Strong Towns Copy Editor/Designer Shina Shayesteh shares her favorite content from this past year.
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Let’s take a moment to reflect on the progress we made this year countering the Reckless Driver™ narrative that safety officials were pushing at the end of 2021.
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Our friends over at Urban3 share some of their favorite visuals from 2022—each of which tells a mathematical truth about the places we choose to develop and inhabit.
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Strong Towns Editor-in-Chief Daniel Herriges shares his favorite content from this past year.
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We’re pleased to welcome four new amazing people to the team!
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You can learn a lot about a place by how easily you can do some great Christmas shopping.
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Our Neighborhood Storyteller closes out her final column with a traditionally (or not so traditionally?) Midwestern send-off.
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Strong Towns Communications Manager Lauren Fisher shares her favorite content from this past year.
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Strong Towns Member Advocate Norm Van Eeden Petersman shares his favorite content from this past year.
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An annual tradition, here is Chuck Marohn’s list of his favorite books he read in 2022.
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MDOT’s M.O.: create deadly streets, and then blame drivers for high traffic death rates.
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The Seattle area is growing fast, and the suburbs are not going to be exempt from change. Data on the true costs of development is helping local advocates develop a vision for a more prosperous—and, yes, populous—future.
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Insurance companies are starting to become wary of wildfire-prone areas of Colorado, leaving homeowners without enough funds to rebuild after a disaster occurs.
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Residents of Spanish Fork, UT, have raised the alarm about a dangerous stroad where children regularly cross, but local officials refuse to acknowledge the danger until someone gets injured or killed.
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Relationships with neighbors once made up an important part of our social fabric, forming the basis for civic collaboration and local problem solving. Here’s how we can get those relationships back.
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This week on the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck Marohn chats with Sam Quinones, author and journalist, about his most recent book, The Least of Us.
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The Christmas Cookie Inflation Index has risen 12.0% in the last year. This is compared to the official inflation rate of 7.7%.
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Our Neighborhood Storyteller visits her hometown to both mourn and celebrate the changes that have happened there over the years.
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L stops, catalog ADUs, and a new name for Distributism. 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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Mixed-use development was once the norm in cities and towns, but most Americans no longer remember how it works. Here are 3 easy-to-understand forms that mixed use could (and should) take in your community.
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