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Thank you to everyone who became a member this week. We can't do this without you.
See you back here on Monday when we resume our regular schedule.
A new survey shows that seniors desire walkable neighborhoods.
By talking to each other, by listening, and by interpreting the words and actions of others with a spirit of generosity, we can overcome the feeling of helplessness we have in these times.
This week we covered the dangers of highway widening, the history of government involvement in home mortgages, and the problem with parking lots.
We've created a system that feeds on short-term growth but doesn't account for the long-term costs of that development.
A recently-elected Strong Towns member on why she ran for office and how Strong Towns has influenced her leadership.
What happens when you fill your city with parking? Lots and lots of low value land, and not much else.
In this podcast, Rachel Quednau interviews Alfonso Morales, a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about public markets and what makes them succeed or fail.
On the surface, mortgages appear to be a mostly free market enterprise, but the system masks a huge amount of government intervention.
5 reasons foodies should care about building strong towns.
In your town, is an owner of a single family home able to get permission to add a small rental unit onto their property without any real hassle? If not, you've got work to do.
Streets designed to be fully shared by all users are safer and more economically productive, but this concept has a long way to go before it becomes the norm in America.
The Trump Administration’s reconsideration of the mortgage interest deduction has sparked a wider conversation about its merit, and sources on both the left and the right seem to agree that it accomplishes very little.
After years of neglect, downtown Rochester has found an unexpected ally: residents.
What's it like to move from a 5 acre semi-rural home to a downtown neighborhood?
Oregon’s DOT seems to be more concerned with making cars go faster than saving lives.
This week, we're hosting an open conversation about some of the biggest questions that have come up regarding local food, farming and gardening.
This week was all about local food, housing, and a curiously-sized building in Peoria, IL.
We are living through, today, what is the largest social, cultural, political and financial experiment that's ever been attempted by humankind.
The models used by highway engineers to analyze traffic congestion are woefully inaccurate and result in the creation of lanes and roads we don't need.
To build strong towns, we need to adopt the ways of the ecologist, which involve far more observation and far less intervention than our current approaches to urban development.
Earlier this year, our friends at Urban3 showed us something so ridiculous and so indicative of our current land use problems that we had to share it with you...
A bike commuter is attacked on his way to work and the aftermath illustrates a common reality in American cities.
Chuck Marohn shares reflections from his recent family vacation to Washington, DC.