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

informative slow-paced

5.0

The five stars here does not include writing ability- this book was a bear to get through. That being said, I've been on an urban planning kick recently, and this was highly informative. I listened to it on audiobook, and now I need a physical copy so I can take notes on it. This gave a ton of compelling arguments against modern american cities- ones that I will be using as my town works on updating its zoning code. As noted in some other reviews, there are parts of historic prosperity (i.e. slavery and undervalued labor) that the author doesn't go into at all, but as an introduction this has thoroughly convinced me that the way we're doing cities is wrong.