Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (2019)
— Charles Marohn
By Strong Towns founder and president Charles Marohn, this book covers everything wrong with suburban city planning, from the fragility of the places it creates to the insanely high cost of oversized car infrastructure. An absolute must read that challenges the status-quo!
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (2021)
— Charles Marohn
Marohn delivers an accessible exploration of America's transportation system, laying bare the reasons why it no longer works and how to modernize transportation to better serve communities. Discover real-world examples of design choices and their effects, along with case studies of design improvements that have revitalized communities and improved safety.
Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis (2024)
— Charles Marohn & Daniel Herriges
This book introduces a first-of-its-kind discussion of the tension between housing as a financial product and housing as shelter. Offering a serious yet accessible history of housing policy in the United States, it explains how we've arrived at a market rigged against people who, only a few decades ago, could have been homeowners or stable, long-term renters.
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Strong Towns Articles
The Strong Towns website features hundreds of articles covering topics such as:
- Financial resilience for municipalities
- Transportation and street design
- Incremental development
- Zoning reform
- Urban economics
- Community engagement
Many of these articles have been compiled into themed collections and free e-books.
Strong Towns Langley Substack
Our Substack newsletter provides regular updates on urban planning issues in Langley, upcoming events, and analysis of local development proposals through a Strong Towns lens.