Strong Towns is a non-profit organization that supports a model for growth that allows America's towns to become financially strong and self-sufficient.
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Strong Towns Our Strong Town slant on this week's news. This week the focus is on "transformation". Economy, transportation and music too.
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For those passionate about the future of America's small towns and rural areas.
Strong Towns John Michlig presents some excellent street knowledge for Strong Towns advocates in this post about economic development efforts in suburban Franklin, Wisconsin.
Sprawled Out: The Search for Community in the American Suburb: Movie theaters in corn fields and emp
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This is a four year-old picture, but nothing has changed. Located across from the Northwestern Mutual campus on 27th and Drexel; 1.200 employees headquartered across the street(!) couldn't keep a restaurant in business here. Communities can be shaped by choice,...
Strong Towns A Strong Towns approach to economic development on the Jane Jacobs model.
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For those passionate about the future of America's small towns and rural areas.
Strong Towns Brookings Institute did this great analysis on infrastructure, stimulus and jobs that we referenced in today's post. www.strongtownsblog.org
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With rising concern about the nation’s anemic job numbers, infrastructure has emerged as a centerpiece of a number of proposed “jobs bills.” In a Hill op-ed, Bruce Katz and Robert Puentes point out that ...
Strong Towns In the Bay Area, households spend an average $41,420 on housing and transportation - 59% of median household income in the region. Public and private money we spend due to inefficient land use is money we ought to invest in more productive uses (whether that's saving for college, starting a business, or Strong Towns public purposes).
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Strong Towns Follow up to our blog post today - more thoughts on small towns "chasing smokestacks". Futile and costly.
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Strong Towns Was Kelo bad law or just bad economic development policy? Get the Strong Town answer.
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For those passionate about the future of America's small towns and rural areas.
Strong Towns The Friday News Digest - The week's news with Strong Town commentary included. This week: mostly housing. All signs point down, unless you speak to a real estate agent.
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For those passionate about the future of America's small towns and rural areas.
Strong Towns From California nonprofit, TransForm: "Our current pattern of growth - sprawl - is costing us too much. It requires taxpayers to spend too much on infrastructure, developers to spend too much on parking, and families to spend far too much to get where they need to go." TransForm's new report, Windfall for All, identifi...es average savings of $5,450 per household that we can unlock - if we rethink our land use and development patterns.
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There are ways to fight climate change that can save all of us – families, governments, and businesses – huge amounts of money. And all while making our communities and commutes better.
Strong Towns Strong Towns offers a sketch of bold ideas for moving forward - sacred cows beware.
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For those passionate about the future of America's small towns and rural areas.
Strong Towns Reaction from the Strong Towns Blog to an op-ed piece in the NY Daily News calling for the building of even more infrastructure.
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For those passionate about the future of America's small towns and rural areas.
Strong Towns "The federal government needs to pursue a frank and rigorous debate about how to make better investment decisions," says Brookings fellow Rob Puentes in this short interview.
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America's transportation and infrastructure policies affect literally everyone who moves from place to place in the country, but often they are under-discussed and over-simplified by the mainstream media. ...
Strong Towns Wait a minute. From whom are we getting more money? Here's a national example of why American places need to make themselves Strong Towns.
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For the first time since the 1930s, households are paying less in personal taxes than state and federal governments are paying out through transfer programs like Social Security.
Strong Towns Ideas about increasing the productivity of American land use aren't liberal or conservative ideas. If they were, how would you categorize changing the way we use space along the 47,000 miles of interstate highway? Cars and trucks aren't going away - but the way we provide for them needs to grow more efficient.
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By taking full advantage of the Interstate highway, new employment opportunities could be created.
