Advocating for stronger towns eventually means engaging with your city’s systems of governance.
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On today’s episode of the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck Marohn dives into controversies surrounding the concept of the 15-minute city.
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One would expect a Republican governor to endorse free-market solutions on a local level, yet housing and zoning tend to scramble traditional political debates in unexpected ways.
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The Reckless Driver™ narrative reaches a whole new level of absurdity, associating reckless driving with failure to vaccinate against COVID-19.
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Lauren Fisher joins Chuck Marohn to talk about the Strong Towns approach to communication, as well as the power of thinking locally in our current political atmosphere.
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Sometimes, it’s worth it to take a step back from national news and pay attention to the things that are happening in your own community.
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You should be wary of anyone who claims to speak for “the community” or “the public,” especially when it’s in lieu of telling you who will benefit from the actions they support.
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Strong Towns advocates are pushing for safe and productive streets…including in Congress!
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A recent Reason Foundation newsletter thinks that Strong Towns is against all highways. We’re not. We’re against all highway expansion—and you should be, too.
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Two podcast recommendations offer different takes on how the Strong Towns approach can help cities keep the promises they made to the people who live in them.
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A recent article states that “real progress on climate change will require innovations that some on the left won’t like.” What’s the Strong Towns response?
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How do you make progress on helpful changes in your community when it’s politically divided? This free action guide will show you.
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How we embrace socialism for car storage in the public right of way.
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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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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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How the government can become not just more representative of the people but more responsive to their actual needs.
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To build Strong Towns, our communities will need to push past the Red/Blue dichotomy.
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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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