A model train shop that helped bring an Indiana main street back to life, a (literally) heartwarming story out of storm-ravaged Texas, and China’s underground electric car innovators. These are just some of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
Read MoreHalifax spent decades pursuing the fragile-making suburban experiment. How should it move forward from here?
Read MoreA passion for food access and community change led Kelly Rae Kirkpatrick to run for city council in her hometown of Rochester, MN.
Read MoreEngineers and transportation departments defer to it all the time, but “the Manual” isn’t actually making our streets safer.
Read MoreAre cities being preempted almost to the point of irrelevance?
Read MoreSon las experiencias de personas reales que deben guiar nuestros esfuerzos de planificación. Sus acciones son los datos que deberíamos recopilar, no sus preferencias declaradas.
Read MoreCalgary — like so many North American cities — is like an intergenerational dine-and-dash. Our children will get the bill.
Read MoreWhat role should federal infrastructure spending play in the economic recovery — and how can we make sure that spending addresses the real needs of people?
Read MoreYou’ve got questions and we’ve got answers about the world’s #1 bracket-based, strong towns competition.
Read MoreYou 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.
Read MoreIce storms, ugly apartment buildings and short-term thinking are just a few of the topics that caught our attention this week—plus an update from the Strong Towns team.
Read MoreWe have to give up on on the delusion that we can have a place that is both great for business, and great at moving cars quickly. To be successful, we need to go all-in on one or the other.
Read MoreAlfred Melbourne sees farming as a chance to bring back land into productive use, feed neighbors and help guide young people down a supportive path.
Read MoreTransportation engineering profession is at a crossroads. The industry has not honored its ethical obligations. That must change.
Read MoreHow a ruling from the Arizona Supreme Court will change how local governments do economic development.
Read MoreThere are major flaws in the accounting standards that shape municipal finance in American cities. But there’s an opportunity too: a chance to comment on—and perhaps change—those standards going forward.
Read MoreGoogle Street View has now been around long enough to let us see how our cities have changed over ten-plus years. Often those changes have been for the worse…but sometimes they’re for the better.
Read MoreExplore the winning journeys of the five previous winners of the Strongest Town contest. Will your city be #6?
Read MoreHow the government can become not just more representative of the people but more responsive to their actual needs.
Read MoreLondon’s thinnest house just went on sale. Here are two takeaways we shouldn’t miss.
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