Parishioners of a historic church in Detroit want to develop eight vacant blocks with missing-middle housing to build a church-centered community.
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Up to one-third of all houses of worship in the United States will have closed over the next few years. What will we do with the spaces they leave behind?
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In some places, houses of worship have formed interfaith coalitions, and do valuable work on social justice issues—but what if they also addressed issues of economics and place?
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Not only did car culture change how we build cities, it changed how (and how often) we encounter other people.
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Patrick Deneen, author of the bestselling Why Liberalism Failed (hint: he doesn’t mean the political left), talks with our own Chuck Marohn about the political crisis facing Western societies, and how rediscovering a sense of rootedness in community—defaulting to loyalty over “looking for the exits”—might be the answer.
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It’s not just those who work in or with local government who have something to offer to the Strong Towns movement. Our work touches on deeper questions of how we live in community, and this is why we seek to learn from psychologists, philosophers, historians, and—in one classic 2013 podcast interview—even a religious scholar.
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