On behalf of our entire staff, all of our contributors, our board of directors and myself, I wish you peace and good will, now and throughout the new year.
We'll see you again on January 4, 2016.
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In this hard hitting four-part series, Chuck examines our dangerously designed roads which cause thousands of deaths every year. The series focuses, in particular, on the deaths of children along dangerous road corridors.
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The traditional development pattern has tremendous financial upside and limited financial downside. In contrast, our new, experimental approach has limited financial upside and a downside that can literally go negative.
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As we continue to slide into more difficult times, it is going to take people with very strong principles of peace and justice to help us find that that soft landing we need.
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For city nerds, tech geeks, policy wonks, and entrepreneurs alike – Listen to this fascinating podcast with Gabe Klein, former head of Chicago and DC departments of transportation.
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Planners should be the conservation biologists of the urban ecosystem.
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Here is our newly released fifth film in the Curbside Chat series, created by Gracen Johnson.
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Density is not our problem or our solution. Insolvency is our problem. Productive places are the solution.
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What happens when you get rid of minimum parking requirements in a downtown district while also adding 4,500 people to the downtown?
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This is the fourth video in the Curbside Chat series. Tomorrow we release a brand new video in this series.
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The megaproject is the least-dumb idea that consensus provides.
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Homelessness is an issue that we as Strong Towns advocates should care about. Put simply: your town is not strong if some of your residents lack homes. How can we get there in a practical and lasting manner?
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In an era of looming economic, social, and environmental disruption, the urban planning profession needs to be talking less about how to make cities efficient and attractive and more about how to make them resilient to the worst-case consequences of our actions. This is where Strong Towns thinking fits in.
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We took a system where gentrification was a positive force for wealth creation among the underprivileged and, under the guise of improving their situation, changed the system in a way that now primarily benefits the wealthy, where it benefits anyone at all.
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This is the third video of the Curbside Chat series. We're going to be releasing two new videos later this week.
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There’s a weird war raging these days between people who advocate urban living and folks who can’t stand to live in anything but a fully detached home. I always choose the thing in the middle. I’m a Main Street kind of guy.
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While our modern stroad environments discourage children from walking to school, George is fighting back, and helping his daughters gain independence in the process.
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This is the second video in our Curbside Chat video series. Stay tuned for two new videos at the end of this week.
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This year we've put resources towards producing a series of videos that share snippets of the Curbside Chat message. Short, shareable videos of key parts of this message topped our request list a year ago. We're provided four thus far. This week -- our last week of the year before we take a break -- we release two more; one on Thursday and the other on Friday.
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