You know what a stroad is… Now how about these other coined phrases that help tell the story of the challenges that local advocates grapple with?
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Bike Talk is a Los Angeles-based radio show dedicated to the idea that we need to prioritize bikes as a form of public transportation, and they recently invited Strong Towns President Chuck Marohn to appear on an episode.
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Isaac Gonzalez couldn’t have foreseen a decade ago that he’d be one of the leading advocates for safer streets in his home city. “But once you notice it, you can’t un-notice it. And if you realize you can do something, you have to.”
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New facilities aren’t bad, but they do present a problem when we can’t afford to maintain them after they’re built.
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When budget season comes around, it can be hard to feel good about policy wins when there are so many other important causes that are also fighting for funding.
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The driver was operating their vehicle entirely lawfully at this intersection in Grand Junction, CO—yet a person was nearly killed and the driver’s car was totaled. Who do we blame? (And what’s the point of assigning blame?)
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Small-scale developer Coby Lefkowitz joins us to discuss how finance shapes our cities, why debt is used to develop cities, and and why America's housing financial system privileges large-scale institutional development.
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Who would go cycling in snowy conditions, in a city with a 764-foot-high hill right in the middle of it? Montrealers, and the city’s bikeshare program has the stats to prove it.
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High home prices are compelling young adults to create less conventional living arrangements.
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Monte Anderson is a local developer who sees it as his mission to revive his community—not only through neighboring relationships, but also by saving the abandoned and broken spaces.
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Benjamin Herold, author of Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs, joins host Chuck Marohn on this week’s episode of the Strong Towns Podcast.
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Your vote will help decide which of the 8 remaining communities best exemplifies the Strong Towns approach. Check out the contest now.
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Every four years, a small but vocal portion of our audience calls on Strong Towns to react to the politics surrounding national elections. This is our response.
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For the first time, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety conducted tests on 14 widely available versions of self-driving technology. Here’s what they found.
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We have to end highway expansion and focus on projects that actually build wealth in our cities. If you’re not convinced, then read on.
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There is nothing inspirational in calling the place you live as accessory to something else. It’s time we returned a sense of dignity to the smaller structures that people have called “home” for generations.
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Maddy Novich is a criminal justice professor at Manhattan College, a mom of three, and an Instagram influencer living in New York City—you might know her as @cargobikemomma!
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There’s a troubling narrative out there that you can only get things done in your community if you’re in public office, or by otherwise working through official, formal channels. But this is simply not true.
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Your vote will help decide which of 16 communities best exemplifies the Strong Towns approach. Check out the contest now.
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Michael Schneider, founder of Streets for All and the campaign manager for Healthy Streets Los Angeles, joins us today on Upzoned to talk about the recent ballot proposal, Measure HLA.
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