Strong Towns Shreveport

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Right now Pres Biden is in Wisconsin speaking to the problems created by running interstate Highway through inner city neighborhoods. Is committing 3.2 billion dollars to right those wrongs.

Philanthropist foundations help struggling cities like ours all over the country with funding for community improvements like the one being planned by citizens for Kings Highway. Listen to this inspiring discussion hosted by Charles Marohn.

‎The Strong Towns Podcast on Apple Podcasts ‎Government · 2024

The latest in Strong Towns research: case study of Medicine Hat, Alberta. Yep, that's in Canada. But the data is the same across the U.S. I know we got own Sugar Daddy here in Shreveport.

Citizen Development = Higher Value Per Acre Conventional thought would tell us that the new commercial developments in a city should be the most productive compared to the older buildings downtown, but that’s not necessarily the case.

Houston has been reading Strong Towns. But could it happen here?

Houston is closing a stretch of downtown's Main Street for good The city originally closed off the seven-block strip of Main Street during the pandemic.

The top picture is the vision of Shreveport leadership… auto-addicted sprawl.

Another US city is looking to remove an inner-city freeway in order to correct a past mistake. Shreveport has the opportunity to not make such a mistake in the first place. No I-49 Inner City Connector! Preserve downtown for the future!

Our Vision | Rethink I-794 and Reconnect the Grid Rethinking I-794 presents a rare opportunity for Milwaukee to reverse its declining population through exciting new developments, address a plague of pedestrian deaths, and reconnect our city to its most prized natural wonder: Lake Michigan.