Ponder what life will be like following another decade or two of inversion, with society’s arrangements -- no longer able to be propped up by an expanding state. Consider an America where the affluent inhabit our core cities and the poor are left behind on our suburbanized outskirts.
Read MoreTraditional neighborhoods, road funding, and antifragility were among our most popular topics this week.
Read MoreA house built for "aging in place" should also be located in a neighborhood built for aging in place.
Read MoreTrailer parks remain one of the last forms of housing in US cities provided by the market explicitly for low-income residents.
Read MoreThis week Chuck answers questions left over from an Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals web broadcast he participated in earlier this year.
Read MoreWhile media outlets may prefer to latch onto sensational stories of shootings and gang violence, a major tragedy is being ignored in our cities every week.
Read MoreThis year I started my first (micro) garden. It's been an enjoyable experiment for reasons I didn’t even expect, which reach far beyond the food I produced.
Read MoreIn spite of a major budget shortfall, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker offers no plan to raise revenue or adjust his transportation funding goals.
Read MoreHow does a city balance the expectations of drivers with the needs of productive places and the people who use them, when fast-paced technological change may soon upend the basic realities on which such assessments are built?
Read MoreI ran the numbers and made a plan for building a traditional urban neighborhood. It turns out there's big profit to be made in this model.
Read MoreA recent Strong Towns article on one-way streets sparked a series of discussions on the merits and drawbacks of this street design. Here are 7 stories that offer differing perspectives on this issue, from a variety of cities and towns across the country.
Read MoreThings have gone awry as Rachel takes a Monday off leaving Chuck and Strong Towns' Community Builder, Yuri Artibise, to talk about Iowa, the barbell strategy, the Canadian-based CitiesAlive podcast and the differing histories of the War of the Conquest (the French and Indian War).
Read MoreWe never calculate—let alone track—the public's actual return-on-investment (dollars in versus dollars out over multiple life cycles) when we do a project. We never even ask the question.
Read MoreMost of our investments need to be riskless, but a small fraction need to be high risk, high reward.
Read MoreHere's our most-read content from the week at Strong Towns.
Read MoreWe're bringing back our See It Differently TV (SID.TV) series on YouTube. In this new short video, Chuck Marohn shows us how a hospital parking lot offers both challenges and opportunities for the surrounding neighborhood.
Read MoreThis is a home and a destination, not a place to pass through quickly on your way to somewhere else. The streets should be designed to reflect that.
Read MoreYes, many thriving places have attractive lawn furniture, tasteful signage, and abundant flowers. But adding those items to a place with fundamental flaws is just lipstick on a pig.
Read MoreThese places all have many of the physical elements needed for success, quite frankly, because they were built for it originally. What they need most is people; people that care about the place and have the energy to make it better.
Read MoreBrian Ludicke is a planning director and Strong Towns member working to make his city of Lancaster, CA more walkable and more livable for everyone.
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