Walkable, human-oriented communities tend to be the happiest and healthiest, where the younger generation is looking to live, and the most financially productive types of places to build and retain. Creating human oriented communities is the essence of creating a Strong Town.
Read MoreInstead of drive like your kids live here how about design like your kids live here.
Read MoreWe have built a system we can't afford. The proposed solution? Supersize it, so it's even bigger and less affordable. We can do better.
Read MoreWhy is the United States government or even the state of Connecticut considering spending any money at all on a roadway project that is so clearly local?
Read MoreWelcome back to the Monday Member Blog Roll - MLK Jr’s Birthday edition!
Read MoreDr. King and his colleagues had the courage to put themselves at risk for things they believed in. They not only put themselves at physical risk of injury and death, but they made themselves the targets of ridicule. That’s an even bigger risk for many of us.
Read MoreWhile new transportation funding is needed, more money without significant reform is worse than no funding at all. We need to continue to oppose all of these funding efforts until serious reform is on the table.
Read MoreFree Range Kids, gentrification, transportation funding , the Swiss Franc and a Cadbury egg apostasy.
Read MoreHey walkers....distracted walking is dangerous walking. You don't belong here.
#slowthecars
Read MoreWe have put together a briefing for all of our members detailing our strategic plan for 2015. We invite you to take a look at it and give us your feedback, thoughts and continued support.
Read MoreIn the spirit of moving from an awareness-building organization to a movement-building organization, Strong Towns has a fun new corner of the website for me. This year, I'll be sharing field notes on my journey/research into Strong Citizenship. In this regular column, you'll get pieces of my life as a friendly neighbour in a quintessential Little City that Feels Like a Big Town.
Read MoreThese nuances are lost when the top-down approach invades our planning. It's expensive and gives us a low return on investment. It's the type of system that would spend $50 million without realizing that they were trying to solve the wrong problem.
Read MoreCities that tethered their future to this experiment are going to struggle while those that still have a pulse in their core neighborhoods will have a chance at renewed prosperity.
Read More#wecandothis
Read MoreThe Member News Digest, a look at what's hot on the Strong Towns member blogs.
Read MoreForgiving design principles that traffic engineers employ have replaced the “that’s what kids do” burden on the driver with a “that’s what drivers do” burden on all of society. If we want to make our cities prosperous again, we have to return that burden to the driver. Not just at intersections. Not just where there are properly specified signs. It is their burden, their responsibility, everywhere, all the time. Period.
Read MoreMassive, quick change is only going to come by having a nation of people who care about their communities and are prepared, as an expression of that caring, to share the Strong Towns message with their friends and neighborhoods, then take action together to change their places. That's the Strong Towns movement.
Read MoreFor our 200th podcast episode, we asked you to submit questions for Chuck to answer. Here is that Q&A.
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