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Solarpunk Urbanism

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A community to discuss solarpunk and other new and alternative urbanisms that seek to break away from our currently ecologically destructive urbanisms.

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About Strong Towns (www.strongtowns.org)
submitted 1 year ago by meyotch to c/urbanism
 

I just wanted to introduce this group to Strong Towns, a non profit devoted to making development make sense. I worked with the founder of Strong Towns years ago when the idea was new.

The issues and framework of Strong Towns transcend partisan politics and instead gathers people under the banner of demanding that our towns be built to upon principles most any reasonable person would want to see enacted. Principles like: development responsive to local needs and financial transparency.

Please check them out.

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[–] Andjhostet@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd recommend both books written by the founder, Charles Marohn:

Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town

[–] meyotch 2 points 1 year ago

Those are very good recommendations. I do admire the way he has taken on the engineering profession and called them on their BS.