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Strong Towns

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Cities, transportation, housing, walkability, and sustainable urban development.

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  • What's the Point of Park(ing) Day? #Urbanism #Transit #Housing

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    Nov 12, 2026

  • 4 Ways to Make the Economy Give Us the Cities We Want #UrbanPlanning #Economy #Housing

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    Nov 11, 2026

  • The Burden of Caring for a Place #Urbanism #Housing #Sustainability

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    Nov 9, 2026

  • What Happens After Someone Dies on Your Streets? #Urbanism #Transit #Safety

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    Nov 6, 2026

  • TV's Great Suburban Lie #Urbanism #Housing #Transportation

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    Nov 4, 2026

  • Why We Love Halloween #Urbanism #Walkability #Community

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    Oct 30, 2026

  • Woodland Bridge Plaza: When a Space Becomes a Place #Urbanism #Placemaking #Cities

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    Oct 28, 2026

  • Permitted, Pending HOA Approval #UrbanPlanning #Housing #Community

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    Oct 23, 2026

  • If Public Engagement Is Worthless, What Should Replace It? #UrbanPlanning #Community #CivicTech

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    Oct 21, 2026

  • The Best Time To Change City Policy Is Before It's Written #UrbanPlanning #Policy #Community

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    Oct 16, 2026

  • "Should I Vote for a Transit Tax?" #UrbanPlanning #Transportation #PublicTransit

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    Oct 14, 2026

  • The Democracy of Doing #Urbanism #Community #Development

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    Oct 9, 2026

  • The Other Housing Crisis #Urbanism #Housing #Development

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    Oct 7, 2026

  • Beyond Housing Booms and Busts #Urbanism #Housing #Development

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    Oct 5, 2026

  • What Happens After the Zoning Code Says "Yes" #Urbanism #Zoning #Development

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    Oct 2, 2026

  • What We Owe the Place We Call Home #UrbanPlanning #Community #Sustainability

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    Sep 30, 2026

  • Your Sewer System Is Probably Not Full #UrbanPlanning #Infrastructure #Sustainability

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    Sep 28, 2026

  • Anyone Can Complain, but Fewer Show Up With Paint #Urbanism #Community #Activism

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    Sep 25, 2026

  • A Drop in the Housing Crisis Bucket #Urbanism #Housing #Development

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    Sep 23, 2026

  • Filtering Is Not a Housing Affordability Strategy

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    Sep 21, 2026

  • Building More Beautiful Places #Urbanism #Community #Development

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    Sep 18, 2026

  • What Are We Asking the Flowers To Do? #UrbanPlanning #Sustainability #Community

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    Sep 14, 2026

  • The Missing Village: How to Build Neighborhoods Where Kids Thrive #UrbanPlanning #Community #Family

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    Sep 11, 2026

  • My Kids Like Mexico City More Than Vancouver #Urbanism #Cities #Development

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    Sep 9, 2026

  • The Road Decides Where the Money Goes #UrbanPlanning #Transportation #Infrastructure

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    Sep 4, 2026

  • An Interstate Highway Program -- but for Sidewalks? #UrbanPlanning #Infrastructure #Walkability

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    Sep 2, 2026

  • Can an Engineer Speak Out for Reform? #Urbanism #Engineering #Advocacy

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    Aug 31, 2026

  • The Shape-Sorter Test for Housing Rules #UrbanPlanning #Housing #Development

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    Aug 28, 2026

  • Are We Building the Right Things or Just Building More? #UrbanPlanning #Development #Sustainability

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    Aug 26, 2026

  • A Mayor Willing to Tell His City the Truth #UrbanPlanning #LocalGovernment #Community

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    Aug 24, 2026

  • Gone But Not Forgotten: Houston's World-Class Experiment in Public Transit #UrbanPlanning #Transportation #PublicTransit

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    Aug 21, 2026

  • I Analyze Streets for a Living, and I Still Didn't See What Was Right in Front of Me #Urbanism #Streets #Planning

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    Aug 19, 2026

  • State Preemption Should Help Cities Become Better Cities #UrbanPlanning #LocalGov #Policy

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    Aug 17, 2026

  • What We Get Right at Home and Wrong in Public #Urbanism #Community #Planning

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    Aug 14, 2026

  • What Do Bugs on Bicycles, Vacant Storefronts, and the Loneliness Epidemic Have in Common? #Urbanism #Community #Wellbeing

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    Aug 11, 2026

  • They Might Need the Lane Someday (and Who Cares How Many People Get Hurt in the Meantime) #UrbanPlanning #Transportation #Walkability

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    Aug 10, 2026

  • Revisiting Euclid v. Ambler at 100 #UrbanPlanning #Community #Development

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    Aug 7, 2026

  • The Biggest Misconception in Municipal Finance #UrbanPlanning #Finance #Community

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    Aug 5, 2026

  • Can We Feel Bad for the Drivers Who Kill Pedestrians? #UrbanPlanning #TrafficSafety #Community

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