Yet another failed mall (this time in Milwaukee, WI) proves to be a drag on—and an active harm to—its surroundings.
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Strong Towns member Montavius Jones is committed to making Milwaukee, WI, a better place to live for everyone.
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A program in Wisconsin demonstrates how small actions taken on the local level can have a huge financial and social impact on a community.
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What can go wrong when you pin all your economic hopes on a big, shiny new project? Milwaukee, the planned site for this summer’s Democratic Convention, may soon find out.
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Food, waterfronts, festivals… plus some big mistakes. It’s all here in the classic Midwestern city of Milwaukee.
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In the city of Milwaukee, like so many other communities, it is the poorest residents who bear the brunt of dangerous street design.
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Evicted is a powerful book with important lessons for those who design, govern and live in American cities and towns.
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The deck is stacked against suburban residents trying to make it out of poverty and the current network of nonprofit and government-based service agencies is not set up to help them.
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This is a home and a destination, not a place to pass through quickly on your way to somewhere else. The streets should be designed to reflect that.
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Seattle Seahawks player, Richard Sherman, says he wants to "make the billionaires who actually benefit from the stadiums pay for them."
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A Victory Garden doesn’t just grow healthy food. It builds a regenerative foundation for creating surplus through the active responsibility of its citizens' output. A Victory Garden tests and adjusts the resiliency measures on which public policy sits.
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The cost of commuting places a disproportionally heavy burden on the working poor--some of whom pay as much as 75% of their income on transportation. The gap between “making it” and “falling behind” is literally being exacerbated by the mistakes of transportation and land use planning past.
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Many of us tend to think of water as something to be seen on vacation. But you don't need to live in a beachside villa in the Caribbean in order to experience the value of water.
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The Strong Towns message has specific implications for women's safety, leadership and parenting.
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New York is frequently painted as the ideal city by urbanists, and this has resulted in a lot of justifiable skepticism from others. Here are some ways New York City’s big ideas can scale down to mid-size cities and small towns.
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Comprehensive affordable housing that actually benefits a community is not just cheap housing.
Read MoreOver the years I've found something I think people who love walkable, human-oriented places collectively struggle with: we want to get the *very best* urban design codified and implemented in our cities. This is of course the right end-goal, but it hurts us by limiting our ability to productively deal with overwhelming quantity of low-quality, underperforming space in the city.
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