We’re in the waning hours of this year’s #BlackFridayParking campaign. Here are just a few highlights.
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We’re swimming in a sea of parking. So much so that we often don’t realize that parking shapes our built environment more than any other factor. Here’s how to really see the glut of parking weakening our towns and cities…and then do something about it.
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We paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Here are a few ways people around North America are taking paradise back.
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Sure, it’s all well and good to talk about ending parking minimums. But what about doing it in ultra-car-dependent Los Angeles?
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Here's how to participate in our annual #BlackFridayParking event today.
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As Strong Towns member Brandon Schielack researched how to support rural entrepreneurs, he discovered an opportunity that he’d later transform into a product for rural communities across North America: institutions, such as schools or nonprofit organization, still sold product produced outside the community for their local fundraisers.
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We don’t pay a ton of attention to parking lots in our day-to-day lives—nobody makes postcards of scenic or historic ones—yet parking dominates and shapes the built environment around us more than any other factor. Here’s how to start seeing parking—and the damage it does when we build too much of it.
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The Strong Towns staff answered your questions as part of a special edition of Ask Strong Towns. Watch the replay now.
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Communities are stuck in a spiral of infrastructure spending. Who will stand up and say enough is enough?
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No one person has done more to change the conversation about parking minimums and how they harm our cities than UCLA economist Donald Shoup. If you don’t know his work, now’s the time to get acquainted.
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The Strong Towns approach to city building is fundamentally different than conventional practice. Here’s a short list to help you see the difference.
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Often, what prevents the incremental development movement from taking root in a community isn’t lack of will, knowhow, or resources. Here’s how a change to Miami’s parking minimum rules opened the door for small-scale development in The Magic City.
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The movement to end harmful, wasteful minimum parking requirements is picking up steam in cities large and small across America. We’re doing our best to play a part in it.
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New tools are making it easier to compare and share how we used to build places versus how we build them now.
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California’s recent wildfires have ignited a conversation about whether the suburban experiment has put too many Golden State residents at risk. But this expert says it may not be so simple.
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California recently passed a bill that is supposed to help tenants facing soaring rents. Here’s how it could have the opposite effect—not only hurting renters but making the state’s housing crisis even worse.
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Fred Rogers has never felt more necessary, perhaps especially for people working to build stronger communities.
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The numbers don’t lie: business-as-usual suburban development won’t bring a booming town long-term financial strength. But it turns out that to #DoTheMath is only the first step toward changing your community's business model.
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We’ve got some amazing presenters lined up for next month’s Regional Gathering. And it just got a LOT less expensive to see and meet them.
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Latinos are the largest ethnic group in a state with the world’s fifth-largest economy. And yet it’s increasingly difficult for Latinos to achieve the California Dream. Rebuilding an entrepreneurial and middle class is a complex problem, but it’s not that difficult to solve.
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