projects!
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