Our prevailing property tax system rewards those who sit on valuable land and leave it idle, while punishing with higher taxes those who put it to productive use. And for that, our buddy the speculator just wants to say, "Thanks, neighbor."
Read MoreCast your vote! Who should advance to Round 2 in the fourth annual Strongest Town Contest?!
Read MoreCast your vote! Who should advance to Round 2 in the fourth annual Strongest Town Contest?!
Read MoreCast your vote! Who should advance to Round 2 in the fourth annual Strongest Town Contest?!
Read MoreCast your vote! Who should advance to Round 2 in the fourth annual Strongest Town Contest?!
Read MoreFour years ago, a fellow civil engineer in Minnesota tried (unsuccessfully) to challenge Strong Towns president Chuck Marohn’s license, in retaliation for Strong Towns’s criticism of infrastructure lobbying organizations. This incident still says a lot today about the need for reform in the profession.
Read MoreCast your vote! Who should advance to Round 2 in the fourth annual Strongest Town Contest?!
Read MoreCast your vote! Who should advance to Round 2 in the fourth annual Strongest Town Contest?!
Read MoreHelp us celebrate a place that’s making the right moves toward long-term resilience and financial stability, by voting for the Strongest Town in our fourth annual contest!
Read MoreCast your vote! Who should advance to Round 2 in the fourth annual Strongest Town Contest?!
Read MoreCast your vote! Who should advance to Round 2 in the fourth annual Strongest Town Contest?!
Read MoreThis week we made two big announcements about Fall 2019: At long last, Charles Marohn is publishing Strong Towns the book—and we’re going on a national Strong America Tour to support it! Check out our most popular content of the week, a sampling of a message that’s going to reach more people this year than ever before.
Read MoreSome cities just can’t seem to get on top of clearing snow out of the streets—even if it snows every. single. year. Why?
Read MoreWhen you want to widen an urban freeway, just call it an “improvement.” Who can be against improvement?
Read MoreIt’s one thing to talk about the benefits of calmer, narrower streets. It’s another thing to be on the front lines of convincing your community to accept a road diet. One Strong Towns member tells the story of how he picked this battle in his town… and won.
Read MoreAmerica’s deadly streets are a slow-rolling emergency, thanks in part to the engineering practice of designing city streets just like wide-open highways. A new video influenced by Strong Towns thinking explores the history of this disastrous idea.
Read MoreRichmond, Virginia’s proposed Navy Hill redevelopment would reinvent 10 blocks of the city’s core out of whole cloth, aiming for greatness in one fell swoop. The top-down, master-plan approach to city building is seductive. But it is also fragile.
Read MoreIs the engineering profession institutionally and intellectually prepared for a world in which we recognize that we need to slow down cars on urban streets? Revisiting one of our best podcast episodes of all time, in which Strong Towns President Chuck Marohn asks this question.
Read MoreAn excerpt from our upcoming AMA webcast guest Alan Mallach’s book The Divided City explores the havoc that the Great Recession’s continuing aftermath has wrought on homeownership patterns, profoundly destabilizing many urban neighborhoods.
Read MoreStrong Towns has been an international movement for change for over ten years. Now, it’s becoming a book—and this fall, we’re embarking on a continent-wide tour to promote it.
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