Strong Towns member and former Jackson, MS, resident Amanda Lanata comes to the Strong Towns Podcast to discuss the role that racism played in the city’s recent water crisis.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation would have you think it cares about equity—but budgets are often more telling than rhetoric.
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This advocacy group created the first online map to show how an entire state zones for housing. And they want to take the effort nationwide.
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Widening freeways is no way to promote equity.
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The $1 trillion infrastructure bill is being signed into law. But who gets to decide how the money will be spent, and will they make the right decisions for communities of color?
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One family’s history tells volumes about the development of Kansas City since the 1950s.
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The inequities in the tax assessment system are national. But the solutions will have to come from the bottom-up.
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If we want to live in a free and equitable society where everyone has the potential to succeed and experience prosperity, we have to understand where the inequities begin.
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We glorify our country’s rough-and-tumble entrepreneurial history, yet we often look down on people who embody it today, and on the commercial landscapes that result.
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Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood survived the 1921 race massacre, only to be ultimately destroyed by a more unrelenting foe: interstate highways.
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When it comes to reparations, mayors are turning their good intentions into action, using tools they already have.
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Why do some cities make it so hard to find shade…or create your own?
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A new coalition of 11 U.S. mayors has announced an initiative to establish pilot reparations programs aimed at reducing the racial wealth gap.
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In the history of urban planning and zoning, pretext has often been used to achieve unstated goals, with (at best) questionable public purposes.
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Routine traffic stops don’t make anyone safer. But here’s how technology might.
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There is nothing stopping local leaders from addressing their community’s legacy of racial injustice. Here is a credible plan for getting started.
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There is nothing stopping local leaders from addressing their community’s legacy of racial injustice. Here is a credible plan for getting started.
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Policing is a divisive subject. One expert’s balanced and thoughtful perspective points us to a better way.
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To make your community a magnet for people, talent, and new investments, make this a priority.
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When you want to change a community, you begin by changing your own behaviors. Here are 9 small (yet powerful) actions to get started.
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