These comics illustrate what's wrong with crosswalks and why they rarely make streets safer.
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Chuck Marohn interviews Kate Herzog, one of the first members of Strong Towns and Marketing & Assistant Director of Downtown Bismarck in Bismarck, ND.
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High occupancy vehicle lanes are being sold as a positive addition to our highways, but they are just another way to induce demand for roads and driving.
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Why would a national organization focused on energy efficiency and lowering carbon emissions give its employees free parking?
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Our approach to building strong towns isn't driven by large influxes of federal money or top-down, cookie cutter government programs.
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You can build a whole island designed for human-scaled transport, but if there’s no feedback mechanism to tell people not to bring their cars, they'll just drive anyway.
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Yes, it's possible to have a community meeting where resident voices are heard, while experts and professionals get their say as well. Here are several tips for how to do that.
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The American drive toward hyper-mobility has led to an over-arching cultural and social impotence to make the connection between loving our places and the possibility of flourishing local communities.
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Should protected bike lanes be installed on streets with high amounts of bike traffic or low?
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The real impetus for the invention of zoning regulations was a desire to protect and enshrine the single-family home as the most virtuous and sacrosanct urban form.
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Chuck and Rachel discuss the fate of America and whether all of our work is in vain or whether there's reason for hope.
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If there's public perception that a new development is opposed, then opposition will grow—even if the initial outcry was only coming from a few loud, angry people.
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The line between optimism and reality can be a fine one to walk.
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This week we discussed subsidies, the planning profession, and futuristic buildings.
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While roundabouts are a wise design choice, the money spent on this one (and countless others) is astronomical and unnecessary.
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How reliant is your local economy on just one company or industry? What would happen if that economic sector disappeared?
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We have designed every inch of our streets to compensates for the mistakes of drivers. But what about pedestrians?
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The wealth one sees in the countryside resides there, but it is not created there. These residences are not the producers of wealth but the consumers of it.
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This neighborhood has three different types of streets to meet different needs—but all of them provide ample room for the best indicator species of success: people.
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When I moved to a new city, the biggest change I experienced was a shift from commuting via car in a suburban metropolis to commuting on foot in a small downtown. That shift helped me see the world differently.
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