A full-length Strong Towns presentation plus an extended Q&A session were recorded at a recent event in Eau Claire, WI. Here they are, for your viewing pleasure.
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New Urbanist design has been praised and criticized alike. A recent development in Orlando, FL offers a unique opportunity to examine the challenges and potentials for success in planned New Urbanist communities.
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Is it possible to design a city street where no one is ever harassed?
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Our views on government involvement in housing and housing subsidies need to be coherent.
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Chuck Marohn relates his misadventures in Oklahoma, and how some Strong Towns members and event hosts stepped up to help remedy the situation.
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It’s pretty easy to destroy a walkable place. We’ve been doing it for so long.
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The condition on State Street is dangerous for anyone outside of a automobile. The city is well aware of this fact. Something must be done.
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This week, we discussed the difference between parks and greenspace, the tension between affordable housing and high home values, and the conflict between building for tourists vs. long-time residents.
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The American transportation system is fundamentally messed up. But a better way forward is not only possible, it's affordable and feasible for towns big and small.
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Should cities invest in big projects in the hopes of increasing tourism, or should they invest in the people that have already taken a risk by moving back into their long-dormant downtowns?
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It takes lots of smart people working together to create Strong Towns content. Would you like to be one of them?
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"In a sense, the infrastructure bank is the state's credit card."
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How I stopped being frustrated by my city and started working to improve it, with the help of my neighbors.
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Hurdles to revitalization based not on substance but control are the last thing America's cities and towns need.
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The Bike Peoria Co-op offers neighbors affordable access tools to fix their bikes and training in bike maintenance skills. It's 100% volunteer run and 100% financially supported through its own efforts.
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We are profoundly conflicted as a nation when it comes to housing: we want it to be affordable, but we also want its prices to rise fast enough to be valuable as a financial investment.
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Numbers don’t lie, but people sure use numbers to do it.
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Little free pantries are a hyper-local, small-scale way to help out neighbors who are hungry.
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Chuck and Rachel debrief on a recent trip to Asheville, NC with the team at Urban3.
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Greenspace is not the same as a park. This example from Jersey City, NJ shows you why that's the case and how to build better parks in the process.
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