Next week Chuck and Jim will be in the Los Angeles area, our first Strong Towns trip to California since 2012. We're working really hard to get to Northern CA yetis year -- keep your eyes open for that.
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It's not going to be difficult to improve on victory when victory means a pathetic $0.92 per person.
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Today we're going to do an Ask Me Anything lite.
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The only thing worse than having congestion is not having congestion.
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The host of EconTalk, Russell Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institute (Twitter / personal website), joins the podcast to talk about his latest book, How Adam Smith can change your life: An unexpected guide to human nature and happiness.
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Lots of fun from the field this week:
- A civic hackathon, inspired by burritos.
- Talking Strong Towns on the telly
- Neighbours decided to have some spray chalk fun of their own.
The key problem with Walmart is that it systematically depends on the poverty of communities.
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Is compromise just a part of reform we should accept or would we be better off letting the unsustainable parts of our system implode so we can put our efforts where they will do the most good?
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What is the Strong Town thinking on Vision Zero? New York, Seattle and Portland have recently announced programs.
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Should the state be in the business of funding local streets? If a municipal advocacy organization has its way, it absolutely will. Here's a better way to strengthen cities.
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Ferguson discusses the way forward, children are the new target of NIMBY scorn, FDOT passes the buck on common sense bicycle facilities on bridges, and the U.S. drunk driving problem is mostly a driving problem
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When we call for #NoNewRoads, we are advocating for an end to this mindless process of constantly building, widening and expanding auto-based infrastructure without any consideration given to the health of our cities or even how our approach has made our transportation funding systems insolvent. We have to reform this system before we give it large injections of cash.
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The week in review and a calendar of the upcoming events.
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To build a place for people or place for cars is just a matter of priority.
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Joe Cortright of City Observatory talks about their report -- Lost in Place -- explaining why consistent and concentrated poverty -- not gentrification -- is America's biggest urban challenge.
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The relationship between speed and safety in our transportation system.
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The reason our bridges are crumbling is because we've made the conscious decision not to repair them. Instead, we've chosen to build new things (more specifically, mostly roads). And now, we're tasking the same people who created the problem to help get us out of it?
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"What if we could attract some really good people here..."
Where I live, there's an explicit hope that someday, the world will see how great this place is and people will move here and spend money and talk about their A+ new home and mission accomplished. As a recruit myself, I have privileged insight into the shortsightedness of the rescue plan, in concept and execution. We do realize pretty much every place on earth is trying to attract good people, right? How does that work on a global scale?
I am weary of this conversation. And yet, I love this place and I DO want people to come here to share and enrich our happy lives. So I guess there is a recruitment strategy I can get behind; getting people to a happy place.
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Jace Deloney (@jacedeloney) is the Web Content Manager at Invodo in Austin, Texas, and a passionate advocate for Strong Towns. He is a member of our Founder's Circle and has played a part in bringing Strong Towns to Austin on four occasions.
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“The $700M Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge which carries I70 over the Mississippi River at St. Louis has met its traffic projects of 40k/day within a year of opening and is thus a great success. How would you evaluate its performance?”
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