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Strong Towns Library
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Welcome to the Strong Towns Library channel on RUclips! This is the place where we've catalogued our best podcast conversations, presentations and insider webcasts that relate to the failures of the post-war North American development pattern.
As a non-profit organization, Strong Towns supports thousands of people across the United States and Canada who are advocating for a radically new way of thinking about the way we build our world. We produce daily articles (on our website), podcasts and events that ask hard questions about how we build today, and shine a spotlight on a better way that we must take up tomorrow.
As a non-profit organization, Strong Towns supports thousands of people across the United States and Canada who are advocating for a radically new way of thinking about the way we build our world. We produce daily articles (on our website), podcasts and events that ask hard questions about how we build today, and shine a spotlight on a better way that we must take up tomorrow.
Office Hours: Rik Adamski "Placemaking for Impact"
Check out all of the resources mentioned in this episode in the Strong Towns Library
actionlab.strongtowns.org/hc/en-us/articles/30154748263444-Placemaking-for-Impact-Rik-Adamski-of-Ash-Lime-September-6-2024
Rik Adamski is the President of Ash & Lime, specializing in revitalizing downtowns and neighborhoods through innovative planning. With extensive experience consulting for major planning organizations, Rik is known for his participatory approach to community development. He has spoken at numerous conferences and universities, focusing on transformative action and building community consensus.
For those who are interested, here's a portfolio of projects that they've worked on at Ash & Lime...
actionlab.strongtowns.org/hc/en-us/articles/30154748263444-Placemaking-for-Impact-Rik-Adamski-of-Ash-Lime-September-6-2024
Rik Adamski is the President of Ash & Lime, specializing in revitalizing downtowns and neighborhoods through innovative planning. With extensive experience consulting for major planning organizations, Rik is known for his participatory approach to community development. He has spoken at numerous conferences and universities, focusing on transformative action and building community consensus.
For those who are interested, here's a portfolio of projects that they've worked on at Ash & Lime...
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How do I find my city's codes and plans? (Municode)
Просмотров 8619 часов назад
This is a close look at Municode, an index and repository of municipal codes that can help you dive into the specifics of your city's local ordinances. If you like this type of content, please drop a comment below to let us know you'd like to see more like this! If you have questions related to the issues you're facing in your community, feel free to post in the Strong Towns forum at actionlab....
How do I make changes to our parking requirements?
Просмотров 8921 час назад
This is a close look at the steps taken by city leaders in Norman, Oklahoma to remove parking requirements. We wrote about this in an article last year but wanted to look at this in more depth to explain the why and how of this process. www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/8/28/the-fastest-way-to-remove-parking-mandates-change-one-word If you like this type of content, please drop a comment below t...
How You Can Bring Strong Towns to Your Community
Просмотров 1842 месяца назад
Learn about opportunities to bring Strong Towns speakers to your area for presentations and workshops. Are you interested in learning more about housing alongside your neighbors? Do you feel like your community could benefit from discussing street safety and public transportation? Are you ready to mobilize your friends to take the small steps necessary to make your neighborhood a better place t...
Office Hours: Urban 3 Team "The Math That Changes Discussions"
Просмотров 5902 месяца назад
Thanks to Brooke, Leah, and Adam from Urban 3 for joining us on Office Hours. Check out Urban3 here: www.urbanthree.com/ To see more resources from this discussion (including many example images and the insightful comments from our participants) visit this recording resource page at strongtowns.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/27577071615124
Office Hours: Edward Erfurt "Buildings Must Build More Wealth Than What They Replaced"
Просмотров 3833 месяца назад
Edward Erfurt, Director of Community Action for Strong Towns, provides a compelling picture of what can be done in communities to boost the financial returns on development projects while improving the outcomes for the community. Learn more about the things that we're discussing here at actionlab.strongtowns.org/hc/en-us and consider bringing Strong Towns into your community with the Community ...
Office Hours: Geoffrey Donovan "Trees and the Health of Your Community"
Просмотров 2124 месяца назад
actionlab.strongtowns.org/hc/en-us/articles/4411641932308-Street-Trees-Top-Content “Trees are an easily modifiable part of our landscape” Geoffrey's work and research highlights are all available here. It is a treasure trove of interesting and impactful content! www.fs.usda.gov/research/about/people/gdonovan Current Research Geoffrey's main research focus is quantifying the benefits of urban tr...
Upzoned Podcast: Parking Minimums Might Be on the Way Out in Dallas
Просмотров 2664 месяца назад
Local officials in Dallas are considering eliminating minimum parking requirements in the city. The zoning ordinance advisory committee just voted to advance the measure to the city planning commission, and if approved there, it would then go on to the city council. Critics believe that this is a one-size-fits-all approach to parking reform and that it’s not an ideal solution to Dallas’s parkin...
