The Property Tax System is Broken—Regrid Works on Tools to Help Fix It

Alex Alsup comes back to the Strong Towns Podcast to talk about property taxes and assessments in Detroit—and a useful tool that homeowners, assessors, and nonprofits can use in balancing this imbalanced system.

Check Your Temperature—You Might Have an Assessment Fever

This new interactive map shows homeowners how their home assessment compares to other properties nearby—and has exposed that many homes of similar value are being overassessed.

New Tools To Visualize How Your City Could Benefit From Incremental Development

The American Enterprise Institute has released some impressive—and free—data tools for understanding housing markets and development potential. And as a bonus, attend their upcoming talks if you’re in California!

Less Parking Lots, More People Space

This interactive map allows you to view just how much space is being wasted in your city (and in the rest of the U.S.) on parking lots.

Is It Time for a National Zoning Atlas?

This advocacy group created the first online map to show how an entire state zones for housing. And they want to take the effort nationwide.

Herriges, Race, Zoning, Top StoryDaniel HerrigesMarch 30, 2022advocacy, zoning, Connecticut, mapping, maps, housing, Housing, race, Race, segregation

Not Just Bikes: Where We've Been Living This Whole Time (New Video)

Two of our favorite storytellers—Urban3 and Not Just Bikes—come together in this awesome video.

Urban3, Video, Top StoryJohn PattisonMarch 8, 2022Not Just Bikes, Urban3, Value Per Acre, maps, finance, resilience

A New Way to Look at Minimum Parking Requirements

Strong Towns and the Parking Reform Network have joined forces to bring you a whole new way of viewing reforms to parking minimums across North America.

Announcing a New and Improved Map of Cities That Have Removed Parking Minimums

We’re relaunching our crowd-sourced map of cities in the U.S. and Canada that have ended or sharply curtailed their parking requirements. And it's more useful than ever.

Crime Scene Photos

In the postwar era, North American cities bulldozed whole blocks and neighborhoods for freeways, parking, and urban renewal. Old fire insurance maps can help us piece together what happened.

Strong Towns Member Leads a DIY Value Per Acre Analysis

Strong Towns member Andrew Kelsey shares how you can create a value per acre analysis for your city or town—no matter your skill level.

Taking Action, #DotheMath, Cost of Development, Top StoryJacob MosesOctober 14, 2019Value Per Acre, maps, Strong Towns Community

More Cities Than Ever Are Eliminating Parking Minimums

See which cities are getting rid of parking minimums, from sea to shining sea.

#BlackFridayParking, Top Story, ParkingStrong TownsNovember 23, 2018parking minimums, maps, mapping, resource

Mapping the Effects of Parking Minimums

Municipalities for whom property taxes are lifeblood should treat parking for what it is: dead weight.

Google Maps has Shifted Focus Toward Destinations and away from Roads

A shift in the design of Google Maps tells us something about a broader change happening in Americans' life and travel preferences.

Quednau, Top StoryRachel QuednauJuly 7, 2017mapping, maps

Mapping the Financial Strength of Traverse City, Michigan

Traverse City, MI was just crowned the winner of our 2017 Strongest Town Contest so we're sharing a collection of insightful maps and charts that illustrate Traverse City's financial strength (as well as areas for improvement), created by our friends at Urban3.

Top Story, Strongest Town ContestStrong TownsApril 4, 2017maps, mapping, Michigan, Value Per Acre

Our Parking Minimums Map - Updated

One year ago, we released a crowdsourced map tracking decreases in parking minimums across the country as part of #BlackFridayParking. Today we're sharing an update.

#BlackFridayParking, Parking, Quednau, Top StoryRachel QuednauNovember 23, 2016maps, mapping, page highlight

Time to Refresh our National Parking Map

Please take a few minutes to submit information about the parking minimums in your city so that we can share an updated map during the week of Black Friday Parking.

#BlackFridayParking, Top Story, ParkingStrong TownsNovember 8, 2016maps, mapping

Lost in Place: The Problem of Concentrated Poverty

This interactive map lets you explore concentrations of suburban poverty and their growth over the last four decades.

Suburban Poverty, Top StoryStrong TownsAugust 17, 2016maps, poverty, City Observatory

The Walmart Index: Results of our Big Box Data Collection Are In

Two weeks ago, we announced a crowdsourced database collecting information on the tax productivity of big box stores in comparison with other, more compact developments. We've now mapped that data for you to see.

#DotheMath, Big Box StoresStrong TownsAugust 3, 2016maps, mapping, data, Urban3, big box stores

6 Mapping Tools to Help Understand Your City

Want to you calculate your state's transportation spending? How about identify distressed communities in your area? These mapping tools will help you do the job.