Strong Towns is one of a tiny number of credible voices standing in opposition to the national political consensus on highway building, infrastructure spending and transportation.
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Strong Towns provides an empirical argument "for doing the math", when it comes to new development; that is compelling for citizens, but even more compelling for presenting to elected decision makers in our own towns.
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Listen to our member talk about what Strong Towns means to them. Then sign up to join them as a member of Strong Towns.
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You asked us to give you social-media-friendly ways to share the Strong Towns message with others in your community. Short, on message and powerful. Thanks to the volunteer contributions of a very special member -- Matthias Leyrer -- we've been able to produce some of these graphics.
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The Curbside Chat is a powerful message.
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STRONG TOWNS IS OPENING EYES AND INTRODUCING PEOPLE TO A POWERFUL NEW WAY OF LOOKING AT THEIR OWN PLACES. HERE'S WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE SAYING.
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THIS WEEK IS THE STRONG TOWNS SUMMER FUNDRAISING/MEMBERSHIP DRIVE. PLEASE DO YOUR PART TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATION BEHIND THE STRONG TOWNS MOVEMENT.
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Chuck reviews three different incidents involving children killed by automobiles and asks: Who are really the ones showing casual indifference here?
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The kind of thinking America needs right now.
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As of yesterday, 40 of the 75 spots available for the Small Scale Developers Boot Camp in Dallas this August are already spoken for. If you're thinking about attending, better move fast.
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I was asked to participate in a public art festival using rain-activated art. It took me a while to decide what to do and how to do it, but the process is remarkably easy once you know what to expect. Here's a how-to if you're interested in trying your own stencil rainworks. It's pretty much the same for spray chalk.
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The engineering profession -- with a growing number of notable exceptions -- employs a systematic approach to design prioritizing the fast and efficient (but not safe) movement of automobiles over everything else. Engineers show a conscious indifference to pedestrians and cyclists, misunderstanding their needs where they are not disregarded completely. This is the very definition of gross negligence.
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Car leaves the stroad, smashes into another car which smashed into a daycare killing one and injuring many others. What do the adults here do to keep their kids safe?
Do they slow the cars? Do they address the incompatibility of having highway speed vehicles on a nasty, complex stroad just feet from the doorway to the facility? Do they look at the sidewalks adjacent to vehicles traveling at highway speeds and think it strange, even barbaric, that we would place anyone -- let alone young children -- in such a dangerous environment?
Of course not.
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The continued street/road hybrid approach of America's countless stroads causes needless tragedy, with the side effect of our cities going bankrupt in the process.
#slowthecars
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This week should be renamed the Johnny show, because Johnny Sanphillippo of Granola Shotgun has delivered so much great content this past week.
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In case you missed it, here's a recap of the week at Strong Towns.
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We invite our members to submit their questions on anything they would like out thoughts on. This week we talk RSS feed, irrational fears and organizing members.
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Hays, Kansas, shows us what a mature, Strong Towns conversation looks like when local leaders start asking the right set of questions.
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Tony Dutzik, Senior Policy Analyst with Frontier Group, joins the podcast to talk about a new report he co-authored: Who Pays for Roads? How the "Users Pay" Myt Gets in the Way of Solving America's Transportation Problems.
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Are you sitting on a big idea for your city, your neighborhood or your block? Ready to take some actions but having trouble getting started? Does your idea require some money but you have no idea how to raise it?
Ready to take that next smallest step on a longer journey?
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