Incremental Development - #5 in the Strong Towns Curbside Chat Video Series
Channel: Strong Towns
Date: 2015-12-22

It's so exciting to share this video, the fifth in Gracen Johnson's Curbside Chat series. "How did they know how to build this?  It's simple.  They just copied what they knew worked." We like our places to emerge fully formed and then we expect them to never change, but that's not how life works. Cities are like living things. They need to be able to change and adapt, to start small and mature incrementally over time. 

We can't wait around for a big developer or a mega-project to fix our cities. The kind of development we need today happens at the scale of a Strong Citizen, someone who cares about the place they live.

This is the fifth video in our Curbside Chat series, an eye-opening presentation explaining why cities of all kinds are struggling financially and how we can work to change things for the better, one block at a time. For more information, visit http://www.CurbsideChat.org. 

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Music: 
Illusions (Instrumental) by Keen Collective, licensed through Marmoset Music.

Archival Footage:

From Prelinger Archives and the Internet Archive (www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php):
"San Francisco Scenes" - Published 1929
"San Francisco, California street scenes" - Published 1922
"A Drive Through Bunker Hill and Downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1940s"

From elsewhere on archive.org
"Fires of the Past" by Telenews Theatre - Published 1917
"Homes for Veterans" by National Archives and Records Administration - Published 1946
"The Woodworker" by Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc. - Published 1940
"Recovery In Michigan 1937" by Works Progress Administration - Published 1937