Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint For Urban Vitality is a new book by Chris Bruntlett and Melissa Bruntlett aimed at sharing the successful strategies The Netherlands has used to build cities at a human scale.
Read MoreIn this episode of our podcast It’s the Little Things, Jacob chats with Breanna Hawkins, Policy Director at the Los Angeles Food Policy Council, about pioneering healthy food initiatives in Los Angeles’s most food-impoverished neighborhoods.
Read MoreSpokane is an excellent illustration of a “soft default”. Like virtually every other city in the US, it is functionally insolvent, but functional insolvency rarely results in legal bankruptcy—just diminished services and deferred maintenance.
Read MoreMacon-Bibb County, Georgia, could address pedestrian safety by making real, substantial improvements to the design of its streets. Instead, it’s urging people on foot to… dress in brighter colors?
Read MoreDerek Avery spoke at the recent North Texas Gathering about doing revitalization without gentrification. As a follow-up, we interviewed Avery about his thoughtful approach to community development.
Read MoreWhether at the neighborhood or metropolitan level, more job growth doesn’t seem to improve economic mobility. What does is social capital.
Read MoreRead excerpts from the new book Walkable City Rules by acclaimed urban planner and walkability expert Jeff Speck. The book is designed to be an walkable-cities advocate’s best tool to go out into the world and actually make change.
Read MoreThis week on the Strong Towns Podcast, Chuck talks with Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Aaron Renn about Carmel, Indiana, a city that has gone into nearly unparalleled amounts of debt in a bid to become Indianapolis’s premier suburb.
Read MoreJoin us on October 29th in Akron, Ohio to talk about how to achieve lasting, positive change by focusing on strategic, small-scale, incremental investments—an approach we call Neighborhoods First.
Read MoreWhen it comes to parking, it’s time to reconcile our free-market rhetoric with our market-busting reality.
Read MoreThis week, we talked about the pitfalls of valuing “efficiency” in government and business; why speed is the wrong measure of a successful transportation system; how unproductive land uses undercut the value of rail transit; how a good local newspaper can make your city stronger; and much more.
Read MoreWant to do the kind of value-per-acre analysis that you’ve seen on Strong Towns before, but don’t think of yourself as a data wizard? Here’s a step by step guide for beginners.
Read MoreMore and more, New York City is becoming a ghost town where only the super rich can afford to live, and retail can’t afford to stay open. But is simple greed the reason why?
Read MoreFollowing a recent fatal crash, the University of Kentucky is taking a hard look at campus drinking culture. But the city of Lexington needs to pick up the slack on the reasons students feel compelled to drive.
Read MoreStrong Towns’s Aubrey Byron interviews John Simmerman and Amanda Popken, who presented on placemaking and tactical urbanism at our recent North Texas Regional Gathering.
Read MoreIn this episode of our podcast It’s the Little Things, Jacob chats with Bill Huston, crowdfunding legend (like, top 19 crowdfunding consultants in the world according to Inc. Magazine kind of legend). For over 15 years, Bill has helped Strong Citizens get funding for their big ideas.
Read MoreMembers are invited to ask their burning questions of renowned walkability expert Jeff Speck on Friday, November 9 at 12:00pm CT.
Read MoreWhen we obsess over the speed of travel—whether in our cars or on public transit—we’re missing the point of transportation. It’s not about how far you can get in a given time: it’s what you can get to.
Read MoreThe New York Times has released an interactive map of (nearly) every building in America. What can we learn from it about America’s suburban experiment, through the marks it has left on the landscape?
Read MoreIn Akron, Ohio an alternative-news monthly called The Devil Strip serves to identify, connect and inspire people throughout the community. The newspaper helps bring Akronites together to envision and shape the city’s future.
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