John,

Here at Strong Towns, we talk a lot about how our dominant planning paradigm is dooming our cities to decades of financial insolvency and maintenance obligations we can't afford.

But here's the thing. Sometimes...it doesn't work out that way.

Sometimes, our top down, build-it-all-at-once style of development generates a project that actually works out great. It makes our community a ton of money. We even parade it around to all the planning conferences and let our neighbors ooh and aah at our success.

Now here's the million-dollar question: Does that mean that we don't really need the Strong Towns approach?

Today, we're revisiting a classic article by our president and founder, Chuck Marohn, where he reckons with that difficult question.

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And what he finds still has big implications for Strong Towns advocates today.

Our cities can keep playing the lottery with our development dollars. Or we can start treating those dollars as a precious resource that we need to invest carefully—and we've got a heck of an investment opportunity for you.

Will you be your city's investment advisor?

-Kea and the rest of the Strong Towns Team

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