Listen: Using Radical Common Sense To Build Great Places, With Steve Nygren

Most developers see land as a blank canvas to be scraped clean and rebuilt from scratch. Steve Nygren saw something different when he looked at 900 acres outside Atlanta—he saw an opportunity to prove that you could build more housing per square mile than typical sprawl while preserving 70% of the natural landscape. Twenty years later, Serenbe stands as a living contradiction to conventional wisdom: dense yet peaceful, profitable yet environmentally conscious, walkable yet surrounded by forests and farms. In his new book, this former restaurateur-turned-developer argues that transforming how we build isn’t about grand gestures—it’s about applying “radical common sense” to your own backyard, one decision at a time.

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Chuck Marohn

Strong Towns

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