What makes a city financially sustainable? (Part II)
November 12, 2025
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This second session in our Strong Towns series builds on the momentum from the October 8 Know Before You Grow forum. We share two additional Not Just Bikes videos that dig deeper into the financial mechanics that support—or undermine—a city’s long-term stability. Those who attended the October 8 forum will remember the lively, thoughtful conversation. If you’d like to revisit Part 1, you can watch that recording here.
Here’s the full list of videos shown across both sessions:
Part I videos:
Part II videos:
Petaluma’s financial sustainability remains an active community conversation. Urban Chat has a project team examining local finances through multiple lenses, including a Strong Towns–informed framework. If this topic interests you, visit the project team page to learn more.
More about Not Just Bikes
Not Just Bikes is a YouTube channel run by Canadian-Dutch content creator Jason Slaughter. The channel examines urbanist issues and contrasts the transportation, infrastructure, and built environment of the Netherlands and other countries to those of the United States and Canada. (Partial credit to Wikipedia.)
As Slaughter studied his topics, he found he aligned with the thinking of Minnesota nonprofit StrongTowns. With the participation of StrongTowns, he prepared a series of short videos about the thinking of the nonprofit.