John,

There are two ways to make a human body stronger: the healthy way, and the unhealthy way.

We're talking diet and exercise vs. anabolic steroids. Gently leveling up your weight training over time vs. loading up on as many performance enhancing drugs as you can get your hands on so you can lift twice your body weight by the weekend.

The thing is, making our cities financially stronger isn't all that different than muscling up. It's just that for the last few generations, we've been choosing the kind of growth that's more analogous to black market human growth hormones than protein shakes and clean living.

Today, my colleague Daniel Herriges gives you three sure-fire ways to tell if the kind of growth

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community's choosing is going to make you resilient for the long term—or if it's just going to make you sick while you seem like you're getting stronger every day.

It's not intuitive, we know. But our cities and towns need smart, thoughtful people like you to help us change the conversation.

Can we count on you?

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-Kea and the rest of the Strong Towns Team.

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