Strong Towns

Strong Towns
FormationNovember 2009; 15 years ago (2009-11)
Legal status501(c)3 nonprofit
HeadquartersBrainerd, Minnesota
Location
  • United States
Founder and President
Charles Marohn
Websitestrongtowns.org

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[3] and seeks to improve communities through urban planning concepts such as walkability, mixed-use zoning, and infill development.[4] Strong Towns seeks to end American parking mandates[5] and highway expansion[1] and to reduce the country's car dependency.[1][6][7]

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  6. ^ "Strong Towns Chicago wants to make our city more people-friendly and fiscally sound - Streetsblog Chicago". chi.streetsblog.org. November 23, 2022. Retrieved August 1, 2023.
  7. ^ "Resident-led, urbanist group hopes to guide Fayetteville development". Arkansas Online. March 20, 2023. Retrieved August 1, 2023.