A review by morganevans
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity by Charles L. Marohn Jr.

4.0

Definitely a must read book for 2020. If you want to learn more about your own local community this is a great book to get you thinking. Marohn starts off with an American history about how our suburbs and cities have changed since the WWII boom and how they may not be able to sustain that continuous growth forever, just look at Detroit. The first half of the book explained where and how local governments funnel their finances normally and the second half of the book were the author's gentle suggestions to save and maintain our roads, sidewalks and buildings instead off rushing off to build new every single time. He has some basic ideas rooted in solidarity that seem very obtainable at the local government level.