People are running the numbers in their cities and confronting head-on the absurd un-affordability of the Suburban Experiment.
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A lot of bad public engagement sets the impossible goal of identifying the community’s “vision” for a place by asking people about their preferences—usually with questions they’re ill-equipped to answer. There’s a better way.
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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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Cities that offered few options for teenagers before the pandemic have even fewer options today.
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Wise insights and advice for anyone who wants to make their town stronger in the coming year.
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Accessory Commercial Units spur entrepreneurship and build a city’s prosperity. The problem? Many zoning laws make them functionally illegal.
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Centralized systems are good at getting us cheap food, cars, and toilet paper—until they’re not. They’re also really bad at isolating deadly outbreaks.
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Here’s a pragmatic way to close the gap between what businesses know they need to thrive and what their cash-strapped cities can actually provide.
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This could be the most transformative gift you give this holiday season.
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The Christmas Cookie Inflation Index has risen 4.3% in the last year. This is compared to the official inflation rate of 1.2%.
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A trip down the “Road of Bones” in Russia, the benefits of not fixing a fence, a town’s decision to ban backyard chickens, and the secret(s) to keeping an angel food cake from collapsing. Here are stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
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Across the U.S., cities are taking steps to make sure they work for people of all ages.
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Here are incremental steps communities have taken to get stronger—steps that create a lot of impact while being easy to replicate.
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How one urban advocate helped transform a downtown street into a pedestrian-friendly public space— plus tips for how you can do the same in your own city.
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How one small town in South Carolina destroyed everything that makes downtown downtown.
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The governor of Wyoming says the state may have to abandon some small towns because it doesn’t have the money to maintain their sewers and streets. How did it get to this point? And what should be done?
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What would an incremental, fiscally responsible and local approach to solving homelessness look like?
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Over the last 40 years, the federal government’s share of spending on water infrastructure dropped from 63% to 9%. That means it’s up to local communities to figure out how to pay to repair or replace all that aging infrastructure.
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The real story of the Rust Belt is not simply one of deindustrialization or decline. To miss that is to also to miss the way forward to greater strength and resilience.
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