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Supplementary Resources

2021 Ottawa County Housing Needs Assessment Update (more info here)

Top 5 Resources: 

• Our self-imposed scarcity of nice places (article)
• We regulate the wrong things (article)
• What to do when your city won't listen to reason (article)
• We can have both more housing and good urban form (article) 
• Strong Towns 101 (Academy Course, free)

Incremental Development

• Unleash the Swarm of Small Scale Development (e-book) and Office Hours Q&A  
• Where did all the small developers go? (article)
• Savor your small parcels and create more of them (article)
• A new generation of town makers (article)
• We need small homes (article)
• Illustrating investment potential in your neighborhood (article)
• Is gentle density enough? (article)
• Lets infill a traditional neighborhood and make a profit (article)
• Encouraging fine grained development (article)
• Getting lean and the end of block development (article)
• On beyond infill (article)

Municipal Government Action

• Have you met this guy? (article)
• If we're not going to maintain what we have, then why bother building anything new? (article) 
• Give the people what they want (article)
• Kick the tires on your local zoning code (article) 
• You care about the subdivision regulations: you just don't know it (article)
• Stop shoehorning suburbia into walkable places (article)
• Why aren't parks open at night? (article)
• Grand parks vs neighborhood parks (article)
• 10 steps to fix your city (article)
• If we don't maintain it, it will fall apart (article)
• Orderly but dumb (article)
• Small, simple, and flexible (article) 
• Let them apply for variances (article)
• Conversations with an engineer (article)
• How zoning codes reinforce car dependency (article)
• We regulate the wrong things (article)
• What to do when your city won't listen to reason (article)

Traditional Development Pattern

• Is this development out of scale? (article)
• We can have both more housing and good urban form (article) 
• Porches, walkability, and sustainability (article)
• The party analogy (article) 
• Neighborhoods were never meant to be unchanging (article) 
• Movie set urbanism revisited (article)
• Recipe for a remarkable neighborhood (article)
• The catch 22 of retrofitting the suburbs (article)
• Learning to love a humble neighborhood (article)
• The living city vs the mechanical city (article)
• The invisible hand that designed your city (article)
• 3 Rochester neighborhoods and why they work (article)
• Better towns through stress (article)
• The value of old buildings (article)
• Small spaces and secret passages (article)
• Good enough urbanism (article)
• Traditional development is not retro: it's timeless (article)
• Our self-imposed scarcity of nice places (article)

Parking

• There are problems the market can't solve: parking isn't one of them (article)
• Stuck in Park (e-book)

Community

• 8 ways to be a better neighborhood (article)
• The magic of tree lined streets (article)
• Accidentally on purpose (article)
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Learn (Even) More

• Creating Housing Opportunities in a Strong Town (ST Academy Course $395)
• Urban Design Principles for a Strong Town (ST Academy Course $225)

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