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Strong Towns
- A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
- Narrated by: Matthew Boston
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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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.
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- Amazon Customer
- 18-12-20
Great perspectives on urban planning
This is a great book if you are interested in urban planning/design. It formalised a lot of ideas that I had come across before and Charles provides a good perspective on the problems faced by many cities from his own experiences.
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- bittenus
- 19-05-21
wisdom shouted at you
Great insights into how to make cities financially viable – which luckily aligns well with how to make them more liveable.
The writing is a bit on the aggressive side with a lot of negative superlatives - but not too bad if delivered with a smile. Unfortunately the narration has no smiles and makes it worse so at times you almost feel like you're being shouted at.
Despite the style the insights presented are so important that this is definitely worth a listen.
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