This is a home and a destination, not a place to pass through quickly on your way to somewhere else. The streets should be designed to reflect that.
Read MoreYes, many thriving places have attractive lawn furniture, tasteful signage, and abundant flowers. But adding those items to a place with fundamental flaws is just lipstick on a pig.
Read MoreThese places all have many of the physical elements needed for success, quite frankly, because they were built for it originally. What they need most is people; people that care about the place and have the energy to make it better.
Read MoreBrian Ludicke is a planning director and Strong Towns member working to make his city of Lancaster, CA more walkable and more livable for everyone.
Read MoreRed light cameras are not the answer.
Read MoreTwo weeks ago, we announced a crowdsourced database collecting information on the tax productivity of big box stores in comparison with other, more compact developments. We've now mapped that data for you to see.
Read MoreMayor Steve Arnold of Fitchburg, WI is a Strong Towns member who is asking the hard questions about road funding and exposing the Growth Ponzi Scheme in his town. Unsurprisingly, it's a contentious conversation.
Read MoreIt might not be the answer you're expecting.
Read MoreToms River, NJ was built as a collection of convenient commodities and it will be discarded once it exceeds its usefulness.
Read MoreChuck and Rachel discuss an upcoming event in Iowa, plus Chuck's recent article on semi trucks and why we don't actually need to build our cities around them.
Read MoreThere are a multitude of reasons why someone might want to be in a park after dark, and most of them are completely safe and reasonable. So why are most parks technically "closed" at night?
Read MoreHauling one big load of merchandise is far more efficient than hauling multiple, smaller loads. Thus whoever can configure their operation to take advantage of this efficiency should win, right?
Read MoreTraffic stops, a city council race, and school closures were among our top stories this week.
Read MoreNew Urbanist developments are increasingly popular, yet they still betray a key tenet of the new urbanist movement: they can often only be reached by car.
Read MoreDense cities that want to live in the real world of space and time, and that do not want to become dystopias that are functional only for the rich, need to use urban space efficiently. That includes public transit.
Read MoreWe must build places that enable us to see the lives of others with knowledge, love, and compassion. This means getting our hands dirty in the soil of our community.
Read MoreChuck Marohn discusses the issue of traffic stops and the need to end them in this solo podcast.
Read MoreLand use and transportation policies like zoning provide the pretense of order through artificial constructs that suppress the natural order. Moreover, they mask the incompetence of modern urban designers.
Read MoreLet's stop using the terrible design of our cities as a random pretext for pulling people over and, instead, be proactive about fixing the design.
Read MoreAre check cashing spots yet another way that big businesses prey on the poor and waste their money? The answer is actually more multifaceted than you might think.
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