Welcome back to the Monday Member Blog Roll - MLK Jr’s Birthday edition!
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Dr. King and his colleagues had the courage to put themselves at risk for things they believed in. They not only put themselves at physical risk of injury and death, but they made themselves the targets of ridicule. That’s an even bigger risk for many of us.
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While new transportation funding is needed, more money without significant reform is worse than no funding at all. We need to continue to oppose all of these funding efforts until serious reform is on the table.
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Free Range Kids, gentrification, transportation funding , the Swiss Franc and a Cadbury egg apostasy.
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Hey walkers....distracted walking is dangerous walking. You don't belong here.
#slowthecars
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We have put together a briefing for all of our members detailing our strategic plan for 2015. We invite you to take a look at it and give us your feedback, thoughts and continued support.
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In the spirit of moving from an awareness-building organization to a movement-building organization, Strong Towns has a fun new corner of the website for me. This year, I'll be sharing field notes on my journey/research into Strong Citizenship. In this regular column, you'll get pieces of my life as a friendly neighbour in a quintessential Little City that Feels Like a Big Town.
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These nuances are lost when the top-down approach invades our planning. It's expensive and gives us a low return on investment. It's the type of system that would spend $50 million without realizing that they were trying to solve the wrong problem.
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Cities that tethered their future to this experiment are going to struggle while those that still have a pulse in their core neighborhoods will have a chance at renewed prosperity.
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#wecandothis
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The Member News Digest, a look at what's hot on the Strong Towns member blogs.
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Forgiving design principles that traffic engineers employ have replaced the “that’s what kids do” burden on the driver with a “that’s what drivers do” burden on all of society. If we want to make our cities prosperous again, we have to return that burden to the driver. Not just at intersections. Not just where there are properly specified signs. It is their burden, their responsibility, everywhere, all the time. Period.
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Massive, quick change is only going to come by having a nation of people who care about their communities and are prepared, as an expression of that caring, to share the Strong Towns message with their friends and neighborhoods, then take action together to change their places. That's the Strong Towns movement.
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For our 200th podcast episode, we asked you to submit questions for Chuck to answer. Here is that Q&A.
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America’s cities don’t need more growth. What they desperately need is a different development pattern, one that restores the resiliency and financial productivity of the pre-automobile approach to a modern America.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction.
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If you want to understand in one photo why America's cities are struggling financially, here it is. Where is the wealth that is going to sustain this place generation after generation? It's not there.
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What would you like your city's New Year's resolution to be?
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