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Strong Towns

A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity

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Strong Towns

By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
Narrated by: Matthew Boston
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Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he cofounded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem.

You'll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles - and why it just doesn't work. New development and high-risk investing don't generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Listen to this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens' quality of life.

Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.

©2019 Charles L. Marohn, Jr. (P)2019 Kalorama Business Development & Entrepreneurship Social Sciences Business Urban Design
Eye-opening Insights • Philosophical Bombshell • Authentic Narration • Practical Solutions • Thought-provoking Analysis
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This was an amazing book for how cities have been planned in the US and how a bunch of it has been wrong. We need to go back to how we used to plan cities. Great read.

Eye opening

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Creates a compelling narrative about growing and developing our communities. The work the author has done to convey the sense of urgency to save the communities we love is both terrifying and hopeful, creating the motivation to improve our lives at the most basic levels.

The Story of Communities

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This book provides simple yet profound insight into humans and our built environment. In North America, we have forgone generations of hard earned, incremental knowledge of what works and what doesn’t work in cities, and replaced it with what works for cars. Chuck skillfully presents the context for this decision and the repercussions of it in easy language that is understandable at any level of technical knowledge. It turns out that our shift to car-dependent suburbs has led to everything from an unsustainable addiction to economic growth to a total loss of what it is city government is really meant to do.

My only wish is that Chuck had read the book himself.

If you ever wondered “how did we get here?”

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As a soon to be architect, I find this book to be both interesting and insightful. The call to listen and understand what the community needs and then make small steps at a time towards improvement is both useful and actionable. We are so caught up in the new and fancy that maintenance falls to the wayside and causes us to believe a place lacks value because of it's appearance, even when it is genuinely more profitable and productive than the new. This book will definitely be a staple in my at-home library. Loved it!

Excellent listen!

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WE NEED TO ALL KNOW WHAT Charles L. Marohn Jr. POINTS OUT in this Audible .

HAVE THE LOT OF US LEFT OUR COMMUNITIES IN THE HANDS OF DUMMIES???

CONSIDER THE CONTENTS and ANSWER THIS URGENT QUESTION FOR YOURSELF

I WAS SURPRISED TO LEARN WHAT I HAD TAKEN FOR GRANTED ALL THESE YEARS

IT IS TIME TO LISTEN UP AND START PAYING ATTENTION...

VERY LIKELY THE AVERAGE PERSON DOES NOT KNOW THIS:

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Odd listening to someone else after having listened to chucks voice on the podcast. But the info is still good/important

Important background on strong towns

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nothing I dislike, I think there is a discord in capitalistic, consumption mentality, that the United States is based on, and would really finds the community together and makes it feel inviting
Old world and European communities had this quality because they grow organically and often around some religious practice or socioeconomic similarity , America as a whole is lacking meaning and struggling to find a longer-lasting contentment and just profit,
in summary
we all want community or a neighborhood
we all want a deep reason to get up in the morning
and we all want to go to bed with that content feeling that we are part of a greater movement.

Good definitely worth a listen

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This book give eye opening details about the thing we all know is killing our cities, planned suburbs. In my city we have lots of neighborhoods with gates. I had a suspicion these communities within our city were detrimental to our city as a whole but Marohn puts a price tag on those developments. I’m just a teacher but this book should be a must read for anyone in city government.

Eye opening

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I loved this book. I'm an urban planner and I learned a lot. highly recommended.

Fascinating, thought provoking book on communities

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I haven’t used audible in months, but this book made it hard to put down. A great book on the problems with postwar and by extension modern American urbanism. Went though it in two days!

A great book full of spooky wisdom

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