Upzoned
By Strong Towns
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Jun 18, 2019
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Sometimes, a hot new story will cross our desks that we need to talk about right away. That's where Upzoned comes in. Join Strong Towns President Chuck Marohn, Carlee Alm-LaBar, Norm Van Eeden Petersman, and other guests to talk in depth about one big story from the week in the Strong Towns conversation, right when you want it: now.
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Inside the Politics of ‘Safer Streets’
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May 06, 2026 |
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When Your City Feels Like Housing Musical Chairs
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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New York’s Bracket And The Politics Of Maintenance
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Unpacking The Myth That Growth Pays For Growth
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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The $600K Snow Budget That Became a $6 Million Problem
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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What LA’s Trash Problem Reveals About Its Streets
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Why a Legal Home Addition Sparked Outrage in Fairfax County
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Zoning Reform Is Only Step 1 in Fighting the Housing Crisis
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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What Happens When Official Decisions Clash With Community Traditions?
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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How To Fix Washington DC's New Rules for Outdoor Dining
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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DC Is Charging Thousands for Outdoor Dining. Is This a Good Idea?
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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5 Ways Ordinary People Are Making Their Places Stronger
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Will Elon Musk's Data Centers Actually Help Memphis?
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Historic Bridge Battle: Will 1 Town Profit While the Other Pays?
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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When a Town's Biggest Taxpayer Becomes Its Biggest Problem
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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2 Towns, 2 Responses to the Housing Crisis. Which Will Succeed?
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Public Transit Will Collapse in a Year. Should We Save It?
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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LA Just Avoided 1600 Layoffs. Is That a Good Thing?
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Tulsa Offers Remote Workers $10K To Move. Is It Paying Off?
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Housing Supply Is About to Exceed Demand. Now What?
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Can a Tax on House Flipping Stop Canada's Housing Crisis?
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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How Mortgage Fraud Makes the Housing Market More Expensive
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Are Sponge Cities the Flood Control Fix We Need?
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Why Data Center Electricity Use "Scares Me to the Bone"
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Why Colorado Is Facing a Senior Housing Crisis
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Why LA Is Struggling To Rebuild 6 Months After Wildfires
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Want To Use This Rural Road? That’ll Be $50K
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Suburbs Broke the American Sunbelt. Now What?
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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How To Stop Slumlords and Protect Urban Spaces
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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A Strong Towns View of the New SpaceX Company Town
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May 14, 2025 |
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California Universities Face a $17 Billion Growth Ponzi Scheme
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May 07, 2025 |
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Will Privatizing Mortgages Fix the Housing Market?
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Can We Take Community Wealth Back From Walmart and Kroger?
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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What Does the Future Look Like for Tiny Towns?
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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How a Popular Development Practice Backfires on Homeowners
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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How To Handle the Looming Shortage of Senior Housing
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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How To Reform Chicago Zoning: The Western Avenue Project
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Why Massachusetts Might Sue Its Cities Over Zoning Codes
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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How Homeowner’s Insurance May Change in the Wake of California Wildfires
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Is Life More Difficult for Younger Generations?
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Motivated Reasoning: The Psychology Behind Big Municipal Projects
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Urban Forests Are the Stroads of Urban Environmental Policy
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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The Goldilocks Option: Why Townhouses Might Be Just Right for Housing Development
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Here’s Why You May See More Corner Stores in the Future
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Deferred Maintenance Dilemma: Why Florida’s Condo Market Is Floundering
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Can “Urban Homesteading” Help Cities Fight the Housing Crisis?
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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What Is the Strong Towns Response to Natural Disasters?
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Can Vehicle to Everything (V2X) Technology Make Streets Safer?
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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From Silos to Success: How To Make City Building More Collaborative
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Incremental Development: Ladies Power Hour
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Is the American Dream out of Reach for Most People?
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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How To Build Better Places Through Small-Scale Development
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Fire Departments Can Help Make Streets Safer, and Here’s How
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Why Cities Need To Become More Family Friendly
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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What Los Angeles Can Learn From Paris’ Olympic Village
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Indianapolis Empowers People and Drives Change Through Tactical Urbanism
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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How To Handle Small-Scale Development Finance: Insights From Kansas City
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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You Don’t Actually Want To Abolish Property Taxes, and Here’s Why
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Why New York City’s Traffic Congestion Plan Crashed and Burned
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Faith in Action: How Religious Institutions Can Help Solve the Housing Crisis
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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The Dollar Difference: Why Rural Poverty Benefits Dollar Stores More Than Urban
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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How To Successfully Navigate the World of Incremental Development
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Doug Barrick: Building a Strong Town as a Member of Local Government
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Is the Non Profit Sector a Mess of 'Misconduct, Greed and Corruption'?
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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An Inside Look at the Strong Towns National Gathering
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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From Bike Lovers to Zoning Experts: The Voices of Strong Towns
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May 22, 2024 |
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Cincinnati Pledges $200K in Funding for Popular Bikeshare Service
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May 01, 2024 |
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Department of Justice Opens Criminal Investigation Into “Housing Cartel”
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Inside the Notorious Gridlock of Colorado's I-70
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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“Redesigning” Cincinnati With the Connected Communities Plan
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Our Financial System Favors Large-Scale Development…but at What Cost?
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Traffic Deaths Now Exceed the Number of Homicides in LA. This Initiative Aims To Change That.
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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$350 Million Mixed-Use Development Presents a "Huge Opportunity" for South Bend, IN
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Could this New Approach to Public Housing Actually Work?
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Parking Minimums Might Be on the Way Out in Dallas
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Coming Back Down to Earth After a “Next-Level” Downtown Revitalization
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Today’s Generation of Families Are “Disillusioned” by Suburbia
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Millennials Are Fleeing Cities in Favor of the Exurbs
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Ryan Johnson: Builder of the First Car-Free Neighborhood Made From Scratch in the U.S.
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Transportation Meltdown: Children on the School Bus Till 10 p.m.
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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Is Affordable Housing Possible Under Current Zoning Laws?
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Arizona Pushes for Suburban and Rural Development, Despite Dwindling Water Supply
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Atlanta’s New Idea To Address Their Housing Crisis
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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The Invisible Reason for High Housing Prices: Restrictive Land-Use Regulations
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Why Can’t We Have the “Perfect” Neighborhood?
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Behind the Scenes at the Strong Towns National Gathering
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Live From the National Gathering
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Parking Regulations Threaten to Demolish Coffee Shop
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May 17, 2023 |
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An Abandoned Downtown Equals a Pot of Gold?
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May 03, 2023 |
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One Reason American Architecture Is Considered Boring: Stairs
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Cowboy Hotels for Housing Shortages
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Homelessness in Rural America
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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High-Income Earners Are Renting Instead of Buying Homes
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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When a Building Is Demolished, What Should Happen to the Materials?
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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The 15 Minute City - A Good Life or an Infringement on Freedoms?
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Whose Responsibility Is It To Ensure That Buildings Interact With the Public Realm in a Delightful Way?
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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We’re Getting Worse at Construction Despite Technology Advances
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Portland’s Cully Neighborhood To Use “The One Ring” for Good
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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The Governor of Missouri Wants to Spend $859 Million on Highway Expansion
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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The U.S. Is Running Out of Skilled Labor. Is It Gen-Z’s Fault?
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Jan 18, 2023 |