As America’s cities continue their halting climb up and out of the last few years, data analytics firm Urban3 foresees a few crises—as well as opportunities—waiting for them in 2023.
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Frequent power outages in California give pause to reflect on the overall fragility of our built environment.
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Progress on climate change can and will come if we use a bottom-up approach to changing our development pattern.
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No matter how many solar panels it has, your parking garage isn’t green, and especially if you don’t charge parking.
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The environmental groups suing Minneapolis to block implementation of its groundbreaking 2040 Plan have a limited understanding of environmentalism, but a keen grasp of how to slow down policy reform.
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A recent article states that “real progress on climate change will require innovations that some on the left won’t like.” What’s the Strong Towns response?
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National Geographic says we’re witnessing an electric vehicle revolution. But there’s another, perhaps more important, revolution underway.
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There are things we can do right now to make California less vulnerable to megafires. So why aren’t we doing them?
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James Howard Kunstler discusses why people are afraid of change, why technology won’t save us, and how to live well (by living small) amidst “the Long Emergency.”
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The proposed Green New Deal is ambitious and urgent—but completely omits any mention of local land use. Can sweeping federal policy mix with the kind of decentralized, bottom-up change we need?
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Our approach to building strong towns isn't driven by large influxes of federal money or top-down, cookie cutter government programs.
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In order to solve the biggest problems of today's world (climate change, dysfunctional cities, global crises) we need to harness the strength of a movement.
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The global climate is a complex system. Economic markets are a complex system. Why do we react so differently to these different forms of complexity and what can we learn from those reactions?
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What is sad is that these guys are so good at communication in general but so BAD at communicating to the masses of people who need to be on board to make this kind of thing happen.
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