Strong Towns members from across the country share their backgrounds and how they came to be members of Strong Towns in a special interview from CNU24.
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What is going on in the doughnut of despair surrounding downtown Detroit is not a policy choice. It is a consequence of policy choice. There is no bringing back the illusion of wealth or, to paraphrase Tomas Sedlacek, Detroit can not get back its unsustainability.
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A nuanced response to four key arguments about the fall of Detroit. Hint: There's more to it than white flight or the auto industry.
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Peggy and Tom Brennan recently renovated and opened two unique buildings in downtown Detroit: the Green Garage, a business incubator and coworking space, and El Moore, a residential apartment building and urban lodge.
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Strong Towns member and Detroit native, Andy Walker, talks about the changes in Detroit over the last several decades and his hopes for the city's future.
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Detroit native, Devita Davison, helps local food entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground, while charting a more equitable, prosperous future for her community.
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What the final ailment for Detroit was simply doesn't matter to me. The auto-centric style of development undermined the resiliency of the city, tearing down social, political and financial strength that had made Detroit one of the world's greatest cities. Once Detroit became a fragile city, it was only a matter of time.
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Strong Towns is heading to Detroit soon for CNU 24. Watch this video to see a snapshot of the city, its people, and the context for CNU.
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Everybody loves a city that will not stay down. In 2016, that’s Detroit.
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It's possible that large parts of Flint could be served with really high quality water for drinking and sanitation at a fraction of the cost while preserving the existing, lead-infested system for fire fighting purposes only.
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The late philosopher and civil rights activist, Grace Lee Boggs, shares serious wisdom about her hometown of Detroit, and its resilience and evolution in spite of enormous challenges.
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When you don't know how to deal with something, destroy it. That's the strategy Baltimore and several other major cities have employed in the face of thousands of vacant homes.
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We're all Detroit. The sooner we realize it, the sooner we can commit ourselves to building a nation of strong towns.
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Andrés Duany, co-founder of the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU), discusses the prospects for Lean Urbanism within local government.
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