What will happen to Homeowner's Associations in an America with increasing suburban poverty? It will be messy.
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Rachel and special guest, Michelle Erfurt (Strong Towns' Pathfinder) discuss Suburban Poverty Week and dive into the event calendar for the rest of 2016.
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The spectre of poverty haunts hundreds of American suburbs and effects millions of Americans. Let's take a look at the data behind suburban poverty: its causes, impacts and current trends.
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Next time you want to label a town as 'family oriented' - don't just think about the young and middle-aged people that are able to depend on an automobile at a moment's notice. Ask yourself, would your 13 year old kid or elderly grandma with a walker have their freedom and be happy there?
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Ponder what life will be like following another decade or two of inversion, with society’s arrangements -- no longer able to be propped up by an expanding state. Consider an America where the affluent inhabit our core cities and the poor are left behind on our suburbanized outskirts.
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Traditional neighborhoods, road funding, and antifragility were among our most popular topics this week.
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A house built for "aging in place" should also be located in a neighborhood built for aging in place.
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Trailer parks remain one of the last forms of housing in US cities provided by the market explicitly for low-income residents.
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This week Chuck answers questions left over from an Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals web broadcast he participated in earlier this year.
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While media outlets may prefer to latch onto sensational stories of shootings and gang violence, a major tragedy is being ignored in our cities every week.
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This year I started my first (micro) garden. It's been an enjoyable experiment for reasons I didn’t even expect, which reach far beyond the food I produced.
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In spite of a major budget shortfall, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker offers no plan to raise revenue or adjust his transportation funding goals.
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How does a city balance the expectations of drivers with the needs of productive places and the people who use them, when fast-paced technological change may soon upend the basic realities on which such assessments are built?
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I ran the numbers and made a plan for building a traditional urban neighborhood. It turns out there's big profit to be made in this model.
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A recent Strong Towns article on one-way streets sparked a series of discussions on the merits and drawbacks of this street design. Here are 7 stories that offer differing perspectives on this issue, from a variety of cities and towns across the country.
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Things have gone awry as Rachel takes a Monday off leaving Chuck and Strong Towns' Community Builder, Yuri Artibise, to talk about Iowa, the barbell strategy, the Canadian-based CitiesAlive podcast and the differing histories of the War of the Conquest (the French and Indian War).
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We never calculate—let alone track—the public's actual return-on-investment (dollars in versus dollars out over multiple life cycles) when we do a project. We never even ask the question.
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Most of our investments need to be riskless, but a small fraction need to be high risk, high reward.
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Here's our most-read content from the week at Strong Towns.
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We're bringing back our See It Differently TV (SID.TV) series on YouTube. In this new short video, Chuck Marohn shows us how a hospital parking lot offers both challenges and opportunities for the surrounding neighborhood.
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