Strong Towns

Strong Towns is an American nonprofit organization dedicated to helping cities and towns in the United States achieve financial resiliency through civic engagement.[1][2] The advocacy group points to American post-World War II suburban development as a failure and seeks to improve communities through urban planning concepts such as walkability, mixed-use zoning, and infill development.[3] Strong Towns seeks to end American parking mandates[4] and highway expansion[1] and to reduce the country's car dependency.[1][5][6]

Strong Towns
Legal status501(c)3 nonprofit
HeadquartersBrainerd, Minnesota
Location
  • United States
Founder and President
Charles Marohn
Websitestrongtowns.org

The organization was founded by Charles Marohn,[7][1] a former professional engineer and city planner,[8] and is headquartered in Brainerd, Minnesota.[4]

References
  1. Ross, Jenna (October 8, 2014). Written at Brainerd, MN. "Looking to the Past to Re-Engineer U.S. Towns". Star Tribune. Minneapolis, MN. pp. A1, A6. Retrieved June 21, 2023. Marohn is gaining attention for taking aim at national issues: car-focused development, federal transportation funding and "gluttonous" infrastructure growth.
  2. "Strong Towns touts 'tactical urbanism'". The Commercial Appeal. Memphis, Tennessee. April 20, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2023. The Minnesota-based nonprofit organization Strong Towns, whose mission is to help cities in the United States achieve financial strength and resiliency
  3. Wade, Jared (April 2, 2017). "Is Tulsa mortgaging its future with efforts to expand, grow?". Tulsa World. Tulsa, Oklahoma. Retrieved June 21, 2023. American cities that have fueled their growth by chasing it through expansion and more infrastructure, according to the national nonprofit blog and think tank.
  4. Moore, Janet (December 8, 2023). "Hashtag crusade finds lots of lots". Star Tribune. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Retrieved June 21, 2023. But judging from a social media campaign by the Brainerd nonprofit Strong Towns, there is plenty of parking for shoppers all over North America—even on Black Friday, one of the busiest retail days of the year.
  5. "Strong Towns Chicago wants to make our city more people-friendly and fiscally sound - Streetsblog Chicago". chi.streetsblog.org. 2022-11-23. Retrieved 2023-08-01.
  6. "Resident-led, urbanist group hopes to guide Fayetteville development". Arkansas Online. 2023-03-20. Retrieved 2023-08-01.
  7. Allison Lirish Dean (September 17, 2023). "The Strong Towns Movement is Simply Right-Libertarianism Dressed in Progressive Garb". Current Affairs. Retrieved September 19, 2023. Strong Towns' critique of America's car-centric sprawl sounds appealing. But its proposed solutions rely on a conservative politics that prioritizes 'wealth creation' over just and equitable urban planning.
  8. Strong Towns — Charles L. Marohn with Megan Thompson (Video). WNET. December 22, 2022. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
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