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How have we come to the conclusion that most short-term rentals are taxed as “residential,” when many have no residents?

Recently, the North Carolina Ad Hoc Appraisals Committee was challenged to face their own biases and fix their broken property tax assessment system. Here’s what happened.

Across the country, the property tax system is causing economic hardship for homeowners—and it’s because the system itself is flawed.

These crashes aren’t accidents—they’re the predictable result of streets designed to forgive high-speed driving, even if that means putting people in harm’s way.

Our excessive expansion of the interstate highway system has destroyed urban downtowns—and it’s wiped out many small towns altogether.

Street trees provide a lot of pragmatic benefits to a community—and they also serve a social purpose.

Have we optimized for a built environment that's hostile to its original inhabitants?

In this town where so many people have front-lawn gardens, why is anyone still arguing that they shouldn’t be allowed?

What is the real reason behind our striking property tax disparities?

This Strong Towns member saw a huge problem with the parking minimums in his city—and decided to do something about it.

Because we depend so heavily on cars, what happens when roads become too icy to drive on? The answer: road salt. But there are serious consequences to relying on salt for road-clearing.

"Waco’s freak blizzard last year was a perfect window into seeing a city that isn’t winter ready."

Car-oriented suburban design often leaves people navigating empty, isolating spaces that feel unsafe—even in the middle of the day.

Americans drove less during the early months of the pandemic, yet traffic fatalities increased. Experts thought fatality rates would've since reverted. That didn’t happen.

What grandma's recipe for Christmas cookies tells us about inflation.

Here are some touchstone concepts that help underlie the Strong Towns view of how to achieve a world full of places capable of growing bottom-up prosperity

It's not just about what its being built, but who is doing the building.

What does it take to do small-scale development successfully today?

We often get questions about our hiring process, so we’ve laid it all out here so that others can put it to use in building their own teams.

Engineers are great at building roads, but we should never ask them to build our streets.

Calgary — like so many North American cities — is like an intergenerational dine-and-dash. Our children will get the bill.

You don’t have to be a math wizard to figure out if your town or city has more infrastructure than it can afford. Just follow these 5 simple steps.