Recognize our city and all the fantastic work our city is doing to become more bikeable, transit friendly, and housing forward.
https://www.strongesttown.com/
#Madison #StrongTowns #BikeCommuter #Transit #HousingFirst #Wisconsin #Sustainability #Urbanism
Join STGR, the Michigan Association of Railroad Passengers (MARP), and the Michigan chapter of the Congress for New Urbanism in a discussion on passenger rail and urbanism in Grand Rapids and throughout the state.
Where: Downtown Grand Rapids Inc, 29 Pearl St NW
When: 2026-02-18 6:30pm - 8:00pm
#GrandRapidsMI #Strongtowns #StrongtownsGR #publictransportation #CNU #MiCNU
Despite my absolute lack of understanding about municipal finances, I did the Strong Towns Finance Decoder Worksheet for DeKalb County, GA.
Here are the results and a link to my Google sheet.
https://orangegnome.com/posts/3819/strong-towns-finance-decoder-for-dekalb-county-ga
Great article on the lack of pickup sports for all ages BY DESIGN. Why the heck do we make everything into formal, gated, restricted, registered, tournament etc. whether for kids or adults? I'd love to be playing pick-up sports myself, and so would my kids, and those are the best memories of my childhood. It's a failure of our local towns to make a healthy community…
My article on Strong Towns "Strong Towns: Auto-dependent city design produces “liabilities” " was published and is available at:
https://chicosol.org/2026/01/27/strong-towns-auto-dependent-city-design-produces-liabilities/.
My article summarizes a presentation by Norm Van Eeden Petersman, membership director at Strong Towns,.
#StrongTowns #resilience #revitalization #safestreets #downtown #bicycle #ebike #pedestrian #street
A national voice in urban resilience, during a recent local presentation, warned Chicoans that cities don’t fail because of a lack of vision — they fail because they double down on fragile systems instead of fixing what’s right in front of them. Norm Van Eeden Petersman, membership director at Strong Towns, spoke Jan. 22 at … Continue reading "Strong Towns: Auto-dependent city design produces “liabilities”"
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Next month I start a local civics class my city is offering, giving me monthly access to key people in my local government. I've organized two trash clean ups in that time, the second one having 15 people turn out to help clean a waterway.
Getting involved locally has def gone hand in hand with a sense of nurture & nourish.
#civiccollapse #civicrepair #civic #urbanism #strongtowns #community
#nurture #nourish
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If we're disconnected while starved for connection, starting by caring about others through nurture & nourish seems as smart a place as any.
Certainly rings true for me. A year ago I started volunteering 2 hrs a week at our community garden. About 8 months ago, going to city council meetings, and speaking. I formed a pro-bike group, and we're advocating successfully for bike paths.
#civiccollapse #civicrepair #civic #urbanism #strongtowns #community
#nurture #nourish
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My partner @agni made an observation about grass roots marketing in general - rather than spend 100% of time blasting out what you're doing, spend 80% nourishing and nurturing others, caring about them, boosting them, giving them support and love. Then 20% saying "oh hey we're organizing downtown every other sat at a coffee shop".
#civiccollapse #civicrepair #civic #urbanism #strongtowns #community #nurture #nourish
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What turns that around? What changed that for me, why did I start to care?
I think the need is self-apparent - as residents, we regularly feel disconnected and disinterested in the place where we live. What turns that around? What changed that for me, why did I start to care?
#civiccollapse #civicrepair #civic #urbanism #strongtowns #community #nurture #nourish
⁂ Kaleb
Strong Towns Albuquerque
UrbanGR
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Aaron Wolf
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