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.
Read MoreNew growth creates an illusion of wealth. Local governments experiencing growth look and feel successful. They have high revenues and very little immediate costs associated with them. Long term, as the liabilities start to come due, it is revealed that a free road isn't really free.
Read MoreToday we release the fourth video in our Curbside Chat series: Productive Growth.
Read MoreToday we release to non-members the third video in our Curbside Chat series: Illusion of Wealth. The fourth video will be released here at noon tomorrow.
Read MoreThe American, auto-based development pattern is a huge experiment. Part two of our Curbside Chat video series.
Read MoreThe Curbside Chat is a powerful message.
Read MoreAmerica’s cultural belief is that growing cities experience not only opportunity and prosperity today, but the growth allows them to experience success far into the future. There is a built-in assumption that new growth pays for itself today and generates enough wealth to sustain itself generation after generation.
These are flawed assumptions.
Read MoreAmerica’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.
Read MoreAs the year winds down, I look back at what we did with the Curbside Chat and am really amazed.
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