The Invisible Hand That Designed Your City

If you don't get involved in the planning of your city, it will be planned for you. Much of it already has been.

Strong Talk: Planning for Tourists vs. Residents

Which should come first: prioritizing the needs of residents or prioritizing amenities that will attract tourists? We'll be discussing this and more on Friday's live episode of Strong Talk.

Top Story, VideoStrong TownsJuly 12, 2017strong talk

A Composition of Fallacy

Let's stop pretending we know the simple antidote to the painful symptoms our housing prices are expressing and instead humble ourselves to admit that we don't understand all the complexity.

Housing, MarohnCharles MarohnJuly 12, 2017affordable housing, incremental growth, incremental development, economics

Re-Form Shreveport - A Local Group Inspired by Strong Towns Principles

A Strong Towns-inspired group is making waves in Shreveport, LA.

Shreveport, Success Story, Top StoryStrong TownsJuly 11, 2017

Why building strong towns is like cooking without a recipe

Knowing whether you need a pinch more of this or a spoonful less of that is something only you and your town can decide. We can't give you a recipe.

Top Story, Quednau, MembershipRachel QuednauJuly 11, 2017local food

Springfield Stonewall

Springfield, Massachusetts, has a deadly street crossing that they don't know how to fix. Will they expand their toolbox or continue to let people be killed?

Charles MarohnJuly 11, 2017

The Week Ahead - Can suburbia survive?

Chuck and Rachel talk about a recent controversial discussion on the Strong Towns Facebook page about suburban retrofit.

PodcastStrong TownsJuly 10, 2017the week ahead

This Week's Slackchat: Incremental Development

Chuck Marohn will host an open conversation about incremental development and the ideas he recently put forth in his series of articles on the topic.

Top StoryStrong TownsJuly 10, 2017slackchat

Yesterday's Visions of Tomorrow

A futuristic civic building still inspires awe, but that's muted by the changing suburban landscape around it.

Sanphillippo, Top StoryJohnny SanphillippoJuly 10, 2017architecture

This Week's Top Stories (July 3-7, 2017)

This week, we talked about transportation independence, downtown revitalization and Spain.

Strong TownsJuly 7, 2017post roundup

How to devalue a neighborhood

Changes to land use and street design can change the trajectory of entire neighborhoods—for good or for bad.

Top Story, Video, #NoNewRoadsStrong TownsJuly 7, 2017

Google Maps has Shifted Focus Toward Destinations and away from Roads

A shift in the design of Google Maps tells us something about a broader change happening in Americans' life and travel preferences.

Quednau, Top StoryRachel QuednauJuly 7, 2017mapping, maps

The Illusion of Revitalization

From the towering Xerox Square, to the grand Civic Center, to the glistening Riverside Convention Center, virtually every corner of downtown Rochester has been “revitalized”, so why does it still feel so dead?

Zoning, Top Story, Urban Renewal, MaitlandAustin MaitlandJuly 6, 2017revitalization, New York, granularity

4 Spanish Lessons for American Cities

Spanish cities have a lot to teach American towns. Here are 4 lessons I learned on a recent trip to Spain.

Top Story, QuednauRachel QuednauJuly 6, 2017Spain

Strong Towns featured on the Big Ideas for Better Places Podcast

Check out this special interview with Chuck Marohn on the Big Ideas for Better Places podcast.

Success Story, Top StoryStrong TownsJuly 5, 2017media feature

What have we sacrificed for transportation independence?

Imagine I told you there was a revolutionary transportation idea that would give everyone the freedom to go anywhere, relatively cheaply and easily...