Small maintenance projects focusing on below ground infrastructure in old, established neighborhoods have the greatest potential for positive returns.
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This week, we covered a range of topics from parking minimums to walking to infrastructure.
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This week's episode features Chuck Marohn, Rachel Quednau and Nolan Gray, and the topic is affordable housing and strategies for creating more of it.
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A new housing program in Milwaukee, WI tries to get foreclosed homes quickly rehabbed—and loses something in the process.
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A Strong Towns member and college professor uses the Strong Towns Strength Test to help his students examine their communities with a critical eye.
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Despite growing repair needs and the ever-more-apparent futility of addressing congestion through road expansion, the U.S. still spends vast sums of money to build new highways and widen existing ones.
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Picking my son up from school in a car would undoubtedly be quicker with less effort on my part. But the benefits of walking outnumber the challenges.
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A new ordinance completely removes developers’ legal obligation to provide off-street parking in Buffalo, NY.
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Three simple tactics could expand affordable housing options in Lexington, KY and other midsize cities like it.
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Chuck and Rachel chat about recent articles which have garnered a ton of attention on the internet over the past week. They also discuss the non-partisan nature of Strong Towns.
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The adaptive reuse of historic buildings makes dollars and sense, and translates into tangible economic benefits.
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Social justice concerns are an acceptable motive for collective action, but they don't free us from the requirement that our infrastructure investments make financial sense.
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Every year in our household—like a lot of people—we make new years resolutions. This year we wanted to try something a little different.
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This was one of our highest traffic weeks ever. Here's what everyone was reading.
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In one hour (at 12pm Central), we'll be live-streaming a new weekly video series called Strong Talk.
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Is it safe for me to like Strong Towns?
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Founder of Strong Towns, Chuck Marohn was recently interviewed on several podcasts, offering the chance to share the Strong Towns message with new audiences.
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High speed, high volume roads often have a negative impact on the economic potential of a neighborhood. Here are three examples from Upstate New York that demonstrate this.
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Last year I engaged in a failed attempt to renovate an old house in Ohio. It ended badly. So I thought I’d do a follow-up on what actually does work given the legal parameters and cultural context.
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The perspective of renters is often ignored in neighborhood decision-making. Here are some ideas for how to change that.
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