On the surface, it might seem more difficult to deal with co-existence in a big city where you are constantly in close quarters with people you do not know and may not want to know. But not knowing is so easy. On the contrary, it’s community that’s hard.
Read MoreGetting even modest pedestrian improvements can be an uphill battle. We have a design bias and process that is inherently unfriendly to pedestrians and bicycles.
Read MoreIn spite of transportation agency misgivings about narrow lanes, Forest Hill Boulevard performs better on crash statistics than FDOT guidance for similar roadways, while offering advantages in the form of reduced construction costs, less negative impacts to adjacent properties, and decreased stormwater runoff, among other positive benefits.
Read MoreToday, we're featuring a summary of ideas from David Levinson and Kevin Krizek's new book, The End of Traffic & the Future of Transportation.
Read MoreFrom the small town of Republic, MO comes this story about a dangerous route to school that has resulted in dozens of accidents.
Read MoreLet a lot of people roll the dice a lot of times, and let some of them fail. Nature does it that way.
Read MoreCould the belief that there isn’t enough parking be hurting business? Maybe. Is there a problem with “after 5” parking near McCaffrey’s? Not tonight, and I’ll wager not tomorrow night either.
Read MoreLand-use and urban planning are like the hardware of a city while the kind of work many community builders and social entrepreneurs are doing to nurture local businesses and start-ups is like the software.
Read MoreAmong the many propaganda campaigns executed during World War II was this one, aimed at encouraging carpooling.
Read MoreThe question local governments should be asking is this: What’s the next smallest thing we can do right now to make this neighborhood a little bit better?
Read MoreToby Dougherty, city manager for Hays, Kansas, talks about his city's efforts to implement a Strong Towns approach.
Read MoreThe City of Cedar Rapids is converting a number of its one-way streets in the downtown area and surrounding neighborhoods to two-way... or more precisely, back to two-way, since all of these streets used to be two-way back in the day.
Read MoreThis Saturday, a short film I made is being screened at the New Urbanism Film Festival in LA. Sadly, I will not be in LA to see it live and talk to the audience and other film-makers. I'd like there to be a place to field any questions or discussion about the film though, so here is the Strong Towns premiere of Do Season.
Read MoreIn preparation for our trip to Madison, WI next week, we invited Steve Hiniker, Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Wisconsin to write about transportation in Wisconsin and the organization's recent victory against faulty traffic projections.
Read MoreCuba came by its walkable nature under mostly negative circumstances--oppression, isolation, poverty--and yet it has made the best of this situation in spite of that, and created beautiful walkable places that it can actually afford to maintain. We can learn from that.
Read MoreAt the end of August, Patron Saint of Strong Towns Thinking Nassim Taleb gave a lecture on risk and risk management. For those of you that believe that, with enough data, we can model the future, this is a must watch. For everyone else, this is a must watch.
Read MoreThe latest conversation on the Discussion Forum considers whether a proposed diverging diamond interchange created with bikes in mind is truly a good alternative, or simply "lipstick on a pig."
Read MoreRachel and Chuck discuss last week's events in Ontario, Canada and Peoria, IL, the most beautiful city in North America and an exciting trip through US customs, plus the schedule for Chuck's trip to Idaho and Indiana this week and the book, The Selfish Gene.
Read MoreThank you to our Founders Circle members, people who have been there with us since the early days.
Read MoreThere are a handful of ways engineers deflect criticism. Here are five that we’ve heard time and time again.
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