Upzoned Podcast: Today’s Generation of Families Are “Disillusioned” by Suburbia
Просмотров 2775 месяцев назад
Five families from Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Pittsburg move to the suburbs in search of the American dream, drawn by promises of better schools and all the other amenities promised by suburban life…but instead, they’re experiencing the decline of the suburbs, rather than the benefits that were sold to them. On this week’s episode of Upzoned, host Abby Kinney and co-host Chuck M...
Upzoned Podcast: Coming Back Down to Earth After a “Next-Level” Downtown Revitalization
Просмотров 2315 месяцев назад
This Upzoned episode covers a story that sounded promising at the start: “The Town That Took Downtown Renewal to the Next Level”? Sounds great! Right? Alas, residents of Morristown, Tennessee, have discovered that the Skymark (i.e., an elevated sidewalk) they built in the 1960s was not the salvation for their downtown they’d hoped it would be. Join host Abby Newsham and co-host Chuck Marohn as ...
Use Social Media to Build a Local Movement | Guest: Katy Kelly
Просмотров 1185 месяцев назад
Katy Kelly, Social Media Coordinator for Strong Towns, was our guest on Office Hours today. In this session she provided a ton of insights into different approaches you can take to build a social media presence in your community. Future Sessions actionlab.strongtowns.org/hc/en-us/articles/11813665595796-Office-Hours-Schedule-and-Intro What is an Office Hours session? Chuck Marohn and other staf...
Upzoned Podcast: Millennials Are Fleeing Cities in Favor of the Exurbs
Просмотров 8345 месяцев назад
Five families from Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Pittsburg move to the suburbs in search of the American dream, drawn by promises of better schools and all the other amenities promised by suburban life…but instead, they’re experiencing the decline of the suburbs, rather than the benefits that were sold to them. On this week’s episode, host Abby Kinney and co-host Chuck Marohn discu...
Making places where our children want to stay to raise their own kids | Guest: Tristan Bassett
Просмотров 2176 месяцев назад
Tristan Bassett of the NuSarnia Foundation (nusarnia.org) was our guest on Office Hours. She had a ton of great insights to share with us about the hard but invigorating work of sparking bottom up changes within the community. Office Hours is a weekly member activity for any active members of Strong Towns (visit www.strongtowns.org/membership to sign up today!) Things Mentioned Corn starch pain...
How Should We Approach Historic Preservation? | Guest: Meredith Johnson
Просмотров 3046 месяцев назад
Meredith Johnson (www.linkedin.com/in/meresjohnson/) of Johnson Planning & Preservation LLC in Austin, TX was a great resource for our members during Office Hours today. We discussed the comments made by Alex Bozikovic in a recent podcast episode "Does Heritage Preservation Stand in the Way of Housing?" www.linkedin.com/posts/alex-bozikovic-5260649_does-heritage-preservation-stand-in-the-way-ac...
Congressman and Secretary of Transportation Discuss Strong Towns
Просмотров 2,9 тыс.7 месяцев назад
Strong Towns was discussed on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives last week at a Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing. Congressman Jake Auchincloss called for the federal government to give states more flexibility in managing their transportation infrastructure (especially highways). Auchincloss and the Washington State Secretary of Transportation shared that they're b...
Disorienting Stroads - Arizona Has a lot of Pavement
Просмотров 5199 месяцев назад
Disorienting Stroads - Arizona Has a lot of Pavement
Let's Do the Math - A Chat With Joe Minicozzi
Просмотров 78710 месяцев назад
Let's Do the Math - A Chat With Joe Minicozzi
A Road Will Die at Some Point (A Shasta County, CA, analysis)
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A Road Will Die at Some Point (A Shasta County, CA, analysis)
Regressive Property Tax Assessments || Extended interview: Dr. Christopher Berry
Просмотров 83811 месяцев назад
Regressive Property Tax Assessments || Extended interview: Dr. Christopher Berry
Steve Mouzon: How Do We Rebuild Maui?
Просмотров 27811 месяцев назад
Steve Mouzon: How Do We Rebuild Maui?
Walkable City Design is Critical for Economic Health
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Walkable City Design is Critical for Economic Health
Bottom-Up Neighborhood Revolution || Extended interview: Penny Hill Homes
Просмотров 229Год назад
Bottom-Up Neighborhood Revolution || Extended interview: Penny Hill Homes
Transportation Meltdown: Children On The School Bus Till 10pm
Просмотров 597Год назад
Transportation Meltdown: Children On The School Bus Till 10pm
Affordable Housing - Is It Possible With Current Zoning Laws?
