San Bruno, California laid out a detailed blueprint for more housing. One developer followed that blueprint. $3 million and 3 years later, the city killed his project anyway.
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California’s high-speed rail project appears indefinitely on hold. What is the opportunity cost of all the things the state hasn’t done during the decade-plus its leaders have spent fixated on this?
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Sacramento’s vice mayor gave Strong Towns founder Charles Marohn a shout-out in announcing the city’s new transit-oriented development rules. Our message is making a difference in the world.
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If we want to fix crony capitalism, what we really need is to localize capital.
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New maps from Urban3 visualize the shocking disparities in who is actually footing municipal bills in California.
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Our transportation system has solely focused on automobile traffic flow as its metric of success. For the sake of our economic and physical health, that needs to change.
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Bozeman is becoming the new frontier for tech workers who don’t want to slog it out in the Bay Area. What does that mean for the city?
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Multigenerational housing is on the rise. What does it mean for our families and our cities?
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The current climate of distrust and pushback against new development is a recipe for perpetual housing problems.
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Housing options become even more scarce when the value of property is no longer tethered to the local labor market.
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In the wake of the California wildfires, what happens next? Will these communities rebuild or abandon?
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Strong Towns member Adam Cozzette reports on a recent victory against highway widening in his California town.
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Better transit is badly needed in the Anaheim region but rather than provide that, the regional government spent millions on a shiny, new auto-oriented facility.
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In a California town, Main Street is preserved while everything around it shifts and the conditions that built Main Street are destroyed.
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Small, locally-based investments can make a big difference to help people walking and biking feel safe. Big investments from outside sources tend to have the opposite effect.
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Last week, Chuck Marohn was in Santa Ana, CA, giving presentations and hosting a walking tour as part of a Regional Active Transportation Forum.
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It's only a matter of time before California finds itself in another bust cycle, where the emergency of rising prices gives way to the catastrophe of falling prices—where the manic cycle ends and the depressive cycle begins.
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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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Strong Towns member Morgan Goodwin serves as mayor of Truckee, CA. In this interview, he shares the way that Strong Towns has influenced his leadership and what he loves about living in Truckee.
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Brian Ludicke is a planning director and Strong Towns member working to make his city of Lancaster, CA more walkable and more livable for everyone.
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