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Stop Hitting My House

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Want To Stop Your City’s Decline? Start Building Public Trust.

Tiffany Owens
Housing

Fed Up With Red Tape, an Indiana Town Tries a New Housing Strategy

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The Design That’s Failing Phoenix—One Crash at a Time

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Housing

The Elements of a City: Structures, Conduits, and Interfaces

Andrew Burleson
Highways

Governing Like Caesar with Jesus in Mind: Why Cities Fail When They Plan Top-Down and Hope Bottom-Up

Charles Marohn
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After Another Fatal Crash, He Drew a Crosswalk. Now He Might Face Jailtime.

Asia Mieleszko
Accounting

This Tool Makes Municipal Finance… Fun?

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Streets

Breaking News: Grassroots Bench Builders Score a Win in Bay Area

Asia Mieleszko
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What do these cities in Wisconsin and Texas have in common? They ditched parking mandates.

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Streets

One Intersection. 28 Crashes. Locals Say No More.

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Accounting

What Happens to Your City When the Federal Check Doesn’t Clear?

Charles Marohn
Housing

Cities of Yes: 6 Places Opening the Door to More Housing

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Parking

Can Loosening Parking Rules Unlock Madison’s Missing Middle?

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Parking

Washington Just Rewrote the Rules on Parking — Here’s Why It Worked

Asia Mieleszko
Streets

What’s With the Vacant Storefronts? 8 Reasons for Empty Commercial Spaces

Seth Zeren
Accounting

Columbus Locals Turn Data into Dialogue

Asia Mieleszko
Accounting

Why Do Commercial Spaces Sit Vacant?

Andrew Burleson
Streets

Cars Rarely Speed in Residential Areas. That Doesn't Make Them Safe.

Michel Durand-Wood
Accounting

When Systems Are Fragile, They Break. Here's What That Looks Like.

Charles Marohn
Parking

Dallas Just Ditched Its Outdated Parking Rules—Here’s What That Means

Asia Mieleszko
Housing

Don’t Look Now, But Montana Is Leading on Housing Policy

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Dallas City Council Approves Sweeping Parking Reform in 14–1 Vote

Krista Nightengale
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When Yuppies Are No Longer Urban

Diana Lind

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