Phoenixville Content Creator Started Sharing His Insights on Street Designs and Development on TikTok, and People Are Listening

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Nathan Allebach

Nathan Allebach, a Phoenixville native, started sharing his insights about zoning, street design, and development on TikTok, and people are listening to what he has to say, writes Lauren Fisher for the online blog of the non-profit Strong Towns.

Allebach was raised in Souderton, but his heart always remained with the town he was born in. Phoenixville had punk house shows and a downtown that was seeing some reinvigoration, unlike the one closer to him. After he found Strong Towns, he realized he finally had a way to put in words why many of the gathering spaces he grew up in were gone.

“When I found Strong Towns, I discovered a language and a context for so much of what I experienced growing up,” he said. The more he talked about it on his TikTok, the more people tuned in. More than 1.4 million people saw one of his videos that discusses third places.

Despite his background being in marketing and social media, he sees his pursuit as a personal and not professional one.

“You can kind of tell in those videos that I’m just casually figuring out what to say,” he said. Read more about Nathan Allebach in Strong Towns.

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