Strong Citizens
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ysabetwordsmithThis article talks about nomenclature in the Strong Towns movement.
The general term is Strong Citizen, which matches the Strong Towns phrasing.
The Counts -- people who do the math, revealing which parts of town are solvent or insolvent and why.
Homebuddies -- people who make a place homey.
I could add some other clusters ...
Activists -- watchdogs who support a particular cause. Frex, the disability mavens who insist that a walkable/bikeable neighborhood has to include accessibility for other modes of transit too. They can be specialists with one cause or generalists with many. The trick is, when you assemble many different activists, you can usually file off most of the rough spots before a plan hits the pavement. This saves time, money, and headaches later. If you listen to them.
Barkers -- every movement has people who boost the signal. They watch for topics of interest and share them. These are the folks whose friends use them as a newsfeed. They keep the conversation alive, alive-oh. I do a lot of this.
Environmentalists -- the folks who lobby for street trees, parks, and other greenspace to keep urban humans from eating each other. They also keep an eye on how human activities impact wildlife, and how to minimize the damage. They look at things like green energy, sustainable building, and waste reduction. In the Strong Towns movement, these are the people who see a Strong Town as one part in a larger ecosystem: if the surrounding environment isn't healthy, then the town can't be either. I'm an environmentalist in general.
Fixers -- people who pounce on problems, tear them apart, and brainstorm solutions. You've seen me go through the points of an article, why they would or wouldn't work, and some other ideas to try. Fixers can be brains (who think about ideas) or handymen (who make and repair stuff), or some combination of the two.
Futurists -- like the Counts, but not necessarily dealing in numbers, they can rely on other patterns. What will happen if this increase keeps going up? What if everyone did that? How will this technology impact society? Like the Counts, they spend a lot of time going "Oh, shit!" and trying to convince people to avoid repeating obvious mistakes. I do a lot of this too.
Good Neighbors -- where homebuddies focus a lot on placemaking, good neighbors focus on connecting people, especially through intentional neighboring.
Transit Buffs -- the people who move people. They often have a specialty; some are into walking, biking, buses, trains, or whatever. Others are more about connecting different kinds of transit. They may overlap with the housing crowd when it comes to making sure that residential areas have good transit, or that major transit routes have housing, but they also touch on live-work because it reduces the need for more transit.
The general term is Strong Citizen, which matches the Strong Towns phrasing.
The Counts -- people who do the math, revealing which parts of town are solvent or insolvent and why.
Homebuddies -- people who make a place homey.
I could add some other clusters ...
Activists -- watchdogs who support a particular cause. Frex, the disability mavens who insist that a walkable/bikeable neighborhood has to include accessibility for other modes of transit too. They can be specialists with one cause or generalists with many. The trick is, when you assemble many different activists, you can usually file off most of the rough spots before a plan hits the pavement. This saves time, money, and headaches later. If you listen to them.
Barkers -- every movement has people who boost the signal. They watch for topics of interest and share them. These are the folks whose friends use them as a newsfeed. They keep the conversation alive, alive-oh. I do a lot of this.
Environmentalists -- the folks who lobby for street trees, parks, and other greenspace to keep urban humans from eating each other. They also keep an eye on how human activities impact wildlife, and how to minimize the damage. They look at things like green energy, sustainable building, and waste reduction. In the Strong Towns movement, these are the people who see a Strong Town as one part in a larger ecosystem: if the surrounding environment isn't healthy, then the town can't be either. I'm an environmentalist in general.
Fixers -- people who pounce on problems, tear them apart, and brainstorm solutions. You've seen me go through the points of an article, why they would or wouldn't work, and some other ideas to try. Fixers can be brains (who think about ideas) or handymen (who make and repair stuff), or some combination of the two.
Futurists -- like the Counts, but not necessarily dealing in numbers, they can rely on other patterns. What will happen if this increase keeps going up? What if everyone did that? How will this technology impact society? Like the Counts, they spend a lot of time going "Oh, shit!" and trying to convince people to avoid repeating obvious mistakes. I do a lot of this too.
Good Neighbors -- where homebuddies focus a lot on placemaking, good neighbors focus on connecting people, especially through intentional neighboring.
Transit Buffs -- the people who move people. They often have a specialty; some are into walking, biking, buses, trains, or whatever. Others are more about connecting different kinds of transit. They may overlap with the housing crowd when it comes to making sure that residential areas have good transit, or that major transit routes have housing, but they also touch on live-work because it reduces the need for more transit.
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Date: 2021-12-01 05:11 am (UTC)Try this ...
Date: 2021-12-01 05:51 am (UTC)https://www.strongtowns.org/