If you ever wanted to REALLY make a change in your town, instead of just starting a fight, consider this your manifesto.
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We live in an increasingly polarized society, but there’s a role to be played by people who want to be bridge builders.
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Many of the economic strategies pursued by towns and cities compromise not only their competitiveness, but even their long-term solvency.
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We should not be cheering on simulacrums of reform when the majority of spending is going to programs that are making us weaker as a country, as cities, and as neighborhoods.
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Local decision-making must become more accessible to everyday people. Here's how to make that happen in your place.
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The Republican Roadmap isn't a real alternative to the American Jobs Plan, and even if it was, we must stop talking about our national infrastructure strategy in terms of “Democratic versus Republican” approaches.
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Collective engagement repeated thousands of times starts to ripple outward and upward. With the AJP, we see it can even reach the ears of a President.
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Do no harm: put your people and their needs at the heart of your approach. Here’s how.
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The top-down approach puts systems ahead of people and politics ahead of place—which is not what we need if we want to actually fix our infrastructure.
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The answer isn’t about the definition of "infrastructure” at all. This is an issue of how Congress functions. Or doesn't.
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How the government can become not just more representative of the people but more responsive to their actual needs.
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Basically decent people can support or enable things you find self-evidently bad. It’s easy to caricature them—it’s much harder to truly do the work of seeking to understand.
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Our one-dimensional view of politics—a “Left-Spectrum”—is far too limiting. it obscures opportunities to work together...and delegitimizes some people altogether. Here’s what a two-dimensional approach looks like.
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Basically decent people can support or enable things you find self-evidently bad. It’s easy to caricature them—it’s much harder to truly do the work of seeking to understand.
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The latest partisan wedge issue—whether or not our suburbs should be allowed to evolve—is actually an opportunity for common ground.
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Local leaders must challenge the status quo around how we build our cities. Here’s how to bring colleagues and civic officials around to your position.
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The entire suburban experiment is dependent on federal subsidies. What’s a truly conservative approach to growing our cities? Freeing them up to develop in ways that are adaptable, responsive to local needs, and economically resilient.
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In the early days of the Strong Towns movement, two supporters helped connect our work to deeper, more ancient conversations about politics, economy, and culture. They continue to inspire.
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A recent study on the “perception gap” between America’s two major parties gives some hope that, at least at the local level, we can find ways to work together, despite our differences.
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A conversation with Chris Arnade and Tim Carney is delightful, insightful, and an important way to frame the upcoming year.
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