If offered the choice between paid and free parking, many people would probably choose the latter. But free parking may be creating more problems than it’s worth.
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It’s hard for people to be excited about something they’ve never experienced before. How can we use positive experiences to change that?
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Rethinking car culture is easier once we more broadly measure what we’re giving up.
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High home prices are compelling young adults to create less conventional living arrangements.
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Traffic calming interventions are best when they not only make the environment safer for everyone outside of a car, but when they do so in a way that reduces the mental load for drivers.
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Let’s save our capacity to adapt for better design choices.
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Everything in the city communicates something about what we value.
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We should think of city blocks like tapestries.
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This brilliant story about alienation starts with two people alone in their cars.
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A citizen is a rightful participant in directly shaping the fabric of their city. So…are modern Americans citizens of their cities, or just subjects?
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A community is more than just its built environment: it’s also the strong, intergenerational civic ties that connect its citizens to each other.
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Dreaming of big goals for the year can be fun, but it’s also necessary to think of the small steps needed to reach those goals. Similarly, cities need to consider the small things they need to do to achieve long-term prosperity.
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Here are four lessons from local advocates who are out there doing the work right now, in different ways, to make their places better.
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For anyone who wants to care for their community, being able to properly name what you see is an essential first step.
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Teenagers are a sadly overlooked asset group in our communities. Reimagining the future of our communities with them in mind is a simple but powerful way to position our cities for long-term success.
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Our cities need more housing, but perhaps even more urgently, our neighborhoods need more neighbors.
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Incrementalism and humility are key to avoiding a gap between what we think we’re accomplishing with the designs of our built environment versus what people actually experience when navigating it.
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In a time of increasing political and social turbulence, Strong Towns advocates and members are a reminder that local is where the real power to enact change lies.
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Cities need more transaction-free third spaces.
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When it comes to saving the world, there’s a limit to what top-down policies can do.
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