Want to learn how to make your community more economically prosperous and resilient, no matter what lies ahead? This short, four-part course gives you the tools you need to get started in clear, understandable language, with practical action steps.
Course members will learn about:
- The insolvency crisis facing America's cities and towns
- How this happened (and why it's not your fault)
- How to approach these challenges with a Strong Towns framework
Course Curriculum
Introduction
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Session 1: The Insolvency Crisis Facing Our Cities
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Session 1 Quiz
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Session 2: How Did This Happen? (Hint: It's not your fault)
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Session 2 Quiz
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Session 3: Strong Towns Principles
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- 3.0 Introduction (0:55)
- 3.1 Financial Solvency is Essential for Long-Term Prosperity (4:30)
- 3.2 Land Must Not Be Squandered (6:18)
- 3.3 A transportation system is one of many means of creating prosperity in a community, but never an end unto itself. (5:22)
- 3.4 Job creation and economic growth are the results of a healthy local economy, not substitutes for one. (3:22)
- 3.5 Strong cities can't happen without strong citizens (9:28)
- 3.6 Local Government = Highest Level of Collaboration (2:31)
Session 3 Quiz
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Session 4: The Strong Towns Approach
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Session 4 Quiz
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Session 5: The Strong Towns Movement
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Session 5 Quiz
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Appendix
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- Original Strong Towns 101 Videos
- 1.0 Introduction to Strong Towns 101 (4:02)
- 1.1 Must Cities Run a Profit? (19:18)
- 1.2 Basic Return on Investment Math (14:20)
- 1.3 The Growth Ponzi Scheme (8:33)
- 1.4 Growth versus Productivity (13:55)
- 2.1 A Brief History of Urban Development (15:15)
- 2.2 Solving the Problems of the Great Depression (10:52)
- 2.3 Complex versus Complicated (11:10)
- 2.4 A Good Party or a Bad Party? (5:34)
- 3.1 Principles of a Strong Town (20:19)
- 3.2 Incremental Investments (26:37)
- 3.3 Resiliency over Efficiency (17:07)
- 3.4 Adapting to Feedback (15:15)
- 3.5 Chaotic (but Smart) Innovation (20:04)
- 3.6 Scaling to Humans (11:26)
- 3.7 Do the Math (14:34)
- 4.1 Become a Strong Towns Advocate (3:36)
Meet Your Instructors
Charles Marohn
Strong Towns Founder and President
Carlee Alm-LaBar
Strong Towns Chief of Staff
John Pattison
Strong Towns Community Builder
Rachel Quednau
Strong Towns Program Director
Norm Van Eeden Petersman
Strong Towns Director of Membership and Development