The #StrongestTown contest marches on! Find out who made the final four, and catch up on our best content you may have missed this week, including a look at the history of the humble fourplex, the power and potential of a local music scene, and a new report on what’s broken in state DOTs and how to fix it.
Read MoreYour Strong Towns Knowledge Base question of the week, answered here.
Read MoreWhich contestants made it to the final four?
Read MoreState transportation departments are often maddeningly resistant to change, and can be the biggest obstacle facing safe-streets advocates. A new article series from Smart Growth America digs deep into what has to happen—and is happening—to reform these agencies from the inside.
Read MoreMost apartments built today are in huge complexes along busy streets, not tucked away in quiet neighborhoods in “missing middle” buildings like fourplexes, which used to be common. But how did the missing middle go missing, anyway?
Read MoreJoanna Jurgens, Head of Business Affairs at Sofar Sounds, shares how you can foster a local music scene in your community, including how to awaken that DIY spirit that’s so essential to kickstarting a local music scene, how to identify low risk strategies for creating a venue, and how to get local elected officials involved in the process.
Read MoreWe asked members of the Strong Towns movement to comment on what they see as the biggest strengths and challenges of the 8 remaining contenders in our #StrongestTown competition. Here’s what they had to say.
Read MoreIt’s not just those who work in or with local government who have something to offer to the Strong Towns movement. Our work touches on deeper questions of how we live in community, and this is why we seek to learn from psychologists, philosophers, historians, and—in one classic 2013 podcast interview—even a religious scholar.
Read MoreCity officials often ask, “What target price point for new homes will ensure that we can balance our books?” Here’s why they’re asking the wrong question.
Read MoreRound 2 of #StrongestTown is here. Check out these gorgeous photos and testimonials, and then you tell us: which four strong North American cities should advance to the semifinals?
Read MoreCast your vote! Who should advance to the Semifinal Round in the fourth annual Strongest Town Contest?!
Read MoreCast your vote! Who should advance to the Semifinal Round in the fourth annual Strongest Town Contest?!
Read MoreCast your vote! Who should advance to the Semifinal Round in the fourth annual Strongest Town Contest?!
Read MoreCast your vote! Who should advance to the Semifinal Round in the fourth annual Strongest Town Contest?!
Read MoreThe fourth annual Strongest Town Contest dominated this week’s content on our site, but there were also some great stories published this week (not to mention a brand new video!) that you don’t want to miss.
Read MoreLast week, we announced the biggest news in the Strong Towns universe in a long time: our founder wrote a book. This week, we’re taking you behind the scenes.
Read MoreEvery week, we take one of the best questions submitted to the Strong Towns Knowledge Base and answer it. This week, we tackle the arguments for allowing more housing across the board in your city, from a Strong Towns perspective.
Read MoreThese 8 towns will advance to the next round of the contest.
Read MoreDon't be seduced by the "signature project" that takes 20 years to complete, when there's huge basket of small projects you could hit the ground running on. That's a wildly different approach than anything our transit agencies or federal transportation funding mechanisms are set up for. But it's a more promising one.
Read MoreWe, as a culture, have become so fixated on growing jobs in our communities that we can’t see anything else. It is up to us to recognize that our cities and metro areas can ask for better.
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