[alexb_]

What? Strong Towns is not just their "content creation", they ARE local organizations. You might have a chapter in your city. This criticism tells me that you don't know what Strong Towns is, what they do, the actual specific policy guidelines they come up with and push that have real influence on local city planning.

Strong Towns gives actionable proposals all the time, and their main purpose is local organizations to actually do local change. To accuse them of being a content creation scheme that does no organizing tells me that you have not looked into this at all and are making immediate assumptions based on the aesthetics of their content.

[davidw]

On balance, I think Strong Towns has done a lot of good, but in terms of organizing on the ground, I think the two large YIMBY organizations are better at equipping people to make change in their communities:

* https://yimbyaction.org/

* https://welcomingneighbors.us/

I happily read and share a lot of Strong Towns content - they do put out a lot of good stuff despite the occasional dud. But in terms of learning how to show up and get things done, I think that's not their strongest spot.

[tuna74]

Doing good stuff and improving cities is not a contest. No organisation can do it all, but if we work together we can do a lot!

[davidw]

Yeah, exactly, it's not a zero sum game.

[tacticalturtle]

Yeah I think my original comment was too cynical and misplaced when lumping in all of the Strong Towns organization with Not Just Bikes style content. I’ll read through what they have today.

Admittedly my experience might be colored by the fact that they don’t seem to have much of a presence in my home town of Boston - it’s more other groups like the Cyclist Union showing up at meetings carrying forward things like bike lane advocacy, etc.

[doctorpangloss]

i'm not sure why you are being downvoted, but the people you are talking to are the reason "It's all projection" is true.