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Making San Diego stronger

and more livable

What We’re Fighting For in San Diego

Strong Towns San Diego is organizing for lasting change, block by block, budget by budget. Learn about our concrete agenda, organized around the 5 core Strong Towns campaigns.

While we seek important policy outcomes, our primary goal is based on two core philosophies of process and state of mind. We seek to change how every citizen interacts with local government and their neighborhoods by following the Strong Towns Approach and the Strong Towns Approach to Public Investment. more...

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Placemaking

"Good placemaking makes use of underutilized space to enhance the urban experience at the pedestrian scale" -- Wikipedia.

Here in San Diego we have many opportunities to create "third places" - neither home nor work - in which people can meet, often spontaneously, and enjoy our city.