Ann Zadeh is a Strong Towns member, former city councilwoman, and community design leader in Fort Worth, TX.
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The next generation of local leaders won’t consign themselves to serving as wards of the state. Instead, they’ll step up as the highest level of organizing for members of a community.
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#1: Stop framing every problem as a transportation problem.
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In general, engineers treat cities like a physics problem, but what we need is engineers who are able to humbly grasp the overwhelming complexity of human habitat and work.
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At the West Virginia Community Development Hub, these two women are helping local leaders grow and thrive, building a better future for their communities.
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One of the biggest barriers to implementation—in business, community, and nearly everywhere—is not understanding how to manage change. These strategies will help.
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One thing COVID hasn’t changed: Life rewards action. As community leaders and business leaders, we can’t allow ourselves to be paralyzed into inaction.
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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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Even before the country officially reopens, leaders need to be in culture-building mode. Here are 10 tips for creating an engaging and positive culture in your community.
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Coronavirus may be the crisis of our time. Great leaders past and present demonstrate that one practice in particular can be the difference-maker.
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Building a Strong Town will require people who can lead with humility, creativity, and intelligence. We needed someone to write a book for these kinds of leaders. Now someone has.
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In this episode of our podcast It’s the Little Things, Jacob chats with Jordan Deffenbaugh—primary organizer of the Local Conversation Strong Towns Sioux Falls—about how you can spread the Strong Towns message locally, including how to spread the vision among your neighbors, how to give your neighbors a sense of ownership in the process, and, most important, how to get into the nitty-gritty of making your city or town stronger.
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In this episode of our podcast It’s the Little Things, Jacob chats with Strong Towns’s own Aubrey Byron about how to start your own bike advocacy group and have an impact on bike policy in your place.
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In the latest episode of the Strong Towns podcast, Chuck talks with Lynn Richards, President and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU). The two discuss how CNU has evolved, and what its future might look like as an organization, event, and movement.
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