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

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Starting the Strong Towns Conversation with Elected Officials

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4 Freeway-Fighting Tactics

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Saying Yes to All Types of Housing in Your Community

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How to Host a Neighborhood Walk

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How to Define, Refine and Distribute Your Story

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Turn That Stroad Into a Street (or Road)

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

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

Featuring Krista Nightengale (Better Block)

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A Non-Boring Crash Course in Municipal Budgets

with Josh McCarty and Charles Marohn

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

Featuring Brian Falk (Project for Lean Urbanism)

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How to Make Progress When Political Divisions Dominate

Featuring Michele Martinez (California Transportation Commissioner)

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4 Quick Zoning Code Reforms for a Strong Town

Featuring Hazel Borys (Placemakers)

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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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5 Steps to Forming a Successful Neighborhood Group

with Cary Westerbeck and John Pattison

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Learn the 4-Step Process for Public Investment

Featuring Tiffany Owens (Founder, Cities Decoded)

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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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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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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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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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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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