Strong North Tahoe is a Local Conversation Group of the national organization Strong Towns. The article “The Strong Towns Approach – Core Insights” provides a great summary of what it means to be a “Strong Town”:
The Strong Towns approach is a radically new way of thinking about how we build our world. We believe that in order to truly thrive, our cities and towns must:
- Stop valuing efficiency and start valuing resilience.
- Stop betting our futures on huge, irreversible projects, and start taking small, incremental steps and iterating based on what we learn.
- Stop fearing change and start embracing a process of continuous adaptation.
- Stop building our world based on abstract theories, and start building it based on how our places actually work and what our neighbors actually need today.
- Stop obsessing about future growth and start obsessing about our current finances.
But most importantly, we believe that Strong Citizens from all walks of life can and must participate in a Strong Towns approach—from citizens to leaders, professionals to neighbors, and everyone between. And that means we need you.
https://actionlab.strongtowns.org/hc/en-us/articles/360061667111-The-Strong-Towns-Approach-Core-Insights