This week was all about the power of incrementalism and how we can make a better world, step by step.
Read MoreOur job as Strong Towns advocates is to share our message, to keep bringing the conversation back to the persistent fact that our current approach is not working financially. We’re broke and so we must start thinking differently.
Read MoreWhat's the relationship between easy lending and car ownership? And what sort of features do the auto bubble and the housing bubble have in common?
Read MoreWe have come up with many ways to explain the decline we see around us. In reality, we've simply given our cities no other option.
Read MoreA fetish with density is spiking the rising tide of housing demand in cities like Portland. To make housing affordable, we have to deal with the cause of the spike.
Read MoreWhen the issue of housing affordability comes up again and again, it is always tied to the agreed upon narrative that Portland is growing and will continue to grow, world without end. I don't buy that.
Read MoreWhere improvement is not an option, stagnation and decline are all that remain.
Read MoreIs historic preservation just thinly veiled NIMBYism?
Read More"Build it and they will come" transit has distorted the housing market in Portland.
Read MoreForget about the superstar neighborhoods—even most run-of-the-mill inner suburban neighborhoods would be next to impossible to build today.
Read MoreIt's the incremental nature of both the private and the public investments that made traditional cities strong, resilient and financially productive.
Read MoreChuck and Rachel discuss several recent events in Traverse City and Chicago, as well as upcoming events in Brainerd, MN, Atlanta, GA and Calgary, AB.
Read MoreRefuting 4 myths about why housing in Portland (and cities like it) is so expensive.
Read MoreIt is incrementally rising land values, combined with the ability to redevelop to something more intense, that naturally prompts the redevelopment of property in decline. Take away one of those two factors and redevelopment breaks down.
Read MoreThis week, we talked about the high cost of infrastructure, choosing a first home, and bike commuting's worst enemy.
Read MoreAs new residents move in, will the arts be pushed out?
Read MoreThe standard American approach to development is bankrupting towns across the country. It's time to think differently.
Read MoreIn this wide-reaching dialogue, Grace Potts, Elias Crim and Chuck Marohn contemplate how to build truly resilient communities where power rests in the hands of neighbors, and where economic prosperity is not the realm of the few, but shared by all.
Read MoreWe need to leave the door open for the people who come after us.
Read MoreCelebration of the Sabbath and a desire to live near people and institutions that support your religious practices has shaped the urban fabric of Orthodox Jewish communities.
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