Просмотров 673Год назад
Affordable Housing - Is It Possible With Current Zoning Laws?
Summer in a Strong Town || Office Hours with Chuck Marohn
Просмотров 261Год назад
Summer in a Strong Town || Office Hours with Chuck Marohn
Citizen Versus Developer? No! It’s Citizen As Developer
Просмотров 498Год назад
Citizen Versus Developer? No! It’s Citizen As Developer
Norman, Oklahoma | The Strong Towns Curbside Chat
Просмотров 559Год назад
Norman, Oklahoma | The Strong Towns Curbside Chat
Atlanta’s New Idea to Address Their Housing Crisis
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Atlanta’s New Idea to Address Their Housing Crisis
Playing the Long Game as a Strong Towns Candidate
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Playing the Long Game as a Strong Towns Candidate
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I live nearish Norman, excited to see those changes happen though they won't affect me
There is no better way to love your neighbor than building strong beautiful cities.
Interesting how l their are aspects of this that both political tribes should champion; De-regulation/de centralization, lower public costs and increased privatization for the right Community, environmental, public spaces for the left…. But neither wants the otherside to be happy 😂
@Norm mutual funds are pretty simple to figure out and not speculative. I'm in the U.S., maybe the markets are different in CA. But as long as you switch to bonds as you get older and there's no apocalypse you should be good.
I wish your team could come to NJ or the NY area and chat with some of the town Mayers. I live in the suburbs of NJ close to NYC and wondering why people are not walking in their neighborhood as much.
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In the German city that the HQ of my lasAny was, the town was full of three story beautiful homes. When I mention it to my German coworkers, they said most are three generations. Grand parents on bottom floor, parents on 2nd floor, and adult kids on third.
Bought my first home in 86, interest rates were 18%. & we don’t get to deduct our interest.
Plus the sale price of your home is not what you pay for it. We don’t get to deduct mortgage interest in Canada.
The suburbs here in Canada are now being discovered by Millennials & Gen Z’s. Most of my neighbourhood is flipping over now.
This video reminds me of that scene in the big short where Christian Bale as Dr Bury is all frusterated and demoralized by the fact that the bubble hasn't popped yet. Defining exurbs here as "small towns," are these then just towns that haven't yet experimented with / learned the lesson of unprofitable suburbs? Maybe the cities that suffered the most the earliest will be the first to stop making those sorts of investments, but then all the other smaller towns will want their shot to try it as well.
My town is the first town to get rid of parking minimums. People are so angry, they might have to walk a block.
Wonderful chat, but Jeff's understanding of our nomadic history seems somewhat misunderstood to me. I'm no anthropologist either, but having read James C. Scott's Against The Grain and David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything, I've the impression that it is well accepted in anthropology that we mostly really did not walk that much at all, even as "nomads". Largely we got along quite well being mostly sedentary or seasonally mobile, doing laissez faire agriculture and hunting... That myth about us coving miles upon miles until we settled down and invented agriculture is a misunderstanding and a myth that was perpetuated by the early states, to whom the myth of the stupid, restless, hard working savage was a crucial part of keeping people as sedentary farmers... So yes, of course we walked more than we do today... but it was mostly trips of an hour or a few away from camp and back again... Anyway, I'd guess you guys know James Scott as the writer of Seeing Like a State... It's quite on topic, when the topic is cities for people, and by people...
hearing about all these correlations make you wonder what other factors align with trees and if they controlled for them
What an interesting topic. Thanks everyone!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Enjoy Santa Fe & Taos Abby! Consider meeting with the Albuquerque Local Conversation group!
Having worked as a taxi driver in Dallas, I saw so much excess parking at the back of apartment complexes, didn't know why until I saw a video about it. What a waste of space and money.
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Do you have the link to the Dallas before and after you referenced?
Texas Archive of the Moving Image would be a safe bet
It's "no takesy-backsies" Charles. 😉
we need Abby to read the audiobook of the strong towns books and upload it to youtube
I'd like to see a separate program on Chuck's assertion that cities steer subsidies to richer neighborhoods. Is it as brazen as that, or is it hidden or camouflaged under something more legitimate?
So, in the suburbs, by the time the mortgage is paid, it's time to move again, before the deferred work can no longer be deferred.
