In the UK, planning systems have created a housing shortage. Here’s how a bottom-up approach could address the problem.
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Lisa Leslie joined with her neighbors to help found an intentional community where families live near one another and share life together.
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Large-scale investors are dominating the housing market, at the expense of actual people who want to become homeowners.
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Routine traffic stops don’t make anyone safer. But here’s how technology might.
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This Houston-based real estate professional and urban planner is helping build community wealth through financially strong housing and development practices.
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Instead of bringing the parties together, Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan has stirred up controversy. Is this the end of the Infrastructure Cult?
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Advocates say promoting EVs is a key step toward addressing climate change. But what if it’s actually a distraction from an underlying issue: the suburban development pattern?
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Who will move on to the championship round next week? Their fate is in your hands!
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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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Strong Towns member Michael Smith and colleague Aaron Holverson are working to make Rockford, IL a more economically resilient place.
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Google’s Sidewalk Labs pulled out of Toronto’s Quayside project. But does Toronto’s new vision for the project really put people at the center?
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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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Do owners and tenants have a “duty” keep property in use?
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A conversation about small towns, the need to tell complicated rural stories, and what we owe to the places that formed us.
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Alex Rodriguez and Danny Lapin are incrementally revitalizing a historic space for entrepreneurs, artists and community members in rural Lexington, NY.
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What’s the best way for local communities to reduce their dependence on big electric companies?
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Some cities are better than others at providing economic opportunity for residents. What sets them apart, and how can we apply those lessons elsewhere?
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Through concerted and creative efforts to know their neighbors, listen to resident concerns and educate people on the city’s trajectory, these planning professionals are going against the grain and fighting for the city they love.
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Thousands of Christchurch residents weighed in on how to move their quake-ravaged city forward. Leaders dumped that plan for a top-down rebuild plan created behind closed doors…with predictable results.
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Two congressmen—one Democrat, one Republican, both longtime Strong Towns readers—talk about federal infrastructure spending and Congress’s role in making towns and cities stronger and more financially resilient.
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