Slowing the Cars in St. Louis

Watch how a simple and cheap traffic-calming project made a big impact on neighborhood safety and productivity.

#SlowtheCars, #StrongCitizens, Walkability, Urban Design, Member Post, Tactical Urbanism, Success StoryMarielle BrownSeptember 21, 2016St. Louis

Small-Scale Change, Neighborhood by Neighborhood

Austin's Neighborhood Partnering Program gives neighborhoods the tools and financial support they need to implement small-scale improvements in their community.

Better towns through stress

Here are 4 different types of stress that can help our cities become strong towns.

6 Ways to Expand Housing Options in Your Community

The report we are sharing this week deals with some high-level national policy issues. But you can advocate for change in your own community without a trip to Washington DC. Here are six ideas (big and small) for how to do that.

You can break any law you want....

You can break any law you want if you wear an orange vest.

Monday Member Digest - Hardest time of year to be homeless

Seth Zeren provides this week's version of the Monday Member News Digest, a look at the blog posts written this past week by Strong Towns members.

Best of Blog: Good Enough Urbanism

Over the years I've found something I think people who love walkable, human-oriented places collectively struggle with: we want to get the *very best* urban design codified and implemented in our cities. This is of course the right end-goal, but it hurts us by limiting our ability to productively deal with overwhelming quantity of low-quality, underperforming space in the city.

Best of Blog: If we don't maintain, it'll fall apart

Best of Blog, Member Post, Tactical Urbanism, The Infrastructure Cult, #StrongCitizensCharles MarohnDecember 10, 2013St. Paul, streetscape, Maintenance, Infrastructure, infrastructure cult

Duany from Detroit

Andrés Duany, co-founder of the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU), discusses the prospects for Lean Urbanism within local government.

CNU, Tactical Urbanism, VideoCharles MarohnOctober 23, 2013Detroit, Andres Duany, Congress for the New Urbanism, local government

If we don't maintain, it'll fall apart

The heart of the matter is that this isn't the way we should treat shared infrastructure. We need to constantly be on the lookout at the most local level and constantly care for its health. If we don't maintain what we have, it will fall apart. And it'll cost us a lot more money to fix it back up.

Mistakes A Town Makes, Neighborhood Design, Tactical UrbanismNathaniel M. HoodSeptember 11, 2013St. Paul

Guerrilla Painting

Strategies, Tactical UrbanismCharles MarohnApril 25, 2012

Occupy it

CNU, Tactical Urbanism, MarohnCharles MarohnOctober 17, 2011New Urbanism, Congress for the New Urbanism, too big to fail

Tactical Urbanism: Chairbombing

Tactical UrbanismCharles MarohnApril 14, 2011