We're happy to announce that both the CNU NextGen Debates and The Late Show will be making an encore appearance this year on Friday night of CNU 23 in Dallas.
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Resist the impulse to try and smooth over these massive distortions our development pattern has created. Start seeking a way to find equilibrium on your own terms and in the least destructive way possible.
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The best of Strong Towns member blogs this week. Fragile places versus complex adaptive places, and the failure of simplistic policy solutions. What will survive of "over-retailed" America? Doing the math again on residential development patterns. What causes a community to embrace or resist change?
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Jobs and growth are the results of a productive system, not a proxy for one.
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Here's the most current schedule of upcoming events, including Alabama next week, and a recap of the week's posts.
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Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to fight the DOT anymore?
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An important review of Connected2045, a long range transportation plan for the St. Louis region.
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Decorative lights without place is just bling without a soul.
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Chuck does a solo podcast this week in an attempt to tie together a bunch of loose ends.
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Our urban streets will not be safe until we slow cars.
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What if we didn't transform an empty school through an expensive mega-project? What if we could break it down into incremental steps?
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Have environmental and conservation advocates become comfortably co-opted within this nation's corridors of power to the point where they have become an obstacle to real reform?
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As fiscal becomes the new sustainable, let's make sure we actually #dothemath.
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The thinking exposed in the Cappuccino Congestion Index is just another one of the reasons we have a #NoNewRoads mantra and have opposed all efforts to spend more money on this broken system. Reform must come before more money. If we don't reform this system now, we're just going to blow the little remaining wealth we have hastening our own insolvency.
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This past week included the always entertaining April Fools’ Day, generating interesting faux-articles on urbanism that help illustrate the state of our collective psyche; what we find perversely funny, what we wish were jokes, and what jokes indicate our worst nightmares.
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Our audience growth continues to accelerate – we have doubled in size since November – and, as we continue to experience, Strong Towns readers and listeners don’t comprise a nice, clean demographic profile (one of the greatest compliments you all provide).
In short, I appreciate that I sometimes need to slow down and connect some dots. I’m going to try and do that today.
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Strong Towns is coming to Wisconsin, Florida, Alabama, Texas, Kansas, Maine, Iowa, Michigan and Louisiana this spring. We're looking for sponsors/partners for fall trips to the Pacific Northwest, Bay Area and Northeast.
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A successful federally funded project to build handicap accessible street crossings.
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This week, New Testament scholar, historian and author John Dominic Crossan returns to the podcast to talk about his latest book, How to Read the Bible and Still be a Christian: Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis through Revelation.
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I asked my facebook friends this. The comments poured in, and they were so interesting and beautiful that I felt compelled to do something with them. So I wrote them out by hand.
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