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What is Strong Towns?

 

Strong Towns is an organization that promotes a new approach to urban planning and development. We focus on creating financially resilient and sustainable communities. We advocate for incremental growth, prioritizing small-scale, community-driven development over large, debt-financed projects. Our goal is to build places that are adaptable, diverse, and capable of supporting long-term prosperity. We emphasize the importance of local decision-making and investing in existing neighborhoods to create vibrant, walkable, and economically robust communities.

 

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  • Strong Towns Campaigns:

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  • Safe and Productive Streets
    We seek to shift the priority of local streets from automobile throughput to human safety and wealth creation. Learn more

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  • End Parking Mandates and Subsidies
    We seek an end to the mandates and subsidies that cause productive land to be used for motor vehicle storage. Learn more

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  • Incremental Housing
    We seek to have the next increment of development intensity allowed, by right, in every neighborhood in America. Learn more

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  • Transparent Local Accounting
    We seek to reveal the financial implications of the Suburban Experiment by increasing the transparency of local government accounting practices. Learn more

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  • End Highway Expansion
    We seek to curtail the primary mechanism of local wealth destruction and municipal insolvency: the continued expansion of America’s highways and related auto-based transportation systems. Learn more

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  • Strong Towns Principles:

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  • #1:
    Financial solvency is a prerequisite for long-term prosperity.

  • #2:
    Land is the base resource from which community prosperity is built and sustained. It must not be squandered.

  • #3:
    A transportation system is a means of creating prosperity in a community, not an end in itself.

  • #4:
    Job creation and economic growth are the results of a healthy local economy, not substitutes for one.

  • #5:
    Strong cities, towns, and neighborhoods cannot happen without strong citizens (people who care).

  • #6:
    Local government is a platform for Strong Citizens to collaboratively build a prosperous place.