Remembering Tulsa, aging-friendly communities, and subsidence in California. These are just some of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
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Technocratic growth management in Florida has failed, and a new conversation is needed. Let's start that conversation now.
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Communities in decline face a great deal of work if they hope to someday become stronger towns. Remember that it is a process, not a destination. Here’s how you can begin.
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New suburban development creates budget-devouring road liabilities. And the way developers are asked to mitigate their traffic impacts is only making the problem worse.
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Coté Soeren’s “Resistencia” coffee shop in Seattle is a space for community connection and support, not gentrification.
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Resource-focused cities of the past built wealth in a downtown core surrounded by neighborhoods. Here’s how to recreate that ecosystem in your place, today.
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In order to make space for cars when they’re not in motion, we’ve driven the costs of development up. And it’s often tenants and consumers who end up paying for it.
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Collier County is poised to spend over $200 million extending utilities to a whole new, previously rural, portion of the county. Let's #DoTheMath on this plan.
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We must stop building more infrastructure in our cities and switch instead to a model of intensive maintenance, combined with making better use of what has already been built.
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The Minnesota board that regulates engineering licenses is abusing their power in order to stifle the free speech of Charles Marohn and retaliate against the Strong Towns movement for their advocacy on transportation, infrastructure, and engineering reform. Strong Towns has filed suit in federal court to stop the board’s actions.
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Agricultural communities, Roman soldiers, and healthcare facilities. These are just some of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
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Conventional economic development practice focuses on recruiting new businesses to relocate to the community. In reality, the most stable and prosperous businesses are those that are homegrown.
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Collier County's standards for new development on rural land repeatedly emphasize “innovative” growth...but when we look at their proposed mega-developments, it's really just business as usual.
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In Birmingham, AL, a unique high school program trains teens in home renovation and building skills, while revitalizing their neighborhood in the process. Jeanyll Morris shares her experience helping lead the program.
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Entrepreneurship plays an important role in building prosperous local communities. Here are some steps for creating a more active ecosystem of entrepreneurs in your place.
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Orlando (and the surrounding state of Florida) has long been reliant on cars. But the city’s new director of transportation hopes to change that.
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Let’s go beyond the “buy local” mantra and start replacing things we send money out of the community for with viable local alternatives.
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In this new series, we’re looking at Collier County as a case study for how insolvent growth persists in Florida. What's the history behind Collier’s development, and where is it headed?
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Let's talk about public facilities. What do they say about our cities and about the various layers of our society?
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Although many of us agree that walkability makes sense for countless reasons, few of us actually walk the cities where we live. Why? Because it sucks.
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