You are claiming Strong Towns is calling for some things that seem far from what they actually advocate. The page you linked doesn't say those things, so where

You are claiming Strong Towns is calling for some things that seem far from what they actually advocate. The page you linked doesn't say those things, so where are you getting this from? Could you provide actual quotes? For example, Strong Towns advocates incrementalism. Building an entire neighbourhood from scratch, to a finished state, like the New Urbanist downtown, is not incremental development. Here's a page where the president of Strong Towns advocates incrementalism: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/6/12/the-power-of-growing-incrementally https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/6/12/the-power-of-g... "There are two defining differences between pre-Depression and post-War development patterns. Pre-Depression development was incremental on a continuum of improvement while post-War development is built at a large scale to a finished state." In any case, building yourself into debt to chase growth while cargo-culting aspects of successful towns is the opposite of incrementalism, and just dumb. It is clear that Strong Towns advocates, as a Prime Directive, building only what the town can actually afford to build long-term, including all maintenance and replacement. From https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/8/22/the-more-we-grow-the-poorer-we-become https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/8/22/the-more-we-gr... : "Here is our approach: - Rely on small, incremental investments (little bets) instead of large, transformative projects. - Emphasize resiliency of result over efficiency of execution. - Design to adapt to feedback. - Inspire by bottom-up action (chaotic but smart) and not top-down systems (orderly but dumb). - Seek to conduct as much of life as possible at a personal scale. - Obsess about accounting for revenues, expenses, assets, and long-term liabilities (do the math)." From the Strong Towns Strength Test https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2014/11/15/strong-towns-strength-test https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2014/11/15/strong-towns-... : "10. Does the city government spend no more than 10% of its locally-generated revenue on debt service?" I did find a page calling for signalised intersections to be torn out in favour of roundabouts, with some fair questions about costs: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2014/1/15/missouri-roundabouts.html https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2014/1/15/missouri-round...