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From Main Street to the World: Rural Entrepreneurship in Action

17 August 2025 No Comments

Vibrant rural Main Street with small businesses, market stalls, and a coworking space, representing rural entrepreneurship and community vitality.

While entrepreneurs bring the ideas and drive, planners and policymakers create the conditions that help those ventures thrive.

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Kotkin and Florida: Two Sides of the Same Prosperity

10 September 2023

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Book of the Month

Confessions of A Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town by Charles Marohn (Wiley, 2021)

Chuck Marohn delivers a vision for more accessible and engaging local transportation systems in his second book in the Strong Towns series. He delivers withering critiques of his chosen profession, yet also offers real-world examples of communities doing better for all residents.