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Strong Towns | Charles Marohn | Talks at Google
Charles Marohn of Strong Towns presents, in a Talks at Google session, the ideas from his book on why many North American towns struggle financially despite decades of growth. He argues for incremental, bottom-up city building as a path to local prosperity.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters link it in housing and urbanism threads as a clear explanation of unsustainable car-oriented development and fragile systems.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Talks at Google
- Topic
- urban planning and municipal finance
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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>You're being very unfair here. When you choose a place to live you are not only choosing the structure in which you reside, you are choosing the surrounding environment as well. The expectation that one can settle down and expect their city to be built …
imtringued on Hacker News · 2021-02
In California’s affordable housing problem is really a national oneIf you like this topic I recommend this talk: [VIDEO] It has a great explanation of the difference between complex and complicated, and the fragility of our systems compared to nature's ones.
richardfey on Hacker News · 2021-05
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