Oct 16 | Strong Towns Mount Vernon | A Brief History of Mount Vernon’s Development Pattern

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The slides for today's presentation are available at the bottom of this page. 

Top 5 Resources: 

• Our self-imposed scarcity of nice places (article)
• Small bets (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)

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)

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)

Tutorial on Mount Vernon Value Per Acre Analysis

If you're interested in conducting a value per acre analysis of your own, here's a recording of Norm preparing for the talk in Mount Vernon by doing a spot analysis of several sites in the community with commentary on why this matters. 

Learn (Even) More

• A Strong Towns approach for Planning Commission and City Council briefings on new proposed developments that include a basic, yet effective, fiscal sustainability analysis.
• Creating Housing Opportunities in a Strong Town (ST Academy Course $395)
• Urban Design Principles for a Strong Town (ST Academy Course $225)

• 241016 - Mount Vernon Strong Towns - Curbside Chat.pdf20 MB