Five decades ago, Delft made some urban planning decisions that granted children the freedom to freely and safely wander the streets of their city.
Read More
At every level of decision-making and across the political spectrum, everyone agrees: our transportation system is broken. There is a better way.
Read More
To increase faith in our democracy we must make local decision-making more accessible and meaningful to everyday people.
Read More
There’s a lot of conversation about how cities can become “15-minute cities.” What role does the Strong Towns approach play?
Read More
Strong Towns member Haile McCollum is helping make her community of Thomasville, Georgia, more resilient and more beloved.
Read More
Given our current pattern of development, is it overly romantic to want to transition through the stages of life while remaining in the same neighborhood, with the same people around us?
Read More
A lot of supposedly "innovative" proposals are for things that have long existed in neighborhoods, but you wouldn't know it based on the language that planners use.
Read More
If you're going to build a bridge, then of course you want engineers. But how far should we go in trusting experts?
Read More
In the summer, my neighbors invite things to happen that they will oppose most any other time of the year. It’s the best part of being here.
Read More
Tweets about murals, the racial homeownership gap, and regenerative agriculture. These are just some of the stories from around the web that Strong Towns staffers were reading and talking about this week.
Read More
John Simmerman founded Active Towns to help cities think about and create more opportunities for physical activity within neighborhoods.
Read More
A question we often hear concerns highway bypasses around small towns. Are they good? Bad? Let's find out by looking at a case study: Starke, Florida, and U.S. 301.
Read More
The federal government has proposed $20 billion to be allocated toward targeted freeway removal, but will that be enough to fix America’s cities?
Read More
Annapolis's downtown has become dominated by short-term rentals, and it’s beginning to degrade the community’s social capital.
Read More
If we want to have meaningful conversations about "the economy" and how it affects everyday people, then our focus needs to shift from macro to local.
Read More
One of the realities about cities is that they change—but in America, most cities are trapped in a regulatory environment that makes change extremely costly.
Read More
We’re excited to introduce you to a group of amazing leaders who are helping to guide the future of this movement.
Read More
A bill in Congress is pushing for a National Infrastructure Bank, which would mean (in theory) bold federal action to address America's infrastructure crisis. It's a big idea. It's also a really bad one.
Read More
It’s the last day of our member drive, so let’s read some “FU” comments from our members. …What are “FU” comments? “Fundraise Up,” of course!
Read More
Strong Towns member Nathan Chung and farmer Ryan Karb are helping bring fresh local food for sale to neighborhoods that don’t have much access to it.
Read More