Next Up: California
Next week Chuck and Jim will be in the Los Angeles area, our first Strong Towns trip to California since 2012. We're working really hard to get to Northern CA yet this year -- keep your eyes open for that.
UPCOMING EVENTS
- Tampa, FL - TODAY
- Tampa, FL - TONIGHT
- Lancaster, CA - March 4 & 5
- Member Meetup in Long Beach - March 5
- Newport Beach, CA - March 6
- Norman, OK - March 23
- Oklahoma - March 24-27
- West Palm Beach, FL - April 7
- La Crosse, WI - April 11
- Stevens Point, WI - April 24 & 25
- Hays, KS - May 19
KEEP INFORMED ON WHEN WE'LL BE SOMEWHERE NEAR YOU.
SOME STUFF FROM THIS WEEK YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED.
While urban planning can sound boring, how we choose to live is as fundamental a question as exists.
Eric Higbee is a landscape architect who teaches university courses on community engagement and works on community design and planning projects through his award-winning landscape architecture practice.
Student journalist William Donofrio is part of a growing group of changemakers who are noticing, documenting, and sharing the struggles their places face.
There is nothing radical or reckless about letting your child cross the street. So why are parents across the country facing criminal charges for doing just that?
How did one of the most dangerous streets in Rhode Island turn into a safe and comfortable place for people to walk, bike, and shop? It’s all about community and local context.
Harrisonburg skipped the renderings and went straight to the street—using a live demo to calm traffic and earn back trust.
Mayor Kevin McDonnell and Dave Alden, co-leader of Petaluma Urban Chat, join us from Petaluma, California. They discuss the Know Before You Grow initiative, a community-driven effort that's helped encourage housing development in the city's downtown.
The house is beautiful. The neighborhood is charming. The street? Designed like a drag strip—and it's launched multiple cars into one family's living room.
Chuck sits down with Steve Nygren, the founder of a unique community just outside of Atlanta called Serenbe. They discuss the process of creating Serenbe, which features walkable, mixed-use “hamlets” surrounded by nature.
It’s easy to get angry or check out when faced with your place’s continued decline. That doesn’t mean you should stop fighting for it.
A couple of weeks ago, Chuck did a Q&A about how the book “Abundance” differs from the Strong Towns approach. There were some good questions, so we’ve consolidated his answers here.