The work of teeing up the next generation of boondoggle highway projects doesn’t stop—not even for a global pandemic.
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Commentators have speculated that density has been toxic during the coronavirus crisis. But Joe Minicozzi of Urban3 did what he does best—he ran the numbers—and found a different story. This is why data should prevail during a pandemic.
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Do we open things up and get people back to work or do we continue to flatten the curve and live with the financial fallout? Economically, it’s a distinction without a difference.
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Kansas City, Missouri has a serious infrastructure problem. But an emerging conversation there is charting a path toward greater strength and financial resilience.
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The four “gears” that drive a strong community in normal times are the same ones that will move towns and cities forward after the COVID-19 crisis.
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For most cities, the property taxes from single-family homes simply can’t pay the bills. One Minnesota mayor was remarkably blunt about that fact in a recent speech.
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David Gorski—founder at Plan Together Community Map Platform—shares the inspiration behind Plan Together and how you can use it to make your community stronger.
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Whether we go back to work in offices or not, the commercial real estate market can’t go back to the crazy levels it was. Not without huge damage to society.
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Some cities and states are allowing tenants to defer rent payments. What happens when those rents come due before the economy is back on its feet?
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The debate now is between saving jobs and saving lives. But there was a deeper question we should have been asking a long time ago.
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What can go wrong when you pin all your economic hopes on a big, shiny new project? Milwaukee, the planned site for this summer’s Democratic Convention, may soon find out.
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No. They’ve made more obvious a pre-existing epidemic of reckless street design.
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How Sesame Street embodied the urbanist principles of Jane Jacobs.
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What can generational theory tell us about the crisis we’re facing now, and how we will emerge from it?
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Learn how to build a strong and prosperous place from the experts at Strong Towns.
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Communities are coming together right now in ways most of us have never seen before. And we’re realizing we really need each other. How can local leaders harness this energy to build stronger local communities and economies once the crisis recedes?
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The ultimate irony of our economic system is that the only mechanism we have to satisfy our needs is to increase our neediness.
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Tracing the origins of a single meal reminds us how vulnerable we are to disruptions in the global supply chain. How do we create redundancies at home?
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We fix our fragile economy by leaning into neighborliness and human decency.
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One plan to kickstart the economy after the coronavirus crisis involves resurrecting a familiar plan: a massive infrastructure bill. Where will the money come from and where will it go? The answers aren’t encouraging.
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