Strong Towns 101

4.25 AICP credits

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• By Charles Marohn

Aligning Transportation with a Strong Towns Approach

9 AICP Credits

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• By Charles Marohn

Creating Housing Opportunities in a Strong Town

10.5 AICP Credits

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• By Daniel Herriges

Mobilizing Your Community to Become a Strong Town

Change your community for good.

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• By Charles Marohn

Urban Design Principles for a Strong Town

4.5 AICP Credits

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• By Charles Marohn

The Strong Towns Local-Motive Tour 2021: Roundtrip Ticket

Buy your ticket for all eight main sessions, plus two bonus sessions!

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Picking Your Next Bike Lane Battle

Join Chuck Marohn and Ashwat Narayanan, the Executive Director of Our Streets Minneapolis as we discuss where best to focus your bike lane efforts.

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Community Engagement that Works

Lets explore a type of community engagement processes that actually listen to residents—without demanding they show up to yet another meeting.

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4 Steps Towards a More Resilient Local Food System

Resilient local food systems are a backbone of strong towns. The good news is that there are so many ways you can start to build a resilient food system today.

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How to Clear the Path for Small-Scale Developers in Your Town

How do you attract small-scale developers who will build wealth instead of siphoning it away?

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3 Strategies for Growing Entrepreneurs in Your City

A Strong Town needs strong local economies. And that starts with entrepreneurs. Here are the 3 key things a town can do to help entrepreneurs thrive.

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Establishing a Street Design Team

The design of safe, productive streets should be in the hands of these people and we’ll show you how.

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5 Simple Ways to Build a Stronger Neighborhood

In this session, we’re going to talk about 5 ideas for building a stronger neighborhood, one step at a time.

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You're Not Alone: How to Find Kindred Spirits and Jumpstart the Strong Towns Conversation Where You Live

Learn to connect with people like you are getting together with their neighbors and stepping up to challenge the status quo and work for something better.

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Go or No-Go? Doing the Math on New Projects

This presentation will show you how to look at a project and decide, “Go or no go?”

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How to Talk to a NIMBY

We all know at least one NIMBY and it might be easiest to ignore them. But if we are going to build a Strong Town, we need to reach common ground.

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The Strong Towns Local-Motive Tour 2022: Round Trip Ticket

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How to Run for Office as a Strong Towns Advocate

Featuring Cate Ryba (former city councilor, Spartanburg, SC) and John Reuter (former city councilor, Sandpoint, ID)

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10 Strong Towns Questions to Ask a Candidate for Local Office

Featuring Mason Thompson (Mayor of Bothell, WA)

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A Non-Boring Crash Course in Municipal Budgets

with Josh McCarty and Charles Marohn

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Identifying Obstacles to Development and Making Way for Small-Scale Change

Featuring Brian Falk (Project for Lean Urbanism)

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Let’s Fix a Dangerous Street in 24 Hours or Less

Featuring Krista Nightengale (Better Block)

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How to Make Progress When Political Divisions Dominate

Featuring Michele Martinez (California Transportation Commissioner)

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Infrastructure Avalanche: How to Make the Best Use of Federal and State Funding

Featuring Beth Osborne (Transportation for America)

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Learn the 4-Step Process for Public Investment

Featuring Tiffany Owens (Founder, Cities Decoded)

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5 Steps to Forming a Successful Neighborhood Group

with Cary Westerbeck and John Pattison

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4 Quick Zoning Code Reforms for a Strong Town

Featuring Hazel Borys (Placemakers)

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Chisholm Community Action Lab

2023 Community Action Lab

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• By Edward Erfurt

Not Just Bikes + Strong Towns

2.5 AICP Credits

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Medicine Hat Community Action Lab

2023 Community Action Lab

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• By Edward Erfurt

Norman Community Action Lab

2023 Community Action Lab

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• By Edward Erfurt

New Member Orientation

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Lake County Community Action Lab

2023 Community Action Lab

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• By Edward Erfurt

Local Conversation Leaders Course

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• By John Pattison

How to Define, Refine and Distribute Your Story

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Turn That Stroad Into a Street (or Road)

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Strong Towns Local-Motive Tour 2023: Round-Trip Ticket

Unlock all eight main sessions, plus two bonus sessions only available with the Round-Trip Ticket.

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Starting the Strong Towns Conversation with Elected Officials

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4 Freeway-Fighting Tactics

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The Small Steps That Can Make a Big Impact on Your Transit System

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How to Host a Neighborhood Walk

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Saying Yes to All Types of Housing in Your Community

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Is This Development Worthwhile? Let’s Do the Math.

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Your Land, Your Plan

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Starting Your Own Crash Analysis Studio

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• By Charles Marohn

The 12 Steps to Town Making by Neighborhood Evolution

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An Introduction to Incremental Development

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Housing Campaign Working Group

A Working Group to develop a strategy and advise the Strong Towns Board, President, and Leadership Team on next steps following the high level policy recommendations shared in the Housing Trap Book. The Working Group is to meet regularly (every two to three weeks), hear from experts, collect information, and deliberate with each other. Meetings should be virtual although we have the capacity to have an in-person meeting when we reach a point where that is valuable.

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• By Edward Erfurt

National Gathering 2024 Recordings

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Real Estate Development: Behind the Numbers

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• By Ben Stevens

Parsing Through Your Local Budget to Find Some Real Answers

Featuring Michel Durand-Wood and Charles Marohn

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Strong Towns Local-Motive Tour 2024: Round-Trip Ticket

Access all 8 new courses, plus 2 special pre-recorded sessions.

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The Parking Revolution is Here. Is Your Community Ready to Sign On?

Featuring Paloma Delgadillo and Carlee Alm-LaBar

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Investing in Housing Development that Strengthens Neighborhoods Without Pushing People Out

Featuring Tiffany Elder and Daniel Herriges

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