Pedestrian Safety Gets Big Boost From New Cincinnati Initiative

Cincinnati's new five-member pedestrian safety team is making their streets safer—all while saving the city hundreds of thousands of dollars every year!

Maximum Impact and a Low Price Tag: Putting Paint and Planters to Work in Edmond, OK

Over the course of a Sunday afternoon, this Strong Towns member created a simple and achievable plan to transform a local street—all on a small budget!

How to Calm a Street, Starting with Your Own Anger

Frustrated by cars speeding down your neighborhood street at 40 mph? Don’t blame the people driving the cars.

Luke Crosswalker: Tactical Urbanist

When people were speeding at a neighborhood crosswalk, this neon hero stepped in to #SlowTheCars and protect local children on their way to school.

How to Pick Your Next Bike Lane Battle

To move the needle of biking access, we have to thoughtful advocates. This guide will help you become one.

Kansas City Residents Demand Safer Streets

The 85th percentile rule makes it hard to ensure safe streets, so residents of northeast Kansas City took matters into their own hands.

The Mailbox: Can traffic cameras make our streets safer?

Our streets are “dangerous by design.” We answer a listener’s question about the role of automated enforcement in making them safer.

The Problem with Creating "Slow Streets" Too Fast

“[The] urgency to move fast is in conflict with the speed of trust, and the pace that actually allows for input from everyone who’s affected by these decisions.”

Best of 2020: A Temporary Street Redesign in Lawrence

This college town took steps to increase outside space for retail and dining. But the work didn’t stop there: Lawrence continued to learn and adapt.

How’s that temporary street redesign your city started this spring doing now?

This spring, hundreds of cities and towns moved swiftly to allow restaurants, bars and shops to open temporary outdoor seating areas. What have we learned?

4 Lessons from a Temporary Street Redesign Process

Towns and cities across the country are wrestling with how to increase outside space for retail and dining, to give businesses a fighting chance during the pandemic. Here are four key takeaways from one city’s experience.

Quednau, Tactical UrbanismRachel QuednauJuly 30, 2020Gould Evans, Lawrence, open streets, coronavirus, tactical urbanism

This Is How Change Starts

Want to start building a stronger town or city? Ask three neighbors this simple question.

Tactical Urbanism, Top StoryRachel QuednauJune 25, 2020Tactical Urbanism, Strong Towns Community

This is What We Can Do Together

Strong Towns is empowering thousands of champions for change to bring their places back to greater prosperity, little by little, through bottom-up action. Here’s what that looks like.

The Case for Tactical Urbanism in the Age of Coronavirus

A challenge like coronavirus demands interventions that are quick, tangible, measurable, and scalable. Tactical urbanism can guide the way.

Tactical UrbanismJoshua PineApril 7, 2020tactical urbanism, South Bend, Indiana, transportation, design thinking

Stop saying that making our cities better, safer places to live isn’t “sexy”

Making places strong isn’t all about big, “sexy”, top-down projects. And the fact that we call these things “sexy” might be a part of the problem.

Iterating the Neighborhood: The Big Returns of Small Investments

Conventional approaches to public investment tend to be expensive, dull, difficult (or impossible) to undo, and often divorced from the lived struggles of real people. There’s a better way.

Low-cost, Temporary Changes Make for a Safer and Friendlier Street in Provo, Utah

A year after a 15-year-old was killed crossing the street from a rec center in Provo, Utah, these #StrongCitizens got together to demonstrate how much safer (and more pleasant) Provo’s city’s streets could be if not designed for high speed traffic. Find out how they did it.

Tactical Urbanism, Success Story, Top StoryAustin TaylorAugust 8, 2019Tactical Urbanism, #SlowTheCars, streets, Provo, Utah, Roundabouts, safety

Bird Cages

A tactical urbanism success in Cincinnati demonstrates the ability to solve problems on our streets—in this case, parking for dockless scooters—by rapidly prototyping solutions in low-cost, low-risk ways.