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.
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We want you to contribute to a comprehensive, crowdsourced database that will examine tax productivity comparing big box stores like Walmart with compact, downtown buildings. We’re working closely with our friends at Urban3 on this to build a downloadable resource and map the data when we're done.
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Here's a video featuring Chuck Marohn, Joe Minicozzi and Kevin Klinkenberg from an event earlier this year in Savannah. The extended Q&A is a must-watch.
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"The Strong Towns and Urban3 legacy in Santa Rosa is very much alive and well."
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After a productive series of North Bay meetings, the principals from Strong Towns and Urban3 have gone home, but not before seeding the North Bay with ideas about further steps toward an urbanist, financially sustainable, climate change moderating future.
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A conversation with Kevin Blanchard, former Public Works Director for the city of Lafayette, LA.
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Urban3 just released a brand new mapping tool. And we think you're going to like it.
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When it comes to drunk driving, America may have a bigger driving problem than a drinking problem.
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A video by Urban Three shows the changing wealth patterns of Huntington, WV.
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Chuck Marohn interviews Joe Minicozzi of Urban Three about how parking lots take away value and tax revenue from our cities.
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These maps illustrate the way parking lots deplete your town's tax base and alter your landscape to detrimental effect.
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Strong Towns member blogs from around the country spotlight examples of how misguided development policy undermines a community's interests. Suburban ruins in California; deadly stroads in Pennsylvania; the faulty argument in favor of keeping an urban freeway in Dallas; doing the math on land use in suburban St. Louis; asking whether local government is serving its poorest constituents in Cedar Rapids; and calling out official corruption in Sarasota.
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Joe Minicozzi, principal of the econometric consulting firm Urban3, challenges assumptions about land use and development. With tools like basic arithmetic, maps, and 3D visualization using ArcScene and CityEngine, he makes the case against suburban sprawl and reaffirms the value of mixed-use urban development.
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Drunk driving is a behavior on which we spend a lot of effort discouraging and yet somehow largely ignore the importance of design. This article asks whether America has a drinking problem or a driving problem? What's worse yet, is that through things like minimum parking requirements and zoning we are virtually coding a problem into existence.
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Strong Towns members' blogs engage issues of who benefits from the way our cities are built and run, who loses out, and how a local government or developer's actions reveal its true priorities.
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