Vacancy rates are a crucial piece of bottom-up feedback. They can tell us when the housing ecosystem is out of equilibrium. But there are larger questions they can’t answer.
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The “growth machine” is too big to fail. What if it fails anyway?
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Pulling back the curtains on travel demand forecasting, a timely series on rural mayors, and why some neighborhoods are hotter than others. These are just a few of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
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Ponzi schemes fail because they are built on illusions: there is no there there. So what happens when an entire continent of towns and cities is caught up in a kind of Growth Ponzi Scheme? We are finding out.
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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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Most public engagement is “worse than worthless.” But it doesn’t have to be. These 5 basic steps will lay the groundwork for a community where residents truly guide the future of their city.
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The pandemic is exposing the fragility of the New York City’s rental economy. Vacancy rates are the highest they’ve been in over 10 years, and rent costs are dropping. What might this say about the city’s long road to recovery?
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Parking is so ubiquitous that it’s hard to see just how much we have of it. But the data shows us. The data also reveals what a waste of precious resources all that parking is.
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Quick, inexpensive interventions do more than add a little color to a place. They can catalyze the transformation of a neighborhood into a better connected, more prosperous place.
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An unproductive intersection looks different to different people: engineers, departments of transportation, tax assessors, etc. But bringing it to life starts with seeing it through still someone else’s eyes.
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The oldest buildings in your city have endured for a reason. They’re also the ones most likely to be around long into the future. Why not show them a little love?
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We’ve engineered our streets for high performance when we should be engineering them for safety. Now’s the time to unwind the mess. Here’s how to do it.
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House-hunting in L.A., who will shape the future of New York City, and the fascinating story of a single median on a single street in St. Paul. These are a few of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
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A program in Wisconsin demonstrates how small actions taken on the local level can have a huge financial and social impact on a community.
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The fallout from the pandemic is spurring a housing re-shuffling in San Francisco. And not just from people fleeing the city—but people moving to the city and within the city.
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When we let leaders make all the decisions behind closed doors, we not only risk a bad outcome—we also miss a chance to learn more about our neighbors’ needs and concerns.
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Plano, Texas is the unfortunate object lesson: We can’t solve the Suburban Experiment using the same kind of thinking we used when we created the Suburban Experiment.
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As the housing crisis grows more severe, cities are looking outside the box for solutions. Case in point, a program in Israel that became a significant source of new housing, almost by accident.
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A bill making its way through the Vermont legislature could be a model for making communities more affordable, more walkable, and more prosperous.
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A new ordinance in Austin is trying to slow drivers and protect pedestrians. But does the city’s plan go far enough in addressing a key factor in creating safer streets: street design?
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