Want to feel a deeper attachment to the neighborhood you call home? Here are six action items guaranteed to connect you with neighbors and inspire creative ways to leverage your resources for the common good.
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Reclaiming the art of neighboring may be the closest thing we have to a solution for the social isolation, the political polarization, and the superficial relationships that plague our neighborhoods. To make our communities stronger and more connected, here are three shifts we all need to make.
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This Canadian city is set to get a new, $2 billion, state-of-the-art hospital. All well and good except for one thing: why do they want to build it in a rural area on the far outskirts of town?
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A small, geographically constrained community considers how to deal with a massive influx of new residents — and how to keep things affordable for everyone in the process.
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The transformation of downtown Vancouver begins to illustrate the potential return for cities that work to make their downtowns conducive for families with kids.
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Inspired by Strong Towns, the town of Thunder Bay, Ontario recently hosted a demonstration event, modeling an economically prosperous street.
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Inspired by a Strong Towns presentation, Pelham, Ontario is reexamining its development practices and making plans for a more financially stable future.
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Two stories from Canada and Indiana show how decreases in parking minimums can be achieved and give us an idea of the results these decreases have.
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This video of Mississauga, ON shows us that density will not save the suburbs.
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Victoria is a Canadian town with a bold mission: To become the best small biking city in the world. In this interview, Victoria's mayor talks about how the city plans to accomplish this goal and what it will mean for their community.
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Great design can meet multiple interests. That was the case for this urban big box store which balanced the needs of a large-scale retailer with the surrounding walkable, mixed-use neighborhood.
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The trials and tribulations of getting things done, and why change is so difficult for government agencies.
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The incremental, low-cost, block by block method with which bike lanes are being installed means that we can continue to test and discover their values (or drawbacks) in our towns.
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All people are entitled to equal treatment under the law. So where did we get this notion that public roads should be only for one type of user — the motorist?
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Built and social environments are interdependent and right now, that relationship in the world around me is out of sync. Indigenous people who have lived on this land for thousands of years have a lot to teach us.
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I've been lucky to witness the emergence of the Fredericton Makerspace. I say lucky, because if we did not have some relentlessly dedicated volunteers pouring themselves into the project, it would still be one of those great ideas that never happened. But this week, I stood in the Makerspace woodshop and watched people build together.
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Cities like to form on water. It follows that there are thousands of cities out there struggling with their own version of North Side, South Side. The phenomenon reminds me of Jane Jacobs on border vacuums.
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