Is Strong Towns “Right-Libertarianism Dressed in Progressive Garb”?

"Keep doing what you can to build strong towns": that's the motto of Strong Towns, a citizen-driven, localism-minded urbanist group now over 1,000 members nationwide and beyond.  But a recent article in…

“Keep doing what you can to build strong towns”: that’s the motto of Strong Towns, a citizen-driven, localism-minded urbanist group now over 1,000 members nationwide and beyond. 

But a recent article in Current Affairs by Allison Lirish Dean suggests that we–and the Strong Towns organization–could do more and better if we examined some buried assumptions.

To discuss the issues raised in Dean’s article with the author herself, longtime Strong Towns members (and Porchers) Elias Crim, Grace Potts, and Russell Arben Fox are hosting a free Zoom (donations appreciated) event at noon EST on October 26 called “The Stronger Towns Conversation.”

To register for a Zoom link, please visit the Eventbrite page here.

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Elias Crim

Elias Crim is the editor/publisher at Solidarity Hall and is working on a book about the utopian imagination.