Strong Towns

A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity

Hardcover, 256 pages

Published Oct. 1, 2019 by Wiley.

ISBN:
978-1-119-56481-2
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Strong Towns: A Bottom Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem.

Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles―and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life.

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5 stars

Author Chuck Marohn is no stranger to civil engineering and his insights on how cities are built and maintained offer a point of view that I've never considered before.

As a reader living in North America if you aren't already following the trend of new urbanism, you need to go into this with an open mind. This book presents ideas on city development that go against most people's core beliefs, and many will find themselves unable to grasp that radical change is required. You will learn that after decades of unending growth, we are about to find ourselves in a situation where cities can no longer sustain themselves and the cracks are already beginning to show.

This book and the author have completely changed the way I look at cities.

En general, bueno

3 stars

Ya había escuchado la versión de audiolibro de Strong Towns. Mientras que por un lado estoy absolutamente de acuerdo con las cosas que Marohn propone (dejar de gastar en infraestructura nueva y completa de sopetón que sólo incrementa deuda futura; invertir en mantenimiento y en rellenar espacios vacíos en ciudades que mejoren la calidad de vida y del espacio; diseñar con enfoque en la gente y a nivel personal, en lugar de puras torres, etcétera), por otro lado me parece que este libro, breve como es, se sobre extiende un poco en sus descripciones. Creo que es al menos 50 páginas más largo de lo que debería ser. También creo que es problemático el sutil racismo casual del autor, uno del que no estoy seguro de que se percate. Pero decir "la violencia contra minorías en vecindarios de menor ingreso, por parte de la policía, no tiene necesariamente que ver …

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