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"Cities can be so wonderful for so many people. Let’s not screw this up."

Calculating the 100-year lifecycle costs of new development shouldn’t be an obscure process, and the province of British Columbia, Canada, has created a tool to help its communities do exactly that.

Local Conversation leader Noah Tang appeared on the radio to talk about how his group, the Bloomington Revivalists, are making positive changes for housing in their community.

These buildings—all built within the past 20 years in the U.S. and Canada—show that we can still create things of beauty, and that gives us something to look forward to (and to fight for)!

All over the U.S., studies have shed light on how much residents in lower-valued homes are being overassessed on property taxes. Now, Buncombe County, NC, is offering residents a space to appeal their assessments.

What a town in Indiana can teach us about bottom-up building.

What if the only way to open your dream cafe involved demolishing half of it?

A lesson from the tactical urbanism playbook appeared on one of the city's most dangerous streets.

And how do our aesthetic preferences govern how our neighborhoods evolve.

Residents of Mooresville, NC, are outraged as a road-widening project and ensuing regulatory dispute pushed by city officials threaten the future of a longstanding farmers market.

How should we view ethnic or cultural enclaves in cities?

Oklahoma residents discovered their homes were in the path of a massive highway expansion through local news, not official channels. Now a court has ruled the turnpike authority deliberately misled the public.

Design flaws in these Denver roundabouts are undermining their potential as tools for calming traffic.

What exactly is it improving?

Sometimes all you need to make a street less dangerous for kids is a tape measure, paint roller, and a few hundred dollars of road paint.

One thing is clear: if it's going to be our rallying cry, we need to define "affordable."

MDOT’s M.O.: create deadly streets, and then blame drivers for high traffic death rates.

Residents of Spanish Fork, UT, have raised the alarm about a dangerous stroad where children regularly cross, but local officials refuse to acknowledge the danger until someone gets injured or killed.

In 2019, my basket of cookie baking ingredients cost $49.94. In 2022, that same basket costs $64.48.

Neighbors in Chapel Hill, NC, mobilized to raise awareness of property tax inequities within their community…and ultimately brought about a $7-million reduction in home assessed values.

A recent study on curbside dining in Toronto found that there are loads of financial possibilities waiting in empty parking spaces.

This Strong Towns member was skeptical of claims that a speed trap had successfully slowed the cars on a local street…so, he conducted a speed study. Here are his results.