I live in the Capital District of NY (Albany, Troy, etc). It amazes me looking at the old brownstone homes in these cities. Even though the neighborhood has been run down n many homes r vacant they still stand n could be rehabilitated. If I left my suburban home for 5 years it would have to be completely demolished.
since 2020 home values are down 75% priced in Bitcoin. The homeowners already got fleeced, their home will be down 99% in value by the time they start tracking the price in the real money. Talk about criminals using bitcoin is just a distraction. Have fun staying poor, chuck
I am a first year mechanical engineer and want to work on public transportation in the future. This video is helping me wrap my head on why it's so expensive to do transit projects, and I definitely plan on re-watching this video. Thank you!
In a way, it reminds me of Constitution Plaza in Hartford, CT. Has a ton of potential for a capital city. Except for one primary issue. There is no residential capacity there (constitution plaza) Effectively making Downtown Hartford a dead zone after 5pm. People get out of their jobs. And drive out to suburbia
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Currently in Orlando, my fiancé and I are older Gen Z. We don’t see it possible to stay in Orlando, unless we want to rent for the rest of our lives. Another problem with owning besides the entry price is HOA and closed communities too far to walk to any store.
Im actually kinda shocked that this wasn't on your radar. Anecdotally, everyone I know has been screaming this for years. I have enormous frustration towards planing and zoning allowing the momentum of putting up single family homes, Strip malls and u-stores. In the middle of nowhere. And not helping to drive housing costs down elsewhere. We are being priced out of what we want. And what's being built is just more of the same regardless of what we, Millennials want. I hope this doesn't come off as antagonistic
In Canada everyone wants to live in the major cities, but demand is so high that people are forced to move to less desirable places (cities of provinces with low population) of the country to afford a home.
Very american to first think about how to fix things on a local level. A more european reaction would be to question the rulebook on the national level.
Fun Fact: Abby plays the intro music on that piano keyboard behind her.
Now we're talking finance. Everyone considering a mortgage should observe the simple math of interest on principal. It's not complicated. Typically the unpaid balance accrues monthly, at a monthly pro-rated fraction of the Annual Percentage Rate (APR). So every month you can avoid is that much kept in your pocket over the long term. Resist the idea of buying whatever monthly payment you can afford. Instead, decide how many times you want to pay the purchase price. At zero % interest, you pay for it once regardless how many years. But at a non zero % interest rate for a non-zero number of years, you might pay for that property once, twice, three times, four times, (panic now). If you decide you only want to pay for it once, then you need a low interest rate for a low number of years - like about 10 years. Typically each decade you pay for it another time, so you pay for it once in about 10 years, twice in about 20 years, three times in about 30 years, & so on. Most people don't think about it this way, because they are financially ignorant & afraid & stressed. Think about it now.
MBS is like buying other bonds...you are guaranteed a specific rate of return for a specific duration of time with a face value payout at the end of term - the return is very similar to bonds (both govt and corporate). This means that the net return is fixed (principle + interest) for the term of the investment - they aren't meant for people looking for short term investments...if you want to exit early, you get a face value premium if the MBS pays more interest than market returns and less than face value if the returns are lower...the total return in the investment will not change... Also, I think the thought that a 5yr+balloon will fix market appreciation pressures and localize things is inaccurate - just look to Canada...they have the same affordability issues with the 5yr+balloon loan structure...i beleive the same is true for the UK and many parts of Europe...
20:49 love the show and all the content, but the point made here about stability is flatly wrong. If you look at historic pricing trends, the NY, SF type large market pricing is far more stable than in smaller markets; by this i mean that their floor is higher as a % of starting/peak value when markets fall and they rebound faster than in smaller markets...this is seen when comparing trends in the SF, LA, NYC, Seattle real estate market to markets like Las Vegas, Orlando, PHX, etc... The smaller/lessser markets saw bigger dips in the last 2-3 RE market crisis' and took much longer to start correcting once markets hit bottom...
Community Development and Housing Specialist, former banker and organizer. This book is everything I would share during presentations and homebuyer education courses 15+ years ago.
Cities like Chicago yes!
There are a few bad apples in the anti-sprawl movement pushing climate change, urban growth boundaries, powerful regional organizations, and so forth. However the vast majority of the advocates are actually pushing for freedom and mobility.
Build it, live in it, enjoy your Utopia. Then mind your own business. Noone is trying to force you to live in the sprawl you hate. Forced Utopia is dystopia. When did minding your own business go out of style?
YeASSSSH. Car-free saves times, lives, money, energy. It’s ALSO the most cost effective way to decouple economies from hydrocarbon intensity; changing zoning laws is the most direct way people can contribute to climate adaptation and resilience. There is every reason to do this.
I'm so glad my Sec. of Transportation is familiar with Strong Towns. Who's that Congress member, though?
Love this
urbanism is breaking into the political mainstream. this could be a very good thing.