There’s a certain artistic quality to abandoned spaces—but if we look a bit deeper, these ruins also hold lessons about patterns of disinvestment and policy shifts that have adversely affected American communities.
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Even just a little bit of snow can reveal a lot about the vulnerability of the suburban development pattern.
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Waterways today are engineered systems that are more orderly than natural rivers, but they are increasingly dumb.
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Waterways are misunderstood, but probably not for the reason you’re thinking.
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Having a city filled with one type of tree may look pretty, but what happens when pests or pestilence start killing off that particular tree species en masse?
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Citizens and city leaders striving to pivot from car-based design to more resilient models of growth and development need to start planning our places with the end in mind—the “end” being everyday life, itself.
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For seven weeks Jackson’s residents had to bear the brunt of a failing water system, and unfortunately it was bound to happen.
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The Suburban Experiment is a bad business model, and nothing demonstrates that more clearly than Jackson, Mississippi’s, ongoing water crisis.
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When gas prices spike, the core issue we, as a nation, should be fixating on is car dependency.
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Every time gasoline and oil prices spike, Americans panic—but don’t do anything to change the system. This is a cycle that cannot continue.
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Let's talk about some core Strong Towns concepts: complexity, incrementalism, fragility, and more!
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We all know about the Suburban Experiment here at Strong Towns—but are we now also starting to see the rise of a new paradigm?
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How will we deal with the overseas energy crisis as it spreads beyond Europe’s borders?
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Building to last is the only thing we can afford to do. The social and environmental costs of disposable buildings are far too high.
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By building disposable structures, we are leading ourselves toward a socially, economically, and environmentally ruinous future.
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One of the realities about cities is that they change—but in America, most cities are trapped in a regulatory environment that makes change extremely costly.
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Cities in Wyoming have become dependent on extractive industry. Here’s how and why they need to get out of this impossibly fragile situation.
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Innovations promising safety and certainty often make us more fragile and vulnerable instead.
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From health care to the economy, the pandemic is exposing the fragility of institutions we’ve long taken for granted.
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The coronavirus has revealed just how fragile our industrialized and globalized food system always was. It’s time to strengthen our local food economies. These resources can help.
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