You don’t have to move into a condo or apartment tower to support—and experience the benefits of—smart urban growth.

Building Healthier Places That Reflect Our Values: A Conversation with Dan Burden of Blue Zones

Dan Burden has been called the “Johnny Appleseed of pedestrian and bike design.” You asked one of the world’s foremost experts on planning for healthy, active communities your questions in our latest Ask Strong Towns—and now we’re sharing the video.

We Should Be Building Cities for People, Not Cars

Our transportation system has solely focused on automobile traffic flow as its metric of success. For the sake of our economic and physical health, that needs to change.

Top Story, Walkability, #SlowtheCars, TransportationDevon Marisa ZuegelJuly 3, 2018California, Public Health

Playful Public Art

Art that invites interaction and play can help us build more social and active towns.

Member Post, Public Art, Top StoryMarielle BrownMay 18, 2017Public Health, children

Choosing Active Towns

John Simmerman is the founder of Active Towns. In this interview, he talks about strategies for creating a culture of activity in towns across America.

Bikeability, Top Story, PodcastStrong TownsOctober 20, 2016Public Health

Making My City More Bike-Friendly for $0

To bring together "bike for leisure" and "bike for transportation" people, you need to look beyond cycling itself and find the deeper principle that has people energized in the first place: the radical idea that people should move and associate freely in the streets of any town or city.

Bike Trails as Part of the Transportation Network

Keith Laughlin, president of Rails to Trails, talks about how his organization is creatively improving bikeability in towns across the country.

Bikeability, Top Story, QuednauRachel QuednauOctober 18, 2016protected bike lane, bike trails, Public Health, transportation spending

The Bicycle Renaissance

There’s a new kid on the transportation block.

Bikeability, Top StoryYvette TendickOctober 18, 2016personal finance, Public Health

How About Schools on Safe Routes?

Safe Routes to School is a very popular federal program designed to make is easier for students to walk and bike to school. What if we instead chose to build Schools on Safe Routes?

Walking Makes Strides in All Kinds of Communities

From inner-city Birmingham to small town Iowa to racially diverse suburbs of LA, the walkability movement is growing.

#SlowtheCars, Member Post, Transportation, WalkabilityJay WalljasperJuly 11, 2016Public Health, race, poverty, pedestrian safety

Let's get serious about public bathrooms

Public restrooms are a public health issue. Any town that wants to get serious about welcoming tourists into its walkable areas and encouraging its residents to spend more of their time downtown, needs to implement a public restroom strategy.

Quednau, Top StoryRachel QuednauJuly 7, 2016Washington DC, New York, Public Health

Want Community? Build Walkability

Our neighborhoods, our cities, and our commitment to each other would improve if more of us lived in places where “bumping into someone on the street” doesn’t involve heavy traffic and a fender bender.