A cautionary tale on rain gardens.
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The New Jersey Bike & Walk Coalition responds to a proposed helmet mandate, explaining how while helmets increase safety for individuals, they can actually decrease safety for bicyclists, overall.
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Share your ideas with fellow advocates at the Strong Towns National Gathering!
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MassDOT has proposed an expensive plan to reduce congestion in Fairhaven, MA…by causing congestion?
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After 2.5 years of success, officials in Peekskill, NY, are threatening to open this community gathering place back up to motorized traffic—but locals aren’t taking this threat lying down.
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If cities strive to meet the basic physiological human need to move our bodies, they may be pleasantly surprised at how everything else just falls into place.
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A recent advertising insert in the Winnipeg Free Press would have us believe that road expansion will solve not only homelessness, but crime and addiction, as well. Let's investigate these lofty claims.
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As traditional highway expansions are put on pause around the country, professionals and policymakers have an opportunity to move forward with a better approach. This book shows them how.
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Americans need housing relief imminently. Despite what you may have heard, upzoning isn’t likely to be the thing that delivers that—but here's why it’s still worth pursuing.
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The news of Paris restricting e-scooters has been widely criticized by urbanists and mobility advocates across the web. Here’s why it might not be such a bad call, after all.
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Why is this official course from the International Association of Assessing Officers still teaching outdated redlining practices to categorize neighborhoods?
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Data from North Carolina points to a nationwide problem: that services may be going unfunded in your community because of flawed processes, sloppy math, and lack of respect for the law in the property tax system.
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Residents of Winter Garden, FL, realized they needed to take action to revive their declining town. They did this by focusing on one straightforward goal: bring people back downtown.
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Why hasn't there been more small-scale and incremental housing added in the Twin Cities after the zoning reform that was passed several years ago?
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Blue Zones Director of Innovation and Inspiration Dan Burden talks about challenges exist in changing our built environment, and what stood out in the crash he analyzed on a recent Crash Analysis Studio episode.
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What do you do when living your ideals feels impossible?
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“What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring U.S. cities closer to addressing debilitating housing shortages, stunted growth and innovation, persistent racial and economic segregation, and car-dependent development?”
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Oklahoma’s freeway fighters are resting a little easier this week, having learned that the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority is halting all work related to the $15 billion turnpike expansion, ACCESS Oklahoma.
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Congratulations to the winner of the eighth annual Strongest Town Contest!
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City hall is an institution with a diversity of responsibilities serving your community, and in it lies an opportunity to observe how your local city operates and is managed.
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