The auto-oriented development pattern is a huge financial experiment with massive social, cultural and political ramifications. It is time to start building strong towns.
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When we mix high speed cars with stopping and turning traffic, it is only a matter of time until people get killed. It is statistically inevitable because we are all normal people living normal lives.
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Chuck Marohn and Andrew Burleson sit down to discuss a tragedy in Springfield, Mass, where a mom and two girls were hit by a drunk driver on an urban stroad. The seven-year-old girl was killed and the other seriously injured. Marohn and Burleson discuss the engineering profession's approach to safety, the implications for those outside of an automobile and how our approach needs reform if we are truly build safe, productive places.
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Some of the best from contributor Andrew Price, including our favorite: Places and non-Places.
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Don’t be intimidated by haters. Keep doing what you can to build a strong town.
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As the year winds down, I look back at what we did with the Curbside Chat and am really amazed.
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How can we best invest cheap money? With a Strong Towns approach to debt centered on true investments which pay a measurable return and legitimate cash flow in a city that understands its true balance sheet.
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The German verb spritzen apparently means "to squirt" in English. The Marohn side of the family had some Prussian ancestry and that is also the side that did Spritz, although the Norwegian side of my family also produced some. I read somewhere that spritz cookies also have Scandinavian roots, but does it matter? They are so tasty.
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The Monday Member Blogroll brought to you by Jesse Bailey.
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Our urban areas need to be redesigned around a new set of values, one that doesn’t seek to accommodate bikers and pedestrians within an auto-dominated environment but instead does the opposite: accommodates automobiles in an environment dominated by people. It is people that create value. It is people that build wealth. It is in prioritizing their needs – whether on foot, on a bike or in a wheelchair – that we will begin to change the financial health of our cities and truly make them strong towns.
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Get yourself a tray of Strong Towns treats and help us with some important work in the process.
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How many fender benders equals one life?
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Get a massive tray of Chuck's homemade cookies while you help us share the Strong Towns message by finishing the Curbside chat video series.
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Texting while driving is a very real problem. The cause of the problem, however, isn’t recklessness but an incorrect perception of safety on behalf of drivers who feel little risk in texting. We can write all the anti-distracted driving laws we want but, at best, we will only displace the problem, replacing texting with some other distraction. To really address this problem, we need to be willing to incorporate driver psychology, including risk response, into our engineering approach.
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Andrew Burleson and Jim Kumon join Chuck Marohn to look at where the Strong Towns movement is today and the shape it may take in the coming years.
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Huge props to Mark Sowers who sent me his research and analysis of #blackfridayparking. He nailed it.
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Amazingly, the Strong Towns Podcast is fast approaching its 200th episode, a milestone worth stopping to acknowledge.
We're asking you to help us with Show #200 by submitting your questions for Chuck to answer.
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Church leaders around the country should be doing everything they can to reconnect the social bonds of our communities. We reconnect the social bonds most easily and effectively when we reconnect the physical bonds. We should be obsessed with getting people out of their cars and back into each other’s lives.
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