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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Resource-based communities rarely experience the prosperity their labor makes possible for others. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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Social capital isn’t as easy to build these days, but it can still be done, and should be done, for the sake of our communities.
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Marilyn Burns and Leah Ross saw a need in their community for greater laundry access, so they got together with neighbors to make it happen.
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How one Colorado town is breaking away from its former dependence on mining.
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When communities support small businesses, it helps give them agency over their own economic development.
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A friendly guide for making friends and starting Strong Towns conversations in your neighborhood.
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Detroit today, your town tomorrow. Here’s how we can help keep homes out of foreclosure and residents from being evicted.
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De’Amon Harges uses deep listening and asset-based community development to strengthen neighborhoods and cities.
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Lisa Leslie joined with her neighbors to help found an intentional community where families live near one another and share life together.
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A relatively new funding mechanism helps small businesses build support in the community, even without all the resources of a larger startup.
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In town after town, city after city, all across America, people are making their communities better for the next generation.
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Cary Westerbeck brought his neighbors together to collectively build a stronger town.
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Eating together can subvert partisanship, restore trust, and build stronger cities.
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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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Eating together can subvert partisanship, restore trust, and build stronger cities.
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Taking local action builds resilience and improves a community’s quality of life in deeply meaningful ways. This is never more evident than when disaster strikes.
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We all want to live a good life in a prosperous place. The particulars of that vary—as this story shows—but it’s an opportunity that should be available to us all.
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Streets designed to keep people on bikes safe also boost community wealth. And budget-conscious city officials are starting to take notice.
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As we witness the fragility of centralized food systems amid Covid-19, this LA-based nonprofit has demonstrated how local food systems integrated in their communities have responded to meet the needs of their neighbors.
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