There’s a weird war raging these days between people who advocate high rise living in the urban core and folks who can’t stand to live in anything but a fully detached home on a quarter acre lot. I always choose the thing in the middle. I’m a Main Street kind of guy.

High School Drivers and Dangerous Roads: A Recipe for Disaster

From the small town of Republic, MO comes this story about a dangerous route to school that has resulted in dozens of accidents.

#SlowtheCars, Top StoryStrong TownsOctober 12, 2015schools, roads

It's About my Children's Independence

While our modern stroad environments discourage children from walking to school, George is fighting back, and helping his daughters gain independence in the process.

Top StoryGeorge LinkertSeptember 22, 2015schools, children, Safe Routes to Schools, family, page highlight

Steven Shultis on Urban Schools

Our friend and Strong Towns member Steven Shultis from Springfield, Massachusetts, joins Chuck this week to talk about his experience as a parent of children in an urban school system.

Podcast, SchoolsStrong TownsApril 16, 2015Steven Shultis, Rational Urbanism, schools, page highlight, best podcast

New Life for an Old School

What if we didn't transform an empty school through an expensive mega-project? What if we could break it down into incremental steps?

Field Notes, #StrongCitizensGracen JohnsonApril 8, 2015Strong Citizenship, strong towns approach, schools

Breaking the logjam around small change

“I want more people living downtown. I want it more dense. But to permit the use to change fifteen years from now without public approval is not OK. I have this neighborhood where I have an expectation, and then it changes. That’s not OK.”

News DigestSeth ZerenJanuary 26, 2015Infrastructure, small scale developers, schools, Complete Streets

The Death of Neighborhood Schools?

Let’s stop and reevaluate. Let’s assess what’s really important in our community. Building an over-sized school on over-sized road on an over-sized parcel strikes me as irresponsible. We need to return to a neighborhood model. We need to find the locations that don’t need a Safe Routes to School grants and build there. The places we are collectively building are places that our children hate. They’re inhuman, disregard our existing neighborhoods, cost us more money and unnecessarily burden parents. Let’s make a change.

Mistakes A Town MakesNathaniel M. HoodJune 11, 2014Mankato MN, schools

Best of Blog: Schools on Safe Routes

Safe Routes to School is a very popular federal program designed to make is easier for students to walk and bike to school. The amount spent on it, however, is a tiny fraction of what we spend each year building brand new schools. A approach to build Schools on Safe Routes would not only be more intelligent, it would be more effective and far cheaper.

Best of Blog, Bikeability, Walkability, StrategiesCharles MarohnDecember 11, 2013Safe Routes to Schools, Baxter MN, schools

Best of Blog: From the Mayor's Office

For a city to get there, current priorities need to be realigned and everyone -- from the mayor, the city engineer, the maintenance worker and everyone in between -- needs to be working to get more value out of our existing investments.

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