Our biggest financial problems are not line items in a budget. They are far more systemic.
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Most of the land in our cities sits vacant for large parts of the day. Is this the best use of our resources?
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There is no way to sustain a city over time without building wealth within it. That is why a Strong Towns approach is critical.
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Can we afford to build incrementally when the problems we face are so enormous?
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Why are our cities so spread out, struggling to pay their basic maintenance bills? A look at our history can tell us a lot.
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Your town isn’t a dress rehearsal. This is it, folks.
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The way we finance new developments in suburban communities is one giant Ponzi Scheme, but no one seems to realize how doomed the whole thing is.
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Over the last 70 years, our cities and towns have spread out in a way that our forebears never dreamed of, and that future generations will never be able to pay for.
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Big box developments are not paying their fair share.
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Auto-oriented towns experience serious challenges that negatively impact small businesses, community health, and financial success for everyone.
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Cities that tethered their future to this experiment are going to struggle, while those that still have a pulse in their core neighborhoods will have a chance at renewed prosperity.
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America's pre-Depression development pattern relied on exploitation of workers, poor living conditions and exclusion of women and minorities. How is the Strong Towns approach, which advocates for traditional development patterns, different?
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It's time to put these common misconceptions about suburban America to rest.
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The line between optimism and reality can be a fine one to walk.
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The ship is sinking and we're not even rearranging the deck chairs; we're arguing about their color.
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We have come up with many ways to explain the decline we see around us. In reality, we've simply given our cities no other option.
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Where improvement is not an option, stagnation and decline are all that remain.
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Problems have solutions. Predicaments have outcomes. We're in a predicament.
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I encourage you all to stop using the word "sprawl." It doesn't accurately describe the problem, it prevents us from getting to real responses and it unnecessarily divides the national dialog in ways that are unhelpful.
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Our cities have become moral monocultures, as has our countryside. They each reflect one set of moral tuning, a reality each side considers exclusively correct. This is dangerous for the future of our cities.
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