A recent study by Slow Streets near Vancouver uncovers the damage a stroad is doing to an otherwise productive, lively neighborhood street.
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Last week's debate was educational, entertaining and stimulating. Adding to the fun was the live tweeting done by several Strong Towns members and enthusiasts. In case you weren't on Twitter during the debate, here are some of the highlights from the evening
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Last week, Sarah Goodyear from CityLab interviewed me about the project. Her first question was this: When you did your chairbombing, were you worried at all about the police confronting you? The landowner? My answer: In this case, not really. AND THEN! Here was the scene this week at the market...
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When we talk about parks in cities, it helps if we can classify them into two types. Grand Parks are destinations. Neighborhood Parks are the living room of the community.
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Some off topic thoughts and a video inspired by the book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined by Steven Pinker.
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The Governmental Accounting Standards Board now requires cities to disclose, as part of their financial reporting, the amount of money lost to tax subsidies. This is a significant development.
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It might be role of O'Toole, and those who would follow him, to simply serve as a warning for others. That's a useful role in society.
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The decision to pursue a career in urban planning: what's the value of it in a world where we acknowledge the fundamental complexity and unmanageability of cities? Planners as the conservation biologists of the urban ecosystem.
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Cities can experience growth and job creation today quite easily if they are willing to take on a disproportionate amount of long term liabilities. In other words, I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for growth and jobs today.
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Last Thursday I was part of a debate with Randal O’Toole – the self-identified Antiplanner from the Cato Institute – in Lafayette, Louisiana. I’m going to take the opportunity to reflect a little bit on things from my perspective.
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MoDOT management gives every indication that they have a serious cultural problem, a deep misunderstanding of their role and responsibilities. This needs to change before they get another dime.
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Following a Curbside Chat earlier this year, Waco, Texas, is taking some difficult and important steps towards getting their financial house in order.
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Necessary repairs to roads and streets often get put off for a later time despite the fact that we see them decline before our eyes. This is an even bigger problem for underground infrastructure where the problem is out of sight, out of mind.
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Dear Milwaukee, learn from the mistakes you didn't make. Don't build an entertainment district. Instead, let your city develop incrementally.
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There is a fraction of Americans who reflexively oppose any tax increase and a similar fraction of Americans that reflexively support any tax increase where they sense a need. That 40% in the middle point the way to a rational approach: fix what we have before we even think of building more.
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What are people really trying to say when they divide cyclists into the good ones and the bad ones?
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This Thursday in Lafayette, Louisiana, our own Charles Marohn will be debating Randal O'Toole of the CATO Institute. The debate begins at 5:30 PM and we will attempt to provide a live feed here at Strong Towns.
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The perfect is the enemy of the good, or, in this case, the achievable.
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A podcast preview of the upcoming week including introducing Jason Schaefer, the new Member Support Specialist at Strong Towns, a trip to Lafayette with Joe Minicozzi, a debate with Cato fellow Randal O'Toole and a success story in Waco.
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